WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.919 practical ways. Welcome back to another episode of the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:15.039 --> 00:00:19.719 I'm Jeff and I'm Kyle Dave with us. Yeah, that's right, 5 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:24.160 Chris Ball is out of the studio. He's out running 6 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:26.879 around just living his best life. Yeah, living his best life. 7 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:29.679 I guess right now he's with his dad. Okay, yeah, 8 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.320 they're doing like a boy not a boys that's gonna 9 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.119 say boys road trip. 10 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:36.280 But yeah, yeah it's awesome. 11 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.000 So I like Christy tell all about that when he 12 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.600 gets back. But that's great. So anyways, we have the 13 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:47.240 inimitable Kyle, right, the inestimable. 14 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.560 Oh my, uh, inestimable. 15 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:52.840 Kyle Doba Meyer. He's with us today, and uh, I 16 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:54.679 always look forward to having you in the studio because 17 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:56.359 you've been with Wizar Ball a couple of times. 18 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:56.600 Yep. 19 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:58.759 Yeah, I haven't had a chance to be. 20 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.359 In the studio with I was excited it when I 21 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.320 got a scheduled that they haven't asked me in a while, 22 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.480 so I'm not really sure you know what happened. 23 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.120 I know that are. 24 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.560 Tough, Yeah, I think I think that we were questioning 25 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:09.959 the output from the last time. 26 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:11.799 Yes, but you didn't much to work. 27 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:13.879 With, you know, you and Z our boss. So you know, 28 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.200 I figured, well, let's give you a shot and you 29 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.599 can be on my side. There you go, and uh, 30 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:19.599 there you go way better. 31 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:21.599 Yes, you'll carry me and we'll just see how this goes. 32 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:26.079 Yeah, that's I don't carry you. So I don't even 33 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:29.640 care myself. Well, hey, we have a very strong commitment 34 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.319 on this on this podcast to bring only the finest 35 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.040 news that's right to our listeners from the finest sources, 36 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.840 of course, and especially when you get into election season 37 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:40.920 and when you get into all this time, you just 38 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:42.920 don't know what news you can trust. And so we 39 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.480 feel like maybe the best source on the entire Internet 40 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.799 is the Babylon b absolutely and so uh and if 41 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:52.640 you don't know, the Babylon b is an entirely satire website, 42 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.200 but we think it's as accurate as anything. Absolutely, So 43 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.239 this is useful information for parenting. 44 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.120 It is today is actually called the best waste to 45 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.079 embarrass your teenager embarrass yeah. 46 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:02.680 OK. 47 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:04.840 And for me, I have a fourteen year old and 48 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:07.599 an eleven year old, So this is very fitting fact. 49 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:09.759 And you just your daughter just got out of the teenage. Yeah, 50 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:11.800 right right, My kids are all out of their teens. 51 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:13.560 You can relate to this too, I'm sure. 52 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:14.439 But this is good. 53 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:15.120 This is good advice. 54 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:17.280 Make sure you know as you're hearing this, whether you're driving, 55 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:19.000 just mark this down in your head as like a note, 56 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.159 or if you're actually just watching this, write down some 57 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:22.560 notes or you can look up the article later. 58 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:24.400 This is very important. This is what it says. 59 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:26.879 If you're the proud owner of a kid between the 60 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:30.439 ages of twelve and twenty owner crowd owner, you know 61 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.919 that the teenage yeer is the most socially sensitive time 62 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.680 any child ever goes through, which I agree teenagers had 63 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.680 the capacity to be embarrassed by literally anything you say 64 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:44.319 or do. Some parents worry about this. Did you realize 65 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.759 just how great a comedic opportunity you've been given? Here 66 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.960 we at the Babylon b have painstakingly compiled a knockout 67 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.120 list of absolutely killer ways to mortify your team. 68 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:55.919 Excellent, Yes, check it out. 69 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:01.719 Here's the list. Ready, Number one speak we're starting to 70 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:04.520 say any word, and it says we're starting with the 71 