1 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,000 Happy Monday. I'm Pastor Matt. 2 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,520 Pastor Chris, that was. Weirder. 3 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:25,480 It's so weird. That was that was like a 4 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,040 character and I can't, I can't. It's it's all it's like the guy 5 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,000 in the is it the Allstate commercials or the where he's 6 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,760 he's like fishing and he I got your dollar. 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,440 OK, OK. If I can live into that persona, 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:42,920 that's that's actually pretty great. 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,600 There's some links that I introduce you and I say Pastor 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,760 Chris, but like I feel like whenever you say it, that's now 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,680 the voice that you say it in I. Don't know because you said it 12 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,320 weird a number of weeks ago and now, yeah. 13 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,280 And now I just, I get in front of this microphone and I cannot 14 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,680 help myself. It's just what I have the weird 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,920 urge to do is to say my own name in a really strange way. 16 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,240 And that's pretty on point for the ERC Leftovers podcast. 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,720 Yesterday we had Vision Sunday, the next step in the Exodus 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,440 series as well. And I was, I was wildly 19 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,360 encouraged, felt like the room, the gathering, I should say 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,560 rooms cause the the atrium was full of people too. 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,000 The the sanctuaries packed out, overflowing the atrium. 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,600 I felt like people were were compelled, engaged, ready to 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,600 step into the things that God has next for us here as we look 24 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:41,800 to to reach one more and and really continue to grow. 25 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,240 I said it in the service yesterday. 26 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,920 We're not, we're not small church anymore, 'cause we're 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,560 not. And, and that's different than 28 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,240 the church that many of you came to. 29 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,800 Many, many of you, some of you maybe even came because we were 30 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,560 a small church. Well, God has God has moved and 31 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,400 the Spirit has stirred and we've grown not only in number, but in 32 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,520 depth. And we're not done through. 33 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,840 If I, I said it yesterday about, well, the, the room is full. 34 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,280 We have more people in here than there are seats. 35 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,600 And we can look at God and say, well, we did it. 36 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,400 But that's not, I don't think that's what we're called to. 37 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,760 I don't think that's what the Great Commission is set up as. 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,120 And so I was, I was very encouraged by the response 39 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,960 yesterday of people being willing to see what's next and 40 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,040 dive into that. So. 41 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,360 Well, and I appreciated the way you phrased that actually, 42 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,760 because I do think there's something really kind of 43 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,080 heartwarming and nice about walking in. 44 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,640 And even if I don't know every single person personally, like I 45 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,800 recognize your face if I run into at the grocery store, like 46 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,840 we can definitely exchange pleasantries. 47 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,240 And it's like, oh, we go to the same church and you know, and 48 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,120 that's really cool. But The thing is like you, you 49 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,880 said it well. And it's like, do we put a cap 50 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,840 on God and say, Hey, all right, we've done our part. 51 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,880 We filled this one space And so we're done. 52 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,280 We're good. Let's just maintain what we have 53 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,040 for in perpetuity. And I, I love the fact that 54 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,360 we're not willing to do that. We're willing to say no. 55 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,720 We're we're going to keep reaching, not because we want to 56 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,040 be cool kids club, but because like there's room in heaven for 57 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,920 more and we want to push those boundaries as far as we possibly 58 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:21,840 can. Yep, yeah, I got a lot of as 59 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,920 much as I could. I would love to say that coming 60 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:28,160 up on retirement this year. Like that's just not actuality. 61 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,600 That's not that's not real. We're going to keep pushing 62 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,480 here, not dead, not done. I don't that's that's been said 63 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,440 by others, not by me, but yeah, that's kind of the calling of 64 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,320 the the Christian and the Christian life. 65 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,160 There's still more to reach. So no very excited for what's in 66 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:45,600 store. Thanks for coming out and 67 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,480 celebrating with us and dwelling with us and and expecting with 68 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,680 us and how and how God's going to move. 69 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,800 And there are this is just beginning. 70 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,880 I said yes, it's just the start. There's, there's going to be 71 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,560 amazing things ahead that God has in store for us to walk into 72 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:03,960 that that he's already working in. 73 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,000 So. I hope as Christians we always 74 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,680 feel like we're, we're just getting started. 75 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,560 I hope that's our attitude in general. 76 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,880 Because if you ever feel like you've quote, UN quote arrived, 77 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,800 then the gospel has probably not dwelt deeply enough in your 78 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,680 soul. Because even as the Bible 79 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,880 reports that angels themselves, they love to peer into the 80 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,520 gospel. And so it never gets old. 81 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,680 We, we're, we're never finished right. 82 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,360 We're always, always reaching for for one more. 83 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,200 Yeah, Yep. So no, very great. 84 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,040 Great day, great week. I lost mine. 85 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,520 I lost my voice halfway through the message that was that was 86 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,440 weird. My throat was just gone and I, I 87 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:44,880 don't know, there's some mornings, especially this time 88 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,240 of year where I wake up and I know like, oh man, this is just 89 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,920 like tough vocal day. It's gonna, it's gonna be dry a 90 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,560 little little. I didn't have any of that. 91 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,800 Like even singing the first few songs rehearsal that morning and 92 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:03,080 I got like 10 minutes in and all of a sudden I just, I just so 93 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,320 sorry. The voice is still a little 94 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,320 discussion. Noises coming through your 95 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,040 stereo or wherever you're listening to this are awesome. 96 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,720 Not good. So my voice is still a little 97 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,120 scratchy this morning, but we're going to press on through for 98 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,040 your episode of The Leftovers today we're in Exodus 19, 99 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,560 working through most of that chapter and touching on your 100 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,280 message with Moses and the Israelites yesterday as well. 101 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:32,600 But before we get there next week, we have an AMA episode Ask 102 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,440 Me Anything, and we've got a lot of questions submitted. 103 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,680 You're still welcome to text those in. 104 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,200 We're till about Wednesday. I think Wednesday noon. 105 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,600 We're going to have a a cut off on that Yesh. 106 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,680 So you're welcome to text those in message on Facebook. 