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1 Chronicles 28:8-29:9 - Did God Want the Temple Or Not?? · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Faith for listeners, good morning, and welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: But today we're going to be talking about first chronicles
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight and part of twenty nine as well, and
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  Speaker 1: today's topic is did God want this temple built or not?
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that today. Stay tuned. So, as you
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  Speaker 1: for right now, let's go ahead and read First Chronicles
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight eight through twenty one, and also First Chronicles
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine one through nine. And I'm just gonna read
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  Speaker 1: these these two chapters straight. I'm not going to take
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  Speaker 1: a pause after First Chronicles twenty eight, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about everything going on in these two chapters. So grab
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  Speaker 1: your Bible and your cup of coffee or your cup
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  Speaker 1: of tea this morning, and let's give reverence to God's
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  Speaker 1: word as we read First Chronicles twenty eight, starting on
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  Speaker 1: verse eight. Now, therefore, in the sight of all Israel,
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  Speaker 1: you always assembly and in the audience of our God,
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  Speaker 1: observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh, your
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  Speaker 1: God God, that you may possess this good land and
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  Speaker 1: leave it for an inheritance to your children after you
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  Speaker 1: forever you, Solomon my son, know the God of your Father,
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  Speaker 1: and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind.
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  Speaker 1: For Yahweh searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations
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  Speaker 1: of thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found
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  Speaker 1: by you. But if you forsake him, he will cast
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  Speaker 1: you off forever. Take heed now, for Yahweh has chosen
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  Speaker 1: you to build a house for the sanctuary be strong
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  Speaker 1: and do it. Then David gave to Solomon, his son,
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  Speaker 1: the plans for the poor, to the temple, for its houses,
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  Speaker 1: for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms,
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  Speaker 1: for the place of the mercy seat, and the plans
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  Speaker 1: of all that he had by the spirit, for the
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  Speaker 1: courts of Yahway's House, for the surrounding rooms, for the
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  Speaker 1: treasuries of God's House, and for the treasuries of the
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  Speaker 1: dedicated things. Also for the divisions of the priests and
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  Speaker 1: the levites, for all the work of the service of
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  Speaker 1: Yahway's House, and for all the vessels of service in
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  Speaker 1: Yahway's House. Of gold by weight, for the gold for
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  Speaker 1: all the vessels of every kind of service, for all
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  Speaker 1: the vessels of silver by weight, for all the vessels
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  Speaker 1: of every kind of service by weight. Also for the
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  Speaker 1: lamp stands of gold and for its lamps. Of gold
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  Speaker 1: by weight for every lamp stand and for its lamps,
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  Speaker 1: And for the lamp stands of silver by weight for
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  Speaker 1: every lamp stand and for its lamps according to the
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  Speaker 1: use of every lamp stand. And the gold by weight
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  Speaker 1: for the tables of showbread for every table, and the
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  Speaker 1: silver for the tables of silver, and the forks, the basins,
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  Speaker 1: and the cups of pure gold. And for the golden
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  Speaker 1: bowls by weight for every bowl, and for the silver
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  Speaker 1: bowls by weight for every bowl, and for the altar
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  Speaker 1: of incense refined gold by weight, and gold for the
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  Speaker 1: plans for the chariot and the cherubim that spread out
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  Speaker 1: and cover the arc of Yahway's covenant. All this, David said,
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  Speaker 1: I have been made to understand in writing from Yahwai's hand,
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  Speaker 1: even all the works of this pattern. David said to
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  Speaker 1: Solomon his son, be strong and courageous and do it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid nor be dismayed. For Yahweh God, even
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  Speaker 1: my God is with you. He will not fail you
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  Speaker 1: nor forsake you until all the work for the service
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  Speaker 1: of yaways house is finished. Behold, there are divisions of
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  Speaker 1: the priests and the levites for all the service of
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  Speaker 1: God's house. Every willing man who has skill for any
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  Speaker 1: kind of service shall be with you in all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of work. Also the captains and all the people will
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  Speaker 1: be entirely at your command. David the King said to
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  Speaker 1: all the assembly, Solomon, my son, whom alone God has chosen,
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  Speaker 1: is yet young and tender, and the work is great.