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:05.039 easy ones. 72 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.000 Here. Number two Here's how you can embarrass your kids 73 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:11.840 is to exist. Exist. Your team will never live this dog. 74 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.719 Three is to breathe you gross? What's wrong with you? 75 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:16.280 Yeah? 76 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:19.199 Number four, I can write to this one. Take them 77 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:22.280 on a family vacation where they will make lifelong memories 78 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.199 they can cherish forever. And then the note on that 79 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:29.319 is says, the teens think that this is cringe. Number 80 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.960 five is to be the president. That's a way to 81 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:33.520 embarrass them is to be the president. 82 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:35.319 I don't know, okay. 83 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.599 Number six is mistakenly fall in love with them when 84 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.240 they travel back in time in a modified DeLorean and 85 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:42.919 bump into you when you're a teenager. 86 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:48.360 That is odd, right, that's the story to the future. 87 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.639 Number seven, when checking them in at the doctor's office, 88 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:53.919 loudly state the reason for their visits. 89 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:54.919 That's good. 90 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:57.240 That's good, And then it says, make sure to spell 91 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.599 out your teen's middle names that nobody misspells it too. 92 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.919 Here, I brought my son junior. 93 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.240 He's really constipated. That's good. That's good. 94 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.560 Number eight say hello to their friends. That's mortifying for them. 95 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:11.159 That's horrible. 96 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:16.160 Yes, adults, saying hello to teenagers is an unforgivable yep, 97 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:18.560 that's right. And by the way, side note, while I 98 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.279 was picking my daughter up from cheer a few weeks ago, 99 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:22.199 and then she had a friend that was that was 100 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.959 walking by, she goes, oh, this is so, and so 101 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.040 she says you should honk at her, and she was joking, 102 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:27.920 but I honked at her because she said to honk 103 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.480 at her own and she was embarrassed. Oh yeah, So 104 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:32.839 I mean I'm right there. I mean apparently I shouldn't 105 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:35.519 say hello to her friends. Number nine. Another thing we 106 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:37.759 can do to embarrass them is to serve them dinner 107 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:40.720 because the food at our house is gross. 108 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:41.040 Gross. 109 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:41.800 Yep, that's right. 110 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:44.680 If it's not handed out the window or over a 111 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.160 counter and a wrapper, it's gross. 112 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.800 There you go, yep, exactly. Door dashed, yep. Where are 113 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:53.839 your most functional pair of cargo shorts? Yeah yeah, And 114 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:54.480 then it says. 115 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:56.879 That it works best when paired with calf length white 116 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.800 cruise socks and some nice flip flops. Nice so basically 117 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:03.279 nice dad outfit to where number eleven, hold your menu 118 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.519 upside down and loudly ask for one printed right side up, 119 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:10.160 It says, your comedy genius while you reuteine in tears 120 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.800 of laughter, okay, and then lastly, drop some gen z 121 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:14.639 lingo on them. 122 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:19.480 Fam they'll think you're busting no cap. Oh that's good. 123 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.360 There you go. So that's pretty much it. Those are 124 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:23.439 the twelve ways to embarrass your kids and mortify them. 125 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.199 There you go. That's really good. That's super useful stuff. 126 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.720 It's helpful, super useful. I think most of those are instinctive. Yes, right, 127 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:32.600 Which one do you feel like is most useful to you? 128 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:33.319 Most useful? 129 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.519 I would say for me, I would say currently, it's 130 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.800 the saying hello to their friends, yes, because I think 131 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.160 back in I would be fine, like I'd want to 132 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:41.959 go talk to their friends. And now I'm realizing, like 133 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:44.600 in certain environments I'm allowed to talk to their friends. 134 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.000 Other environments just stay away, Dad, You're not cool, so 135 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:47.480 stay away. 136 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.519 Yeah, And it's hard to navigate is this the good 137 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:51.319 environment or the bad? 138 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:51.639 And bound? 139 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:53.040 Is this appropriate and not appropriate? 