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. Hey, everybody, good morning, it's good to be here. 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:16.399 It is good to be here. 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:18.079 I thought you were gonna say something else. 6 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.480 No, I just I just I usually do. 7 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:22.760 What wonderful thing is Chris going to say today? I 8 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:24.079 just and I was just in rapture. 9 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.039 Sometimes I ramble, and then sometimes I just hand it over. 10 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.280 Just drop it. That's right, that's right, and then I'm 11 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:31.640 not sharp enough to keep up with you. 12 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.000 So well, you're probably prepping for something as good. 13 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:35.039 I guess that's okay. 14 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:37.119 So, hey, my name is Chris, this is Jeff. We're 15 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:39.359 the Bible Guys. If this is your first time listening in, 16 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:44.679 we definitely encourage you to go and watch some of 17 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.039 our archives Bible Guys podcast. We have seven hundred and 18 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:51.079 ninety six of them, and then even one hundred and 19 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.960 fifty hg dailies before that, and so anyway, welcome, and 20 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.640 today we are in the middle of a series and 21 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.719 it's our favorite promises of God in different contexts. Yes, okay, 22 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.200 so we should call the series like context or something. 23 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.560 Promises of context or promises in context. 24 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:11.719 Well, that sounds riveting. 25 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:13.239 I think it does. 26 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.079 Yeah, yeah, I think it's just the promises because again, 27 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:19.439 the premise behind these promises for us while we're doing 28 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:22.519 it is because so many people stay worried. So many 29 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:24.319 people struggle with their faith because they just don't know 30 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:26.799 what God has promised. Right, if we know God's word, 31 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:29.480 we have way more faith. Hearing comes or faith comes 32 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:31.599 by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So 33 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:35.640 our faith is built the more words of God we know. Right, 34 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.200 those two things go together, and so a lot of 35 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:40.159 times the people are struggling with their faith, it's usually 36 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:43.000 because they don't know God's promises. And so hey, we're 37 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.079 gonna kind of bunch these promises together for the next 38 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.120 five or six, seven, I don't know, ten weeks, whatever 39 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.959 it is. We're gonna do TVD. Yeah, and we're gonna 40 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.359 kind of bunch them together. So this week, this whole 41 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:55.840 week is just that God is with you, right, that's 42 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.439 if you're a follower of Christ. God's promises to be 43 00:01:58.480 --> 00:01:58.719 with you. 44 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:00.920 So before we get Divino that we have a segment 45 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.280 and this is a would you rather There's five of 46 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:07.480 them and We're gonna have to just pick whether it's 47 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:09.960 me or you. Okay, you want to read the excuse 48 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:10.599 me the first one. 49 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.400 Let me see, would you rather always have an itch 50 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:17.000 you can't scratch or always have to sneeze but never do? 51 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:23.199 Those are terrible? Those are always yawn when you don't 52 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:23.520 want to. 53 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.840 Yeah, no kidding, Okay, so you get to pick one. 54 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:30.960 Both are absolutely horrible. I would have to say the itch, 55 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:31.560 I suppose. 56 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:34.800 So I feel a little itchy right now because I 57 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:36.319 read it. Does that happen to you? 58 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.520 Well? The same with the bugs, right, Yeah, you see 59 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.479 a bug and all of a sudden a bug on me. 60 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:44.759 But yeah, I think I've gotten used to an itch. 61 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.639 Have you ever been in a situation where you had 62 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.879 an itch and you couldn't scratch because like you're in 63 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.080 a dentist chair or something, right, and then and it's like, okay, 64 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:55.319 I'm gonna have to ignore it. Well, you find out 65 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:59.319 that it is possible sometimes to ignore it. But I'm 66 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.159 not sure you could ignorra sneeze. 