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How to Read the Bible and Understand It: A Practical Guide to Studying Scripture · The Christian Podcast Community

• 0:01
  What's going on, everybody?
• 0:02
  Hello, everyone.
• 0:03
  Hey, I'm Derek.
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  And I'm Matt.
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  And I'm Dave.
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  And we have some business to attend to.
• 0:10
  Some.
• 0:10
  Yeah, like right off the bat, we've got.
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  Somebody's gonna win some stuff.
• 0:14
  Some dope merch.
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  Dope stuff to give away.
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  So the original.
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  Now do you mean.
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  Do you mean the band dope or do you mean some really cool.
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  There's a band.
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  Don't look up.
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  They're not.
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  No.
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  We got cool stuff we do not endorse.
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  So we have tweaked just slightly some of the stuff you're getting.
• 0:31
  But that's because we have a limited edition cup left.
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  And I didn't realize that we've actually got two of them left.
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  So first and second place will each get a 20 ounce limited edition.
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  I forgot we're doing a second place 250th episode cup.
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  And this is nice.
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  I am excited about that.
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  We've got a T shirt.
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  T shirt for first place.
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  We've got a hat for first and second.
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  Right.
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  First place will get to pick what color they want and so will second because we got extra hats.
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  So you'll also get a sticker.
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  Stickers.
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  Some stickers.
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  Who doesn't like more than one sticker?
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  I put them on my fridge.
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  We'll give you keychain.
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  Also limited edition 250th.
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  Because I still have a couple of those left.
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  Limited merch.
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  And then first place, we'll get a thumb drive with my music on it.
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  Music, thumb drag, and pictures of your latest.
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  I'll give it to somebody else.
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  Retreat.
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  No.
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  What?
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  Wow.
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  All right, so we have.
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  Okay, we got six entries that we're.
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  Not one, not two, not three, not four.
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  There you go.
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  Not five, but.
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  But six.
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  All right, we're gonna do 600.
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  Six.
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  Six, but six.
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  And in the number we put them down.
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  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
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  But dust.
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  We are but dust of the earth.
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  And so he came up with a clever way to pick.
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  Yes.
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  So the winner.
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  I have.
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  It's the nerdy I never leave home without dice.
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  My dice.
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  Yeah.
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  It's a full polyhedral set of dice, which is seven different poly or seven different.
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  Is that the chemical that just got released in Ohio?
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  Yes, totally.
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  I'm pretty sure it's.
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  It's giving him cancer right now.
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  We are going to go.
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  It's actually not funny.
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  So that I.
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  So that I can remember.
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  It's going to be different for you.
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  We're going to go one, two, three, four, five, and six.
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  Oh, you're going around.
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  Clockwise, clockwise.
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  One, two, three, four, five, six.
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  All right, so everybody knows this is one, this is six.
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  Should I take a secondary video up here?
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  We can if you want.
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  You can do that.
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  Here we go.
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  See?
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  So I'm gonna roll a D6, which is a six sided dice, which is a normal dice.
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  For those of you who don't know, my favorite dice is the dodecahedron.
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  Because it's fun to say it's the 20 sided dice.
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  Anyways, Nerdiness.
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  Are you guys ready for this?
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  First place.
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  First.
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  Who's got first place is going to be three.
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  Number three, which is what you got?
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  What you got?
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  The Orange Ranger.
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  Oh, it's the Power Ranger.
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  The Power Ranger.
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  The Power Ranger one.
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  First place.
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  We have a nice seagull thing.
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  Okay, now hold on.
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  How are we doing?
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  Second place.
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  It'll be the same.
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  We'll just reroll if we get three again.
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  Okay, beautiful.
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  All right, Second.
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  Here we go.
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  Here we go.
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  He's never done this before.
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  All right, ready?
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  Hasn't done this before.
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  All right, ready?
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  Go.
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  Ding.
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  Look, three got twice.
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  Power Rangers.
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  See if it happened the third time.
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  If we can do it five times, I will give both first and second place the exact same thing.
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  Things.
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  Beautiful.
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  Number five.
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  So 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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  What a beautiful five is.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  This one was the nice card with Psalm 23:1 on it.
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  Is that your mom?
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  It is.
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  Ah, yeah.
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  We can announce who won.
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  Yay.
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  For Matt's mom.
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  We got Power Ranger because that's who it was signed by.
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  Yeah, this one is actually.
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  I think I know who you are.
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  This one's actually my mom.
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  And you can see it wasn't on purpose because he's rolling the dice.
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  And we've decided you're either the Orange Ranger or the Brown Ranger.
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  You'll have to leave a comment below.
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  Below to tell us which one you are.
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  And so this is first place.
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  That's second place.
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  So mom gets a hat.
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  And a cup.
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  And a keychain.
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  And a keychain.
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  And stickers.
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  And stickers.
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  Yep.
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  All right, cool.
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  And a personal.
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  Congratulations to the winners.
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  Congratulations.
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  We're gonna leave these dice out here because that's a fun little table display.
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  That's not good.
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  And that's great.