140 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:55.519 The appropriate hour of the day, right, like when to 141 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.560 do that because it could change daily. 142 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:03.920 And my my my daughter in particular, was very sensitive 143 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.800 to where we pulled up at the school, like if 144 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:08.839 I had to drop her off, that was terribly Embarrassingay, 145 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:12.480 yeah right, But she also didn't want to drive to school. Right, 146 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.600 So there's that. So where what door? And the door 147 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.000 I dropped off last week was not okay to drop off? 148 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.800 This way changed? Right? Yeah? All those things waving at friends, 149 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.079 I thought they were friends and not friends anymore. Whatever, 150 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:26.920 all that stuff it was it was told. 151 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:28.839 I just remember growing up though, Just going back to 152 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:29.279 this real quick. 153 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.319 For teenagers, my dad would drop us off at school 154 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.800 and he'd be blairing some eighties music and just like, 155 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.759 could Caroline, I'm trying to open the door, h exactly, Yeah, 156 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:41.040 here I am, and I'm like doing the same thing. 157 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:45.240 I'm like, what what's wrong? This is good music, that's great. 158 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:47.519 Well, it's super useful stuff and we're always trying to 159 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.920 help our listeners, and so that's that's just about as 160 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:54.279 good as it gets me there. Yep, just existing is 161 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.600 offensive to your children. Well, so we have an exceedingly 162 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:03.120 difficult challenge in front of us today with regard to 163 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:07.839 our conversation because for some reason, and I'm not going 164 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:10.879 to put it on Dez entirely because I was the 165 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:13.480 one who helped work out all of these things. But 166 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.560 I'm not sure how we divided twelve verses on the 167 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:19.800 death of Moses into two different episodes. 168 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:20.680 It's that epic. 169 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:24.240 Yeah. Yeah. So we're at the end of the Book 170 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:26.800 of Deuteronomy. We're also at the end of the life 171 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.959 of Moses, and man, we're going to try to get 172 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.800 a lot out of these twelve verses. So today we're 173 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:37.600 only reading the first what four y four? Is that correct? 174 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:38.160 Okay? 175 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.199 Correct? So ah, let me clear my voice. I should 176 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.600 have gotten some water or something. Man, here we go, 177 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.319 it says, Then Moses went up to Mountain Ebo from 178 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:51.240 the plains of Moab and climbed Pisga Peak, which is 179 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.360 across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him the whole 180 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.959 land from Gilead as far as Dan, all of the 181 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:02.040 land of Naftali, the land of Manassa, all the land 182 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:05.360 of Judah, extending to the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev, the 183 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.600 Jordan Valley with Jericho, the city of Palms, as far 184 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.480 as Zoar. Then the Lord said to Moses, this is 185 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.199 the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and 186 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:16.879 Jacob when I said I will give it to your descendants. 187 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:19.079 I have now allowed you to see it with your 188 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:22.399 own eyes, but you will not enter the land. 189 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:23.160 Yeah. 190 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.360 So have you been in Israel, No, I have not known, 191 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:29.680 not yet. So this is near the top of the 192 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:34.080 Dead Sea. So if you remember the Sia Galilee is 193 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:38.360 at the northern end of Israel. Above that is where 194 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:41.960 he talks about. Dan is up that way, and then 195 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.840 above that would be Lebanon, and Syria is up above 196 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.519 the Sea Galilee. Then you come down the river Jordan, 197 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.799 and that's in a valley all the way down. And 198 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:55.200 so then Mount Nebo, which I remember seeing. Mount Nebo 199 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.879 is at the top right at the top of the 200 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:02.279 Dead Sea, and right across the river is where Jericho 201 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.840 would be. Then it goes up a hill and then 202 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:07.879 Jerusalem is up up high like that. So it really 203 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.679 is a unique it's a very tall for that region, 204 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.200 of a tall mountain, and it's not very far. You 205 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.399 only look in like ninety miles