Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 306.<\/p>\n
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\nOur speaker for this session is
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\nSimi Hills, California Ecclesia.
\nHis theme this week is the <\/p>\n
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\nGospel of Peace.
\nThis is his 5th and final class <\/p>\n
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\nin the series and the subject
\nfor this class is Making Peace <\/p>\n
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\nfor the Jason.
\nThanks for the Brian. <\/p>\n
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\nI thought I’d stand here this
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\nJust kidding.
\nI can’t actually do that. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, all right, here we
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\nSo we’re on class five, last one
\ntogether, making peace and <\/p>\n
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\nunity.
\nWe surprisingly have three <\/p>\n
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\nlooking at the destruction of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Canaanites first.
\nThis is one of those ones that <\/p>\n
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\nreally tends to bother people
\nbecause I outlined yesterday <\/p>\n
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\nthat one of the things that you
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\nthe law was peace.
\nThe Law of Moses was supposed to<\/p>\n
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\nbe teaching peace, and yet how
\ndo you deal then with the <\/p>\n
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\ndestruction of the Canaanite?
\nSo we’ll look at that. <\/p>\n
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\nOne of the other things that
\npeople wonder then is what is <\/p>\n
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\nthe meaning of the Phineas
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\nHow how does this all fit?
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\nbecause his story is
\ncharacterized by peace. <\/p>\n
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\nSo how’s that all fit?
\nSo look at that as well and then<\/p>\n
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\npossibly some other challenges
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\nhave.
\nAnd then we’re going to wrap it <\/p>\n
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\nup with principle and
\napplication. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’ll see how all of this
\ncomes together. <\/p>\n
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\nOur main message is that
\nprinciples bring unity. <\/p>\n
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\nNow let’s just go back and
\nremember our previous core <\/p>\n
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\nmessages.
\nI practice so I remember #3 this<\/p>\n
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\ntime.
\nOK, our core message for number <\/p>\n
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\none was peace matters.
\nVery good. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, day two, court message.
\nAll shades of peace are <\/p>\n
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\ninterconnected.
\nVery good. <\/p>\n
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\nDay three, peace is universal.
\nVery good. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right.
\nAnd yesterday’s day four, the <\/p>\n
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\nLaw of Moses.
\nTaught peace very good. <\/p>\n
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\nOK.
\nI hope all the rest of you who <\/p>\n
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\naren’t saying anything or
\nthinking it OK. <\/p>\n
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\nGood.
\nSo the Law of Moses taught <\/p>\n
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\npeace.
\nSo that’s what we’ve seen. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd hopefully that really shows
\nthe centrality of peace to <\/p>\n
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\nScripture’s narrative, to what
\nit’s bringing out. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat we’re going to see today,
\nyou will notice that the core <\/p>\n
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\nmessage doesn’t actually mention
\npeace at all. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s because we’ve seen
\nnow the foundation for peace. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what we’re going to see is
\nthat we can build on that. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have our foundation for
\npeace. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now once we understand
\npeace, we can then understand <\/p>\n
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\nwhere unity comes from.
\nUnity is built on principles. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think that’s a contrast,
\nby the way, we’re going to talk <\/p>\n
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\nabout in our third section
\ntogether where I talk about <\/p>\n
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\nprinciples and applications.
\nThose are different. <\/p>\n
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\nI think a lot of times we treat
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\nprinciples and applications.
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\ndifference between the two.
\nBut I want to suggest to you <\/p>\n
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\nthat unity comes from agreement
\non principles. <\/p>\n
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\nNot necessarily.
\nAgreement on applications our <\/p>\n
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\nwhy question why was Phineas
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\nright.
\nI told you that this was that I <\/p>\n
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\nyou know had my list of gory
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\ndefinitely near the top.
\nIt was one of my favorites like <\/p>\n
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\nThat was how I you know that was<\/p>\n
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\nhow I rolled It was my little
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\nthought the whole idea of like,
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\nI was like. <\/p>\n
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\nWow.
\nThat guy was a man. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet God comes along and <\/p>\n
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\nsays, I’m giving you my covenant
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\nHuh?
\nAll right, so first let’s talk <\/p>\n
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\nabout the destruction of the
\nCanaanites. <\/p>\n
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\nI mentioned yesterday that a
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\nHow can you? <\/p>\n
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\nThis is this.
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\nThey say, how can you as a
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\nsupport the Bible when the Bible
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\nSo they ask me this, Well, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nObviously it’s the wrong <\/p>\n
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\nAnybody want to give me a <\/p>\n
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\nsuggestion or give me a thought
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\ndefinition?
\nAnyone know? <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, Steve, I was hoping you’d
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\nyour historical timeline, right?
\nIt happens just after the <\/p>\n
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\nHolocaust.
\nSo the the man who comes up with<\/p>\n
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\nit, his name is Raphael Lemkin.
\nIf you’re interested, you can <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s kind of interesting. <\/p>\n
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\nso they are annihilated. <\/p>\n
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\nThroughout the 1930s, he is very
\ndriven to try and come up with <\/p>\n
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\nhow do I describe what it is
\nthat’s taking place? <\/p>\n
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\nHe studied the Armenian genocide
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\nquote.
\nHe said, why is the murder of 1 <\/p>\n
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\nmurder of a million, Right? <\/p>\n
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\nHe says.
\nOur our language simply says if <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s able to, to bring <\/p>\n
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\nSo he brings together Genos and <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s 1947. <\/p>\n
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\nInterestingly enough, the United
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\nIs that weird? <\/p>\n
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\nWork. <\/p>\n
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\nFor certain things.
\nIn other words, genocide is a <\/p>\n
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\nThis is completely different if
\nyou walk through all. <\/p>\n
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\nThe major genocides of the last
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\nif you walk through all of them,
\nyou will notice that they do not<\/p>\n
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\nshare characteristics with what
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\nIt’s not the same.
\nSo is it mass death? <\/p>\n
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\nYes, it is.
\nBut I would put to you that it’s<\/p>\n
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\nLike if you really want to, you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, you could make a case that
\nthis is genocidal, but I think <\/p>\n
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\nit’s better and it’s more
\nhelpful to instead recognize how<\/p>\n
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\nincredibly different. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a, there’s a framework.
\nCalled the 10 stages of <\/p>\n
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\ngenocide.
\nI don’t know if anybody’s ever <\/p>\n
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\nheard of it, but if you take
\nthose 10 stages and you compare <\/p>\n
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\nYou will notice that these only <\/p>\n
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\nmatch about half.
\nSo the structure of the <\/p>\n
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\nCanaanites only match about half
\nand it just it doesn’t fit. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I want to just say that right
\noff the bat. <\/p>\n
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\nNow let’s just talk a little bit
\nabout what God does say. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s look.
\nExodus 23 that sounded weird. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s just talk a little bit
\nabout what God does say. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s talk a lot about what God
\nsays. <\/p>\n
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\nSorry, that’s I didn’t mean to
\nsound that way at all. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Exodus 23, let’s look at at
\nwhat he says in relation to <\/p>\n
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\ngetting rid of the Canaanites.
\nSo Exodus 23 verses 31 to 33 <\/p>\n
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\nsays I will set your border from
\nthe Red Sea to the sea of the <\/p>\n
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\nto the Aphrates. <\/p>\n
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\nFor I will give the inhabitants
\nof the land into your hand. <\/p>\n
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\nYou should drive them out before
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\nYou shall make no covenant with
\nthem and their gods. <\/p>\n
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\nFor if you serve their gods, it <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll notice there’s nothing <\/p>\n
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\ndetailed when we get into
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\nverses one and two.
\nThis says when the Lord your God<\/p>\n
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\nbrings you into the land you are
\nentering to possess and drives <\/p>\n
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\nout before you many nations, the
\nHittites, Girgashites, Amorites,<\/p>\n
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\nCanaanites, parasites, Hiveites,
\nand Jebusites, 7 nations larger <\/p>\n
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\nand stronger than you.
\nWhen the Lord your God has <\/p>\n
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\ndelivered them over to you and
\nyou have defeated them, then you<\/p>\n
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\nmust destroy them totally.
\nSo in Exodus it was drive them <\/p>\n
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\nout.
\nDeuteronomy we now get the <\/p>\n
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\nexplicit directions which are
\ncompletely get rid of them, make<\/p>\n
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\nno treaty with them, show them
\nno mercy. <\/p>\n
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\nOur term is Karem.
\nIn the Hebrew it’s the same <\/p>\n
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\nterm.
\nThat’s used to describe the city<\/p>\n
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\nof Jericho.
\nSo all the stuff that’s in <\/p>\n
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\nJericho, a lot of times you’ll
\nsee that translated as devoted <\/p>\n
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\nto God.
\nSo it was, it was devoted in the<\/p>\n
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\nsense that it wasn’t for anybody
\nelse, right? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s that’s why you’ll notice
\nthat it’s translated here as <\/p>\n
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\ndestroy.
\nIt wasn’t like they were going <\/p>\n
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\nto take them as slaves anything
\nlike that. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was that was the end.
\nMake no treaty with them. <\/p>\n
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\nShow them no mercy.
\nSo you can see this, and again, <\/p>\n
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\na lot of people will read this
\nand they’ll jump to aha, see <\/p>\n
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\ngenocide.
\nNow, again, I think it’s really <\/p>\n
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\nimportant for us to understand
\nthe nuance, and sometimes we <\/p>\n
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\nmiss nuance just because we get
\nso used to reading the biblical <\/p>\n
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\nrecord.
\nIt’s good that we read it a lot.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s good that we’re familiar
\nwith it, but familiarity <\/p>\n
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\nsometimes makes us a little bit
\nsloppy. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s take a look and try and
\npicture what it would have been <\/p>\n
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\nlike to be an Israelite, because
\nI think first of all, the <\/p>\n
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\nIsraelites should have and would
\nhave wrestled with this. <\/p>\n
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\nHow do you work this out?
\nExodus 20, verse 13, You shall <\/p>\n
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\nnot murder.
\nHave you ever thought about <\/p>\n
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\nthat?
\nWe know it’s one of the 10 <\/p>\n
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\ncommandments.
\nAnd by the way, I would have <\/p>\n
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\ntranslated that as you shall not
\nkill. <\/p>\n
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\nNow you shall not murder.
\nThere’s a little, there’s a <\/p>\n
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\nwhole rabbinic debate about
\nthis. <\/p>\n
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\nI think it’s silly.
\nIt should be. <\/p>\n
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\nYou shall not kill.
\nSome people try to get around it<\/p>\n
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\nand say, oh, well, it just
\nmeant, you know, you shouldn’t <\/p>\n
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\nkill people on purpose, right?
\nI’m pretty sure God didn’t want <\/p>\n
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\nyou to kill people regardless of
\nif it was on purpose. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you shall not murder, or you
\nshall not kill. <\/p>\n
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\nIn addition, look at Leviticus
\n19 verses 33 to 34. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says when a stranger, when a
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\nyour land, you shall not do him
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
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\nYou shall treat the stranger who
\nsojourns with you as the native <\/p>\n
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\namong you.
\nYou shall love him as yourself, <\/p>\n
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\nfor you were strangers in the
\nland of Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nI am the Lord your God.
\nNow this is important because <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re again, again, we’re used
\nto this idea that you will love <\/p>\n
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\nyour neighbor as yourself,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nDo you notice what this says?
\nYou will love your stranger as <\/p>\n
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\nyourself.
\nSo that’s another piece here. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Can you imagine being an
\nIsraelite, hearing the 10 <\/p>\n
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\ncommandments, thinking, OK, God
\ndoesn’t want us to kill. <\/p>\n
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\nYou have this overall framework
\nof peace that we established <\/p>\n
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\nyesterday.
\nAnd then in Leviticus 19 verses <\/p>\n
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\n33 to 34, you read that those
\nstrangers who have decided to <\/p>\n
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\nfollow Israel, right?
\nThe Gentiles, that you’re <\/p>\n
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\nsupposed to love them as you
\nlove yourself. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you have this framework.
\nAnd then God says, by the way, <\/p>\n
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\nthere are seven nations that I
\nwant you to totally obliterate <\/p>\n
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\nand have absolutely no mercy on
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’d be thinking, well, how’s
\nthat work? <\/p>\n
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\nHow does this go together?