67 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:02.039 It's hard. 68 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:03.520 That that was hard. 69 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.879 Come I was in the dentists chair and they had 70 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.919 that thing in your mouth to keep your mouth all 71 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:09.319 the way open. 72 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:10.080 While you're doing work. 73 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:14.759 I mean, and I finally had to so he couldn't 74 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.199 take it out. And then I'm like, and he realized 75 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:19.639 what was going to happen, he just cover it all. 76 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.919 I know, I was panicking. 77 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.120 You know, depending on how much saliva builds up, you 78 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:29.199 could do a guys on that. 79 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.639 It was terrible. Yeah, all right. 80 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.560 Number two, would you rather only be able to whisper 81 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.879 or only be able to shout? So this is a 82 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.360 very basic question and yet very extremism on the results. 83 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:43.039 What do you think. 84 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.599 Whisper? I think I would only want to wish. 85 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.879 Well, they're terrible, yes, but whisper is definitely the option. 86 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:53.039 Can you whisper loudly? 87 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:56.639 Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't say 88 00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:57.039 you can't. 89 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:57.400 Yeah. 90 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:00.000 And you could also whisper in a megaphone. 91 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.639 Yeah, that's right, in a microphone. Just carry little microphone 92 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:03.280 thing around with you. 93 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:04.800 Mister microphone. 94 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:07.919 Yeah all right, okay. Would you rather be able to 95 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.840 talk to animals but they all hate you? Or be 96 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.039 invisible but only when no one is around? I think 97 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.519 we've done it being visible when no one is around thing, 98 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:17.079 have we? 99 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:17.519 Yeah? 100 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.720 Because we talked about there's no point in being invisible. 101 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.279 Yeah, unless you're gonna do something wrong like rob a banker. 102 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:28.000 Right, but on this one, respying somebody on this one, 103 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:30.879 I don't want to talk to animals that hate me. 104 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.319 Yeah, So I'd rather be invisible and no one's around. Yeah, 105 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.680 because because it's inconsequential. 106 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:37.560 Right right, there's no consequence to me. Yeah. 107 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:43.680 Yeah, but but but animals constantly talk to animals hate you. Know, 108 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:45.839 you'd be like, all of a sudden, you're just sitting there, 109 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.560 mind your business. Here comes a cat and you're like, oh, yeah, 110 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:52.000 this cat hates me. He's gonna he's gonna tell me 111 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.959 all about it. Which, by the way, most cats hate. 112 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.759 You, that's right, Yeah, they do. Most cats would eat 113 00:04:58.800 --> 00:04:59.439 you if they could. 114 00:04:59.720 --> 00:04:59.959 Yeah. 115 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:01.839 Do you think that's big enough? Yeah? 116 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:03.959 That's so funny? All right? Is this me? 117 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:04.519 Yes? 118 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:05.800 All right? Number three? 119 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:06.120 No? 120 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:11.680 Number four? Would you rather eat only Halloween candy for 121 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.600 every meal in October? Ooh or have to hand out 122 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:20.759 raisins at every trick or treat event and defend your choices? Wow, 123 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.240 there is no doubt in my mind I would hand 124 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:26.399 out raisins. 125 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:27.839 I was going to say I would too. I think 126 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:29.519 we've read on every one of these. 127 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.079 Yeah, yeah, I mean none are good options, but I mean, 128 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.959 are you kidding me? Only Halloween candy for the entire mine? 129 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.879 I do love as long as there's all chocolate. I 130 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.040 could do it. No, I could do it. 131 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:42.720 I could not do that for thirty I could do it. 132 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:44.519 You could not. Your body couldn't do it. 133 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:45.120 I could do it. 134 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.720 No, your body would reject it. 135 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.800 Okay, here's the last one. Would you rather have a 136 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.319 permanent theme song play every time you in a room? 137 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:56.920 Or be followed by a guy with a kazoo who 138 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:58.480 plays dramatic sound effects. 