top to bottom right, 206 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.559 so Israel's not a very big country. And he can 207 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:22.960 see all the Promised Land from that spot. So it's 208 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:27.480 a pretty pretty incredible moment, beautiful, beautiful to see. Sure, 209 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.159 but you know there's also the other side you're not 210 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:32.759 gonna go in, which we we have to we have 211 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:34.440 to reserve that for tomorrow. So I can't talk too 212 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:35.279 much about that, but. 213 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:36.759 Yeah, I do think it's interesting though, you know how 214 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:38.919 it talks about how, you know, Moses was the only 215 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:42.000 a person to see God face to face, right, God 216 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.120 called him a friend, and yet at the same time, 217 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:47.159 his disobedience, you know, caused him to get to that 218 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:48.279 point where he was able. 219 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:49.879 To see it but not actually enter it. 220 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.159 Yeah, and yet still I think it's it's a tricky 221 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:53.919 thing because I think a lot of times people want 222 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:55.919 to wonder, They think that there are certain things that 223 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:58.559 should be fair, like why would God do that to Moses? 224 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:00.639 He's been your friend and number one to God, say, 225 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:04.519 you know, to change his friendliness towards Roses, he stayed 226 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:06.279 close and all this stuff, but just said, hey, because 227 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.279 you disobeyed, you're not able to enter. I think that's 228 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:11.159 a pretty challenging perspective when you look at that, because 229 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:12.799 I know, as a human you kind of again you 230 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.000 think that's not fair, like he should be a lot. 231 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.799 You know, well, there's a lot to be done here. 232 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.919 So Moses was forty years old when he and we 233 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.000 didn't really cover this in the podcast, but he is 234 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:29.519 now an adult in Pharaoh's court. He's also starting to 235 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:33.639 really identify with his Hebrew background. Yeah, and he sees 236 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:39.919 a slave driver working for the Pharaoh. He sees him 237 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:44.679 beating a Hebrew and Moses gets mad, gets picks up 238 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:46.840 a weapon or something and kills this guy and then 239 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:48.879 buries him in the sand. Then he takes off, he 240 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:50.879 runs and hides, and he hides out in the desert 241 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.840 for forty years, literally, the Bible says, on the back 242 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.840 side of the desert. Very likely most of that time, 243 00:10:57.879 --> 00:10:59.320 if not all that time, would have been in the 244 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.440 Sinai penin because this is an area that he was 245 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:05.759 familiar with. When he gets back there, when God gives 246 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.799 him the Ten Commandments, so then that's forty years. Then 247 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.720 he has this moment, this incredible God moment. He was 248 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.600 raised in pharaoh's home. He very likely he was the 249 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:22.440 son of the princess. Very likely would have been in 250 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:28.200 the line of succession as a pharaoh, right, he would 251 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.679 have had the finest educations, the finest close, the finest everything. 252 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.279 He was very educated with regard to their processes and 253 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.200 their systems. He kills this guy and then takes off 254 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:42.399 and hides, and so he just disappears, and he's afraid. 255 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:45.840 He's being hunted. And it's during that time he gets married. 256 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.480 His father in law's name is Jethro. He just turns 257 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:51.120 into a shepherd. So he goes from a palace to 258 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:55.679 working out, you know, just following sheep in the desert. 259 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:57.720 And then he has this encounter with God with this 260 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:01.279 burning bush yep right and everything for him. So and 261 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.960 then that was at eighty years old. Wow, you know, 262 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.840 most people are ready to retire at eighty. He has 263 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:11.600 this encounter with God at eighty and God says, okay, Moses, 264 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.840 I want you to go and set my people free, 265 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.039 and he goes back. They go through all those plagues, 266 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:21.720 they go through all those things with Pharaoh, and then 267 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.000 they finally they make it to the Jordan River. They're 268 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:27.159 ready to go, and the Spies go, no, we don't 269 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.399 want to go, and they wander for forty years. And 270 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.279 Moses wanders around in the desert for forty years from 271 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:36.600 eighty to one hundred and twenty following the people are on. So, 272 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:38.879 you know, on one end, you feel bad for Moses 273 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:40.320 that he's not going in the promnce Land. On the 274 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:42.240 other end, I think Moses was ready to retire. 