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You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun in practical
ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to

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The Bible Guys. My name is
Chris. This is Jeff, and today

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we have a great episode planned for
you. Great episode. It is so

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good, and we're going to start
off with maybe one of the most important

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segments that we share on a fairly
regular basis, bringing only the finest news

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and commentary for our listeners as we
just comb the world wide web. Yeah,

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it is the true definition of fake
news. This is from the Babylon

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b The title is let me pull
it up here, It's so funny.

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Man uses binoculars to ensure greeters have
gone inside before approaching church doors. That's

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so good. Columbia, South Carolina. Secure security footage from First Methodist Church

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of Forced Acres revealed that church goer
chat Watkinson used a pair of Hype Howard

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celesteron Skymaster twenty five by seventy binoculars
make absolutely certain that the greeeders had gone

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into the church before approaching the sanctuary
last Sunday. According to three minutes of

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grainy images, Watkinson arrived strategically close
to the beginning of the service, surreptitiously

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parked his car at the end of
a remote row in the church parking lot,

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and then peered towards the church doors
through a comically large pair of binoculars

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until he was positive that both of
the greeters had gone inside. Introvert that

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I am. It's the most nerve
wracking part of my week, Watkinson confessed

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when asked about his actions. I
mean, I love Todd and James,

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but they're just so so friendly every
week, and when they always ask how

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my week was, try to make
small talk. I just can't deal with

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it. Just being near this many
people's terrifying, much less trying to talk

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to them is too much. So
to say that Watkinson came close to beating

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the land speed record for bipeds,
efficiently bustling his family under their customary backpew

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just milliseconds before the opening hymn began. At the end of the service,

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Watkinson's family had been spotted slip being
out the side door and tiptoeing past the

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old ladies chatting after the service in
order to avoid any unwanted conversation. The

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publishing time Todd and James had purchased
gilly suits and planned to hide in the

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bushes ambush Watkinson next week. That's
so good. Yeah, I know people

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like this. Yeah, avoid the
I'll be honest with you. That's kind

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of me a little bit, is
it. Yeah, Well yeah, you're

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you're a little bit of an introvert. Yeah. So when you go out

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into the lobby, it's not necessarily
because you have to meaning like like like,

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man, I have to go to
the lobby and see some people.

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Yeah, like what you want.
You you're going out and recharging your batteries

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for the next service right when,
which is crazy to some people to even

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think that that could be true.
He's out there, just Chris. If

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you think Chris is happy to see
you, uh after a servicer before service,

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he's not. He's just a relational
vampire and he's sucking all of your

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energy out of you so he can
deliver it out on stage. Yeah,

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if you can, if you could, if you could peel back the veil,

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you can see the mist leaving in
your body and going through the orifices.

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Yeah, that's exactly right. That's
so funny. Well, you know

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what, to be honest with you
I know it sounds crazy, but I

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do. Like if I'm back.
We do four services on a Sunday,

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which is crazy. Uh, but
you know, like after the third service,

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I'm like, man, I'm tired. I'm like, I need to

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go out and I need to talk
to some people and so and and I

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run into the lobby and I and
it's not just any people. I have

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to talk to people that are that
are going to be in the church service.

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Because then it reminds me, oh, wow, this guy is here,

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this, this lady's here. Right, they're here and they you know,

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they're they're here because of this really
matters matters for that one. Yes,

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it matters for him and her and
everybody else and and and so it

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just it just charges me up because
I'm like, Okay, now I'm connected

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to the people who are here and
everything else. But uh, you know,

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we have several people on the staff
that you know, like you're wired

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as an introvert, but our music
or worship leader is a pretty massive introvert,

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right, and so he forces himself
to go into the lobby and uh,

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and he does it because of me, because he's like he's like,

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all right, man, He's like
I'll do it with you, And so

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we go out there and stand together
and at the end he's like, dude,

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He's like, I'm just exhausted.
So technically I'm an extrovert, right

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whenever we take the tests, you
know, for personal to test, I

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lean extrovert, but just barely.
Like I'm just barely on the extrovert side.