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  Speaker 1: For the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have prepared with all my might for the
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  Speaker 1: House of my God, the gold for the things of gold,
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  Speaker 1: the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for
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  Speaker 1: the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron,
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  Speaker 1: and wood for the things of wood. Also onyx stones,
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  Speaker 1: stones to be set, stones for inlaid work of various colors,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of precious stones and marble stones in abundance.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, because I have set my affection on the
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  Speaker 1: House of my God, since I have a treasure of
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  Speaker 1: my own of gold and silver, I give it to
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  Speaker 1: the House of my God. Over and above all that
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  Speaker 1: I have prepared for the Holy House, even three thousand
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  Speaker 1: talents of gold, the gold of o fear, and seven
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  Speaker 1: thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the
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  Speaker 1: walls of the houses. Of gold for the things of gold,
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  Speaker 1: and of silver, for the things of silver, and for
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of work to be made by the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself
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  Speaker 1: today to Yahweh. Then the princes of the Father's household
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  Speaker 1: and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the
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  Speaker 1: captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over
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  Speaker 1: the King's work, offered willingly, and they gave for the
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  Speaker 1: service of God's House of gold five thousand talents and
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand derricks, of silver ten thousand talents, of bronze
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred thousand talents.
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  Speaker 1: People with whom precious stones were found gave them to
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  Speaker 1: the treasury of Yahweh's house under the hand of Jehiel
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  Speaker 1: the Gershanite. Then the people rejoiced because they offered willingly,
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  Speaker 1: because with a perfect heart, they offered willingly to Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: And David the King also rejoiced with great joy. So
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  Speaker 1: where we left off on Monday, David was getting old.
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  Speaker 1: He was towards the end of his life, but the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that he really wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: was accomplished was the building of Yahweh's house. This was
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  Speaker 1: something that David was kind of obsessed over, actually, throughout
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  Speaker 1: most of his life. He really really wanted to build
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  Speaker 1: this temple, but God basically told him thanks, but no thanks,
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to build a house for me, David. Instead, David,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to build a house for you. And then
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  Speaker 1: God goes on to give some prophecy to David where
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  Speaker 1: he says, someday a son is going to be born
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  Speaker 1: to you, who will build me a house. Now, of
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  Speaker 1: course God could have been referring to Solomon, but more
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  Speaker 1: broadly speaking, we definitely know that God was referring to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus because we know that Jesus was of the line
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  Speaker 1: and lineage of David. In fact, when Jesus was on earth,
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  Speaker 1: many people called him the son of David. So Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was the one who was going to build Yahweh's house.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, yesterday on the podcast in the New Testament
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  Speaker 1: side of stuff, we read a verse about how Jesus
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  Speaker 1: laid the foundation of the New Temple. The new Temple
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  Speaker 1: is not one that has physical walls like the old Temple.
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  Speaker 1: The New Temple is made up of each individual member
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  Speaker 1: of the church. You know, the Holy Spirit comes and
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  Speaker 1: lives in each Christian who accepts him, and that is
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  Speaker 1: considered to be the new Temple. So Jesus most definitely
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  Speaker 1: built a house for God, but it's certainly a different
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  Speaker 1: house than what David was expecting David was thinking of
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  Speaker 1: a physical building, and so he believed in his heart
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  Speaker 1: that God was talking about his son Solomon, that Solomon
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  Speaker 1: was going to be the one to build this temple
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  Speaker 1: to him, and very likely God could have also been
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  Speaker 1: referring to Solomon. A lot of times when we see
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  Speaker 1: prophecies in scripture, they have something called double fulfillments. So
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  Speaker 1: in the case of this prophecy, you know, God said
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  Speaker 1: that David would have a son that would build him
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  Speaker 1: a house. That's a prophecy that very likely refers to
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  Speaker 1: both Solomon and also more broadly to Jesus. That's what's
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  Speaker 1: called a double fulfillment, and we see that happening quite
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  Speaker 1: a lot in scripture. Actually. But regardless, David has his
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  Speaker 1: heart set on this temple being built. He gets almost
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  Speaker 1: obsessed about it, to the point where at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his life, he is gathering all the equipment for
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  Speaker 1: the building of the temple. He is laying out all
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  Speaker 1: of the plans for this temple, and he purchased the
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  Speaker 1: spot where the temple is going to be built. Then
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  Speaker 1: also organized the levites and the priests for specific duties
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  Speaker 1: in the temple once it has been built. So David
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  Speaker 1: went through all of the preparations for the temple to
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  Speaker 1: the point where Solomon had to do almost nothing. And actually,
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  Speaker 1: in today's portion we see how far David went with
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  Speaker 1: all of this. David even went so f with all
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  Speaker 1: of these plans that he had everything measured out by weight.