275 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.879 Oh yeah, right, He's like, please, just show it to me. 276 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:46.159 I don't think I can make this trip. 277 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:47.919 Man. 278 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:48.120 You know. 279 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:49.879 The thing that I take away from this though, like 280 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.559 you know, you and I both actually gave a message recently. 281 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:54.960 I was in MLA City, you were in Sterling Heights, 282 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.399 and we talked about the fairness of God. 283 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:57.360 Is God fair? 284 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:59.840 And I think that's the thing in our human perspective. 285 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.399 I think oftentimes it's a we do a disservice to 286 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.240 ourselves and to others when we project our own humanity 287 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:10.120 into what we think God should do would do right, And. 288 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:11.919 This is a scenario. When I read this, I'm like, man, 289 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:14.120 Moses just did this one, you know. 290 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:16.080 But God isn't fair, right, And and then we talked 291 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.600 about this before, but God is incredibly unfair to our 292 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.519 advantage right the way the way he operates. But at 293 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:23.840 the same time, I just love the fact that you know, 294 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.600 God is very much revealing this idea that he still 295 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.240 was a friend of him. But God took his sin seriously, 296 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.320 his disobedience. I think it's an important reminder for us that, 297 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.720 you know, oftentimes when we try to really focus on 298 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.000 the grace of God and really focus on the mercy 299 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.320 of God, we also have to remember too that the 300 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.399 mistakes we made, the sin we've made me He takes 301 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:42.919 that seriously. 302 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.399 We see it right here and lived out in the 303 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:45.080 life of Moses. 304 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:48.679 Yes, so God had promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 305 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.360 that they would inherit the land of Canaan. Yeah. Now 306 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:55.480 when he promised that to them, they were a small 307 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:58.240 group of people. Yeah, you know, not even I don't 308 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:59.879 even know that you could really call them much of 309 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:03.360 a tribe, you know, a couple hundred people. But then 310 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.720 they go down into Egypt. For part of that time 311 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.080 they were extremely prosperous. Towards the end they were in 312 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.399 full blown slavery and they were being oppressed. But they 313 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:14.720 grew and they grew, and they multiplied and they multiplied 314 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.759 and they multiplied into some estimates are between one million 315 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.960 and three million people. Right, so now they're a force 316 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:26.639 to be reckoned with. They're slaves, they're not fighters, but 317 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.440 still and so now God is sending that back in 318 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.519 and you know, there's these seven major tribes, the high Bites, 319 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:38.519 the hitd Tights, the the Parazites, the Philistines, and they're 320 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:40.279 gonna have to fight. God didn't say I'm just going 321 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.600 to give this land to you for you know, without 322 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:46.480 any without any cost. It's going to cost you something. 323 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:49.559 But now there's a lot of you you're going to 324 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:51.120 be able to and I'm going to go ahead of 325 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:52.519 you and I'm going to fight this battle for you. 326 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.320 So God had promised to drive out the evil people 327 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.159 that were living in the land and to give it, 328 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:02.440 to give the land to the Israelites. And God is 329 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.360 proving to Moses once again that he's going to keep 330 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:08.840 his promises. Right. I promised that this would happen, and 331 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.120 it's going to happen. I'm not going to back down 332 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.360 from this. And so you know, Moses had paid a 333 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:17.120 real price. He really did work hard for over forty 334 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.120 years trying to lead these people. He's in his old 335 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.480 age and God is bringing him up and in his goodness, 336 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.720 going Moses, look at it. Yeah, you