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So for me, it's it's more
about getting revved up for it,

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right right. Then when I'm out
there, I'm always the last one backstage,

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right right, they have to come
and get me and go, Hey,

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service is starting kind of thing usually, and it's because I wind up

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getting to some great conversation. I
love it. So for me, I

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have to convince myself, okay,
get going, and once I get going,

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I love being out with the crowd
and with the people and talking and

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I get in great conversations. It's
the getting myself revved up to get out

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there. Whereas for you, you're
like, oh good, everything else is

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done. I'm running out in the
lobby and it's just a different yeah.

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Yeah, so and uh and by
the way, there's uh, you know,

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like my wife she actually tests introvert. Uh no, is it?

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Yeah, she's tests introvert, but
she's a very high functioning extrovert, so

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you would never know she's an introvert. No, no's I oh is that?

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What is that? Technically the way
to say it, Well, she

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functions well as an extrovert, so
so she actually, like at a party,

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you would never know she's introvert.
But like she's just she just runs

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with the best of them, and
you're like, wow, she has to

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be an extrovert. And then when
everything's sitting down, I'm like, wasn't

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that great? And she's like I
want to collapse. I want to go

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upstairs and be by myself for an
hour. I'm like, oh, okay,

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there's the difference, right, So
yeah, it feeds you and it

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drains her. That's correct. Yeah, well that's what I was saying.

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That that that vampire, right energy
vampire. You're just sucking all the energy

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from everybody else. Yes, and
let's not even get started about the typical

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readers. I was thinking about it, and I want to take the next

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level extroverts. Man, that's right. We don't want to go there.

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They're just flitting around there like butterflies, just flitting around. Yeah, it's

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great, Hey, we need them
otherwise, right, well, how often

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how often do people send us notes? Go I can't believe how friendly everybody

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was. Oh my goodness, it's
one of the first things people say,

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and it's it's because people are using
their gifts, how they're wired to make

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sure everybody else feels comfortable. So
yep, yeah, anyways, here we

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are, we are. We've gone
through a lot of things. They've been

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walking through the desert, they've been
struggling through being mad at Moses. About

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half the time there was an insurrection. At one point, Cora gonna was

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gonna, you know, try to
pull off a coup, and the ground

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opens up and swallows everybody that's going
to try to pull off this coup against

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Moses. All these things, but
then finally we come to a very pivotal

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moment, and in Numbers, chapter
twenty, verse one, it says,

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in the first month of the year, the whole community is or arrived in

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the wilderness of Zin and camped at
Kdesh. While they were there, Miriam

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died and was where Miriam is Moses'
an Aaron's sister. Right, there was

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no water for the people to drink
at that place, so they rebelled against

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Moses and Aaron. The people blamed
Moses and said, if only we had

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died in the Lord's presence with our
brothers, Why have you brought the congregation,

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the Lord's people, in this wilderness
to die along with all our livestock.

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Why did you make us leave Egypt
and bring us here to this terrible

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place. This land is no grain, no figs, no grapes, no

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pomegranates, no water to drink.
Moses and Aaron turned away from the people

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and went to the entrance of the
tabernacle, where they fell down on the

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ground. Then the glorious presence the
Lord appeared to them, and the Lord

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said to Moses, you and Aaron
must take the staff and assemble the entire

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community as the people watch, Speak
to the rock over there, and it

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will pour out its water, and
you will provide enough water from the rock

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to satisfy the whole community and their
livestock. So Moses did as he was

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told. He took the staff from
the place where it was kept before the

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Lord, and then he and Aaron
summoned the people to come and gather at

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the rock. Listen, you,
rebels, he shouted, Must we bring

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you water from this rock, and
then Moses raised his hand and struck the

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rock twice with the staff. Water
gushed out, so the entire community in

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their livestock drank their fill. But
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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because you did not trust me enough
to demonstrate my holiness to the people,

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you will not lead them into the
land I'm giving them. This place was

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known as the waters of Maraba,
which means arguing, because they're the people

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of Israel argued against the Lord,
and he demonstrated his holiness among them.