139 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.879 Oh, I like the second one. I just don't know 140 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:02.279 how long I'd like the second one. 141 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:03.040 Dunk dunk dum. 142 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:10.879 Yeah, that would be funny. It would be great for 143 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:11.399 a while. 144 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.920 Yeah, you like that one, Yeah, for a while. Okay, 145 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.839 I would rather have the theme song when I walk in. 146 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.839 Well, I would have to too, because but then it 147 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:21.839 also depends on, like how long is the theme song? 148 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.120 And do you get to pick it right? Yeah? 149 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.399 Because if it's a long theme song. Have you ever 150 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:28.639 heard the old eighties theme songs? They're go on forever? 151 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.319 Yeah, that's okay, I like it so. In baseball, In baseball, 152 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.480 when a guy's coming out to hit, you know, he 153 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:36.720 gets to choose this theme song when he walks. Yeah, 154 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:38.720 so that's that's what I would like. Those guys they 155 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.680 get to pick cool songs. I would pick wild Thing, 156 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:43.959 remember from well yeah? 157 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 158 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.120 What was that baseball movie? 159 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:48.959 Uh? Major League? 160 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.319 Yeah? Major League? 161 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.680 Yeah, it's great, wold Thing and you had the skull 162 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.199 and cross billings on his glasses. It's great. 163 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:58.720 What would your theme song be? 164 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.800 I I think I've always chosen bad to the Bone, 165 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:05.680 and so I think it'd have to be Bad to 166 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:11.040 the bone only because of my nostalgia connection. So when 167 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:13.879 I was like big salesman and they brought me up 168 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.800 on stage, I chose that song back then, and then 169 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:20.480 ever since then, it's for you. I've always chosen that song. 170 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:20.879 Okay. 171 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.360 Hey, by the way, have you ever heard Brian Reagan 172 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.399 talk about theme songs? Do you remember this? When he 173 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.319 was talking about his wife picked out. 174 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.040 Beg's I don't remember remember this. 175 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.079 So anyway, Brian Reagan is one of my favorite m Yeah. 176 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:36.160 He's he's really good, and he says, he goes, he goes. 177 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:37.800 Let me tell you about a thing that actually happened. 178 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:40.600 He said, I was playing at this comedy club and 179 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:44.439 apparently they play like theme songs for people, but I 180 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.439 didn't know that, and I didn't pick out a theme song. 181 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.399 My wife was in the sound booth because she didn't 182 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:51.000 know where to stand, and they said, oh, if you 183 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:52.680 want to, you can go stand back in the sound booth. 184 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:54.839 So my wife goes up in the sound booth. The 185 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:58.240 DJ who plays vinyl actually looked over at my wife 186 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:02.439 and says, hey, is there any music in particular that 187 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:06.800 your husband likes? And so she doesn't know why he's asking, huh. 188 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.759 So she leans over and she sees all the vinyl 189 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.160 and she just goes. But he likes the be GI's. 190 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:16.720 And so that's going to be his theme song. 191 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.360 So listen. So so he has no idea. He's in 192 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.399 the front back of the house, right and he goes, 193 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.560 and he goes, he goes, They introduce him and they 194 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:27.839 go ladies and gentlemen, Brian Reagan, and he goes. He 195 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:36.200 walks out to more than a woman, more than a 196 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:41.919 woman to me. He walks out. He says, I look around, like, 197 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:42.759 what is that happen? 198 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.879 It's so funny. Yeah, okay, Well I'm glad you didn't 199 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:55.480 pick that thing up. Okay, well, I have no idea 200 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:56.639 how to transition into this. 201 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.720 Well, I was gonna say that was a silly segment. 202 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:00.960 Silly segment, you know, it's not so, you know, that's silly. 203 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.120 Deuteronomy, all of Deuteronomy. 204 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:10.639 Yeah, yeah, Douteronomy. So Deuteronomy is the last book of Moses. Right, Genesis, Exitus, 205 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:15.360 Slaviticus numbers in Deuteronomy. Those make up what the Israelites 206 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:19.120 the Jews would call the Torah. And it, yes, that's right, 207 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:23.720 the five books. And it establishes God's law, It establishes 208 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:27.080 God's authority as the creator, It establishes God's covenant to 209 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:30.399 the people of Israel. It establishes how God rescues the 210 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.600 people of Israel, sets them free at the First Passover. 