107 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:52,200 Even comment on this podcast episode is absolutely fine. 108 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,720 If you have asked me anything questions, silly, random, 109 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:58,440 theological, whatever it is. We'll get to those at the 110 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:03,080 episode next week because past your Creus is going on vacation 111 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,120 next week. That'll be good. 112 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,080 Yeah, pretty excited. Yeah, pretty excited to actually 113 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,760 exit. I I love Iowa, and I love to 114 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:16,000 even more than I love Iowa. But it's also nice to leave. 115 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,280 And yeah, I don't know, it's nice to get away. 116 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,760 All right, sweet. So yeah, we're going to pre 117 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,680 record a AMA with with Kristen here too. 118 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,080 We'll have the yeah, all three voices here. 119 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,720 So before we get to that, we have some leftover AM as from 120 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,080 the last time we did this that we're still working through. 121 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:43,800 And this one is simply please explain Sheol SHEOLA word found 122 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:50,720 throughout the Old Testament. So pastor curious please explain 123 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,480 she own. So I want to, I think I've maybe 124 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,520 mentioned this resource before, but I want to leave you with 125 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,640 this resource again, it's just a website calledgotquestions.org. 126 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,240 And I would not, I've combed through this website a lot on a 127 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:05,920 lot of different topics over the years. 128 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,960 And I would not say I agree with 100% of the way that they come 129 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,960 to a conclusion on certain theological points, but for the 130 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,560 vast majority of them, I think it's a great little resource. 131 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,360 So gotquestions.org and I actually love the way that they 132 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,880 phrase this because you can just go on there and ask the question 133 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,760 in the text box and it'll usually pop up an article for 134 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,600 you. So in looking at shield, this is 135 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,880 what they say. In the Hebrew scriptures, the 136 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:36,040 word used to denote the realm of the dead is Sheol. 137 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,040 It simply means the place of the dead or the place of the 138 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,320 departed souls and spirits. The New Testament Greek 139 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,280 equivalent of Sheol is Hades, which is also a general 140 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,520 reference to the place of the dead Sheol. 141 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,560 Hades is divided into a place of blessing where Lazarus was in 142 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,240 Luke 16, and a place of torment where the rich man was also from 143 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,720 Luke 16. She'll also seems to be a 144 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,480 temporary place where souls are kept as they await final 145 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,040 resurrection. The souls of the righteous at 146 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,920 death go directly to the presence of God, the part of 147 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,720 she'll called heaven, paradise, or Abraham's bosom. 148 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,640 So where do we see? Where do we see hell come out of 149 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,400 this idea? Well, the Greek word gehenna is 150 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,080 the New Testament word for hell. And so there is there is a a 151 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,440 marked difference there in those words. 152 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:30,560 So, so Sheol is both. Is that we? 153 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:31,560 Is that what I'm hearing you say? 154 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:36,200 Well, I mean, it's the general sense of 1 is no longer living 155 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:41,159 on Earth, you know, it is the place of the dead, both good or 156 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:43,480 bad. Right so divided into what we 157 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,680 would understand that as heaven and hell absolutely so. 158 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:51,800 But in in following that lot of the the righteous souls, Sheol 159 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,080 Sheol is heaven immediately departed, departed in God's 160 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,760 presence. There's A and I don't want to. 161 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:02,640 So like it kind of sounded like you were talking about purgatory 162 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:07,480 a little bit, but it's but it's not, It's a it's a hellish 163 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:15,360 state, but like pre Jesus's second return, final judgment 164 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:16,920 place. Absolutely. 165 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,840 Because when the Bible reports that when Jesus comes back, 166 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,640 there is a separation, there's a parting. 167 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:25,680 It's a, you know, what we call like a binary parting. 168 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:29,480 So there's those on his right who will enjoy paradise in his 169 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,800 presence, and there's those on his left who are divided out 170 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,480 into Gehenna. You know, eternal, eternal 171 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:41,200 damnation, as it were. Yeah, my I'm glad you jumped 172 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:48,160 into got questions there because the concordance the the original 173 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,280 language software in accordance accordance that I usually use 174 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,040 they simply there's no there's no further definition of it. 175 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:01,280 It's just Sheol Hebrew word meaning Sheol isn't. 176 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,560 Aren't you not supposed to use the word in the definition? 177 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:06,960 Right, I think you. Are that's not super helpful. 178 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:12,480 No, it wasn't it wasn't great. So yeah, that's that's I I feel 179 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,840 like though the general perception of Sheol though, 180 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,040 especially in maybe it just I, I don't, I can't think of a 181 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,680 positive Bible verse actually. Like I feel like in the Old 182 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:23,840 Testament it's always talking about the bad Sheol. 183 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,200 I mean, beside yeah, yeah, I I actually off the top of my head, 184 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,120 I can't think of a positive outlet for that in the Old 185 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,840 Testament. Of course, what again this 186 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:39,080 website brings up in Las 16 is a positive version of you are no 187 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,520 longer found in body on earth. Therefore, your spirit is one 188 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:48,280 place or the other. Man So what was what was that 189 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:53,400 like for Lazarus? Man, like did was Peter or 190 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,160 Michael or something? I guess Peter was still alive 191 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,280 'cause it was about like Michael or or Gabriel or one of the one 192 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:03,120 of the angels like Lazarus is just up there like chilling in 193 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:04,800 the presence of God and he just comes up behind him. 194 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,840 Like dude, we, we got to send you back. 195 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,760 Like what? You know, I wonder that too, you 196 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:14,720 know. So you're Speaking of the 197 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,080 Lazarus who Jesus raised from the dead after four days, not 198 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:23,720 the Lazarus in the story in 16 right 'cause we have two 199 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,600 different Lazaruses. In the New Testament, it made me 200 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,960 think of the like Jesus raised him from the dead. 201 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,600 Right. So the the story that we get 202 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:36,720 from Jesus about Lazarus and the rich man is Lazarus is poor and 203 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,280 he's destitute and he's at the rich man's gate most of his life 204 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:45,320 and they both die. And the rich man who never cared 205 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,000 about the poor, the oppressed, didn't worship God, only 206 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,160 worshipped his own flesh. You know, he goes down to Sheol 207 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,880 in the negative sense. And Lazarus is up in Sheol in 208 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,960 the most positive sense, in Abraham's bosom, and Abraham is 209 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,000 consoling him there. And so anyway, as the story 210 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,480 goes, you know, there's the the rich man down in Sheol is 211 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:10,000 begging for Lazarus to be sent down with a drop of water on his 212 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,920 finger to cool his tongue. And then it becomes very obvious 213 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,560 through what Jesus says that one cannot move from one to the 214 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:20,920 other. Sorry, this is not an option for 215 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:22,320 you. If you're there, you're there. 