\nNow, I don’t think this was a <\/p>\n
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\ncontradiction.
\nI think this was multiple <\/p>\n
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\nprinciples overlapping.
\nThat’s what I was trying to <\/p>\n
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\nestablish yesterday, right?
\nIf we take this as rules, then <\/p>\n
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\nyes, you get a contradiction.
\nThis is not rules. <\/p>\n
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\nInstead, God was teaching
\nprinciples, and the principles <\/p>\n
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\noverlay each other.
\nWhere one principle is taken is <\/p>\n
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\ngiven precedence over another.
\nWe can talk about that more <\/p>\n
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\nlater.
\nI went on for a long time about <\/p>\n
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\nit with the teens and I realized
\nI didn’t have time to do that. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we can, we can talk about it
\nat the end if you want. <\/p>\n
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\nOK.
\nNow I think God actually set up <\/p>\n
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\nthe Israelites to really
\nunderstand what he was doing <\/p>\n
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\nwith these principles so that
\nwhen they were given those <\/p>\n
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\nverses to destroy the nations,
\nand then when they were given <\/p>\n
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\nthe verses to not murder and to
\nlove their stranger as <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves, that they would have
\nhad a framework for really for <\/p>\n
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\nactually understanding this.
\nAnd that’s here. <\/p>\n
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\nTake a look at these verses and
\nsee if you notice what’s in <\/p>\n
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\ncommon with them.
\nSo these are God’s work <\/p>\n
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\ninitially during the first few
\nplagues with Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is what He says in Exodus
\n7, verse five. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says, and the Egyptians will
\nknow that I am the Lord when I <\/p>\n
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\nstretch out my hand against
\nEgypt and bring the Israelites <\/p>\n
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\nout of it.
\nExodus 7, verse 17. <\/p>\n
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\nAgain, look for what’s in common
\nhere. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is what the Lord says.
\nBy this you will know that I am <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord with the staff that is
\nin my hand. <\/p>\n
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\nI will strike the water of the
\nNile and it will be changed in <\/p>\n
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\nthe blood.
\nExodus 8, verse 10. <\/p>\n
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\nTomorrow, Pharaoh said.
\nMoses replied. <\/p>\n
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\nIt will be as you say, so that
\nyou may know that there is no <\/p>\n
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\none like the Lord our God do.
\nYou notice what’s in common with<\/p>\n
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\nall these.
\nYou will know that I am Yahweh, <\/p>\n
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\nand I think we’re familiar with
\nthat, right? <\/p>\n
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\nThey show up over and over in
\nthe plagues that God says. <\/p>\n
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\nThese plagues will teach Israel
\nthat I’m Yahweh, right? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s going to do both.
\nThey’ll teach Israel that I’m <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh and they will teach Egypt
\nthat I am Yahweh, that I am he <\/p>\n
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\nwho will be, you know, they have
\nall these different gods that <\/p>\n
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\nfor for various things and I
\nwill show I am the one. <\/p>\n
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\nI am the one that will be I am
\nthe one that was I am the one <\/p>\n
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\nthat is.
\nSo he’s showing he is the one. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I think it’s really helpful
\nwhen we just again, think about <\/p>\n
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\nit and play it through.
\nLet me ask you this. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re talking about massacre of
\npeople, so. <\/p>\n
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\nWhich plague was it where people
\ndied? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the last one, right?
\nHave you ever thought about <\/p>\n
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\nthat?
\nI think that’s fascinating. <\/p>\n
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\nGod saves the massacre till the
\nfinal plague, he says. <\/p>\n
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\nDuring each plague, look, I’m
\ngiving you an opportunity to <\/p>\n
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\nknow who I am, to know that I am
\nthe real God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so when they don’t learn it
\nin plug one, they’re supposed to<\/p>\n
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\nlearn it in plug 2.
\nWhen they don’t learn it in two,<\/p>\n
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\nthey’re supposed to learn it in
\nthree, etcetera. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd finally, all the way at the
\nend, God says, look, you leave <\/p>\n
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\nme no choice.
\nIf you don’t know that I’m <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh now, then there’s going
\nto. <\/p>\n
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\nBe stronger consequences and
\nthat is when the massacre <\/p>\n
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\nhappens.
\nI think that’s really important <\/p>\n
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\nas we try and understand the way
\nthat God is working with Egypt <\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nAnd I’m going to suggest you to <\/p>\n
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\nthe Canaanite nations.
\nNow let’s think about this a <\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit further.
\nGod in fact made a way so that <\/p>\n
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\nthe Egyptians did not have to
\ntake part in that massacre, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nExodus 12 verses 37 to 38 says <\/p>\n
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\nthe Israelites journey from
\nRamses to Sukkot. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are about 600,000 men on
\nfoot beside women and children. <\/p>\n
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\nMany other people went up with
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd sometimes we miss this just
\nbecause it’s so small. <\/p>\n
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\nKJV says a mixed multitude.
\nAnd we just kind of read over <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nOh, there was, you know, a group<\/p>\n
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\nof people.
\nWell, they weren’t Israelites, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nBecause we were just told that <\/p>\n
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\nthe Israelites went.
\nSo who are these people that <\/p>\n
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\nwent up with them?
\nThey would have had to have been<\/p>\n
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\nEgyptians, right?
\nSo these were Egyptians who ally<\/p>\n
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\nthemselves to the Israelites.
\nNow what that would have meant, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause this is the Passover
\nstory, Exodus 12, what that <\/p>\n
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\nwould have meant is that they
\nwere there in the camp of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nNow just think about how God <\/p>\n
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\narranged this because this is
\nthis is so striking and yet it’s<\/p>\n
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\nso subtle.
\nGod said, if you do not want <\/p>\n
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\nyour first born to die, what did
\nyou need to do? <\/p>\n
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\nBlood on the door frame, right?
\nWhat kind of blood? <\/p>\n
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\nA lamb.
\nNow did you ever think about <\/p>\n
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\nthat?
\nIf you were an Egyptian, how <\/p>\n
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\nwould you get a lamb?
\nYou had to go to the Hebrews. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy?
\nBecause they were shepherds, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nYou remember that being <\/p>\n
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\nmentioned, that they’re
\nshepherds, therefore they have <\/p>\n
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\nto live all the way in Goshen.
\nNow, on top of that, just just <\/p>\n
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\nlook at how God like ensured
\nthis. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is awesome.
\nSo not only did you have to go <\/p>\n
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\nto the Hebrews just because
\nthey’re shepherds, right? <\/p>\n
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\nBut you also had to go to the
\nHebrews because just in case <\/p>\n
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\nthere happened to be, you know,
\nthe one Egyptian guy who decided<\/p>\n
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\nto become a shepherd, he had no
\nsheep. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy?
\nBecause they all died in the <\/p>\n
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\nplague.
\nNot only that, if you wanted <\/p>\n
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\nhyssop, guess where you had to
\ngo? <\/p>\n
340
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\nYou had to go to the camp of
\nIsrael because all the trees <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:33,600 –> 00:18:37,880
\nwere destroyed in Egypt.
\nSo God sets this up and he says,<\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:38,040 –> 00:18:40,600
\nlook, I’m telling you, here’s
\nthe way that this is all going <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:40,600 –> 00:18:42,320
\nto work.
\nAnd Moses is very explicit. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:42,320 –> 00:18:44,000
\nHe explains these are the things
\nthat are going to happen. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:44,160 –> 00:18:49,680
\nSo God says if you don’t want
\nyour first born to die, you have<\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:49,680 –> 00:18:51,560
\nto go to the camp of Israel.
\nYou have to get a lamb from <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:51,560 –> 00:18:53,080
\nthem, you have to get hyssop
\nfrom them. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:53,520 –> 00:18:56,800
\nIn other words, you have to join
\nIsrael, you have to join their <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:56,800 –> 00:18:58,640
\ncamp.
\nAnd a number of people realize <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:58,640 –> 00:19:01,760
\nthat and they do it.
\nBut I think it’s crucial for us <\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:01,760 –> 00:19:08,360
\nto notice that God provided a
\nway to be saved. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:19:08,360 –> 00:19:13,320
\nFrom the massacre, yes, there
\nwas a massacre, but it is not <\/p>\n
353
\n00:19:13,720 –> 00:19:16,400
\ngenocide the way that people
\nunderstand genocide. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:19:17,560 –> 00:19:20,000
\nIf you look at every single
\ngenocide of the 20th century, <\/p>\n
355
\n00:19:21,040 –> 00:19:22,320
\nyou will find that there was no
\nescape. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:24,200 –> 00:19:26,360
\nIf you were targeted, that was
\nit, right? <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:26,360 –> 00:19:27,840
\nYou couldn’t.
\nIf you were Jewish, you couldn’t<\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:27,840 –> 00:19:30,320
\nsay, oh, well, I got baptized as
\na Christian, too bad it didn’t <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:30,320 –> 00:19:33,280
\nmatter, right?
\nYou had Jewish blood. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:36,440 –> 00:19:40,720
\nBut here God provides a way out.
\nAnd I think that’s why it’s so <\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:40,720 –> 00:19:42,520
\nhelpful.
\nFor us to reframe this to step <\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:42,520 –> 00:19:44,960
\nback and say, well, wait a
\nminute, let’s not actually use <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:44,960 –> 00:19:48,000
\nthat term because that’s not
\nreally what’s going on here. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:48,720 –> 00:19:52,240
\nInstead, what God is doing is
\nhe’s saying I’m setting before <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:52,240 –> 00:19:55,440
\nyou life and death.
\nWhich do you choose? <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:57,360 –> 00:20:00,240
\nAnd in fact, that’s what God has
\nalways done, right? <\/p>\n
367
\n00:20:00,240 –> 00:20:02,560
\nThat’s what God does with us.
\nIt’s the same thing. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:20:02,560 –> 00:20:04,360
\nIt’s just, you know, death for
\nus comes a little later <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:04,360 –> 00:20:08,240
\nsometimes.
\nBut this is the choice that God <\/p>\n
370
\n00:20:08,240 –> 00:20:11,760
\nputs out, life, death.
\nThis is not about massacres. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:13,240 –> 00:20:14,960
\nAnd so when we come to the
\nCanaanites. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:15,400 –> 00:20:19,520
\nIt’s the same thing.
\nSo let’s just build this out and<\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:19,520 –> 00:20:21,240
\nsee that that’s what God is
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:21,320 –> 00:20:23,760
\nOur God is a God of peace.
\nHe is not one who stands up and <\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:23,760 –> 00:20:26,280
\nsays, haha, destroy the
\nCanaanites or something like <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:26,280 –> 00:20:27,440
\nthat.
\nThat’s not what was going on. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:27,880 –> 00:20:30,720
\nIn fact, when you take a look at
\nDeuteronomy 20 verses 10 to 15, <\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:30,880 –> 00:20:34,360
\nlook at the contrast.
\nIt says when you March up to <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:34,360 –> 00:20:36,960
\nattack a city, make its people
\nand offer a peace. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:37,360 –> 00:20:41,720
\nHuh.
\nWell, that’s interesting. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:42,680 –> 00:20:44,680
\nIf they accept and open their
\ngates, all the people in it <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:44,680 –> 00:20:46,600
\nshall be subject to forced labor
\nand shall work for you. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:46,880 –> 00:20:49,520
\nIf they refuse to make peace and
\nthey engage you in battle, lay <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:49,520 –> 00:20:52,000
\nsiege to that city.
\nWhen the Lord your God delivers <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:52,000 –> 00:20:53,960
\nit in your hand, put to the
\nsword all the men in it. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:54,440 –> 00:20:56,240
\nAs for the women, the children,
\nthe livestock and everything <\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:56,240 –> 00:20:58,320
\nelse in the city, you may take
\nthese as plunder for yourself. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:58,760 –> 00:21:00,880
\nYou may use the plunder the Lord
\nyour God gives you from your <\/p>\n
389
\n00:21:00,880 –> 00:21:02,640
\nenemies.
\nThis is how you are to treat all<\/p>\n
390
\n00:21:02,640 –> 00:21:03,920
\nthe cities.