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So this is a second story.
This similar to a first story earlier that

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we didn't read, where the first
time God says, go out to the

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rock in the wilderness, run and
he says strike it. The first time

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he tells him strike the rock.
When you strike the rock, water will

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come out. This time, God
says, go out and speak to the

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rock. Right, So there's difference
too. There's a picture God is building

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word. Pictures are really important for
God. Visuals are extremely important to God.

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And that Moses messes that up winds
up costing him. But anyways,

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yeah and uh and so yeah,
that's right. The first time he does

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ask him to strike the rock,
this time to speak to it. And

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you know, the funny thing about
Moses and Aaron is that think about the

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intricacies of God's requests. You know, every detail matters to God and he

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lays out I mean, think about
remember remember back in the podcast when we

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were talking about uh building the Tabernacle. Remember remember the detail of building the

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Tabernacle. It was so so unbelievably
precise, right, and everything mattered to

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God. And yet Moses and Aaron
did exactly what God said. And so

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this entire time Moses, it's not
as if Moses simply made a mistake,

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because that's what we have a tendency
to think. We have a tendency to

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think, oh, Moses may have
just forgotten because last time he struck the

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rock, But that that's not what
happened here, because Moses is used to

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understanding, you know, do exactly
what God says. Because after all,

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this has been years, years and
years of Moses fulfilling God's requests down to

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the nth degree. And so God
or Moses knew exactly what he's doing.

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And the thing that sort of gives
us an indicator that we know that is

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because instead of speaking to the rock
and letting God be glorified in his holiness.

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He says, listen, you rebels, must we bring you water from

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this rock? And so he's taking
credit and so then he strikes it in

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the dramatic fashion as if like I
have the power to you know, you

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know, bring water back. And
by the way, you could argue and

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say that Moses was driven at a
frustration, wanting to stick it in the

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people's faces. Right, I'll show
you right, you know, once again

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they're grumbling, once again, they're
complaining, why couldn't you have left us

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back to die with our brothers in
the red Sea? And it's like,

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cheese, can you complain any longer? And so there's a part of me

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that relates to Moses. There's a
part of me that understands, but just

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because we have weak moments doesn't mean
we needed this. Obey God, right,

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because when we by God, we
have to realize there's consequences for God,

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you know, disobeying God well so
often. I just had a conversation

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with somebody here recently that was talking
about do you believe that when God forgives

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you that all the consequences are gone? And I said, no, right,

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right, forgiveness just means God's not
going to send you to hell because

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of it. But man alive.
If I spent my entire life drinking like

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a fish and then I get saved
and God forgave my sin, So God,

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I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been
living that life like that. That

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doesn't mean that I instantly have.
You know, I can't get mad.

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You have a right to get mad
at God about sorosis of the liver.

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Right, there's still consequences to our
sin, and this is the issue.

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There is that even though it seems
a little harsh that God goes, hey,

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you can't go into the promised land
now after all this time, there's

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consequence to the fact that God had
been so incredibly precise, as you pointed

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out with Moses, and he messed
up this picture. This is a picture

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of Jesus, the rock picture of
Jesus. Jesus was only struck once,

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not twice, right, and so
it was supposed to be a law grace

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kind of a thing. Here there's
so many different pictures, and he ruined

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it. He messed it up.
He struck the rock the second time,

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messed up this whole picture. So
there's a consequence. But listen to this.

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I think it's interesting. The people
are more frustrating to me even than

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God's response to Moses. You remember, Moses is on almost one hundred and

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twenty years old. Now he's one
hundred and seventeen. So he was forty

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years old when he killed the Egyptian. He was eighty years old when he

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met the burning Bush, and God
led him to set the Israelites free.

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And now they've wandered for thirty seven
years up to this point. So he's

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one hundred and seventeen years old.
This guy's ready to go to heaven anyways.

