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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

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to the Bible Guys. Today is
Friday, and I gotta tell you,

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I'm gonna miss being with you,
Wesley. Yeah, this is the last

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day we have had a great time. Jeff's been out of pocket. Of

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course, we miss Jeff when he's
gone, and when I'm gone, hopefully

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you miss me. But we've really
had a great time with Wesley and I

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this week. And we've been covering
a lot of the Old Testament stuff and

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today we're skipping all the way to
Leviticus. But before we do that,

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Wesley, we have our Friday segments. We have the most epic segment of

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all. This is the segment what
made Chris Matt this week. This is

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probably one of our most loved segments
that we have here. Well, just

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keep in mind, Wesley, I'm
not an angry guy, right, So

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being mad doesn't mean that I walk
around angry. Yeah, it means that

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I get mad for the people of
the world. I'm a servant of the

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people, Wesley. And by the
way, I didn't even discover that until

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we started doing this segment, I
realized that the ninety five percent of the

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things that make me mad, I
get mad on behalf of someone else.

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It's not even from my experience,
like if I have a in fact,

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this just happened, this is not
what made me mad. But this is

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an example of what I mean.
Is that we went to a restaurant,

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my daughter and I and my daughter
went to go order the pizza, and

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this particular waitress said, she said, to be honest with you, the

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pizza is not that great here.
And then she goes, oh, you

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sold me. I'll have the chicken
fingers. And then I was so impressed.

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I was delighted. I was elated, and I said, you know

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what, if I was a server
here, I said, I honestly would

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encourage every server to tell everybody that
the pizza wasn't good, so that eventually

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it would make it all the way
up to corporate and they say they'd be

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forced to say, this pizza isn't
selling well, so therefore let's go ahead

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and change the recipe or change the
menu item. Because like, that was

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brilliant to me. That elated to
me. That was elating to me,

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and the reason why is because I
really truly do love that idea of benefiting

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the people in general. Anyway,
So here's what made me mad this week.

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And by the way, uh,
it is something personal that happened just

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to me, but it does have
everything to do with customer service. So

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I have I have this thing in
my spine where it's preventing me from not

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anymore. But it goes, it
comes and goes. But I've got some

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some bulging discs in my spine.
So my right hand was too it was

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it was hurting too much my arm, and so I couldn't cut the grass.

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So my daughter Tory couldn't cut it. And uh in Steven's allergic,

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and so's Liz. So I thought
to myself, what am I going to

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do? So for the first time
ever, and they listened to me.

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Wesley thirty three years of marriage for
the first time in the history of my

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life. I call it a long
company. Oh wow. In landscaping and

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cutting the lawn sort of my thing. My lawn looks good, right,

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It's like it's sort of like I
wouldn't say perfect, but like it's pretty

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dang good, right, And so
I chopped all around. I found a

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company, and it was decently long, but I gave explicit instructions, please

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take care of my lawn. So
anyway, I go to work, I

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come back home and these guys Wesley
tore my lawn up. Oh no,

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did they cut it super low.
Everything that could be bad was bad.

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And I hate to say this because
it's it's like stereotypes. But when they

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told me that their lawn service was
from a different part of town, I

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thought to myself, huh, like
there was only there's there's like sort of

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two schools of thought, right,
Either a like I've seen like people mow

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down fields in that part of town
where the grass clumps on the top,

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it looks like a piece of garbage, right, because that's good enough for

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that side of town. But then
there's another school of thought that says,

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well, wait a minute, people
from that side of town, if they

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come to my side of town,
it's a little bit nicer than their side

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of town. Maybe though maybe they
work in a pristine manner because they know

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that, you know, these guys
pay well and everything else. So I

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thought there's two schools of thought.
Well guess what it was the first school

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of thought they came and tore everything
up. They cut it too low.