216 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,880 Yeah. And that's so that's the kind of 217 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,520 holding pattern picture I guess. I guess we get up that they are 218 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,600 in damnation, but not in a God's final judgement sort of way. 219 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,240 But yet somehow he could like see, he could see the other 220 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:40,880 half, the good half of Sheol that's. 221 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,040 Which is interesting because Jesus says, or Jesus, you know, 222 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,520 Jesus speaking through speaking for Abraham, you know, there's 223 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,760 this great chasm between US and nobody can move from one side of 224 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,080 the chasm to the other. This is not possible. 225 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,360 Right. It's already. 226 00:12:57,920 --> 00:12:59,880 It's already done. It is an interesting thing, 227 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,480 isn't it, the way he describes that. 228 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,720 So so this isn't related to the question at all, but it did make 229 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,760 me think of so Jesus resurrection of the of Lazarus 230 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:16,280 where his friend, his friend died and he doesn't rush there, 231 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,600 right? He's he actually, he's told of 232 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,640 his death and he actually stays where he was two more days and 233 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,720 then he goes back. So dude's been in the grave for 234 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,960 a couple days. What was what was that like 235 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,720 then? Yeah, I wonder too. 236 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,600 Wouldn't Lazarus be a little salty? 237 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:37,640 Like dude, I had it made. But would and and this is but is 238 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,360 OK. So oh man, this is so many 239 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,800 rabbit holes actually. Is heaven without Jesus better 240 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:49,680 than earth with Jesus slash? Was Jesus also in? 241 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:54,840 I mean, he's God was his presence was was his presence 242 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,120 there? And like, oh wow, I don't know. 243 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,400 Wow, I suspect perhaps unanswerable questions without 244 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:03,760 just a sheer guess. Right. 245 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,960 And those are just. I don't know that I don't know 246 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:07,800 that there are answers specifically, but those are the 247 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:09,960 semantics of the questions. That's intriguing. 248 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,400 So yeah. And, and I think, yeah, is 249 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,440 heaven without Jesus better than earth with Jesus? 250 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,920 Well, I would suspect. Yeah. 251 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:20,720 Gosh. Because, like, disappointing, 252 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,520 yeah, but like, also, dude, we need to go back to earth and you 253 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,880 get to chill with Jesus. I don't know, not terrible. 254 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,680 But welcoming yourself back to earth also means that pain, 255 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,160 sickness, disease, heartache, etcetera, etcetera. 256 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,760 Whereas of course, in being in the total presence of God in 257 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,280 paradise is none. Of those, still better. 258 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,400 Yeah, that's. Interesting SO. 259 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,320 All right. I don't know. 260 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,400 My mind ran with that out of the out of the shield discussion. 261 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,400 So I don't know. There we are. 262 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,600 It's good to have questions. I guess. 263 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:59,680 We don't, I hear often enough that from, you know, I would say 264 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:04,120 cultural critics who say we don't wonder anymore because 265 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:05,840 there's we can Google everything, right? 266 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,720 So we never wonder about anything and we never just 267 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,120 imagined. And so I think it's good to have 268 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,200 questions that are potentially unanswerable on this side of 269 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,880 heaven. Yeah, I think I feel like 270 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:19,280 curiosity is a generally diminishing trait. 271 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:24,280 Unfortunate, yeah. So all right, we are diving back 272 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:31,240 into Exodus chapter 19, the nation of Israel camped at Mount 273 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,720 Sinai. You worked through again, kind 274 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,760 of the the bookends. We've done this for the past 275 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,960 couple weeks. Actually, I feel like we're, we 276 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,280 kind of take the beginning and the end of the chapter and 277 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,120 that's been the, the large thrust of the sermon. 278 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,960 But you brought up a lot of good stuff yesterday and it actually 279 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,960 it tied in well. It's going to set up next week. 280 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,240 We're in the actual 10 commandments, right? 281 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,840 But you kind of primed the pump, as it were, for the, the 282 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:05,080 goodness of God's law, the goodness of his precepts, the 283 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,120 necessity for them. And that's what I wind up 284 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,360 talking about yesterday too, kind of the the things that God 285 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,160 has declared or commanded or organized, structured for our 286 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:19,480 lives for us to pop to follow, disciplines for us to follow, 287 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,600 not just to have rules because because it's what's best for us, 288 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,360 right. So verse, verse one and chapter 289 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,440 19 on the first day of the third month after the Israel's left 290 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,080 Egypt on that very day, they came to the desert of Sinai. 291 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,080 After they set out from Refidim, they entered the desert of Sinai 292 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,840 in Israel, camp there in the desert in front of the mountain. 293 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,800 All right, so we're 60 days plus we're first day of the third 294 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,080 month. So removed from leaving Egypt, 295 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,600 been wandering the desert, getting watered out of rocks and 296 00:16:54,320 --> 00:17:00,480 crossing red seas and being guided by pillar flame, cloud of 297 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,160 cloud, pillar cloud of smoke and and all these things first 3 298 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,440 Then Moses went to God and the Lord called to him from the 299 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,319 mountain and said, this is what you are to say to the 300 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:11,599 descendants of Jacob, what you're to tell the people of 301 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,240 Israel. This got brought up yesterday. 302 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,400 What's the difference? What's the difference between 303 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,240 the descendants of Jacob and the people of Israel? 304 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,839 Wow, I did not see that. That is a curveball. 305 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,240 The answer is less exciting than you'd think. 306 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,640 They're the same thing. Yeah, I was going to say I'm 307 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,480 going to need a second to process this. 308 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,200 That was, that was, that was a nice pitch. 