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This God's not being me to one
hundred and seventeen year old saying,

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you know what, it's time to
come to heaven. Right, So,

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but at this point he's he's frustrated
because it says here's the notes in Life

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Application Study Bible. After thirty seven
years in the wilderness, the Israelites forgot

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that their wanderings were a result of
their parents and their own sin. They

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could not accept the fact that they
brought their own problems upon themselves, and

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so they blamed Moses for their condition. Often our troubles result from our own

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disobedience or lack of faith. We
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Until we face this reality, we
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That good. Right, So after
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and dads and aunts and uncles die, there's only a few of those people

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forty years ago still alive, right, right, So you think about how

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many there were old there was a
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middle you know, the mid generation. There would have been the young adults.

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And for thirty seven years they've wandered, so you know, they're they're

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dying off. It's just a small
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point of sin. And even then, these people cannot remember. They cannot

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remember that all of this was brought
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and all those things, and that
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They couldn't remember anythings. They could
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you, the most miserable people I
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how life keeps happening so poorly to
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accept responsibility for their circumstances. Instead, they're blaming everybody else instead of accepting

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responsibility. Right, And that's what's
happening here, that's what's happening. You

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started laughing when I said most miserable
people, I know, yeah, you

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know, because I when you said
the most miserable people, I know,

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I thought of complaining Christians. Yeah, and then that's not where you're going

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as well. Some of it,
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for sure. You know, we
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the ten spies who disobeyed down,
you know. And then here, you

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know, here's God, you know, telling Moses because of your disobedience.

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Here, Well, the only reason
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today because of our sin. We
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is because of Jesus, right,
like you know, so in other words,

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God still feels angry about our sin. Right. So God's attitude towards

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sin does not change the same.
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you get into some debates with people, they like to say, well,

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in the New Testament, it doesn't
mention this sin. You know, we're

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in the New Testament, doesn't It
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sin, but it wasn't his job
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old testibility verbally right, So it's
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In fact, the scripture actually says
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and forever. So the same God
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God who at our sin. But
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the only reason is because of Jesus. So Jesus came as the fulfillment

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for all of our sin. He's
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our sin. And yes, it
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our sin. And God does give
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and he gives us all those things. But it does not mean that

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God feels differently about our sin that
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his reactions toward our sin have been
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purpose of salvation. For the purpose
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live in sin, we're still going
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believe of those I believe that sins, right, And so that's the thing

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that then we want to blame other
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or that person, or we blame
the economy, we blame whatever as to

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why we had to do the things
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we can accept responsibility for our own
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find a way out of that.
We're always going to be miserable, we're

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not going to grow spiritually. So
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of this entire passage is that the
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left are Moses, Aaron, Joshua, and Caleb. And by the way,

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we did not talk about Aaron's rod
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rod had flowered as a proof even
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it was a walking stick. And
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to as proof that God was still
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says, hey, go get that
and remind the people. Go get that,

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hold it up over the rock and
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was trying to use this priestly role
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with Moses and Aaron all along and
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was with them, and the people
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they're mad. They're still mad,
and it makes Moses mad. And in

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this this moment of weakness, Moses
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So he winds up. He gets
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Right after this, Aaron dies and
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is crazy that the next plague is
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wilderness and bite all the people.
Yes, right? And then have you

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ever seen our medical symbol that we
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rod with a snake around it,
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God had told Moses designed this symbol
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Right later on, that comes up
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as Moses lifted up the serpent in
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sun. Are we not going to
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What it doesn't come up? Yeah? Are you kidding me? Yeah?

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How could we not read that?
Numbers twenty two is where we jump to

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next time, which is a good
one, A good one. Yeah,

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yeah, all right. Well,
and so that's why I wanted to just

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kind of highlight that or mention it
that that that these these passage here,

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you're not required to own read what
we've read. We're gonna go ahead,

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and we should have said this earlier. Give you carte blanche. You're allowed

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to read all the rest of the
Bible if you want to, even if

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that's right, even the parts we
didn't read. It's okay for you to

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read it. And if you have
a good life application study of Bible,

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you can track along pretty well,
get some good, good training on that.

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But that's good. Well, hey, that's just about our time,

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and that was a great passage and
so hopefully we will see you next time

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