211 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:37.919 And then it establishes how God sets up his kingdom 212 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.840 through the people of Israel, how they're supposed to worship, 213 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.159 and their moral code that they're supposed to live by. Right, 214 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:47.039 and so that's all through Moses. And it's all during 215 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.360 the forty years that Moses is leading the people of Israel. 216 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.679 And now at this point you get to chapter thirty one. 217 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:55.039 He's a very old man there's only a couple of 218 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:58.000 chapters left. He's one hundred and twenty years old. Yeah, 219 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.279 and he God's letting you know, hey, you you run 220 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:03.320 your race, you're about done. Less. Button this thing up, 221 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:04.840 and it's time to hand it over to Joshua. 222 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.159 Which, by the way, that would mean that if they're 223 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:10.840 at the end of their forty years wandering in the wilderness, right, 224 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:14.399 that would mean that he was eighty when he started. 225 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.559 When he started, Yeah, yeah. 226 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:19.120 He was forty when he fled Egypt. He was in 227 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:23.240 the backside of the desert for forty years. Married Jethro's daughter, 228 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.960 was just a shepherd hiding when that pharaoh, the second 229 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.960 Pharaoh died. That's when God used him and sent him 230 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:34.320 back to the new pharaoh and to set my people free. 231 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:35.960 He was eighty years old and then he led them 232 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:36.679 for forty years. 233 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:37.360 Isn't that crazy? 234 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:38.279 Yeah, isn't amazing. 235 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.600 Charleston Heston was much younger, much younger. 236 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.000 Yeah, he was, he was. He was fifty five, max. 237 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:44.200 Not that he's young. 238 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:46.080 Was he was? He young? I don't know. His beard 239 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:46.480 was white. 240 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.120 So yeah, well, they definitely, they definitely put him in 241 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.559 a No matter how they tried, they could make him 242 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:52.200 look ad. 243 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.600 Right, So here you go. Here's what it says in 244 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.960 Joshua chapter thirty one. We'll read like the first eight 245 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:02.240 verses or so, maybe ten verses, thirteen verses. When Moses 246 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:04.840 had finished giving these instructions to all the people of Israel, 247 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.559 so he gave all the laws of God, and then 248 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.679 he reads them to everybody. He said, I am now 249 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:13.840 one hundred and twenty years old, and I am no 250 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.799 longer able to lead you. The Lord has told me 251 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.000 you will not cross the Jordan River. But the Lord 252 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:22.600 your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He 253 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.799 will destroy the nations living there, and you will take 254 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.480 possession of their land. Joshua will lead you across the river, 255 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.000 just as the Lord promise. The Lord will destroy the 256 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.200 nations living in the land, just as he destroys Sihan 257 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.720 and ag the kings of the Emrits. The Lord will 258 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.440 hand over to you the people who live there, and 259 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.159 you must deal with them as I have commanded you. 260 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:44.360 So be strong and courageous, Do not be afraid, and 261 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.759 do not panic before them, for the Lord your God 262 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.679 will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail 263 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.799 you nor abandon you. Then Moses called for Joshua, and 264 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.679 as all Israel want, she said to him, be strong 265 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:58.799 and courageous, for you will lead these people into the 266 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:02.080 land that the Lord war to their ancestors, who he 267 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.960 would give them. You are the ones who will divide 268 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:06.759 it among them as their grants of land. Do not 269 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:10.159 be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go 270 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.440 ahead of you. He will be with you. He will 271 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:15.440 neither fail you nor abandon you. So Moses wrote this 272 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:17.399 entire book of Instruction in a book and gave it 273 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.480 to the priests who carried the ark of the Lord's 274 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:21.759 covenant to the elders of Israel. And now Moses gave 275 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.200 them this command at the end of every seventh year, 276 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.879 the year of Release or the year of Jubilee is 277 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:32.120 another term for that during the festival shelters, you must 278 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:34.360 read this book of Instruction to all the people of Israel. 