309 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,000 It's it's just, it's just two different references. 310 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,040 There are, there are some Old Testament scholars that see the 311 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:49,360 descendants of Jacob as kind of a, a negative rebellious 312 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,760 connotation for the people of Israel and that and then the 313 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,320 actual like the people of Israel, the nation of Israel 314 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:00,640 being like God's completed promise, his chosen church and 315 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,760 and righteous people. So if, if you take it that way, 316 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,680 there's that there's actually possibly factions here, I guess. 317 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,360 And I, and I think that could maybe speak into why there's 318 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:14,800 this grumbling, why there's this doubting. 319 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,360 There is this faction of people that just doesn't get it yet. 320 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,360 They're they're they're not, they're not convinced. 321 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,720 And there's maybe this smaller faction that like is no, we, 322 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,080 we're in like, like this is this is Yahweh. 323 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,560 This is the guy who defeated the Egyptians and he sent us to the 324 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,120 promised land and he is going to care for us. 325 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:35,480 Is I, I think it's, yeah, I think that's potentially 326 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,720 interesting of, of those two different references to the same 327 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,680 group of people, meaning kind of where they are on the faith 328 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,440 meter, if that makes sense. No. 329 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,680 But actually I think you bring up a good point because 330 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,560 certainly within modern Christianity we still see that 331 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,720 kind of thing today. And any, on any given Sunday, 332 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,200 you are going to have a wide spectrum of faith within any 333 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,920 given room and a wide spectrum of maturity within that faith 334 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,240 within any given room. And so it would make sense that 335 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,960 if you have two million plus people who are more or less 336 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,200 engaged spiritually with what's happening, you're going to get 337 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,480 different, yeah, fraction or factions of people with 338 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,640 different levels of trust and belief in what's happening to 339 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,280 them in front of their very faces. 340 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,240 Yeah. So I think I, I think I agree. 341 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,520 I think, and that's maybe I don't know if that has to be 342 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,280 anything, but it was, it is interesting that the groups are 343 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,880 kind of called do two different names, at least for this big 344 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,440 group of people. Yeah, well, and, you know, going 345 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:44,720 back to, you know, God renames. So many things. 346 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,000 Yeah, well, I mean, he renamed Jacob as Israel. 347 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,600 Yeah. And so I mean, Israel is, is 348 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,280 God's given name for Jacob because Jacob was given his name 349 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,840 at birth because he was hanging on so tightly to Esau's heel. 350 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,680 And it's kind of a kind of a weird joke thing, but like. 351 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,920 Yeah, as God renames him Israel now he's claiming him and every 352 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,640 bit of people in his lineage as these are mine now. 353 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,640 Right, yes. And that that idea is kind of 354 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,600 carried out here. Verse 4 You yourselves have seen 355 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,520 what I did to Egypt, how I carried you on eagle's wings and 356 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,480 brought you to myself. Mine. 357 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,560 There's, there's that my mind language there and the 358 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,000 conditional statement that you brought out. 359 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,480 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of 360 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,520 all the nations you will be my treasured possession. 361 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,200 Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a 362 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,680 Kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 363 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,240 Yeah, and I think that's really important too, because we don't 364 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,440 want to, we don't want to see that if as if like God's going 365 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,200 to stop loving you or he's going to stop, quote UN quote, 366 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,920 possessing and owning you as his own. 367 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,560 But we do want to say that there is some differentiation here 368 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,520 between, you know, God loving his people as a treasured 369 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:04,400 possession who are working very diligently at following him 370 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,760 specifically because the whole earth is his. 371 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,720 You know that. OK, so the whole house I live 372 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,760 in, let's say the whole house is mine and every bit of possession 373 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,200 in it. But if there's a fire in my 374 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,200 house and I've got 30 seconds to grab a couple of things before I 375 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,560 go, I'm going to grab my treasured possessions. 376 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,600 So for me, that's probably, I don't know if it's photos or 377 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,920 what that looks like, but certainly in that in those brief 378 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,880 moments of I only have to grab what's dire important to me, 379 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,080 well, that's what it means. When we are in relationship with 380 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,120 God, we are now of dire importance. 381 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:46,840 And so in the fire, he's going to grab us first. 382 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,680 Yeah. Oh, that's so good. 383 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,600 I wish I would have said it that way yesterday. 384 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,440 Actually, now that I think about it, that's that was a way better 385 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,960 way to say it. Moses went back and summoned the 386 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,720 elders, verse 7, and set before them all the words the Lord had 387 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,080 commanded him to speak. The people all responded 388 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,600 together, all 2 million of them, Right? 389 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,680 We will do everything the Lord has said. 390 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,880 Resounding unison voice again. How they were all singing 391 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,840 together too. So Moses brought their answer 392 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,320 back to the Lord. Look at look at this 393 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,640 declaration. We will do everything the Lord 394 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,680 has said. Liars. 395 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,600 Yep, you know, but The thing is though, like you got it. 396 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:35,560 I I think on some level you have to, you have to applaud the. 397 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,360 Effort and. The confidence there and you 398 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:42,400 know, the, the very real hope and expectation that you know 399 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,000 what we have seen this God work. And even if I'm on a different 400 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,080 point of the spectrum of my faith, like I've seen this and 401 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,720 I'm this is, this is how I want to live my life now. 402 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,360 And I'm dedicating myself to that as best as I possibly can. 403 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:03,040 Yeah, I think, I think, I guess I'd rather have that posture. 404 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,280 Oh yeah, we're, we're chasing this. 405 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,400 We're, we're, we're gonna, God gave us these commands. 