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  Speaker 1: He says that the bulls and the lamp stands and
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  Speaker 1: everything inside the temple actually had a specific weight to
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  Speaker 1: them that they were supposed to be. So let's get
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  Speaker 1: into today's portion. Now this is David's speaking. He's giving
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  Speaker 1: a grand speech to all the leaders of the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: and to all the chief priests as to what needs
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  Speaker 1: to happen when he dies, because his death is imminent,
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  Speaker 1: and so he says in verse eight, Therefore, in the
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  Speaker 1: sight of all israel yaways assembly, and in the audience
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  Speaker 1: of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments
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  Speaker 1: of Yahweh or God, that you may possess this good
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  Speaker 1: land and leave it for an inheritance to your children
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  Speaker 1: after you forever. So this is obviously a very good speech.
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  Speaker 1: David is encouraging everybody to seek the laws of God,
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  Speaker 1: to seek after God's heart, so that the Israelites would
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  Speaker 1: be blessed forever, because that is something that God said.
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  Speaker 1: What happen to the Israelites If they actually followed the
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  Speaker 1: commandments the way they were supposed to, they would live
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  Speaker 1: in the land forever and God would bless them abundantly.
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  Speaker 1: So David encourages them in that path. And then in
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  Speaker 1: verse nine, David encourages Solomon to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: He says, you, Solomon, my son, know the God of
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  Speaker 1: your father. In other words, know my God and serve
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  Speaker 1: him with a perfect heart, with a willing mind. For
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found
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  Speaker 1: by you. But if you forsake him, he will cast
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  Speaker 1: you off forever. So take heed now, for Yahweh has
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  Speaker 1: chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be
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  Speaker 1: strong and do it. So David, before he tells Solomon
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  Speaker 1: to build the house, he says, make sure your heart
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  Speaker 1: is right with God. That is the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he tells Solomon to have a perfect heart
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  Speaker 1: toward God. We've talked about that phrase before. A perfect
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  Speaker 1: heart with God. That does not mean that you are sinless,
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  Speaker 1: but it means that you seek God with your entire heart.
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  Speaker 1: David would have been a man that had a perfect
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  Speaker 1: heart toward God. There's actually only a few kings talked
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  Speaker 1: about that had a perfect heart towards God. I believe
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  Speaker 1: they were David, King Asa, Hezekiah if I'm remembering correctly,
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  Speaker 1: and Josiah. I think there was only four kings out
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  Speaker 1: of Israel's history that scripture said had a perfect heart
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  Speaker 1: with God, meaning that they were pursuing God their entire lives.
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  Speaker 1: So they didn't start worshiping other gods. They didn't encourage
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  Speaker 1: other people to worship these foreign gods. They constantly pursued
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  Speaker 1: God and encouraged other people to pursue God. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it means to have a perfect heart with God, to
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  Speaker 1: not have any other idols in your life. And so
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  Speaker 1: David was a man that had a perfect heart with God.