\nNotice this. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:21:04,200 –> 00:21:07,480
\nThis is important that are at a
\ndistance from you and do not <\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:07,480 –> 00:21:12,200
\nbelong to the nations nearby.
\nNow, sometimes I think we miss <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:12,200 –> 00:21:14,400
\nthis.
\nYou may have heard people <\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:14,400 –> 00:21:17,440
\ntalking before about the
\ndestruction of the Canaanites, <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:17,640 –> 00:21:19,440
\nand I think often at least I
\nhave done this. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:19,440 –> 00:21:22,240
\nMaybe you haven’t.
\nOften I will jump to <\/p>\n
397
\n00:21:22,240 –> 00:21:26,760
\nspiritualizing the story and I
\nwill say, look, this is about <\/p>\n
398
\n00:21:26,800 –> 00:21:29,600
\nour walk and the truth.
\nThe Canaanites represent the <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:29,600 –> 00:21:31,800
\nworld.
\nNow I think that’s a fine <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:31,800 –> 00:21:34,720
\ninterpretation, OK?
\nI’m not saying that that’s bad <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:34,960 –> 00:21:36,760
\nor anything like that, but I
\nthink sometimes. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:36,920 –> 00:21:39,120
\nWhen we get a little overly
\nzealous to jump to the spiritual<\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:39,120 –> 00:21:42,720
\napplication, we miss what’s
\nactually going on because what <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:42,720 –> 00:21:46,120
\nwe’re being told here is that
\nGod made a differentiation. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:47,800 –> 00:21:52,160
\nGod made a differentiation here
\nbetween those seven Canaanite <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:52,160 –> 00:21:53,840
\nnations that he said needed to
\nbe destroyed. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:54,600 –> 00:21:57,800
\nAnd those people, quote that are
\nat a distance from you, right? <\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:57,800 –> 00:22:00,840
\nIt was not like God said to to
\nIsrael, go destroy the whole <\/p>\n
409
\n00:22:00,840 –> 00:22:03,600
\nworld.
\nThat wasn’t the point. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:22:04,200 –> 00:22:05,600
\nHe said I want you to go
\ndestroy. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:22:05,920 –> 00:22:07,920
\nA very specific subset of
\nnations. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:22:09,840 –> 00:22:11,320
\nAnd it wasn’t even just the
\npeople that were in the <\/p>\n
413
\n00:22:11,320 –> 00:22:13,400
\nterritory.
\nThey were going right Because <\/p>\n
414
\n00:22:13,480 –> 00:22:16,240
\nthis is all about when you’re in
\nyour territory, this is what <\/p>\n
415
\n00:22:16,240 –> 00:22:18,480
\nyou’re going to do.
\nIt was a specific set of seven <\/p>\n
416
\n00:22:18,480 –> 00:22:20,320
\nnations.
\nIn fact, he explains that again,<\/p>\n
417
\n00:22:20,320 –> 00:22:22,760
\nif you keep reading in
\nDeuteronomy 20 verses 16 to 18, <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:22,760 –> 00:22:25,640
\nhe says, However, in the cities
\nof the nations the Lord your God<\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:25,640 –> 00:22:27,960
\nis giving you as an inheritance,
\ndo not leave alive anything that<\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:27,960 –> 00:22:29,440
\nbreathes completely destroy
\nthem. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:29,440 –> 00:22:31,600
\nThe Hittites, Amorites,
\nCanaanites, parasites, Hivites, <\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:31,600 –> 00:22:33,560
\nJebusites.
\nAgain, you will notice that it <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:33,560 –> 00:22:36,120
\nsays in the cities of the
\nnations the Lord your God is <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:36,120 –> 00:22:38,920
\ngiving you as an inheritance
\nthat is in a particular portion <\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:38,920 –> 00:22:41,480
\nof this, as the Lord your God
\nhas commanded you. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:22:41,680 –> 00:22:44,240
\nOtherwise, they will teach you
\nto follow all the detestable. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:44,240 –> 00:22:47,000
\nThings they do in worshipping
\ntheir gods, you will sin against<\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:47,000 –> 00:22:50,760
\nthe Lord your God.
\nSo what you get is God makes a <\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:50,760 –> 00:22:53,800
\ndistinction.
\nThere are seven nations. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:53,800 –> 00:22:56,000
\nYou are to destroy the other
\nnations. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:56,320 –> 00:22:58,560
\nCome to them, ask them if
\nthey’ll make peace with you. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:58,920 –> 00:23:00,520
\nIf they won’t, then you fight
\nthem. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:23:03,000 –> 00:23:07,560
\nThat should be an indication to
\nus that there’s more going on <\/p>\n
434
\n00:23:07,560 –> 00:23:10,640
\nhere.
\nThis is not just an opportunity <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:10,640 –> 00:23:13,560
\nto say, oh, look, God commits
\nmass murder, you know, and right<\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:13,560 –> 00:23:14,800
\noff the Bible, as some people
\nlike to do. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:14,800 –> 00:23:17,920
\nThat’s not what’s happening.
\nThere’s more going on. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:18,080 –> 00:23:20,880
\nSo we need to try and understand
\nthen what is it about these <\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:20,880 –> 00:23:23,120
\nspecific nations?
\nWhat is it about the Hittites, <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:23,120 –> 00:23:25,160
\nAmorites, Canaanites, parasites,
\nHavites, and Jebusites? <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:25,360 –> 00:23:27,880
\nWhy does God say I’m going to
\ndestroy those nations? <\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:29,560 –> 00:23:36,280
\nI will suggest to you he gives a
\nlittle hint and he does it in <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:36,280 –> 00:23:40,760
\nthe promises to Abraham, Genesis
\n15. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:41,760 –> 00:23:44,720
\nThis is our story.
\nIn which Abraham is put into a <\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:44,720 –> 00:23:47,000
\ndeep sleep.
\nYou remember that he cuts these <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:47,000 –> 00:23:49,480
\nanimals in half.
\nHe goes into a deep sleep, then <\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:49,520 –> 00:23:51,560
\na a smoking fire and burning
\nfurnace. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:51,560 –> 00:23:56,520
\nThey travel through through the
\nthe the pieces of the animal and<\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:56,520 –> 00:23:59,880
\nthen God gives a prophecy to
\nAbraham or Abram at the time. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:24:00,560 –> 00:24:04,200
\nThis is what He says.
\nAs we read this, just look for <\/p>\n
451
\n00:24:05,000 –> 00:24:08,560
\nour indication as to what God
\nhad against those seven nations.<\/p>\n
452
\n00:24:10,240 –> 00:24:13,080
\nGenesis 15 verses 13 to 16.
\nIt says. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:24:13,560 –> 00:24:18,080
\nThen the Lord said to him, Know
\nfor certain that for 400 years <\/p>\n
454
\n00:24:18,080 –> 00:24:20,400
\nyour descendants will be
\nstrangers in a country not their<\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:20,400 –> 00:24:23,320
\nown, that they will be enslaved
\nand mistreated there. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:24,080 –> 00:24:26,600
\nBut I will punish the nation.
\nThey serve as slaves, and <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:26,600 –> 00:24:28,360
\nafterward they will come out
\nwith great possessions. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:28,720 –> 00:24:31,880
\nYou, however, will go to your
\nancestors in peace and be buried<\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:31,880 –> 00:24:34,040
\nat a good old age in the 4th
\ngeneration. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:34,440 –> 00:24:36,600
\nYour descendants will come back
\nhere, for the sin of the <\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:36,600 –> 00:24:38,800
\nAmorites has not yet reached its
\nfull measure. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:40,760 –> 00:24:42,160
\nDo you notice the hint that God
\ngives here? <\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:43,640 –> 00:24:49,200
\nHe says, in effect, he had
\npromised Abraham the land, <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:49,200 –> 00:24:50,880
\nright?
\nAbraham came and he was going to<\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:50,880 –> 00:24:53,400
\ninherit that land.
\nBut God says to Abraham, it’s <\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:53,400 –> 00:24:56,720
\nnot actually time yet.
\nIt’s not time for you to inherit<\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:56,720 –> 00:25:01,640
\nthe land because God indicates
\nhe’s actually working with the <\/p>\n
468
\n00:25:01,640 –> 00:25:04,800
\nAmorites.
\nHe says, I’m not going to <\/p>\n
469
\n00:25:04,800 –> 00:25:07,640
\ndestroy all the Amorites yet
\nbecause they’re not bad enough. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:25:09,480 –> 00:25:12,400
\nHave you ever noticed that?
\nLike that’s, that’s fascinating <\/p>\n
471
\n00:25:12,400 –> 00:25:14,680
\nto see.
\nIt’s just a little sentence here<\/p>\n
472
\n00:25:14,760 –> 00:25:17,960
\nin which God is saying, I’ve
\nbeen working with the Amorites <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:18,160 –> 00:25:20,120
\nand I don’t want you to destroy
\nthem. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:20,800 –> 00:25:24,120
\nSo there must be some kind of
\nchange that takes place here. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:24,360 –> 00:25:27,880
\nAnd then a couple, 100 years
\nlater and the time when God says<\/p>\n
476
\n00:25:28,160 –> 00:25:32,400
\nyou do need to destroy them and
\nthe difference is that at that <\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:32,400 –> 00:25:35,400
\ntime they weren’t sinful enough.
\nAnd by the time of the Exodus, <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:35,400 –> 00:25:39,680
\nthey are.
\nSo what I would suggest to you, <\/p>\n
479
\n00:25:39,680 –> 00:25:44,240
\nthis is telling us is that God
\ngives a little indication that <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:44,240 –> 00:25:47,240
\nhe’s actually working with the
\nMRI nation. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:50,280 –> 00:25:54,600
\nNow that shouldn’t be that
\nsurprising because one of the <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:54,600 –> 00:25:57,600
\nother nations that he mentions
\nhere is the Jebusites, right? <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:59,600 –> 00:26:02,880
\nWell, we know that he was also
\nworking with the Jebusites. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:26:03,920 –> 00:26:08,040
\nHow do we know that?
\nBecause of Jerusalem, right? <\/p>\n
485
\n00:26:08,640 –> 00:26:13,360
\nJerusalem’s other name is Jebus.
\nGuess who lived in Jebus? <\/p>\n
486
\n00:26:13,920 –> 00:26:21,920
\nJebusites, right?
\nSo the king of Jebus was <\/p>\n
487
\n00:26:21,920 –> 00:26:25,920
\nMelchizedek, priest of the Most
\nHigh God. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:26:28,280 –> 00:26:30,920
\nSo you can put this together and
\nyou can see that God says you’re<\/p>\n
489
\n00:26:30,920 –> 00:26:33,040
\nnot going to take over the
\nAmorites because I’m still <\/p>\n
490
\n00:26:33,040 –> 00:26:36,560
\nworking with them.
\nThey apparently you know that <\/p>\n
491
\n00:26:36,560 –> 00:26:37,120
\nwas.
\nJust the last. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:37,120 –> 00:26:39,440
\nChapter Genesis 14 where we
\nlearned about Melchizedek, they <\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:39,440 –> 00:26:43,320
\napparently weren’t going to take
\nover Jebus either because <\/p>\n
494
\n00:26:43,320 –> 00:26:45,960
\nMelchizedek was there teaching
\nthe truth to people. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:46,880 –> 00:26:51,040
\nAnd So what you see is God says
\nthere’s these specific nations. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:26:51,160 –> 00:26:53,600
\nAnd I would suggest to you, the
\nreason that God says we’re going<\/p>\n
497
\n00:26:53,600 –> 00:26:56,120
\nto destroy these seven is
\nbecause he says I’ve been <\/p>\n
498
\n00:26:56,120 –> 00:27:01,360
\nworking with them and now I’ve
\nreached the end. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:27:03,080 –> 00:27:05,760
\nI’ve worked with the nations.
\nPeople have come to me. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:27:05,840 –> 00:27:10,000
\nThey’ve come to know me.
\nAnd now there’s very few people <\/p>\n
501
\n00:27:10,000 –> 00:27:14,680
\nleft who are going to do that.