got him here. 337 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:30.600 The job I gave you to lead the people to 338 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:34.320 the promised land, you got them here, and a good job. 339 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.559 And I think there's a little bit of addaboy in 340 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:40.480 this right and look at it. Look at it it is. 341 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:42.559 It's a land filled with milk and honey. Look at 342 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.559 the hills and the mountains and Look at the green 343 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.519 oases all throughout the land, look at the river, the water, 344 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:52.200 all those things. You can see it, and I'm going 345 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.519 to take them in. He's reaffirming once again everything you 346 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:59.320 believed is true, and that's really important. 347 00:15:59.320 --> 00:15:59.519 True. 348 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.960 It is a beautif picture of what God was doing 349 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.080 for Moses to take him to that peak and let 350 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:05.919 him see it with his own two eyes. That's the 351 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.200 very thing that Moses was chasing after. I'm sure he 352 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:09.639 had so many visions of that for i mean, you 353 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.000 think about forty years. He couldn't wait to get to 354 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.360 that point. And God wasn't just like Okay, nope, you 355 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:16.120 can't enter it, can't see it. He's and i want 356 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:17.600 you to see it. Yeah, I want you to get 357 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:19.720 like take a peek, like look it's it's kind of 358 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:21.080 a beautiful picture of what God did. 359 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:26.480 Yeah, you know, there's parallels with and there is a 360 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.279 lot in our theology and a lot in a lot 361 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.279 of the old songs, the old hymns that we used 362 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:36.039 to sing about the promised land is heaven. You know 363 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:39.039 in a lot of those parallels, the river Jordan represents 364 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.840 death you're passing over, right, So there's all this promise 365 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:47.759 all this hope that's connected, and you know, we feel 366 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:51.480 like we're wandering in the wilderness. We're struggling. It's it's 367 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:55.000 a hard life. There's some battles that have to be fought, 368 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:58.399 there's some struggles that need to be won, but ultimately 369 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:00.840 God is going to take us in this promised land. 370 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:03.080 And so that's why I think it's so special. When 371 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.880 you read about Moses, there's a lot of different passages. 372 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:10.400 You know, in numbers twenty seven is when God tells Moses, 373 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:12.799 you'll see the Promised Land, but you're not going to 374 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:17.039 go in. But then Moses pleads, he kind of he 375 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.920 comes to God in Deuteronomy twenty three in Deuteronomy three, 376 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:23.079 and he goes, come on, and God said, no, I 377 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:25.000 gave you my word on this. You're not going to 378 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:26.519 go in, but I'll let you see it. So then 379 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.960 Moses accepts that in Deuteronomy chapter three, and then goes 380 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.640 on for the whole rest of the book. Restates God's law, 381 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:36.599 restates God's promises. We didn't read it, We've hinted at 382 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.359 it in other episodes, but in chapter is it chapter 383 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:46.599 thirty finally he comes or thirty one, Yeah, thirty, Chapter 384 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:52.799 twenty nine and thirty. God he's renewing the Covenant. And 385 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:55.200 then he finally says to the people, he said, listen, 386 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:58.279 God's promises are if then promises if you keep his 387 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:02.839 promises God, if you keep his commandments. Rather, God's promises 388 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.000 are that he will bless you, that he will go 389 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.920 before you, that he'll fight for you, that he will 390 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:10.799 give you everything that he promised to do. You will prosper, 391 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.200 you'll live long on this earth. You'll have success in 392 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.279 everything you do. He'll give you life, the life that 393 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.720 you really want. And then he says, but and then 394 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.240 he repeats all the exact same things, but the reverse 395 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.160 side of him. He says, if you disobey God's commands, 396 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.839 then God will not fight for you. God will give 397 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:31.160 victory to your enemies instead of you. You will always struggle. 398 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:35.240 You'll have disease, Your fields won't produce, your animals aren't 399 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:37.920 going to reproduce. That you're going to struggle. It's just 400 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:41.079 going to be so hard. Literally, it'll be the death 401 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:42.960