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  Speaker 1: But unfortunately, spoiler alert, Solomon did not have that perfect heart,
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  Speaker 1: as we do find out later on. So after David
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  Speaker 1: admonishes Solomon, he now gives all of the plans for
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  Speaker 1: the temple to Solomon. And this is crazy. Everything that
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  Speaker 1: David did here. This is talked about in verses eleven
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  Speaker 1: through nineteen, it says that he gave the plans of
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  Speaker 1: all that he had by the spirit, for the courts
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  Speaker 1: of Yahway's house, for the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries
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  Speaker 1: of God's House, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things,
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  Speaker 1: for the divisions of the priests and levites, for all
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  Speaker 1: the work of the service of Yahway's house, for the
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  Speaker 1: vessels in Yahway's house. And then it goes into each
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  Speaker 1: individual bowl and fork and spoon and lamp stand and
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  Speaker 1: lamp and table, and pretty much everything else that was
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  Speaker 1: inside the temple. They had a specific weight exactly how
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  Speaker 1: much gold and silver and bronze were to be used
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  Speaker 1: for each individual piece of furniture or implement in the temple.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing like the amount of detail David had
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  Speaker 1: in planning out this temple. But notice something here in
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  Speaker 1: verse twelve and also in verse nineteen, it mentions two
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  Speaker 1: times in this paragraph that David was led by God
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  Speaker 1: or by the Spirit to write these things down. And
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  Speaker 1: so that begs the question did God want this temple
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  Speaker 1: or not? You know, because on Monday I gave a
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  Speaker 1: whole argument as to why God might not have actually
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  Speaker 1: wanted the temple. But now, in verses eleven and nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of seems like God did want the temple,
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  Speaker 1: because he was clearly guiding David's hands when writing all
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  Speaker 1: of these things down. Here's what David says in verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: All this, David said, I have been made to understand
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  Speaker 1: in writing from Yahweh's hand, even all the works of
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  Speaker 1: this pattern. Now that brings me to Exodus chapter twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: where God himself actually he gave the plans of the
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  Speaker 1: tent of meeting to Moses in the wilderness. Exodus twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: verse nine. According to all that I show you, this
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  Speaker 1: is God speaking the pattern of the tabernacle and the
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  Speaker 1: pattern of all of its furniture. Even so you shall
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  Speaker 1: make it. And then Hebrews eight confirms this in verses
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  Speaker 1: five through six. The priests serve a copy in a
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  Speaker 1: shadow of the heavenly things. Even as Moses was warned
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  Speaker 1: by God when he was about to make the tabernacle,
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  Speaker 1: for he said, see, you shall make everything according to
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  Speaker 1: the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: But now He or Jesus, has obtained a more excellent
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  Speaker 1: ministry by as much as he is also the mediator
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  Speaker 1: of a better covenant, which on better promises has been
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  Speaker 1: given as law. So both the accounts of Hebrews and
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  Speaker 1: Exodus says that God himself gave the plans to Moses
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness. So it's definitely not unheard of that
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  Speaker 1: God would have given plans to David to build this
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  Speaker 1: temple in juri Us. But does that mean that God
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  Speaker 1: wanted this temple built well, First and foremost, scripture does
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  Speaker 1: not give a definite answer as to whether or not
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  Speaker 1: God wanted the temple built. On Monday, I made my
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  Speaker 1: own personal argument as to why I think God did
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  Speaker 1: not want the temple built, and I did qualify it
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  Speaker 1: at the end to say I'm not really sure, though
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't specifically say in scripture. But now today reading
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  Speaker 1: through this, God did give the plans for the building
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  Speaker 1: of the temple to David and Solomon, So it could
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  Speaker 1: be that God did want this temple built, and there
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  Speaker 1: are certainly a lot of verses that could support that claim.