\nSo that’s why in Leviticus <\/p>\n
502
\n00:27:14,680 –> 00:27:20,440
\nchapter 20, when God explains to
\nthe people what it’s going to be<\/p>\n
503
\n00:27:20,440 –> 00:27:23,480
\nlike when they get into the
\nland, look at what He says about<\/p>\n
504
\n00:27:23,480 –> 00:27:27,200
\nthe nations.
\nLeviticus 20 verses 22 to 23. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:27:27,200 –> 00:27:30,840
\nHe says, keep all my decrees and
\nlaws and follow them so that the<\/p>\n
506
\n00:27:30,840 –> 00:27:33,840
\nland where I’m bringing you to
\nlive may not vomit you out. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:27:34,440 –> 00:27:36,800
\nYou must not live according to
\nthe customs of the nations. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:27:36,800 –> 00:27:39,720
\nI’m going to drive out before
\nyou because they did all these <\/p>\n
509
\n00:27:39,720 –> 00:27:40,920
\nthings.
\nI abhorred them. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:41,080 –> 00:27:49,520
\nNow this is astonishing because
\nGod says it’s not that Israel <\/p>\n
511
\n00:27:49,520 –> 00:27:50,920
\nhas standards.
\nThey do. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:27:50,920 –> 00:27:52,440
\nHe gives them to them.
\nBut that’s not what He’s <\/p>\n
513
\n00:27:52,440 –> 00:27:55,920
\nreferring to here.
\nHe says, in fact, the land has <\/p>\n
514
\n00:27:55,920 –> 00:27:59,280
\nstandards.
\nDo you notice that, right? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:27:59,280 –> 00:28:01,840
\nHe says, I’ve given you these
\nlaws and you’re supposed to <\/p>\n
516
\n00:28:01,840 –> 00:28:03,000
\nfollow them.
\nBut guess what? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:28:03,920 –> 00:28:08,160
\nOther people had laws too, and
\nthey were supposed to follow <\/p>\n
518
\n00:28:08,160 –> 00:28:10,880
\nthose and they didn’t.
\nSo I’m kicking them out. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:28:12,080 –> 00:28:16,040
\nAnd in fact, Israel, you might
\nfeel really special. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:28:16,480 –> 00:28:18,160
\nAnd yes, they are the chosen
\npeople of God, right? <\/p>\n
521
\n00:28:18,160 –> 00:28:22,480
\nI’m not minimizing that.
\nBut he says if you live like <\/p>\n
522
\n00:28:22,480 –> 00:28:24,040
\nthose nations, you’re going to
\nbe out too. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:28:25,120 –> 00:28:30,960
\nAnd that’s what happens.
\nSo what we see going on is that <\/p>\n
524
\n00:28:30,960 –> 00:28:35,560
\nGod is so much bigger than I
\nthink we often realize, right? <\/p>\n
525
\n00:28:35,560 –> 00:28:39,240
\nScripture is the story.
\nOf God working with Israel, and <\/p>\n
526
\n00:28:39,240 –> 00:28:45,240
\nthat’s wonderful, but every once
\nin a while we get hints of the <\/p>\n
527
\n00:28:45,240 –> 00:28:47,800
\nfact that God was working in
\nother places. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:28:47,880 –> 00:28:48,720
\nRight.
\nWhere does? <\/p>\n
529
\n00:28:48,840 –> 00:28:50,600
\nWhere does Jethro?
\nCome from, you know, have you <\/p>\n
530
\n00:28:50,600 –> 00:28:52,720
\never wondered that?
\nHow do you get this priest who <\/p>\n
531
\n00:28:52,720 –> 00:28:56,280
\ngives Moses like the spiritual
\nadvice and he’s praying to <\/p>\n
532
\n00:28:56,280 –> 00:28:58,160
\nYahweh, right?
\nAll these, where does he come <\/p>\n
533
\n00:28:58,160 –> 00:29:00,400
\nfrom?
\nBut he comes from the fact that <\/p>\n
534
\n00:29:00,400 –> 00:29:03,160
\nGod was working with various
\nother nations. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:29:04,200 –> 00:29:06,880
\nAnd so when we recognize that, I
\nthink suddenly it can make sense<\/p>\n
536
\n00:29:07,360 –> 00:29:13,400
\nthat just as God wanted to allow
\nthose in Egypt to follow him. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:29:13,640 –> 00:29:16,320
\nAnd so he keeps saying, you will
\nknow that I am Yahweh, you will <\/p>\n
538
\n00:29:16,320 –> 00:29:19,280
\nknow that I’m Yahweh.
\nHe’s doing the same thing in the<\/p>\n
539
\n00:29:19,280 –> 00:29:22,200
\nbackground with the Amorites,
\nwith the Jebusites. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:29:22,360 –> 00:29:25,360
\nAnd so that’s why, as we get to
\nthe story of the destruction of <\/p>\n
541
\n00:29:25,360 –> 00:29:29,240
\nthe Canaanites, you actually
\nhave the Israelites breaking the<\/p>\n
542
\n00:29:29,240 –> 00:29:32,320
\nrule because it’s not a rule,
\nright? <\/p>\n
543
\n00:29:32,800 –> 00:29:35,640
\nIt’s a principle.
\nSo that when they come to <\/p>\n
544
\n00:29:35,640 –> 00:29:37,920
\nJericho, Rahab says, can I join
\nyou? <\/p>\n
545
\n00:29:38,760 –> 00:29:40,000
\nRight.
\nI would like to become an <\/p>\n
546
\n00:29:40,000 –> 00:29:42,120
\nIsraelite.
\nAnd the Israelites don’t say, <\/p>\n
547
\n00:29:42,120 –> 00:29:45,920
\nno, sorry, we’re supposed to
\nkill all the Canaanites, right? <\/p>\n
548
\n00:29:45,920 –> 00:29:49,240
\nThey say, yeah, you can, because
\nthat’s the whole point. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:29:49,800 –> 00:29:52,800
\nGod wanted the Canaanites to
\nconvert, and when they get to <\/p>\n
550
\n00:29:52,800 –> 00:29:56,600
\nthe point of not converting, he
\nsays we’ll go wipe them all out.<\/p>\n
551
\n00:29:56,720 –> 00:30:00,160
\nBut then when there’s still
\nremnants who want to, God says, <\/p>\n
552
\n00:30:00,360 –> 00:30:05,520
\nyeah, do it.
\nAnd so that’s why we see that of<\/p>\n
553
\n00:30:05,520 –> 00:30:07,320
\nthese seven nations they were
\nsupposed to destroy. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:30:07,520 –> 00:30:09,920
\nThat’s why we see righteous
\npeople who came around. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:12,920
\nYou have Ahimelech in first
\nSamuel 26, verse six, you have <\/p>\n
556
\n00:30:12,920 –> 00:30:17,040
\nUriah the Hittite.
\nSecond Samuel 2339, you have <\/p>\n
557
\n00:30:17,040 –> 00:30:18,960
\nRahab.
\nYou have Ornin the Jebusite. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:30:19,240 –> 00:30:23,680
\nFirst Chronicles 2118 and 23.
\nSo you have all of these people <\/p>\n
559
\n00:30:23,840 –> 00:30:29,280
\nwho convert to follow the way of
\ntruth from these nations, <\/p>\n
560
\n00:30:29,440 –> 00:30:32,600
\ndespite the fact that the
\nIsraelites were told to destroy <\/p>\n
561
\n00:30:32,600 –> 00:30:35,480
\nthem.
\nAnd that is because God’s <\/p>\n
562
\n00:30:35,480 –> 00:30:41,240
\noverall purpose with the
\nCanaanites was to bring them to <\/p>\n
563
\n00:30:41,240 –> 00:30:45,400
\nHis glory.
\nAnd so those who would respond <\/p>\n
564
\n00:30:45,720 –> 00:30:52,960
\ncould.
\nThat then also explains Israel’s<\/p>\n
565
\n00:30:53,080 –> 00:30:56,480
\njob.
\nIsrael was called the Kingdom of<\/p>\n
566
\n00:30:56,480 –> 00:31:00,520
\npriests, right?
\nWhat was the job of the priest <\/p>\n
567
\n00:31:02,040 –> 00:31:04,520
\nthey were to teach?
\nThat didn’t mean that every <\/p>\n
568
\n00:31:04,520 –> 00:31:07,400
\nperson in the land was supposed
\nto be a priest, right? <\/p>\n
569
\n00:31:07,400 –> 00:31:08,480
\nThey aren’t.
\nThey weren’t all going to be <\/p>\n
570
\n00:31:08,480 –> 00:31:11,360
\ndoing the offerings.
\nSo God says this specifically <\/p>\n
571
\n00:31:11,360 –> 00:31:17,160
\nbecause each individual
\nIsraelite was to see themselves <\/p>\n
572
\n00:31:17,160 –> 00:31:20,200
\nas part of this Kingdom that
\nwould be a priest to the <\/p>\n
573
\n00:31:20,200 –> 00:31:24,240
\nnations.
\nAnd so God explains this, that <\/p>\n
574
\n00:31:24,240 –> 00:31:27,240
\nas they’re going around and as
\nthey’re destroying, this is how <\/p>\n
575
\n00:31:27,240 –> 00:31:28,560
\nthey were supposed to see
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:31:28,960 –> 00:31:31,040
\nHe says, see Deuteronomy 4-5 to
\nseven. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:31:31,200 –> 00:31:33,320
\nI have taught you decrees and
\nlaws that the Lord my God <\/p>\n
578
\n00:31:33,320 –> 00:31:35,520
\ncommanded me, so that you may
\nfollow them in the land you are <\/p>\n
579
\n00:31:35,520 –> 00:31:36,640
\nentering to take possession of
\nit. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:31:37,000 –> 00:31:39,760
\nObserve them carefully, for this
\nwill show your wisdom and <\/p>\n
581
\n00:31:39,760 –> 00:31:44,120
\nunderstanding to the nations who
\nwill hear about all these <\/p>\n
582
\n00:31:44,120 –> 00:31:46,920
\ndecrees and say surely this
\ngreat nation is a wise and <\/p>\n
583
\n00:31:46,920 –> 00:31:50,560
\nunderstanding people.
\nNow again, by the way, people <\/p>\n
584
\n00:31:51,040 –> 00:31:52,480
\nmisunderstand what’s going on
\nhere. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:31:52,680 –> 00:31:55,000
\nYou might hear I don’t.
\nMaybe, maybe you don’t hear <\/p>\n
586
\n00:31:55,000 –> 00:31:56,640
\npeople say this, but I hear, I
\nhear them say it. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:31:56,800 –> 00:31:58,800
\nThey’ll say, oh, look, you know,
\nyou can compare the Code of <\/p>\n
588
\n00:31:58,800 –> 00:32:04,200
\nHabarami Hammurabi, the Code of
\nHammurabi to the Law of Moses, <\/p>\n
589
\n00:32:04,280 –> 00:32:06,720
\nand you can say, oh, look, see,
\nMoses got a whole bunch of his <\/p>\n
590
\n00:32:06,720 –> 00:32:09,920
\nlaws from the Code of Hammurabi.
\nNo, that’s not what’s going on. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:32:10,040 –> 00:32:12,680
\nInstead, it’s what we saw
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:32:12,960 –> 00:32:16,760
\nGod was trying to show you have
\nthese laws and you’re supposed <\/p>\n
593
\n00:32:16,760 –> 00:32:18,360
\nto understand the principle
\nbeneath them. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:32:18,600 –> 00:32:21,280
\nAnd that when you’re living by
\nthose principles, when you say, <\/p>\n
595
\n00:32:21,280 –> 00:32:24,960
\noh look, you broke my arm, I
\nforgive you that the nations <\/p>\n
596
\n00:32:24,960 –> 00:32:30,600
\nwill say what?
\nWho does that, right? <\/p>\n
597
\n00:32:30,600 –> 00:32:33,040
\nThat was the point.
\nIt wasn’t like Moses was copying<\/p>\n
598
\n00:32:33,040 –> 00:32:35,400
\nthe laws.
\nHe was taking those laws and <\/p>\n
599
\n00:32:35,400 –> 00:32:40,520
\nshowing here’s the better way.