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They burned the lawn where it was
like it was all like where it was

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like plush green. Now it's like, you know, brown, because they

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cut it too low. And then
they chip spots. They actually like hacked

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up the edges and then left like
layers layers of They didn't clean up the

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clippings. Oh no, okay,
it was just like this massive amount of

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clippings. They didn't even try to
go over twice, like you know,

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like if there's clippings that you can
like mault. Right. So anyway,

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so I basically come home, I'm
horrified what happened. And so my thing

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that made me mad was that,
But it also made me mad for the

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customer service side of things, right, So it's like, what kind of

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person sends a company to just destroy
a lawn? Because, by the way,

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even though my lam was lawn,
they looked at it and thought themselves,

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holy crud, this guy keeps a
good lawn, so let's go ahead

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and try to cut it. Well. They thought we're going to make this

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better. They don't give it.
They don't give a one ounce of care.

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They literally thought to themselves, I
do not care whether this customer cancels

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or complains because because it's a it's
you know. Anyway, the bottom line

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is, good customer care is hard
to find, right, and people who

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disregard good customer care they don't care
about anything else other than getting to the

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end of that day getting their own
paycheck. Yeah, they can care less

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about the customer. That's what made
me mad. Yeah. So if you

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would like to cut Chris's grass now
one five five five, you know.

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Yeah, Well after that speech,
people are fearful in my grass. Right,

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I'm moved too afraid to live up
to his expectations. Yeah. We've

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had some bad and we've got a
good guy now, but we've had some

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bad ones in the past. Oh
I'm telling you what, man, I

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can't even think of a thing that
made me more angry. And I'm not

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even kidding when I say this,
in the past six months. Yeah,

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like that that made me more angry
than anything has in the past six months.

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Yeah, because depending on what they
did, now you have to go

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back and either plant grass seed,
fertile lot, like, do something I

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don't know, right, Yeah,
well, let's just say Chris was not

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happy. Yeah. So anyway,
good customer service people. Yes, let's

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care about the customer, all right, let's move on us. So we're

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jumping from Exodus all the way to
Leviticus sixteen. There's a lot of levitical

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law, right, So God gave
you know, you know, a lot

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of different instructions, and we're skipping
over a lot of that. Instructions for

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priestly conduct or conduct, instructions for
you know, beginning works, and instructions

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for the people, instructions for purification
after childbirth, serious skin disease, instructions,

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all these different levitical law, instructions, treatment for contaminated clothing, all

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these different things. And so we're
going to skip to Leviticus sixteen, verses

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twenty nine through thirty four. Yes, so it says, on the tenth

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day of the appointed month in early
autumn, you must deny yourselves. Neither

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native born Israelites nor foreigners living among
you may do any kind of work.

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This is a permanent law for you. On that day, offerings of purification

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will be made for you, and
you will be pure in the Lord's presence

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from all your sins. Verse thirty
one. It will be a sabbath day

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of complete rest for you, and
you must deny yourselves. This is a

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permanent law for you in future generations. The purification ceremony will be performed by

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the priest who has been anointed own
ordained to serve as high priest in place

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of his ancestor Aaron. He will
put on the holy linen garments and purify

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the most holy place, the tabernacle, the altar, the priests, and

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the entire congregation. This is a
permanent law for you to purify the people

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of Israel from their sins, making
them right with the Lord wants. Each

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year. Yep, there it is. Yeah. So it's a Sabbath day

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scripture, right, and so this
is a more specific instructions and by the

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way, we skipped over even before
last podcast, very detailed instructions on what

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to do or not to do on
the Sabbath. Now, there's a lot

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of controversial topic even with major religions
in the world about Sabbath. Right,

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so we all know that uh uh
you know, I remember my aunt got

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uh sort of locked into uh you
know this, this idea of the Sabbath

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has to be Saturday, right,
and there there are entire you know,

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religions out there that say, uh, you know that that the Uh,

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yeah, I've I've I've I've even
seen a billboard that says that Sunday is

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the mark of the beast. Wow, have you ever seen that? No,

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I've never seen that one. Yeah, yeah, put out by a

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certain group, right, and and
they say that, you know, it's

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the mark of the beast. And
so not only do they say that,

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hey, we don't believe that Sunday
can can be a Sabbath, but what

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they what they're saying is you're you're
going to hell. It will lead you

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straight to hell because you've disobeyed and
not honored this calendar day of Sabbath being

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Saturday. So do you have any
initial thoughts on that. Well, the