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  Speaker 1: For example, in Second Chronicles seven, right after Solomon finishes
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  Speaker 1: building the temple, here's what it says in verses one
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  Speaker 1: through four. When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from
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  Speaker 1: heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and
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  Speaker 1: Yahwai's glory filled the house. The priests could not enter
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  Speaker 1: into Yawai's house because Yahwai's glory filled Yahwai's house. All
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  Speaker 1: the children of Israel looked on. When the fire came
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  Speaker 1: down and Yahwai's glory was on the house. They bowed
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  Speaker 1: themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement,
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  Speaker 1: worshiped and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying for he is good,
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  Speaker 1: for his loving kindness endures forever. Then the king and
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  Speaker 1: all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh. So that right
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  Speaker 1: there is showing that right after the temple was built,
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  Speaker 1: God accepted it. His spirit came down and he lived
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  Speaker 1: inside of that temple. And in fact, his presence in
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  Speaker 1: the temple was so strong that the priests, though they
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  Speaker 1: were a holy could not even enter inside the temple
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  Speaker 1: because of how powerful God's presence really was. So that
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  Speaker 1: shows that God did accept the temple, and those verses
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  Speaker 1: could certainly be evidence as to God actually wanting the
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  Speaker 1: temple to be built, because he accepted it once it
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  Speaker 1: was built. However, there is a third option The third
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  Speaker 1: option is that God didn't really want the temple to
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  Speaker 1: be built, but he allowed it under his permissive will.
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  Speaker 1: That brings me to the theory of permissive will versus
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  Speaker 1: perfect will. When something is in God's perfect will, that
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  Speaker 1: means that that is the best possible outcome, That is
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  Speaker 1: something that God wants for humanity and eventually will be achieved.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of what we do. God's perfect will is always
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  Speaker 1: going to be done. The best example of God's perfect
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  Speaker 1: will was when he made humanity, and he made them
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  Speaker 1: to be perfect and to live with him forever. But
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  Speaker 1: of course God also gave humans free will right, meaning
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  Speaker 1: we have the choice to do things that may be
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  Speaker 1: against God's perfect will. So that was when humans came
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  Speaker 1: in and kind of messed everything up, destroyed the perfection
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  Speaker 1: that God initially made. But even though human beings destroyed it,
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  Speaker 1: God's perfect will is still going to be accomplished because
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  Speaker 1: at the end of everything, it says in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Revelation, God is eventually going to live among his people.
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  Speaker 1: And last night I was reading Isaiah chapter sixty when
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  Speaker 1: it talks about Jesus coming again and what the earth
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  Speaker 1: is going to look like once Jesus finally reigns the
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  Speaker 1: way he should, everything is going to be perfect. There's
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  Speaker 1: going to be this big, beautiful city where everything is
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  Speaker 1: just complete perfection. It is Paradise, and there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be nothing violent that is allowed to enter that city.
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  Speaker 1: No death, no destruction, no misery, nothing, It's just going
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  Speaker 1: to be complete and total purity and holiness. That is
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  Speaker 1: God's perfect will, and it is going to be accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, because we have free will, God
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  Speaker 1: uses something called permissive will, meaning he permits something that
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  Speaker 1: isn't the ideal because human beings are sinful and we
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  Speaker 1: do sinful things, and sometimes God just allows those things
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  Speaker 1: to happen because God eventually is going to work every
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  Speaker 1: single thing out for our good. And a good example
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  Speaker 1: of God's permissive will that we've seen over the course
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  Speaker 1: of First and Second Kings and also First and Second
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  Speaker 1: Chronicles is Kings themselves. You know, in god Institute of
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  Speaker 1: the Judges, he showed people what the ideal was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to look like, but then of course people just did
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  Speaker 1: it wrong. Sin came in and the people were like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want these stupid judges, We don't want God
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  Speaker 1: to be our king. We want a human king that
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  Speaker 1: will tell us what to do. We don't want God.
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  Speaker 1: And so God allowed it in his permissive will, and
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  Speaker 1: he told the people, all right, you've rejected me. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't want me as your king, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: pick the king. And so that was when, of course
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  Speaker 1: God picked Saul. Saul abandoned God. So God rejected Saul
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  Speaker 1: and then picked David. So God is always working in
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  Speaker 1: permissive will. But eventually, of course, like I said, everything
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  Speaker 1: is going to turn out for good. God's perfect will
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  Speaker 1: that was established in the beginning is going to win.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, God often works in permissive will.