\nThis is what these things mean. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:32:43,720 –> 00:32:46,560
\nWhat other nation is so great as
\nto have their gods near them, <\/p>\n
601
\n00:32:46,560 –> 00:32:49,080
\nthe way the Lord our God is near
\nus whenever we pray to Him? <\/p>\n
602
\n00:32:55,240 –> 00:32:59,840
\nOK, so to wrap that up, our
\nfirst section. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:33:00,280 –> 00:33:04,840
\nWhich took 35 minutes.
\nWell, we can see, I hope that. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:33:04,840 –> 00:33:06,840
\nPeace is the foundation, right
\nGod? <\/p>\n
605
\n00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:10,360
\nGod was not saying go in and
\ndestroy the Canaanites because I<\/p>\n
606
\n00:33:10,360 –> 00:33:15,960
\nwant to just destroy people.
\nThe whole initial goal was <\/p>\n
607
\n00:33:15,960 –> 00:33:19,080
\nconversion.
\nGod was working with the people <\/p>\n
608
\n00:33:20,160 –> 00:33:23,120
\nfor centuries to bring about a
\ntime of. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:33:23,120 –> 00:33:26,080
\nPeace.
\nAnd yet because they resisted <\/p>\n
610
\n00:33:26,080 –> 00:33:28,520
\nthat, because they chose death
\nrather than life. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:33:29,480 –> 00:33:32,960
\nGod says, well then I can’t.
\nBring peace with you here. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:43,280
\nOK, let’s talk about Phineas.
\nSo how do we work with this? <\/p>\n
613
\n00:33:44,360 –> 00:33:45,800
\nHow does how does this all fit
\ntogether? <\/p>\n
614
\n00:33:45,800 –> 00:33:47,360
\nRight?
\nYou have a story that’s rather <\/p>\n
615
\n00:33:47,360 –> 00:33:49,000
\nviolent, and yet it’s about
\npeace. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:33:49,360 –> 00:33:51,320
\nSo here’s the story.
\nNumbers 25, six to nine. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:33:51,840 –> 00:33:54,160
\nThen an Israelite man brought
\ninto the camp of Midianite woman<\/p>\n
618
\n00:33:54,160 –> 00:33:56,480
\nright before the eyes of Moses
\nand the whole assembly of <\/p>\n
619
\n00:33:56,480 –> 00:33:58,440
\nIsrael, while they were weeping
\nat the entrance to the tent of <\/p>\n
620
\n00:33:58,440 –> 00:34:01,760
\nmeeting.
\nWhen Phineas son of Eliezer, son<\/p>\n
621
\n00:34:01,760 –> 00:34:04,280
\nof Aaron the priest, saw this,
\nhe left the assembly, took a <\/p>\n
622
\n00:34:04,280 –> 00:34:06,360
\nspear in his hand, and followed
\nthe Israelite into the tent. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:34:07,000 –> 00:34:08,880
\nHe drove the spear into both of
\nthem, right through the <\/p>\n
624
\n00:34:08,880 –> 00:34:10,400
\nIsraelite man and into the
\nwoman’s stomach. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:34:11,080 –> 00:34:12,679
\nThen the plague against the
\nIsraelites was stopped. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:34:12,840 –> 00:34:15,120
\nBut those who died in the plague
\nnumbered 24,000. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:34:15,480 –> 00:34:17,679
\nFirst of all, you can notice by
\nthe way, that Phineas saved <\/p>\n
628
\n00:34:17,679 –> 00:34:21,159
\nlives, right?
\nWe can see that for sure because<\/p>\n
629
\n00:34:21,159 –> 00:34:25,360
\nhe stops the plague.
\nSo Phineas’s action here is <\/p>\n
630
\n00:34:25,360 –> 00:34:28,440
\nactually an action of life,
\nright? <\/p>\n
631
\n00:34:28,440 –> 00:34:29,520
\nHe.
\nSaves life. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:34:29,520 –> 00:34:33,600
\nSo that’s an important thing to
\nnotice and that appears to be <\/p>\n
633
\n00:34:33,760 –> 00:34:35,639
\nthe way that God interprets it
\nas well. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:34:36,920 –> 00:34:40,000
\nSo if you look at the next few
\nverses, it says the Lord said to<\/p>\n
635
\n00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:43,080
\nMoses, Phineas son of Eleazar,
\nson of Aaron, the priest has <\/p>\n
636
\n00:34:43,080 –> 00:34:45,480
\nturned my anger away from the
\nIsraelites since he was a <\/p>\n
637
\n00:34:45,480 –> 00:34:47,320
\nzealous for my honor among them
\nas I am. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:34:47,880 –> 00:34:49,480
\nI did not put an end to them in
\nmy zeal. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:54,960
\nTherefore tell him I am making
\nmy covenant of peace with him. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:34:55,480 –> 00:34:57,360
\nSo you get a covenant of peace
\nthat comes out of this. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:34:57,560 –> 00:34:59,840
\nAnd all the way at the end of
\nthe Old Testament in Malachi, <\/p>\n
642
\n00:35:00,520 –> 00:35:04,440
\nyou have a commentary on this
\nsection, and Malachi references <\/p>\n
643
\n00:35:04,480 –> 00:35:06,840
\nagain that same covenant of
\npeace, although he calls it a <\/p>\n
644
\n00:35:06,840 –> 00:35:08,280
\ncovenant of.
\nLife and peace. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:35:09,040 –> 00:35:12,560
\nSo you have it in two places
\nthat Phineas’s action here was <\/p>\n
646
\n00:35:12,560 –> 00:35:19,160
\nactually peaceful.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
647
\n00:35:21,840 –> 00:35:25,920
\nWell, I think the key.
\nIs for us to follow this <\/p>\n
648
\n00:35:25,920 –> 00:35:29,320
\nprocess.
\nWe want to examine our context. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:35:30,080 –> 00:35:32,600
\nWhen we’ve done that, we can
\ndetermine the principle and then<\/p>\n
650
\n00:35:32,600 –> 00:35:33,760
\nwe can figure out the
\napplication. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:35:33,760 –> 00:35:35,120
\nSo let me just talk about what
\nthis means. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:35:35,840 –> 00:35:39,400
\nContext is things like what was
\nthe historical setting? <\/p>\n
653
\n00:35:40,760 –> 00:35:42,640
\nSo what was the historical
\ncontext at the time? <\/p>\n
654
\n00:35:43,400 –> 00:35:46,440
\nThat would be your historical
\ncontext, obviously. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:35:47,440 –> 00:35:49,520
\nWhat was the?
\nLiterary context, right? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:51,760
\nThat would be like reading
\nnumbers 25 or, you know, the <\/p>\n
657
\n00:35:51,760 –> 00:35:53,760
\nwhole book of numbers.
\nWhat was the literary context? <\/p>\n
658
\n00:35:53,920 –> 00:35:55,240
\nThen what was the Biblical?
\nContext. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:35:55,560 –> 00:35:58,840
\nThat’s like, where does Phineas
\nshow up in other places in <\/p>\n
660
\n00:35:58,840 –> 00:36:01,560
\nScripture, right?
\nOr where else is this talked <\/p>\n
661
\n00:36:01,560 –> 00:36:03,600
\nabout once you build up those 3
\nContext. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:36:03,600 –> 00:36:06,960
\nHistorical, literary, biblical.
\nThen you have all the facts and <\/p>\n
663
\n00:36:06,960 –> 00:36:08,680
\nyou can try and figure out, OK,
\nwhat’s the principle? <\/p>\n
664
\n00:36:09,280 –> 00:36:10,720
\nSo the principle is a timeless
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:36:11,960 –> 00:36:15,080
\nSo what is the timeless truth
\nthat comes out of this story? <\/p>\n
666
\n00:36:16,560 –> 00:36:19,480
\nWhen you have that, then you can
\ndevelop the application. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:36:20,120 –> 00:36:23,880
\nEvery one of us has a different
\ncontext that we live in, right? <\/p>\n
668
\n00:36:23,880 –> 00:36:26,360
\nYour struggles are different
\nthan mine. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:36:26,880 –> 00:36:29,760
\nSo because of that, when I have
\na principle, my application of <\/p>\n
670
\n00:36:29,760 –> 00:36:31,400
\nthe principle will be different
\nthan yours is. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:36:31,600 –> 00:36:34,600
\nIt will look different.
\nYou know, sometimes just merely <\/p>\n
672
\n00:36:34,600 –> 00:36:36,960
\nbecause we’re doing different
\nthings, right, mine might be <\/p>\n
673
\n00:36:36,960 –> 00:36:39,600
\ndisciplining a student at school
\nor something like that, and <\/p>\n
674
\n00:36:39,600 –> 00:36:42,240
\nyours, I don’t know, you know,
\nwhatever, whatever it might be, <\/p>\n
675
\n00:36:42,240 –> 00:36:43,760
\ndisciplining an employee or
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:36:44,960 –> 00:36:50,400
\nSo we take the context, we build
\nthe principle on that, and then <\/p>\n
677
\n00:36:50,400 –> 00:36:53,440
\nwe develop our application.
\nWell, I think when we look, by <\/p>\n
678
\n00:36:53,440 –> 00:36:56,680
\nthe way, at the story, the
\nprincipal kind of jumps out to <\/p>\n
679
\n00:36:56,680 –> 00:36:59,000
\nus.
\nDo you notice what God commended<\/p>\n
680
\n00:36:59,000 –> 00:37:02,080
\nPhineas for says?
\nSince he was as zealous for my <\/p>\n
681
\n00:37:02,080 –> 00:37:04,840
\nhonor among them as I am, I did
\nnot put an end to them in my <\/p>\n
682
\n00:37:04,840 –> 00:37:06,640
\nzeal.
\nSo the thing that specifically <\/p>\n
683
\n00:37:06,640 –> 00:37:10,720
\ncommended is Phineas’s zeal.
\nI think that’s really, really <\/p>\n
684
\n00:37:10,720 –> 00:37:16,080
\ncrucial for us to notice.
\nHere’s why sometimes we don’t go<\/p>\n
685
\n00:37:16,080 –> 00:37:19,720
\nthrough this process and we
\nstart to make mistakes. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:37:19,720 –> 00:37:22,400
\nBecause of that, let me give you
\nsome examples. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:37:23,480 –> 00:37:25,200
\nI remember being at a youth
\nweekend. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:37:25,840 –> 00:37:27,760
\nSome of you also might remember
\nthis because some of you were <\/p>\n
689
\n00:37:27,760 –> 00:37:29,320
\nthere.
\nI remember being at a youth <\/p>\n
690
\n00:37:29,320 –> 00:37:34,600
\nweekend in which the topic was
\nPhineas right, and it was <\/p>\n
691
\n00:37:34,600 –> 00:37:36,720
\nlunchtime.
\nMy brother got up to pray for <\/p>\n
692
\n00:37:36,720 –> 00:37:41,400
\nlunch and he prayed.
\nThat we would all be Phineas’s <\/p>\n
693
\n00:37:41,400 –> 00:37:44,840
\nto each other.
\nAnd I remember like during the <\/p>\n
694
\n00:37:44,840 –> 00:37:47,400
\nprayer, like I’m not trying to
\nmake fun of somebody’s prayer, <\/p>\n
695
\n00:37:47,520 –> 00:37:50,360
\nbut I remember during the
\nprayer, like I was kind of like,<\/p>\n
696
\n00:37:50,440 –> 00:37:52,280
\nyou know, I really wanted to
\nopen my eyes and see if anybody.<\/p>\n
697
\n00:37:52,280 –> 00:37:54,360
\nElse was like.
\nOh, that sounds scary. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:37:54,600 –> 00:37:59,200
\nYou know, like, like because we
\nhave to try and figure out what <\/p>\n
699
\n00:37:59,200 –> 00:38:02,640
\nwas the principle, because if we
\njump over the principal step, we<\/p>\n
700
\n00:38:02,640 –> 00:38:04,560
\nget, well, we’re going to be a
\nPhineas. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:38:04,640 –> 00:38:06,680
\nAnd what did Phineas do?
\nWell, he stabbed two people with<\/p>\n
702
\n00:38:06,680 –> 00:38:10,280
\na javelin because of his zeal.