406 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,120 We, we, we're gonna obey them knowing full well that we're, 407 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,440 they're gonna fall short. But like, that's the goal, 408 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:16,640 right? Like that's what we're, that's 409 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,560 what we're chasing. So. 410 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,440 Well, and of course, this is prior to the content 411 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:26,760 commandments being spoken, so you might almost ask, do they 412 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,320 know what they're signing up? For you know that we're getting 413 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,960 into you do. You know that you're not 414 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,320 supposed to lie anymore. Do you know you're not supposed 415 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,040 to covet your neighbors stuff anymore? 416 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,240 I'm sure you already know you're not supposed to commit adultery 417 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,200 and kill people, but you know, like, do we know that, you know, 418 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,600 do you really know what you're getting into? 419 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,800 And so I think part of the growth of a Christian is 420 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,440 recognizing new everyday month, year, whatever that you maintain 421 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,960 that faith and that you grow into that faith. 422 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,120 Like there's always a deeper level. 423 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,040 And so one of the things that I've heard, what I, which I 424 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:05,240 think is true and interesting is that as you grow in faith and 425 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,560 maturity, what will happen is, and John MacArthur says this and 426 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,520 I mostly believe it, that as you grow closer to the Lord, you 427 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:18,760 will probably tend to sin less. But the sins that you still have 428 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,080 that you're recognizing as falling short of God's God's 429 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,120 best design for you, you're going to feel those even more 430 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,920 than when you are more casual about your faith. 431 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,960 You're like, well, it's fine. Whatever God Forgives me. 432 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,880 No, like when I, and I can even say this for myself when I know 433 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:42,320 I've fallen short when I sin now that feels way heavier on quote 434 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,080 UN quote, A lesser sin. I quote UN quote on purpose 435 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,160 because but anyway, that feels so heavy to me now because I 436 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,080 have disappointed one who I deeply love. 437 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,600 And that's where that really, that's where that comes from is 438 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,120 I don't, I don't want to fall short on somebody that I care 439 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:03,600 about so deeply, you know? And so then I, I, I feel that a 440 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,040 little bit more, I guess. Verse 10 Then the Lord said to 441 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,160 Moses, go to the people and consecrate them. 442 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,840 Wow. Go to the people and consecrate 443 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,920 them today and tomorrow. Let them wash their clothes, let 444 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:21,040 them be ready for the third day. Consecrate big Christian 445 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,040 religious rounding word. Right. 446 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:26,800 Yeah. So sometimes what we see in this 447 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,600 kind of consecration is sometimes it's fasting. 448 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,880 You know, in order to prepare myself for a particular moment, 449 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:39,480 sometimes I need to fast and just take that day or those days 450 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:43,800 and just fully rely on the Lord and confessing my sins to Him 451 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,880 and and preparing my heart to meet him. 452 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,160 Think about this. There's almost a level of 453 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,680 consecration that happens before we receive the Lord's Supper. 454 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:57,440 The Bible tells us that we are to confess our sins, you know, 455 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,680 and so like, what am I doing before I receive the body and 456 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,840 blood of Jesus? Like it's a, it's a form of 457 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,560 consecration. I'm admitting my fault to him. 458 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,720 I'm, I'm running back to the foot of the cross and saying, 459 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,320 Jesus, I need you. And so that is just preparing my 460 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,560 heart for that moment. And this is kind of the same 461 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:14,680 thing. Yeah. 462 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,440 So I mean consecrate really just to make sacred to to make ready 463 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,320 like like you're saying to ready to approach and God's kind of 464 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,440 laying these boundary lines around the mountain, right? 465 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,120 Like this is this is a holy place. 466 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,800 Have them get ready. I think it's interesting a 467 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,840 little again, a little Jesusy, a little forward illusion to be 468 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,480 ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come 469 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,280 down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 470 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,960 Where else do we see three days that the the tomb obviously, and 471 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:50,680 what were what were even the women doing the the day before 472 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,280 and the morning of that they were making ready to, to prepare 473 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,840 right to to get ready the body of of Jesus to care for it and 474 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,960 then even on his return. I, I think, I think there's 475 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,760 parallels here too of our readiness. 476 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,960 Are are we living in the three days right now for, for God's, 477 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,680 God's return? Are are we preparing and making 478 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,880 red hot, washing our clothes, becoming sacred, like be holy as 479 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,720 I am holy, right? Those are, those are the words 480 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,760 of, of Jesus. Are we living in the three days, 481 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,360 ready for God to come down the mountain, for Jesus to come 482 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,840 back, as it were? That's an excellent, excellent 483 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,240 thought. I mean, that's that's perfect. 484 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,680 Yeah. Living in the three days. 485 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,680 Wow. One could even make a series out 486 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:39,640 of. That I suspect. 487 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,720 That's really good. Yeah. 488 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,160 I like that a lot. I'm I want to steal that at some 489 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,600 point. If you don't get to it first, I 490 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,000 might. I think we probably could. 491 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,520 Verse 12 God says put limits for the people around the mountain 492 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,800 and tell them be careful that you do not approach the mountain 493 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,720 or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is 494 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,120 to be put to death. Boundaries. 495 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,360 Man boundaries. Big. 496 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,520 These are so big, the, the approachability of God in His 497 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,160 Holiness. It is something we ought to 498 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:18,680 yeah, we, we walk carefully around that simply because he 499 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,520 is, he is so set apart, so different from us. 500 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,120 He gave us his likeness in his image. 501 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,240 And so therefore we are image bearers of him, but we are not 502 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,520 him. And so I mean to to take that 503 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,480 really seriously is an important thing that we ought to do. 504 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,200 Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely severe judgement 505 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,840 verse 13, they are to be stoned or shot with arrows, not a hand 506 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,280 is to be laid on them. So they're kind of they need to 507 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:52,200 be taken away to their life taken from afar with range 508 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,080 attacks for some some reason, only when the ram's horn sounds 509 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,000 a long blast, they may approach the mountain. 510 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,520 So this was interesting to me too. 511 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,040 Like the people of Israel are still having all these moments 512 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,360 of in between faith and doubt, right, of of what's happening. 