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  Speaker 1: So it could be in the case of the Temple
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  Speaker 1: that this was in God's permissive will, not necessarily his
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  Speaker 1: perfect will. Because God had already given the ideal of
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  Speaker 1: what the worship should look like for the Israelites way
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  Speaker 1: back in the wilderness, and that ideal was the Tent
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  Speaker 1: of Meeting, you know, the tent that actually traveled around
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  Speaker 1: with the Israelites, that went from place to place, the
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  Speaker 1: same with the Ark of the Covenant. It was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be moved around the entire point of it was
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  Speaker 1: to be carried by the levitical priests that was the ideal,
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  Speaker 1: but God saw that people were desiring something other than
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  Speaker 1: the tent of meeting. And once again, like I said
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, I don't necessarily think that David's heart was
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  Speaker 1: wrong when he desired a temple, because the initial reason
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  Speaker 1: David wanted to build a temple to God was because
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  Speaker 1: he felt kind of bad that God's presence was living
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  Speaker 1: inside of a tent. When David himself had this beautiful palace,
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  Speaker 1: He's like, doesn't God deserve something better than just a tent?
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  Speaker 1: So that was David's original thought with everything, due to
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  Speaker 1: his love of God, he wanted God to live in
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful house just like he did. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily think that David's heart was wrong, but I do
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  Speaker 1: kind of think it was going against the plans that
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  Speaker 1: God had for worship. And all that being said, God
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  Speaker 1: allowed the temple to be built in his permissive will.
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  Speaker 1: So you might be like, well, Jen, how do you
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  Speaker 1: rectify that with the fact that the Holy Spirit himself
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  Speaker 1: was actually helping David write the plans for the temple. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I rectify that by saying that God often leads people
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  Speaker 1: through his permissive will. For example, going back to the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing with the king. You know how the people
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  Speaker 1: rejected God as their king or we're like, no, we
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  Speaker 1: want a human king, though that was outside of God's
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  Speaker 1: perfect will. You know, obviously God being the king of
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  Speaker 1: Israel was the ideal for Israel. But even though the
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  Speaker 1: people rejected God, God still gave them guidance and knowledge
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  Speaker 1: as to how to live with a human king. God's spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, it says, actually rested on Saul, so
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  Speaker 1: that Saul was able to become the next king that
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  Speaker 1: was not in God's perfect will, but the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: was still guiding and directing Saul as to how to
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  Speaker 1: become the next king for the people. So it could
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  Speaker 1: be a very similar circumstance here with the building of
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  Speaker 1: the Temple, that though God didn't really want the Temple
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  Speaker 1: to be built for him, he still sent the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to direct David as to how this could happen
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  Speaker 1: the best possible way. David says, all this I have
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  Speaker 1: been made to understand in writing from Yahwah's hand, even
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  Speaker 1: all the works of this pattern. So yes, I do
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  Speaker 1: believe that God can guide somebody through something that is
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  Speaker 1: not the ideal, something that is in his permissive will,
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  Speaker 1: but not in his perfect will, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: But moving forward in all this, in verse twenty, David
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  Speaker 1: said to Solomon, his son, be strong and courageous and
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  Speaker 1: do it. Don't be afraid nor be dismayed, for Yahweh God,
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  Speaker 1: even my God is with you. He will not fail
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  Speaker 1: you or forsake you until all the work for the
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  Speaker 1: service of Yaway's house is finished. And man, is that
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  Speaker 1: not a true statement because God didn't reject Solomon. He
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  Speaker 1: never rejected Solomon until well into Solomon's life, when Solomon
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  Speaker 1: started just completely disobeying God and worshiping all of these
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  Speaker 1: other idols, even building altars to other idols. That was
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  Speaker 1: when God said to Solomon, all right, enough is enough
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  Speaker 1: with this. So David really truly was a prophet for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And then to end this chapter, David tells Solomon that
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to be alone, even though David is
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  Speaker 1: about to die, He's not going to be alone because
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  Speaker 1: all of these priests and artisans and very intelligent people
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  Speaker 1: are there to help Solomon through this entire building process.