\nSo like, is that what we’re <\/p>\n
703
\n00:38:10,280 –> 00:38:12,720
\nsupposed to do?
\nYou know, was that is that the <\/p>\n
704
\n00:38:12,720 –> 00:38:14,480
\nlesson?
\nAnd you know, you look at that <\/p>\n
705
\n00:38:14,480 –> 00:38:16,360
\nand you’re like, well, obviously
\nno, right. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:38:16,560 –> 00:38:18,320
\nThe the lesson is not go stab
\npeople. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:38:19,920 –> 00:38:24,080
\nBut it’s only that because we
\nfigured out what the principle <\/p>\n
708
\n00:38:24,080 –> 00:38:28,440
\nis.
\nAnd the principle is zeal. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:32,040
\nIt wasn’t about the fact that
\nPhineas stabbed people, right? <\/p>\n
710
\n00:38:32,040 –> 00:38:35,400
\nThat that happened, yes.
\nBut what God commends him for is<\/p>\n
711
\n00:38:35,400 –> 00:38:37,680
\nGod doesn’t say, wow, good
\nstabbing. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:38:37,840 –> 00:38:42,720
\nLike God says, you were zealous
\nand that was good, right? <\/p>\n
713
\n00:38:42,720 –> 00:38:44,960
\nThat’s what God cares about.
\nHe cared about the zeal. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:38:45,080 –> 00:38:47,760
\nSo when we have that principle,
\nwe can then figure out the <\/p>\n
715
\n00:38:47,760 –> 00:38:53,360
\napplication from that.
\nThat’s why we don’t do things <\/p>\n
716
\n00:38:53,360 –> 00:38:57,840
\nlike this.
\nIt says now, my son, the Lord be<\/p>\n
717
\n00:38:57,840 –> 00:38:59,840
\nwith you and may you have
\nsuccess and build the House of <\/p>\n
718
\n00:38:59,840 –> 00:39:01,480
\nthe Lord your God as he said you
\nwould. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:39:02,240 –> 00:39:06,640
\nNow we automatically again, I
\ndon’t think we we like enunciate<\/p>\n
720
\n00:39:06,640 –> 00:39:09,560
\nit like this, but we
\nautomatically say, oh, right, <\/p>\n
721
\n00:39:09,640 –> 00:39:11,560
\nSolomon was supposed to go build
\nthe House of God. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:39:12,600 –> 00:39:15,560
\nWell, why aren’t we?
\nAnd that’s because of this <\/p>\n
723
\n00:39:15,560 –> 00:39:18,040
\nprocess, right.
\nWe understand there’s a context <\/p>\n
724
\n00:39:18,040 –> 00:39:21,320
\nhere, and this is specific to
\nSolomon’s context. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:39:21,640 –> 00:39:22,840
\nHe was supposed to build the
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:39:22,960 –> 00:39:25,240
\nSo there’s a principle that
\ncomes out and we can take that <\/p>\n
727
\n00:39:25,240 –> 00:39:27,640
\nprinciple and apply.
\nIt’s not like we just do what <\/p>\n
728
\n00:39:27,640 –> 00:39:29,760
\nSolomon did.
\nBut sometimes we get a little <\/p>\n
729
\n00:39:29,760 –> 00:39:33,680
\nfuzzy on this, right?
\nHave you ever tried to quote <\/p>\n
730
\n00:39:33,680 –> 00:39:36,080
\nlayout the fleece, right?
\nLike Gideon? <\/p>\n
731
\n00:39:36,920 –> 00:39:40,760
\nYou know, sometimes we do that
\nthing and and we say, oh, see, <\/p>\n
732
\n00:39:40,760 –> 00:39:43,880
\nyou know, like I’m going to flip
\nheads or tails and God make it <\/p>\n
733
\n00:39:43,880 –> 00:39:46,000
\nbe heads if I’m supposed to do
\nthis or something like that. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:49,880
\nAnd we miss the whole point.
\nLike the point was not that God <\/p>\n
735
\n00:39:49,880 –> 00:39:51,720
\nis going to answer your prayer
\nand tell you what to do. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:39:52,120 –> 00:39:53,880
\nThat was not that was not what
\nwas going on there. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:39:54,080 –> 00:39:58,880
\nThe point was that God was
\nsaying to Gideon, I recognize I <\/p>\n
738
\n00:39:58,880 –> 00:40:00,080
\ndon’t want to put words in God’s
\nmouth. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:40:00,920 –> 00:40:07,360
\nHe was telling Gideon that
\nGideon could trust him because <\/p>\n
740
\n00:40:07,360 –> 00:40:10,760
\nGideon was scared.
\nAnd the principle that comes out<\/p>\n
741
\n00:40:10,760 –> 00:40:14,320
\nof this is that God is willing
\nto work with our fear. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:40:15,880 –> 00:40:18,600
\nIt’s not telling us.
\nYou know, ask for signs like <\/p>\n
743
\n00:40:18,600 –> 00:40:21,160
\nthat.
\nPeople don’t do that in <\/p>\n
744
\n00:40:21,160 –> 00:40:22,840
\nScripture.
\nBecause, by the way, Gideon <\/p>\n
745
\n00:40:22,840 –> 00:40:25,400
\nwasn’t actually asking for a
\nsign on what he was supposed to <\/p>\n
746
\n00:40:25,400 –> 00:40:26,320
\ndo.
\nI don’t know if you noticed <\/p>\n
747
\n00:40:26,320 –> 00:40:28,600
\nthat.
\nSo we also just misread that <\/p>\n
748
\n00:40:28,600 –> 00:40:30,840
\npassage.
\nGideon was asking for a sign <\/p>\n
749
\n00:40:30,840 –> 00:40:34,120
\nthat God would be with him, he
\nsays, because he was scared. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:40:35,640 –> 00:40:37,840
\nBut sometimes we get a little
\nbit, you know, a little wishy <\/p>\n
751
\n00:40:37,840 –> 00:40:42,440
\nwashy with this whole context
\nprinciple application. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:40:42,600 –> 00:40:46,680
\nAnd when we work through it, we
\ncan then come to these stories <\/p>\n
753
\n00:40:46,680 –> 00:40:49,480
\nwith clarity.
\nIt’s the same reason that, you <\/p>\n
754
\n00:40:49,480 –> 00:40:52,320
\nknow, we don’t pray to the Holy
\nSpirit and say that like, you <\/p>\n
755
\n00:40:52,320 –> 00:40:54,560
\nknow, people should fall down
\ndead when they lie, right? <\/p>\n
756
\n00:40:55,480 –> 00:40:57,000
\nBecause that was a specific
\ncontext. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:40:57,080 –> 00:40:58,680
\nThat’s not the lesson that
\nyou’re supposed to learn. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:40:59,240 –> 00:41:01,360
\nYou’re not supposed to learn
\nthat the Holy Spirit will kill <\/p>\n
759
\n00:41:01,360 –> 00:41:05,480
\nyou if you lie.
\nThere are principles instead. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:41:05,600 –> 00:41:07,800
\nSo what’s our principle here?
\nWell, the principle is that God <\/p>\n
761
\n00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:14,320
\nloves zeal for Him.
\nNow we also need to understand <\/p>\n
762
\n00:41:14,320 –> 00:41:17,280
\nPhineas’s context because I
\nthink that makes a big <\/p>\n
763
\n00:41:17,280 –> 00:41:20,240
\ndifference.
\nTake a look at numbers 25 versus<\/p>\n
764
\n00:41:20,240 –> 00:41:23,600
\none to five and see if you can
\nunderstand why Phineas did what <\/p>\n
765
\n00:41:23,600 –> 00:41:26,160
\nhe did.
\nNumbers 25 versus one to five. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:41:26,160 –> 00:41:29,360
\nIt says while Israel was staying
\nin Shittim, the men began to <\/p>\n
767
\n00:41:29,360 –> 00:41:32,480
\nindulge in sexual immorality
\nwith Moabite women who invited <\/p>\n
768
\n00:41:32,480 –> 00:41:34,240
\nthem to the sacrifices to their
\ngods. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:41:34,960 –> 00:41:37,160
\nThe people ate the sacrificial
\nmeal and bowed down before these<\/p>\n
770
\n00:41:37,160 –> 00:41:39,080
\ngods.
\nSo Israel yoked themselves to <\/p>\n
771
\n00:41:39,080 –> 00:41:41,720
\nthe Bale of Peor.
\nThe Lord’s anger burned against <\/p>\n
772
\n00:41:41,720 –> 00:41:43,560
\nthem.
\nThe Lord said to Moses, take all<\/p>\n
773
\n00:41:43,560 –> 00:41:46,160
\nthe leaders of these people,
\nkill them and expose them in <\/p>\n
774
\n00:41:46,160 –> 00:41:48,760
\nbroad daylight before the Lord,
\nso that the Lord’s fierce anger <\/p>\n
775
\n00:41:48,760 –> 00:41:51,720
\nmay turn away from Israel.
\nSo Moses said to Israel’s <\/p>\n
776
\n00:41:51,720 –> 00:41:54,760
\njudges, Each of you must put to
\ndeath those of your people who <\/p>\n
777
\n00:41:54,760 –> 00:41:56,120
\nhave yoked themselves to the
\nveil of pure. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:41:56,280 –> 00:41:58,680
\nWhy did Phineas go and kill
\nthose two people? <\/p>\n
779
\n00:42:00,240 –> 00:42:04,280
\nBecause God said to, right?
\nIt was not like, you know, <\/p>\n
780
\n00:42:04,360 –> 00:42:07,120
\nreally complicated, like he was
\nstanding there. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:42:07,240 –> 00:42:09,880
\nMoses says, you guys need to go
\nkill the leaders who are doing <\/p>\n
782
\n00:42:09,880 –> 00:42:11,400
\nthis.
\nPhineas sees a leader who’s <\/p>\n
783
\n00:42:11,400 –> 00:42:13,800
\ndoing it and Phineas is like,
\nwell, there you go. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:42:14,040 –> 00:42:17,080
\nThat’s what I’m supposed to do.
\nThere was no ambiguity in this <\/p>\n
785
\n00:42:17,080 –> 00:42:19,400
\nsituation.
\nHe had a direct command from God<\/p>\n
786
\n00:42:19,600 –> 00:42:23,840
\nkill these people.
\nSo he does notice. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:42:23,880 –> 00:42:27,240
\nThat’s not what he does in other
\nsituations, right? <\/p>\n
788
\n00:42:27,240 –> 00:42:30,200
\nIn Joshua 22, he goes and he
\ntalks to them. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:42:35,080 –> 00:42:38,080
\nIn Judges chapter 20, he prays
\nfor direction. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:42:42,800 –> 00:42:46,840
\nAnd then in addition to that, he
\nalso has the people inquire, <\/p>\n
791
\n00:42:47,360 –> 00:42:50,280
\nright?
\nHe, he takes multiple steps and <\/p>\n
792
\n00:42:50,280 –> 00:42:55,280
\nhe doesn’t kill people.
\nSo I think it’s one of those <\/p>\n
793
\n00:42:55,280 –> 00:42:56,240
\nthings that’s really
\ninteresting. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:42:56,240 –> 00:42:59,080
\nLike he kind of gets known for
\nnumbers 25, right? <\/p>\n
795
\n00:42:59,080 –> 00:43:01,960
\nAnd that’s that’s fine.
\nBut it’s interesting that that’s<\/p>\n
796
\n00:43:02,240 –> 00:43:04,000
\nthe only time he does something
\nlike that. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:43:09,120 –> 00:43:14,920
\nSo what is the principle?
\nI think the principle that comes<\/p>\n
798
\n00:43:14,920 –> 00:43:20,280
\nout of this is that God loves
\nzeal for him, and zeal comes <\/p>\n
799
\n00:43:20,560 –> 00:43:23,000
\nfrom knowing who God really is,
\nright? <\/p>\n
800
\n00:43:23,000 –> 00:43:24,920
\nSo this is what I think we’re
\nsupposed to take from this <\/p>\n
801
\n00:43:24,920 –> 00:43:27,080
\nstory.
\nThis is not a story I would <\/p>\n
802
\n00:43:27,080 –> 00:43:30,120
\nsuggest that goes against peace.