513 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:15,080 And we see this in verse 13 and then even further down in verse 514 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,160 16 that you touched on yesterday, on the morning of the 515 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,240 third day, there was Thunder and lightning with a thick cloud 516 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,400 over the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast. 517 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,120 They're, they're amidst all this faith and doubt who's who was 518 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,800 blowing the ram's horn. Is this just like a trumpet is 519 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,440 just sounding from the sky Like there's, there's crazy unnatural 520 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,520 stuff happening and they're still like. 521 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,480 Not. Sure that this guy has any 522 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:39,800 power? Like what? 523 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,320 You know, when we also hear about the, of course, we went 524 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,600 through the Revelation, the Book of Revelation not so long ago. 525 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,480 And trumpet blast is a thing that we hear often, you know, as 526 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,280 God is approaching. And I can only imagine, 527 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,640 especially if you think about going back hundreds or thousands 528 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,320 of years, when you're about to go to war, there is a blast of a 529 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,720 trumpet. Something big is about to occur. 530 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,800 Life is going to be taken And, and it's, it's just it, it's 531 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,000 overwhelming, I suspect, to hear that noise and to, to, to all of 532 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,520 a sudden, like, Oh my gosh, I'm, I'm kind of scared out of my 533 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,960 socks right now because what is about to happen? 534 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,200 And I, and I think that's, I think that's a unique thing that 535 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,960 God does that humans have taken on as like, yeah, a war cry of 536 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,280 sorts. And they were scared out of 537 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,880 their socks. Versus 18 Mount Sinai was 538 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,600 covered with smoke because the Lord descended on it in fire. 539 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,960 The smoke billet up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the 540 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,040 whole mountain trembled violently. 541 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,640 Verse 16 it says even the the people, everyone in the camp 542 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,960 trembled. Even the mountain mountain 543 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,240 trembled violently. Is that that a Tarsa Clay song? 544 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,200 Did you did you feel the mountains tremble? 545 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,520 Wow, I. Think that's? 546 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,240 Yeah. Tarsa Clay, maybe. 547 00:30:58,800 --> 00:30:59,880 I don't know. Delirious. 548 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:01,600 No, it's delirious. Did you feel the mountains 549 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,200 tremble? Yeah. 550 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,160 Sorry. That's. 551 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,520 That's when you were still living in sin. 552 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,240 I'm sorry. I knew. 553 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,040 Pagan. Yeah. 554 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,680 You did not know 90s Christian music, you Pagan. 555 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,960 How dare you. Wow, wow. 556 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,520 No. But OK, So again, we've talked 557 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:29,360 about this in recent weeks where God is using what we would maybe 558 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:34,040 call natural phenomena, like in this case an earthquake. 559 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,800 He's using natural phenomena to do something more than what a 560 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,560 natural phenomenon would be. So yes, we experience 561 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,520 earthquakes on earth and all that's true. 562 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:49,840 But for him to shake the mountain is a much deeper level 563 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,000 of earthquake than I think what any of these people had ever 564 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,120 experienced before. So if you think about, you know, 565 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,960 people who have been in earthquakes, it's a, it's a very 566 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,880 strange thing for them to be a part of because the whole earth, 567 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,840 the one thing that we feel like is solid under our feet, that 568 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,600 all of a sudden is no longer solid. 569 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,760 It's nothing that I can rely upon. 570 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,440 And to have the earth or the mountain shake is to shake us 571 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,200 down to our core of what we think is true. 572 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,160 Man, you had a note in the study guide from this week in your 573 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:28,720 little fun memory verse Did You know section So Javal Makhla, 574 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,560 thought to be the the modern day name for Mount Sinai, recognized 575 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,080 by its distinct blackened peak, which some say may be the 576 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,840 evidence of God descending on Mount Sinai as a fire. 577 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,120 The rocks at the top of the mountain are only black on the 578 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,640 outside, indicating the rocks had a chemical interaction that 579 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,360 only altered the outside and only occurred at the top of the 580 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:51,720 peak. I hadn't looked at pictures of 581 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,600 this until now. Oh, it's crazy. 582 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,280 Got to look it up. If you if you're hearing this, 583 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,920 you have to look this, this thing up because it is charred. 584 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:05,080 And for now, thousands of years, it has maintained its charred, 585 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,240 hardened state. And it's only right at the very 586 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,000 top where the fire was reported to come down. 587 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,880 And scientists can look at this and you can do some more digging 588 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,960 if you want to. But the amount of heat that it 589 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,080 takes to do that to rock is phenomenal. 590 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,200 Man, that's crazy. Isn't it cool? 591 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,120 It's very cool. So we'll link, we'll link the 592 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,720 link. I guess that's what you do with 593 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,000 the link, link, link, link in the in the show notes in the 594 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,520 comments section here. So you can check out because 595 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:42,240 it's kind of JABALMAQLA Jabal Makla guessing on how you 596 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,960 pronounce that. But no, some of these pictures 597 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,760 like the distinct top part, the top peak of it being bland. 598 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,360 It's a large area of it. It's not just like this little 599 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,080 cap of the mountain. It's it's a big part of it. 600 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,760 Well, and that's the thing, you know, scientists would tell you 601 00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,360 that if it's a lightning strike, for example, because some might 602 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,560 argue, well, maybe lightning just struck that part of the 603 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,680 mountain, but that would be such a smaller, refined area. 604 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,840 And that has the potential, you know, over thousands of years to 605 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,840 erode because the heat would not be such that it would hold on 606 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,400 permanently. But this level of heat, this 607 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,880 level of fire, this whatever interaction, which Christians 608 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,960 would say this is God descending on fire that has lasted through 609 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,719 thousands and thousands of years. 