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  Speaker 1: And now moving into First Chronicles twenty nine, Verses one
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  Speaker 1: through nine, David addresses all of the people. It says
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  Speaker 1: David the King said to the assembly, Solomon, my son,
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  Speaker 1: whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, young and inexperienced. And the work is
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  Speaker 1: great for the palace is not for man, but for
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh God. Now I have prepared with all my might
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  Speaker 1: for the house of my God, the gold for the
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  Speaker 1: things of gold, the silver for the things of silver,
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  Speaker 1: the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for
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  Speaker 1: the things of iron, wood for wood, onyx stones, stones
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  Speaker 1: to be set, stones for inlaid work, all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: precious stones and marble stones in abundance. And then in
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  Speaker 1: verses three through five, David gives of his own personal
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  Speaker 1: money to the temple as well. Even though David had tons,
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  Speaker 1: like literal tons of gold and silver set aside for
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  Speaker 1: the building of this temple, David is like, you know
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  Speaker 1: what God's house needs even more, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: of my personal stash, my personal gold and silver. And
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  Speaker 1: so David gives of his own personal cash three thousand
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  Speaker 1: talents of gold the gold of oh Fear, and seven
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  Speaker 1: thousand talents of refined silver. So that is tons of
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  Speaker 1: gold and silver like literal tons of gold and silver,
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  Speaker 1: and David dedicated all of this to God's Temple, which
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  Speaker 1: is pretty amazing. So then in verses six through nine,
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  Speaker 1: when the leaders of Israel and the chief priests and
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  Speaker 1: everybody sees how much David is giving to the temple,
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  Speaker 1: they feel compelled themselves to also give. It says between
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  Speaker 1: all the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the
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  Speaker 1: captains of the thousands of hundreds, and the rulers over
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  Speaker 1: the King's work, they offered willingly. It says they gave
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  Speaker 1: for the service of God's House of gold five thousand
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  Speaker 1: talents and ten thousand derrecks, of silver ten thousand talents,
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  Speaker 1: of bronze eighteen thousand talents, and of iron one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand talents. So more tons of gold, silver, and bronze
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  Speaker 1: were given for the building of the temple. So now
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  Speaker 1: the temple, I don't even know how many tons of silver, gold,
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  Speaker 1: bronze and iron have been set aside for the building
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  Speaker 1: of this building. Also says that they gave precious stones
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  Speaker 1: as well, so it wasn't just gold, silver, and bronze,
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  Speaker 1: but precious stones for the beautification of the temple. And
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  Speaker 1: then in verse nine. It makes it very clear that
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  Speaker 1: the people did this willingly, that they weren't forced or
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  Speaker 1: compelled to give any of this stuff. But it says
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  Speaker 1: that the people all rejoiced because they offered willingly, because
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  Speaker 1: with a perfect heart, they offered willingly to Yahweh and
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  Speaker 1: David the king also rejoiced with great joy. That probably
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  Speaker 1: means that everybody had a feast. Everybody was just happy.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a big celebration. After all the temple
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  Speaker 1: plans were finished, after all the building supplies were acquired.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was just so excited to finally have a temple
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  Speaker 1: where they could go and worship God, even though it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't built yet. They were excited for the future and
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  Speaker 1: excited for Solomon to become their next king. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope I didn't confuse you guys too much with the
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  Speaker 1: permissive will and the perfect will of God. I know
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  Speaker 1: it does get kind of confusing when you start getting
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  Speaker 1: into the details of all that stuff, especially when you
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  Speaker 1: throw free will into the mix. Everything gets very, very complicated.
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  Speaker 1: But the most important thing is to know that God
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  Speaker 1: is all powerful and what he wants done is eventually
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  Speaker 1: going to be accomplished, even though he unfortunately has to
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  Speaker 1: work with people who constantly reject him all the time
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  Speaker 1: and try to screw up as much as they possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: But God is always working through that because He is
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  Speaker 1: so powerful and so knowledgeable that even our worst screw
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  Speaker 1: ups aren't going to affect his will in the end,
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  Speaker 1: and that is something I guess we can be really
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  Speaker 1: encouraged about actually, But faithful listeners, I really hope you
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