279 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:36.399 When they assemble before the Lord your God at the 280 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:38.759 place he chooses. Call them all together, men and women 281 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:41.159 and children, and the foreigners living in your towns, so 282 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.639 they may hear this book of instruction and learn to 283 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:45.799 fear the Lord your God, and carefully obey all the 284 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.720 terms of these instructions. Do this so that your children, 285 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.600 who have not known these instructions, will hear them and 286 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:53.799 will learn to fear the Lord, your god. Do this 287 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.679 as long as you live in the land. You're crossing 288 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:59.039 the Jordan to occupy. And then the Lord said to Moses, 289 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.919 it's your time to die well, And so he says, 290 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.960 called Moses, called joshuall present yourself. 291 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:07.960 Right, And apparently it's my time to yawn. Yeah, go ahead, 292 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:09.720 go ahead, No, no, no, I've I've already be. 293 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.480 You keep yawning. Well, it's a thing, A big fan 294 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:13.279 of yawning. 295 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.960 Well in low lights. Yes, everybody knows that. But I 296 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:18.440 in particularly did not sleep well. 297 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.200 Less didn't sleep. You have a toothache, big time. You 298 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.440 are suffering, see of things. 299 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.360 Yeah, it was a mistake for me to wait to 300 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.799 get this thing done. But but I actually have a 301 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:30.679 tooth cracked in half all the way up. 302 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.600 All the way up, and so I mean work on it. 303 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.799 I got my pocket knife with me. I don't know 304 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:35.480 if I'd be good. 305 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:37.960 I just got chills all the way to. 306 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:39.240 The I might be good at it. 307 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:44.000 I never tried the pocket knife. The dentist was afraid 308 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:46.039 to move it. Yeah, and even touch it. 309 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:48.159 But you're gonna All you need is a rubber mallet. 310 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.240 I'll go back in the back finally knock you on 311 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.320 the head, take it out. That would got a pair 312 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:52.720 of plyers. 313 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:53.360 That wouldn't work. 314 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:53.759 Huh. 315 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:55.240 You could knock somebody out with the rubber mouth. 316 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.000 I don't know. Maybe I'll try to kill them before 317 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:57.519 you might not. 318 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:03.279 That too, Never know, try. Oh that's funny, Okay. So 319 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:09.559 Joshua becomes the nation's leader at this point, and Moses 320 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.279 is wrapping things up, and in this big set of 321 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.200 instructions that he's passing on to the people and to Joshua, 322 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.679 he gives this promise. Now, what's interesting is that yesterday 323 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:23.600 the Book of Hebrews, in yesterday's podcast, the Book of 324 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.720 Hebrews quoted. 325 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.039 This this verse, yeah, Deuteronomy. 326 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.679 And so here we are the next day reading Deuteronomy 327 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.200 thirty one six, the original promise, the original promise. 328 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:38.399 Yes, So yesterday he promised, don't get obsessed with money, 329 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.240 be satisfied with why God had, because God's never going 330 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:41.759 to abandon. 331 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.159 He said, Remember, the Lord will never fail you, He'll 332 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:45.600 never abandon. 333 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:47.759 And he's quoting this passage. What doesn't have anything to 334 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:49.919 do with money, correct, It has everything to do with 335 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.559 the battles we fight in our lives. 