610 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,560 Now, not to take us off in a different direction, but like, 611 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,480 think about this. So God as fire at the top of the 612 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:42,280 mountain just consumes and forever permanently changes the 613 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,239 DNA of the mountain, you might say. 614 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:50,159 But going backwards, the burning Bush, God even in his fire is 615 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,679 gentle with the Bush. He doesn't consume it. 616 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,159 And. That's crazy to me that it is 617 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:58,600 both and. Yeah, because we've seen this 618 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,480 power before. That's pretty cool. 619 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,480 Yeah, it's, it's a remarkable thing to to dive into. 620 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,560 And so I would encourage any of you do some digging on this. 621 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,240 This is just the really fun scientific historical facts of 622 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:13,200 the Bible that you can get really lost in. 623 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,680 But it's great to get lost in this stuff because again and it 624 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:20,040 it activates our imagination, our wonder, and our awe at who 625 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,480 this God is. Moving on into verse 20 and kind 626 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,840 of the last part of this chapter here, the Lord descended to the 627 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,880 top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the 628 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,760 mountain. So Moses went up and the Lord 629 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,160 said to him, go down and warn the people so they do not force 630 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,400 their way through to see the Lord and have many of them 631 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,200 perish. Even the priest who approached 632 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,040 the Lord must consecrate themselves or the Lord will 633 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:47,040 break out against them. Really interesting to me the the 634 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:51,800 process or necessity for approaching God in a holy way, 635 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,840 right? And we don't I, I not that we 636 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,320 cheapen this all the time in our modern Christendom, but because 637 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,720 Jesus is Jesus is our intermediator, right, prophet, 638 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:06,240 priest and king. He's he is the perfect priest 639 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,240 who's empathized with our weaknesses and and is our 640 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,320 intermediary between between US and God. 641 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,880 But even within that. So like I think in some ways we 642 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,840 almost diminish Jesus because we don't yes, Jesus is between US 643 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,400 and God, but I don't know that we approached, we think about 644 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,960 approaching Jesus in a holy, consecrated, worthy way, right? 645 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,320 Does that make sense? It does. 646 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,080 And This is why the New Testament, I think, is so 647 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,600 interesting. Because God as this holy, 648 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:46,520 otherworldly, well, God he becomes, he intentionally loses 649 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,200 his glory. So he is approachable. 650 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,680 And in fact, he's approachable to the point where you can hurt 651 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,040 him. That doesn't even make sense. 652 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,520 And this is, and this is where like Islam, for example, they 653 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:03,440 see Jesus as a prophet of God. And they'll even go so far as to 654 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,080 tell you that, yes, Jesus is coming back a second time. 655 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:12,920 But the problem that they have with Jesus is that he died, that 656 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,240 he as God, quote UN quote, yeah, you can't be God if you die. 657 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,200 There's no way. And So what they'll do is 658 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,560 they'll make the argument that Jesus never died, that they 659 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,600 actually switched Jesus out and put a different dead person in 660 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,600 the tomb. And so Jesus was never actually 661 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,400 killed on the cross is what they're going to argue. 662 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,080 And so therefore, he did not die at all. 663 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,960 God took him back up to heaven before he ever died. 664 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:44,960 And so that's their argument for Jesus. 665 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,880 Yes, he's he's a real prophet, but the last prophet that we are 666 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,920 to listen to is Muhammad. And so that's where their 667 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,200 argument comes in. But they absolutely still see 668 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,920 Jesus as this godly prophet, just not the son of God who 669 00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,760 died. Interesting. 670 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:00,480 Right. Yeah. 671 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,320 It is. It is. 672 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:08,680 It's also a little strange because in some ways in order in 673 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,320 order to carry out God's plan and that's where more of the 674 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,680 differences between Islam and Christianity breakdown to. 675 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:19,640 Like I I hear how it doesn't make sense that he could die as 676 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,400 being God, but it also he would have to perfectly be God in 677 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,840 order to actually cover all the sins of the whole world too, 678 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:27,680 right? So. 679 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,920 And that's the major player in, you know, some of those 680 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,960 theological differences. And that's why in Islam, you're 681 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:38,720 still very much earning your way to paradise because nobody died 682 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,840 for you. Muhammad didn't die for you. 683 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,120 In their view, Jesus didn't die for you. 684 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,080 God can't die. And so therefore you still have 685 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,760 to earn your way into His presence. 686 00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,960 Yeah, you're not. He didn't. 687 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,120 You're not covered. You're you're not in. 688 00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:58,240 In their view, if he didn't die, you're not covered. 689 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,880 And therefore, you're still waiting for a savior, waiting 690 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,160 for deliverance. Well, your deliverance comes at 691 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,680 your ability to pray enough to go to Mecca to do. 692 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:13,040 All of your own savings. Yeah, to to be your own savior. 693 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,080 And that I can't think of a more scary thing than me having to 694 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,720 save myself from eternal damnation because I think I've 695 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:22,160 already blown it, you know, in my first 44. 696 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,400 I can't. However long I have left on this 697 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,120 earth, there's no way I can make up for the ways that I've blown 698 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,480 it on my own. Not a chance, because I'm still 699 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,600 going to continue to mess up. Quite frankly, even even if I go 700 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,160 to a Buddhist temple and never interact with the rest of the 701 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,760 world again, I'm still a Sinner through and through and thought, 702 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:45,760 word and deed. Couple points from David Guzik 703 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:50,840 in his enduring Word commentary because we see this reaction the 704 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,160 Israelites have this earnest surely we will do what the Lord 705 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,840 says. It seems like they're trying to 706 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,560 take it pretty seriously as far as the the boundaries and and 707 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,680 keeping themselves sacred and ready. 708 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,760 He points out the difference between awe and and the 709 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,200 submission of the will being Yeah, OK. 710 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,640 It's one thing to say wow, this is crazy and amazing. 711 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,440 It's another thing to actually do it right, to actually stay 712 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,800 in. That discipline and and the 713 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,720 following of God's amazing leading in that awe is one 714 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,720 thing, Submission of the will is another. 715 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,440 And then he points out in Hebrews 12 that verses 18 716 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,040 through 24 say that under the new covenant we come to a 717 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,680 different mountain. Our salvation relationship with 718 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,960 God is centered at Mount Zion, not Mount Sinai. 