\nIt is not a story that’s <\/p>\n
803
\n00:43:30,120 –> 00:43:33,400
\nnecessarily condoning violence.
\nIt’s a story. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:43:33,680 –> 00:43:36,560
\nThat instead shows that here’s
\nsomebody who was told to do <\/p>\n
805
\n00:43:36,560 –> 00:43:38,680
\nsomething that would have been
\nincredibly hard. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:43:40,160 –> 00:43:42,760
\nI’m sure that stabbing two
\npeople is not fun. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:43:43,040 –> 00:43:43,960
\nYou know?
\nPhineas wasn’t like. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:43:43,960 –> 00:43:48,320
\nYes, here comes my opportunity.
\nLike he did it because that’s <\/p>\n
809
\n00:43:48,320 –> 00:43:53,600
\nwhat God said to do.
\nAnd God says, I love that zeal <\/p>\n
810
\n00:43:54,400 –> 00:43:56,800
\nand he commends the zeal that
\nPhineas had. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:43:57,360 –> 00:43:59,760
\nSo I think that’s a a crucial
\nthing for us to look at this <\/p>\n
812
\n00:43:59,760 –> 00:44:05,240
\nstory as God characterizes it.
\nIs primarily a story of peace. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:44:06,640 –> 00:44:10,400
\nIt’s a story of peace because of
\nPhineas’s zeal that he listens. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:44:12,880 –> 00:44:16,320
\nSo those are just a few things.
\nThat that we can take a look at.<\/p>\n
815
\n00:44:16,320 –> 00:44:19,280
\nI’m going to skip all these.
\nI apparently got highly zealous <\/p>\n
816
\n00:44:20,040 –> 00:44:22,080
\nand, you know, made a lot of
\nslides. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:44:22,560 –> 00:44:26,360
\nSo there we go.
\nOK, in our last 15 minutes <\/p>\n
818
\n00:44:26,360 –> 00:44:28,560
\ntogether.
\nSo what we’ve seen, just just to<\/p>\n
819
\n00:44:28,560 –> 00:44:31,480
\nkind of recap this.
\nIs we’ve, we’ve been looking at <\/p>\n
820
\n00:44:31,480 –> 00:44:35,120
\nsome of the things in the Old
\nTestament that give people <\/p>\n
821
\n00:44:35,120 –> 00:44:39,160
\nreason to say, oh, the Old
\nTestament is violent. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:44:39,720 –> 00:44:42,640
\nIt’s not about peace.
\nThis is one of the reasons that <\/p>\n
823
\n00:44:42,640 –> 00:44:46,040
\npeople still get this idea that
\nthere’s a different God of the <\/p>\n
824
\n00:44:46,040 –> 00:44:48,000
\nOld Testament versus the God of
\nthe New Testament. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:44:49,960 –> 00:44:52,600
\nBut hopefully by putting this
\ntogether, we can see that no, in<\/p>\n
826
\n00:44:52,600 –> 00:44:54,920
\nfact, it’s the same God.
\nIt’s the same God that has <\/p>\n
827
\n00:44:54,960 –> 00:44:57,600
\nalways felt like mercy triumphs
\nover judgment. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:44:58,800 –> 00:45:01,800
\nThis is the same thing from the
\nbeginning to the end. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:45:03,000 –> 00:45:07,720
\nSo let’s then wrap it up.
\nIn our last 15 minutes, we’ve <\/p>\n
830
\n00:45:07,720 –> 00:45:10,320
\ntalked about principles and
\napplications as we’ve gone <\/p>\n
831
\n00:45:10,320 –> 00:45:12,280
\nthrough looking at the
\nCanaanites and at Phineas. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:45:12,680 –> 00:45:15,600
\nAnd so I want to just show how
\nthese principles and <\/p>\n
833
\n00:45:15,600 –> 00:45:19,520
\napplications also.
\nAre relevant to us living in <\/p>\n
834
\n00:45:19,520 –> 00:45:24,320
\npeace and unity.
\nWe have to examine our context, <\/p>\n
835
\n00:45:24,640 –> 00:45:27,640
\nwe determine the principle, we
\ndevelop the application. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:45:28,640 –> 00:45:32,000
\nMy suggestion to you, and we’re
\ngoing to see how this I think is<\/p>\n
837
\n00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:36,080
\nsupported scripturally.
\nMy suggestion to you is that <\/p>\n
838
\n00:45:37,800 –> 00:45:46,960
\nunity is formed on agreement of
\nprinciples, not agreement of <\/p>\n
839
\n00:45:46,960 –> 00:45:49,680
\napplication.
\nNow, if you just think about <\/p>\n
840
\n00:45:49,680 –> 00:45:53,520
\nthis, it makes sense.
\nI think on an individual scale, <\/p>\n
841
\n00:45:56,240 –> 00:45:57,880
\nmy context is different than
\nyours. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:45:58,760 –> 00:46:02,000
\nTherefore, I’m going to
\nimplement the principles <\/p>\n
843
\n00:46:02,000 –> 00:46:06,600
\ndifferently, so.
\nIf you look. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:46:06,600 –> 00:46:11,440
\nAt how I’m implementing the
\nprinciples, what you should do <\/p>\n
845
\n00:46:12,720 –> 00:46:14,880
\nis come and ask me about my
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:46:16,560 –> 00:46:18,400
\nTo find out, do we actually
\nagree on the principles? <\/p>\n
847
\n00:46:18,400 –> 00:46:20,920
\nAnd I.
\nThink that’s what we’re going to<\/p>\n
848
\n00:46:20,920 –> 00:46:27,480
\nsee throughout Scripture?
\nTake a look, Mark chapter 2 <\/p>\n
849
\n00:46:27,480 –> 00:46:30,520
\nverses 23 to 28.
\nSo notice what the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
850
\n00:46:30,520 –> 00:46:34,080
\ndoes, says one Sabbath Jesus was
\ngoing through the grain fields <\/p>\n
851
\n00:46:34,600 –> 00:46:36,640
\nand as his disciples walked
\nalong they began to pick some <\/p>\n
852
\n00:46:36,640 –> 00:46:39,600
\nheads of grain.
\nPharisee said to him, look, why <\/p>\n
853
\n00:46:39,600 –> 00:46:41,240
\nare they doing what is unlawful
\non the Sabbath? <\/p>\n
854
\n00:46:41,800 –> 00:46:44,200
\nHe answered, have you never read
\nwhat David did when he and his <\/p>\n
855
\n00:46:44,200 –> 00:46:47,200
\ncompanions were hungry and in
\nneed in the days of Abiathar the<\/p>\n
856
\n00:46:47,200 –> 00:46:49,000
\nhigh priest?
\nHe entered the House of God and <\/p>\n
857
\n00:46:49,000 –> 00:46:51,960
\nate the consecrated bread which
\nis lawful only for priests to <\/p>\n
858
\n00:46:51,960 –> 00:46:54,120
\neat and he gave some to his
\ncompanions. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:46:54,240 –> 00:46:57,200
\nNow that’s all application.
\nHe brings out a specific <\/p>\n
860
\n00:46:57,200 –> 00:46:59,880
\napplication.
\nWhy are they actually arguing <\/p>\n
861
\n00:46:59,880 –> 00:47:05,000
\nabout what David did?
\nNo, because he’s building this <\/p>\n
862
\n00:47:05,000 –> 00:47:08,360
\nto say there’s actually a
\nprinciple here, and that’s what <\/p>\n
863
\n00:47:08,360 –> 00:47:12,600
\nwe’re talking about.
\nSo he says the Sabbath was made <\/p>\n
864
\n00:47:12,600 –> 00:47:13,920
\nfor man, not man for the
\nSabbath. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:47:14,760 –> 00:47:16,760
\nSo the Son of Man is Lord even
\nof the Sabbath. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:47:16,920 –> 00:47:21,000
\nSo he puts out, do we have
\nagreement on this principle? <\/p>\n
867
\n00:47:22,720 –> 00:47:25,880
\nAnd they didn’t.
\nSo that’s why there was disunity<\/p>\n
868
\n00:47:25,880 –> 00:47:27,720
\nbetween the Lord Jesus and the
\nPharisees. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:47:29,560 –> 00:47:33,320
\nSame kind of thing, Luke 13
\nverses 14 to 17, indignant <\/p>\n
870
\n00:47:33,320 –> 00:47:34,840
\nbecause Jesus had healed on the
\nSabbath. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:47:35,000 –> 00:47:37,360
\nThe synagogue leader said to the
\npeople, there are six days for <\/p>\n
872
\n00:47:37,360 –> 00:47:39,800
\nwork, so come and be healed on
\nthose days, not on the Sabbath. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:47:40,040 –> 00:47:43,360
\nNow it wasn’t really about what
\nwere you doing on the Sabbath. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:47:43,600 –> 00:47:46,920
\nSo that’s why the Lord Jesus
\nturns and says, you hypocrites, <\/p>\n
875
\n00:47:47,120 –> 00:47:49,560
\ndoesn’t each of you on the
\nSabbath untie your ox or donkey <\/p>\n
876
\n00:47:49,560 –> 00:47:51,720
\nfrom the stall and lead it out
\nto give it water? <\/p>\n
877
\n00:47:52,800 –> 00:47:57,760
\nDon’t you look, He’s saying,
\nisn’t life prized on the <\/p>\n
878
\n00:47:57,760 –> 00:48:00,920
\nSabbath?
\nIsn’t that your principle? <\/p>\n
879
\n00:48:02,840 –> 00:48:03,840
\nThen?
\nShould not this woman, a <\/p>\n
880
\n00:48:03,840 –> 00:48:07,640
\ndaughter of Abraham whom Satan
\nhas kept bound for 18 long <\/p>\n
881
\n00:48:07,640 –> 00:48:10,280
\nyears, be set free on the
\nSabbath day from what bound her?<\/p>\n
882
\n00:48:10,440 –> 00:48:13,400
\nWhen he said this, all his
\nopponents were humiliated, but <\/p>\n
883
\n00:48:13,400 –> 00:48:14,840
\nthe people were delighted with
\nall the wonderful. <\/p>\n
884
\n00:48:14,840 –> 00:48:17,920
\nThings he was doing.
\nSo he again brings it to the <\/p>\n
885
\n00:48:17,920 –> 00:48:23,280
\nprinciple to ask, did they have
\nagreement on that principle? <\/p>\n
886
\n00:48:23,880 –> 00:48:27,000
\nThe main issue wasn’t the wrong
\napplication. <\/p>\n
887
\n00:48:27,120 –> 00:48:33,120
\nThe wrong application came from
\nthe wrong principle, and that’s <\/p>\n
888
\n00:48:33,120 –> 00:48:35,560
\nwhy each time.
\nHe brings it back to the <\/p>\n
889
\n00:48:35,560 –> 00:48:39,040
\nprincipal.
\nHe doesn’t hammer it out over <\/p>\n
890
\n00:48:39,960 –> 00:48:45,080
\nshould I heal on the Sabbath?
\nHe says, here’s the principle. <\/p>\n
891
\n00:48:47,080 –> 00:48:50,360
\nDo you agree on this?
\nSo I think that’s the crucial <\/p>\n
892
\n00:48:50,360 –> 00:48:53,480
\nthing and you will see this all
\nthroughout Scripture in <\/p>\n
893
\n00:48:53,480 –> 00:48:56,120
\ndisagreements.
\nSo just think about Acts chapter<\/p>\n
894
\n00:48:56,120 –> 00:48:57,520
\n15.
\nYou remember the Jerusalem <\/p>\n
895
\n00:48:57,520 –> 00:49:01,360
\nconference.
\nWhy did the why was the <\/p>\n
896
\n00:49:01,360 –> 00:49:07,400
\nJerusalem conference convened
\ncircumcision, right? <\/p>\n
897
\n00:49:07,600 –> 00:49:09,120
\nShould the Gentiles be
\ncircumcised? <\/p>\n
898
\n00:49:09,960 –> 00:49:13,360
\nSo you have Jerusalem conference
\ndiscussing should the Gentiles <\/p>\n
899
\n00:49:13,360 –> 00:49:16,800
\nbe circumcised.