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thing that pops to mind pops in
mind is verse thirty one. It says

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it will be a Sabbath day of
complete rest for you. So God created

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this Sabbath day for us, but
I think in modern day times we view

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it as the other way around,
which there's a scripture that actually talks about

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that. But you know, the
Sabbath day was created for us so that

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we could reflect on the good things
that God did. When you go back

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to Genesis one and one, it
talks about how in the beginning God made

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the heavens in the earth. Then
it goes all the way down when we

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get to the last day. It
was when we say use the word rest

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there in Genesis. It's more of
the fact, not that God was tired

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and you know, he was exhausted
and had to lay on the sofa,

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and who I created the heavens and
the earth and the planet and animals,

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and I am utterly exhausted. It
was more so that God was reflecting on

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the good that he made. So
that's kind of what that sabbath means,

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to kind of reflect on what God
has done in your life. Remember the

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good things that he's done, Remember
the blessings, Remember to spend time with

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him. That's why we go to
church and things like that. So that's

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kind of the point of the Sabbath. It was given for our benefit,

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not the other way around, right, And Jesus, Jesus himself said that

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because, yeah, Jesus, you
know, in the New Testament, he

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was healing somebody, right, and
they were really upset because he was healing

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somebody on the Sabbath, the Sabbath. Yeah, And then Jesus asked them

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a question and said, well,
wait a minute. You know, you

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say not to work on a sabbath, but if a sheep falls into a

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pit, which one of you would
leave it in that pit, which one

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of you would not lean over and
pull it out of the pit. Right?

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He says that the Sabbath was created
for man. The man wasn't created

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for the Sabbath. The Sabbath isn't
all, you know, all binding.

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Because we have to remember this too, that they created rules around the rules,

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right. So what they would say
is they would say, well,

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what are the semantics of work?
Right? And they actually had a number

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of steps that they had determined was
too many steps, and so they would

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not only honor the Sabbath, and
they were doing it out of good intentions,

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I think, but they were actually
so particular about the Sabbath. That

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hang on a second. So they
were so particular about the Sabbath that they

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implemented their own rules on top of
the rules as law. And so Jesus

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was saying, no, no,
no, no, listen, it's lawful

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for me to heal in the Sabbath. You're considering it work. But God

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didn't say that, right. And
so the bottom line is is, well,

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let's go back to the idea,
have Saturday versus Sunday, so we

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get our Sunday because Jesus was raised
on a Sunday, right, So he

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dies just a few hours before Friday
ends. And people think sometimes he was

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in the grave for seventy two hours, but actually the scripture is very clear

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that he at the ninth hour he
cried with a loud voice and gave up

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the ghost right at three pm.
So six pm started a new day,

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right, And so so what he
does is he he he goes ahead and

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dies and then he's only in the
grave for three hours on Friday. He's

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he's in the grave for all of
Saturday. And then it says very early

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in the day on Sunday, which
means what was still dark out, you

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know, so there's only it's only
six hours into you know, the new

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day. Probably he raises from the
grave. And that's why we honor our

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Sabbath on Sundays. Yeah, the
principle, you know, Paul says,

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it's the spirit of the law,
not the letter of the law. You

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know, we are to honor a
sabbath. So it's one in seven,

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right, So God rests on the
Sabbath day. I don't think there's anything

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wrong with making Saturday your Sabbath.
I don't think there's anything wrong with making

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Sunday your Sabbath. Yeah right,
But I do think it's wrong to say

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that if it's anything besides Saturday,
it's the mark of the beast. Yeah,

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that's taken it a bit far.
Yeah, when you're as you're talking

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about this, I think of another
scripture, completely unrelated, but that talks

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about prayer and going into your prayer
closet. Yes, kind of the same

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concept in that God can hear your
prayers even if you don't literally go into

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a closet and shut the door.
God can still hear your prayers. It

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was more so like symbolism or a
metaphor not that, oh I can't be

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heard by God unless I'm sitting literally
in a closet. We used to have

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a family member like that who it
was more so a family member. My

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mother knew of that, literally believed
that that, you know, you,

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if you prayed, you had to
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going to hear you, you know, because of what the reference used in

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the Bible in going into your per
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kind of the same concept a little
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the Sabbath. Yeah, so so
to think to think that we have to

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think about this. So, so
there's levitical law. We skipped over.