719 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,280 So we have these two. We kind of have this mountain 720 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,400 of, of law of, of God's perfection. 721 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,680 And then, then Mount Zion, this, this mountain of God's victory, 722 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,840 right? Sinai is, is fear and, and 723 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,720 terror kind of that. Yeah, the law side of things, 724 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:56,360 the doomsday side of things. And Zion is of, of love and 725 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,240 forgiveness. Sinai is a dry desert. 726 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,600 Zion is the living God. Sinai is, is fear and earthly 727 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,960 power. Zion is heavenly and spiritual 728 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:10,040 glory. Wow, really well said on that 729 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,880 commentary. I I suspect you know, but, but 730 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,280 this is the thing and and I brought it up yesterday, like 731 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:21,960 Jesus breaks all of the norms. And so even talking to the woman 732 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,080 at the well, you know, you don't have to go to a mountain, You 733 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,000 don't have to go to a temple. You will worship the Lord with a 734 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,160 contrite heart, with your spirit, because God is spirit. 735 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,280 And so just hearing him give that level of freedom of 736 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,400 approachability and interaction with God, that is something that 737 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,040 was so radical. And so if you can, if you can 738 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,520 kind of take in the radical nature of Jesus's teachings, 739 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,560 you're going to understand a little bit better or not that 740 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,880 you can justify it, but you're going to understand a little bit 741 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,560 better why the religious people of his day had him killed. 742 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:04,120 Because he is teaching. He's he's teaching about 743 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:08,400 approaching God in a personal, heartfelt way. 744 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,680 And the only way that they've ever been able to approach God 745 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,880 is through great fear and trembling. 746 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,760 Yet through Jesus, we get to approach God as children of the 747 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,320 King. And that is, that is a radical, 748 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:26,360 radical thing to assume after thousands of years of fear and 749 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:26,920 trembling. Yeah. 750 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:29,400 That's pretty cool, too. Yeah. 751 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,200 Final thoughts from David goes like just kind of finishing off 752 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,040 the parallels here between Sinai and Zion. 753 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,080 Sinai is all about the law. Zion is all about grace. 754 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,960 Therefore, we shouldn't come to Zion as the Israelites were 755 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,040 coming to Sinai in a similar manner to those at Sinai. 756 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,200 There are things we must do to meet God. 757 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:53,920 There are requirements set forward. 758 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,840 We must receive God's word. We must be set apart. 759 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,400 We must be cleansed. We can only come after the third 760 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,080 day. That's that's powerful. 761 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:08,520 That's the readying of Jesus's work in those three days, in the 762 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:13,240 actual three days, right? Is is what makes us able to come 763 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:16,720 before a holy God, right? We can only come after the third 764 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,120 day. We must respect God's boundary. 765 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,280 We must restrain the flesh, and we must come to know holy God. 766 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,800 And isn't that so cool? Again, we've talked about this 767 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:31,080 before, but just the sheer consistency across thousands of 768 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,640 years of interactions and what we would call theology, God is 769 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,440 wholly consistent. So the three days in the 770 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,640 mountain, Jonah, three days in the belly of the fish, and all 771 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,760 these, Oh my gosh, it just, it rings true throughout all 66 772 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,880 books across thousands of years of history that God is wholly 773 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,240 consistent. And he's always had the plan. 774 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,280 It's always been in place. Yeah. 775 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,240 Very cool, yeah. Anything else? 776 00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,960 Things you felt like you left out from yesterday or wanted to 777 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,840 speak more on. Actually, one of the things that 778 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,880 I left out because, you know, always end with the Jesus home 779 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,160 run in every sermon. But part of what I missed in the 780 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,640 Jesus home run in yesterday's sermon was, you know, we talked 781 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:16,600 about the mountain shook. Well, what caused, you know, 782 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:21,080 besides obviously God himself, what caused this 60 foot tall, 4 783 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,680 inch thick curtain to literally shred itself down the middle? 784 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,960 There was an earthquake. There was a movement of the 785 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:33,000 earth that shook so hard it just decimated this thing. 786 00:44:33,240 --> 00:44:36,800 And we see that same shaking of the earth here on Mount Sinai. 787 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,360 And I failed to bring that up yesterday, but I just think 788 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:47,040 again, what an incredibly consistent God we have that He 789 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,320 is working to fulfill His own Word all of the time. 790 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,240 Yeah, same power, same God. That's right. 791 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,120 Very cool. Well, thanks man. 792 00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,880 Good work. Yesterday we got a few more 793 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,920 weeks. Four more weeks in Exodus, I 794 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:02,320 think. And I'm going to be, you know, 795 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,680 I'm always sad. I'm always sad to leave. 796 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,040 At the. Ends I am like we're going to 797 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,320 we're going to leave Moses and that makes me a little sad. 798 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,760 See, sad Chris, I'm going to sad eat with my sad Moses. 799 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,120 Then it's Christmas. Oh yeah, never mind. 800 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,280 We're happy again. It's Christmas. 801 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,520 Moss, Chris. Oh, oh, get even more Chris than 802 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:29,040 we usually do, apparently. Sorry, that was I'm tired. 803 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:31,920 It's a tired day. You need a break, man. 804 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,000 Yeah. We're working on it, We're 805 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,840 working on it. Thanks for tuning in church drop 806 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,800 any ask me anything questions in the comments here on on Facebook 807 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,680 or in the show. You can certainly text them into 808 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,920 us as well. We'll record that episode later 809 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,040 this week. Thanks again for for yesterday 810 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,920 and and really what's moving forward. 811 00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,720 We want to continue to facilitate and encourage 812 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,560 community here both in in life groups and ministries and 813 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,040 activities. We've got hometown Christmas 814 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,800 coming up in December. Get ready for that as we welcome 815 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,200 our community into our church tours. 816 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,320 That's that's an awesome morning. 817 00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,200 First Saturday in September, December once are hard. 818 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:16,560 And yeah, just just really encouraged and excited for 819 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,560 what's ahead of us here. So grateful for each and 820 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,960 everyone of you as a part of our community. 821 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:21,960 Have a blessed week.