\nNow think about how this goes, <\/p>\n
900
\n00:49:17,040 –> 00:49:20,840
\nbecause you can see that the
\npeople who speak at the <\/p>\n
901
\n00:49:20,840 –> 00:49:24,280
\nJerusalem conference are talking
\n1st about application. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:49:25,080 –> 00:49:28,080
\nSo you get Peter who stands up
\nand he says here’s what happened<\/p>\n
903
\n00:49:28,920 –> 00:49:32,400
\nwhen I worked with Cornelius and
\nhis family and here was the <\/p>\n
904
\n00:49:32,400 –> 00:49:34,080
\napplication, right?
\nThey didn’t have to be <\/p>\n
905
\n00:49:34,080 –> 00:49:35,720
\ncircumcised.
\nSo you get somebody gives that, <\/p>\n
906
\n00:49:36,240 –> 00:49:38,720
\nyou have Paul who stands up and
\nhe says here’s all the things <\/p>\n
907
\n00:49:38,720 –> 00:49:40,360
\nthat have happened with me and
\nthe Gentiles. <\/p>\n
908
\n00:49:42,400 –> 00:49:44,120
\nNobody changes their mind when
\nthey hear those things. <\/p>\n
909
\n00:49:44,120 –> 00:49:46,480
\nDid you ever notice that nothing
\nhappens? <\/p>\n
910
\n00:49:46,520 –> 00:49:50,280
\nPeople are like, Oh, yeah, OK,
\nwhen do people change their <\/p>\n
911
\n00:49:50,280 –> 00:49:51,480
\nminds?
\nAt the Jerusalem conference, <\/p>\n
912
\n00:49:52,840 –> 00:49:55,120
\nwhen James stands up and here’s
\nwhat he says. <\/p>\n
913
\n00:49:55,320 –> 00:50:02,600
\nHe says Tabernacle of David and
\neverybody’s like, Yep, What? <\/p>\n
914
\n00:50:03,480 –> 00:50:04,640
\nI mean, have you ever thought
\nabout that? <\/p>\n
915
\n00:50:04,640 –> 00:50:06,680
\nLike, how does that even, how
\ndoes that even make any sense? <\/p>\n
916
\n00:50:06,800 –> 00:50:08,680
\nCan you imagine somebody getting
\nup in your ecclesia? <\/p>\n
917
\n00:50:08,840 –> 00:50:10,920
\nYou’re like having a debate
\nabout stuff, and they’re like <\/p>\n
918
\n00:50:11,040 –> 00:50:13,640
\nTabernacle of David, everyone.
\nAnd then all of a sudden <\/p>\n
919
\n00:50:13,640 –> 00:50:15,520
\neverybody closes their Bibles.
\nYep, end of discussion. <\/p>\n
920
\n00:50:16,600 –> 00:50:19,280
\nLike, huh?
\nHow does that help anything? <\/p>\n
921
\n00:50:21,080 –> 00:50:22,200
\nIt’s because that’s the
\nprinciple. <\/p>\n
922
\n00:50:23,720 –> 00:50:28,080
\nThe Tabernacle of David was all
\nabout Gentiles coming to God <\/p>\n
923
\n00:50:28,320 –> 00:50:34,200
\noutside of the law of Moses.
\nIt was a tent outside of the <\/p>\n
924
\n00:50:34,200 –> 00:50:38,800
\nTabernacle where the Gentiles
\ncould come and worship God. <\/p>\n
925
\n00:50:38,960 –> 00:50:42,160
\nAnd so James gets up and he
\nsays, let me give you all the <\/p>\n
926
\n00:50:42,160 –> 00:50:44,240
\nprinciple.
\nIt’s the Tabernacle of David. <\/p>\n
927
\n00:50:44,360 –> 00:50:46,760
\nAnd everybody says that’s it,
\nhe’s got it. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:50:48,160 –> 00:50:51,360
\nWe agree.
\nIt wasn’t about the application,<\/p>\n
929
\n00:50:51,360 –> 00:50:52,280
\nright?
\nThey were arguing about the <\/p>\n
930
\n00:50:52,280 –> 00:50:55,400
\napplication initially.
\nThey needed the principle, and <\/p>\n
931
\n00:50:55,400 –> 00:50:57,040
\nthe principle was what brought
\nthe unity. <\/p>\n
932
\n00:50:58,800 –> 00:51:02,080
\nIt’s the same thing, by the way,
\nwhen Paul argues with Peter, you<\/p>\n
933
\n00:51:02,080 –> 00:51:03,440
\nremember it in Galatians chapter
\ntwo. <\/p>\n
934
\n00:51:03,640 –> 00:51:05,600
\nHe stands up and he says, what
\nare you doing? <\/p>\n
935
\n00:51:05,680 –> 00:51:13,040
\nHow is it that you as a Jew are
\ntrying to compel people to keep <\/p>\n
936
\n00:51:13,920 –> 00:51:15,360
\nwhat we’ve never been able to
\nkeep? <\/p>\n
937
\n00:51:16,440 –> 00:51:19,120
\nRight now?
\nThat’s the application, he goes <\/p>\n
938
\n00:51:19,120 –> 00:51:21,040
\non.
\nAnd he explains the principle. <\/p>\n
939
\n00:51:21,440 –> 00:51:27,320
\nHe says because by the works.
\nOf the law shall no flesh be <\/p>\n
940
\n00:51:27,320 –> 00:51:29,960
\njustified.
\nAnd so he presents that <\/p>\n
941
\n00:51:29,960 –> 00:51:33,120
\nprinciple to Peter, right?
\nHe says, you know, he’s looking <\/p>\n
942
\n00:51:33,120 –> 00:51:36,280
\nat Peter’s actions as though,
\nlike, how could you be doing <\/p>\n
943
\n00:51:36,280 –> 00:51:38,680
\nthese things?
\nDo you actually believe this, <\/p>\n
944
\n00:51:38,760 –> 00:51:41,080
\nthat by the works of the law, no
\nflesh will be justified? <\/p>\n
945
\n00:51:41,120 –> 00:51:44,840
\nIs that, is that true to you?
\nBecause if you agree on that, <\/p>\n
946
\n00:51:44,840 –> 00:51:46,040
\nthen we can work through the
\nother stuff. <\/p>\n
947
\n00:51:46,880 –> 00:51:50,920
\nBut if you don’t agree on that,
\nthen we got problems, right? <\/p>\n
948
\n00:51:50,920 –> 00:51:52,640
\nThat’s, that’s what we have
\ngoing on. <\/p>\n
949
\n00:51:53,040 –> 00:51:56,320
\nSo this is what we see over and
\nover scripturally with conflict <\/p>\n
950
\n00:51:56,520 –> 00:51:59,120
\nthat you have peace, right?
\nThat’s the foundation. <\/p>\n
951
\n00:51:59,280 –> 00:52:01,720
\nYou have peace.
\nAnd once you have that peace, <\/p>\n
952
\n00:52:01,880 –> 00:52:04,040
\nthen you can say, here are my
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n
953
\n00:52:04,080 –> 00:52:07,400
\nWhat do you think?
\nAnd I would suggest to you that <\/p>\n
954
\n00:52:07,400 –> 00:52:13,000
\na lot of times we get buried in
\nthe applications and we really. <\/p>\n
955
\n00:52:13,600 –> 00:52:16,120
\nMake a mistake.
\nI just want to tell you a story.<\/p>\n
956
\n00:52:16,120 –> 00:52:17,560
\nThis is on a personal level for
\nme. <\/p>\n
957
\n00:52:18,440 –> 00:52:21,720
\nThere was a brother that I had a
\nreally hard time with. <\/p>\n
958
\n00:52:22,360 –> 00:52:24,440
\nI felt like we were doing
\neverything opposite. <\/p>\n
959
\n00:52:26,120 –> 00:52:28,760
\nI was trying to encourage people
\nto be more studious. <\/p>\n
960
\n00:52:28,760 –> 00:52:30,640
\nI felt like, and he was trying
\nto encourage people to be less <\/p>\n
961
\n00:52:30,640 –> 00:52:33,320
\nstudious like that.
\nThat was kind of how it, how it <\/p>\n
962
\n00:52:33,560 –> 00:52:37,640
\nI perceived it.
\nSo what I did is I tried to do <\/p>\n
963
\n00:52:37,640 –> 00:52:40,520
\nall kinds of things to get him
\noff of speaking lists, right? <\/p>\n
964
\n00:52:41,160 –> 00:52:43,600
\nThat that was pretty lame.
\nRight, I’ll acknowledge that. <\/p>\n
965
\n00:52:43,960 –> 00:52:46,000
\nSo I tried to do all kinds of
\nthings like that so that he did <\/p>\n
966
\n00:52:46,000 –> 00:52:51,520
\nnot speak anywhere.
\nHe invited me to his house, had <\/p>\n
967
\n00:52:51,520 –> 00:52:53,520
\ndinner with me and told me he
\nthought I should transfer <\/p>\n
968
\n00:52:53,520 –> 00:52:56,000
\necclesias.
\nRight? <\/p>\n
969
\n00:52:56,000 –> 00:52:59,240
\nLike so you can see how this is
\nnot very good. <\/p>\n
970
\n00:53:01,120 –> 00:53:06,040
\nOne day we saw each other and he
\nsaid, can I talk to you <\/p>\n
971
\n00:53:06,400 –> 00:53:08,240
\nprivately?
\nI said OK, that’s fine. <\/p>\n
972
\n00:53:09,000 –> 00:53:13,280
\nSo he went out and he said,
\nwhat’s your goal in life? <\/p>\n
973
\n00:53:15,120 –> 00:53:18,720
\nAnd I said, well, I want to
\nteach people about the Kingdom <\/p>\n
974
\n00:53:18,720 –> 00:53:23,720
\nof God.
\nAnd he said, did you know that? <\/p>\n
975
\n00:53:23,720 –> 00:53:30,920
\nThat’s my goal too.
\nAnd after that, we’ve had unity <\/p>\n
976
\n00:53:31,120 –> 00:53:34,520
\nbetween the two of us.
\nHe goes about it differently. <\/p>\n
977
\n00:53:35,640 –> 00:53:38,440
\nI still don’t necessarily like
\nthe ways he always goes about <\/p>\n
978
\n00:53:38,440 –> 00:53:43,840
\nit, but we agree on principle,
\nnot an application. <\/p>\n
979
\n00:53:44,920 –> 00:53:48,520
\nAnd because we have those shared
\nprinciples, we can say, you know<\/p>\n
980
\n00:53:48,520 –> 00:53:50,960
\nwhat, I don’t totally understand
\nwhat you’re doing, but that’s <\/p>\n
981
\n00:53:50,960 –> 00:53:55,640
\nOK, because I know we’re trying
\nto get to the same spot and I <\/p>\n
982
\n00:53:55,640 –> 00:53:57,720
\nknow that we’re trying to get
\nother people to the same spot. <\/p>\n
983
\n00:53:59,760 –> 00:54:03,160
\nAnd that’s the point.
\nSo hopefully in all of this we <\/p>\n
984
\n00:54:03,160 –> 00:54:04,960
\ncan recognize.
\nThe value of peace. <\/p>\n
985
\n00:54:05,600 –> 00:54:09,480
\nWe can see that our God loves
\npeace, and we can see that peace<\/p>\n
986
\n00:54:09,600 –> 00:54:13,600
\nis the initial basis.
\nAnd once we have peace, we can <\/p>\n
987
\n00:54:13,600 –> 00:54:19,320
\nthen build unity on that piece.
\nBut unity only comes by shared <\/p>\n
988
\n00:54:19,320 –> 00:54:21,560
\nprinciples.
\nAnd sometimes we get lost in <\/p>\n
989
\n00:54:21,560 –> 00:54:27,040
\ntrying to make shared
\napplications, but instead it’s <\/p>\n
990
\n00:54:27,040 –> 00:54:29,520
\nall about our principles.
\nThat’s what we need to discuss <\/p>\n
991
\n00:54:29,520 –> 00:54:31,840
\nwith each other.
\nThat’s what we have to share <\/p>\n
992
\n00:54:31,840 –> 00:54:32,280
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