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You know, fifteen chapters. Moses
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the mountain of Sinai with ten commandments, and then when there was a golden

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calf, he threw the commandments of
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and we're actually, I'm sorry that
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yeah, and broke them. Okay, so God actually gave him a

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replacement of the Covenant. Now we
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back up the mountain and got replacement
tablets and then set them in the ark

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of the Covenant. So we know
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scripture that we skipped over is that
God eventually gave Moses six hundred and thirteen

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commandments. So there's six hundred and
thirteen precepts. So there's two hundred and

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forty eight thou shots, there's three
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making up six hundred and thirteen precepts. So there's a bunch of laws.

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And God is very detailed. God
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about the Law of Moses, we're
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about six hundred and thirteen of them. Right now. What's interesting is is

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that somehow people believe it has to
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this exact time frame is the Jewish
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other Jewish custom in the political law, not even one, not even a

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single one. And there are six
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you know? Even right here it
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performed by the priests who anointed to
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And that's that's directly connected to the
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those who insist that it has to
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do that ceremony, right, And
so all these other things that are under

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the levitical law, Jesus says,
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we're not under the law. Jesus
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came to fulfill the law. So
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mother. We still have no graven
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our modern day. Remember the Sabbath
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the instruction to work six days and
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not to work. And so I
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wouldn't you agree that the Sabbath,
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that we violate the most. Yeah. Yeah, I think people don't think

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much of it from a society perspective. It's just another day off from work,

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right, you know, that's how
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and Sunday. You know, maybe
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go on your boat or to the
beach or something. Right, So that's

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kind of how society views it.
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Now, what would you say to
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Sabbath thing and they're thinking, like, well, what is acceptable or not

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acceptable on a Sabbath? Because there's
that's like a hot button topic in the

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Christian world of you know what you
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What would you say to that brand
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Yeah, I would say, the
principle is that you are to pick one

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in seven days to rest, and
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In this modern society, if you
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sabbath. Right. So for thirty
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the day off, and so Monday
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really hectic time. And I think
most people don't understand that. For

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pastors, Sunday is a work day
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so it's a worship day for you, but it's a work day for

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us, yes, And it's mentally
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ways physically exhausting. So therefore I
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then Heritage works on Mondays, right, So so so i'm I'm you know,

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Monday afternoon, that's fine, But
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I try to to the rhythm that
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job varies, but I will make
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So I would I would give that
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that you're not working and that you're
relaxing and detaching, because I heard a

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sermon one time that said this,
and this was one of the coolest things

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I've heard, and that is man
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Man was created in the book of
Genesis to work from rest, right,

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So think about that. So it's
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right. So God created Adam on
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you do on the seventh day?
Rested? Right? So man is created,

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and what is the first thing that
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goes to work. So man wasn't
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created to work from a state of
rest. And so it's like, so

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we need to make rest a priority
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have enough energy to work. We
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to the point where we're like,
man, we got to take a break.

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And it's never a sufi should break. And that rest and reflection allows

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you to operate at your best.
That's the thing. It's kind of like,

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that's how you're recharged. That's how
you feel spiritually as you're maybe taking

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that Sabbath in praying and reading God's
word or going to church. So it's

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really rejuvenating you. But that's the
part that we typically X out of our

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lives because we're on to the next
thing. Right, Yeah, that's exactly

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right. So hey listen, that
looks like it's about our time. And

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do you have any other last thoughts? Yeah? No, I think this

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was great. Yeah. I would
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you don't rest one and seven,
if you don't detach and do whatever it

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is that you could do to make
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not to mention, consecrate that time
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relationship with the Lord, because that's
the purpose of the Sabbath. I would

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say, if you're not doing that, then then find some time in your

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schedule because you will not regret it. It is unplug it's a biblical principle

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and you you are made to operate
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listen, that is our time,
and so hopefully we will see you next

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time on the Bible guys. H
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