336 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.240 Right, which is why I remember I said, hey, we 337 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.240 should call it context because it is the promise that 338 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.559 God will never fail you, he'll never abandon you. And 339 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.840 you could apply it to honey or contentment or whatever 340 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.720 it is gratitude, right and uh. And so it's the 341 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:08.320 promises applied to different contexts and and which is which 342 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:13.120 is wonderful? And uh and what's interesting about this is that, uh, 343 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.200 that that he gives us instruction, uh, that he'll never 344 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:19.840 leave you nor forsake you. And here's here's what I 345 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:21.759 want to mention before we even talk about you know, 346 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:28.000 this exact thing that gives us confidence that promises of 347 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:30.919 the Old Testament can be applied in the New Testament. 348 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.240 Right now, I'm only saying that because some people may 349 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:34.679 not think so. 350 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.759 A lot of people dismiss the Old Testament. Oh, that's 351 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:39.960 just old Testament, and they forget that the New Testament writers, 352 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:41.759 including Jesus, quote it all the time. 353 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.440 Yeah, at worst they'll dismiss the Old Testament. But but 354 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.639 at best they'll say, well that maybe that promise was 355 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.799 given just to the people not to me, right, right, right, 356 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.480 And so they'll say, oh, isn't that a contextual. 357 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:56.879 Promise, that was a promise only to Israel, correct, right, right. 358 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.120 But here's the Book of Hebrews. The writer of the 359 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:00.840 Book of Hebrews. Because we don't know who the author is, 360 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.840 he's anonymous. Some people think it's Paul, by the way, 361 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:05.919 and some people don't. Who do you think it is. 362 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:13.159 I think it's either it's likely to be Paul or Barnabas. Huh, God, 363 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:13.639 I would love it. 364 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:14.080 I love it. 365 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.960 We don't have a writer, and it's a question in heaven. Yeah, exactly. 366 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.279 Oh yeah, we said last week it would be awesome 367 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.679 if it was Barnabas, because Barnabas always takes us a 368 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.440 back seat, so for him to be the anonymous writer, yeah, 369 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:28.320 it would be great. But there's some people who think 370 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.600 it might be Priscilla and Aquilla, that they wrote it, 371 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:32.279 and that's why there's not a name on it, because 372 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:36.919 it would be Priscilla and Aquila writing. So there's some 373 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.720 of those I don't know. There were a few really 374 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.639 great teachers during that time. Apollos is mentioned. I don't 375 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:47.240 think Peter wrote it. Peter wasn't really a theology. 376 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:48.919 It doesn't feel like Peter style yet. 377 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:53.320 Right, So this was an extreme theologian who was extraordinarily 378 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:59.919 capable in connecting the Hebrew beliefs to the Jesus move 379 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:02.200 yes and you connect those and that was very skilled. 380 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.400 There's only a few people. It'd be a missionary kind 381 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:06.839 of a person that can do that. Yeah, so that's 382 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.359 why it's barnabas Apollos. 383 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.720 Well, Paul would definitely understand it. 384 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.039 Yeah, the style is a little different than some of 385 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:15.640 the ways he writes in some of the other books. 386 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.480 But yeah, So anyway, the point is is that some 387 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:23.279 people would dismiss it, and so the writer of Hebrews 388 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:25.680 is saying, hey, you can take this promise that was 389 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:28.519 given in this context to the children of Israel and 390 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:33.160 you could bank on it because the promise is about God. Right, 391 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.799 So the promise isn't about some sort of circumstance that 392 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.680 they find themselves in. This promise is about God's nature. 393 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:43.079 It's about who God is. And God is never going 394 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:44.839 to leave you. God is never going to fail you, 395 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:49.240 He'll never abandon you. And what's interesting is that's Hebrews. 396 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:52.200 Was it thirteen to five or whatever it was. But 397 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.440 this one is Deuteronomy thirty one six, and it also 398 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.559 has more words. It says he will always, It says 399 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.920 he will go before you, doesn't it right, So it 400 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.079 adds to it. It's not only will he will, he 401 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:05.799