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  No, it's wonderful.
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  It's one of them.
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  It's gonna.
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  I'm gonna be like, I should keep my fingers away from them.
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  Okay.
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  All right.
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  So today.
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  Do you have like an OCD issue with dice or something?
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  No, it's That I fidget.
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  All right, so fair enough.
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  Today.
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  Today we promise.
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  Tomorrow, not tomorrow.
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  We promised something.
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  We did.
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  We promised we'd talk about reading the Bible thing.
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  Yeah, well, we're talking about the Bible.
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  The Bible and how to read it and how to understand it.
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  Going to talk about reading the Bible today.
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  Deep dives.
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  Discuss reading the Bible.
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  We're going to discuss it.
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  We're going to think about it.
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  So it'll be.
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  Join us.
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  Silent podcast.
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  Join us in this.
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  This thought provoking.
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  Yep, Possibly, hopefully podcast.
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  All right.
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  Inspiring.
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  As I was stroking my chin, I.
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  I always forget this is also an audio.
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  Right.
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  Like, why is he being just on.
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  For those just listening.
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  Silence.
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  He was stroking his beard.
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  Yeah.
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  And being weak.
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  My bad.
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  Oh, dude, the nat20 rolled on a one.
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  I mean, the dice.
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  The 27.
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  Anyways, one is bad.
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  One is bad.
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  27.
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  It's the worst you can get.
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  Actually, it is.
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  Now it's a two.
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  All right, so we're gonna talk about that today.
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  We're gonna talk about all of it.
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  From, you know, feeling the guilt of I can't be doing this right.
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  Because I'm not understanding things and wanting to throw it all away to.
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  You're probably doing this wrong because of.
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  No, I'm just kidding.
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  How to.
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  How to.
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  How to do it right.
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  Right.
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  How to do it right.
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  And apologies to everybody who's been listening this whole time instead of watching and has no idea what we did with all the cards in the dice.
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  Oh, yeah, that was not taken into account.
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  Maybe you should check out YouTube channel.
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  There you go.
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  It's called the Truth response.
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  It's on YouTube and Patreon.
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  Just get that out there now.
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  That's hilarious.
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  I didn't think about all that.
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  But yeah, I mean, we talked through the whole thing.
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  It's fine.
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  So, yeah.
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  And welcome to the Truth Response.
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  In the noise, in the fire, we seek the truth.
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  We climb higher.
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  Not just echoes, not just talk.
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  We walk the path, we walk the wall.
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  Truth in the battle, light in the loss.
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  What we seek, clarity and chaos.
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  So, Dave, you want to pray for us today?
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  What if we pray at the same time?
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  Sure.
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  All right.
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  Thank you, Jesus, for bringing us together.
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  And thank you for the fun that we have and the truth that comes out and in the middle of the fun and guide our words and our actions today.
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  Holy Spirit, you take over this conversation and get us out of our own way.
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  In Jesus name, amen.
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  Amen.
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  I was going to say it would be funny if you guys did the Lord's prayer.
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  And did every other word back and forth.
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  Oh, man.
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  Oh, that would take actually too much concentration.
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  I think that would take a lot of concentration at school.
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  Funny.
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  Fun.
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  Fun little story at school.
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  Some of the students.
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  We say it every day.
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  We say the Lord's Prayer every day.
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  Pledge to all the flags and all this stuff in the Bible.
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  Yep.
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  But we say the Lord's Prayer every day.
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  And some of the students say it in Spanish, and it throws me off.
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  I cannot say it in English when they're saying it in Spanish for some reason.
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  It just.
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  It messes me up.
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  Okay.
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  It's intriguing.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't know.
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  That's what it is.
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  So we're talking about.
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  So this reading the Bible.
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  Yeah.
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  So a lot of people have experienced that time where it's like, I don't know what to read.
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  I'm just gonna.
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  You know.
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  And you pick a random page, and then you're like, I don't understand any of this.
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  Well, it's not a fortune cookie.
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  Yeah.
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  They opened it up to numbers, and they were like, what is this?
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  I don't even.
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  Nothing makes sense.
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  And they had in their numbers 44,000 men of fighting age and 250 men of.
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  You know.
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  Right.
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  So.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, then you've got Jeho, him begat Jacofim.
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  And Jacofim.
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  And so then you're like.
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  And then you.
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  And then you feel guilty later about, like, I don't ever read because I don't know where to go.
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  Yeah.
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  So, I mean, there's the Bible.
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  Okay, let's just talk about that.
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  Right.
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  That's what we're talking about, the Bible.
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  The Bible is not just a book, though.
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  That's very true.
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  In fact, it's 66 books.
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  So the Bible actually means a collection of books put together.
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  66 books.
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  And it's not really meant to be read like you would read a regular novel.
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  It's not really something you can just like, oh, where did I leave off?
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  And everything's going to continue to go in one nice, fluid motion.
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  That's not how that works.
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  Nope.
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  Almost, though.
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  No, if you read it.
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  No, not when you read Kings, then you got to go through Chronicles.
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  And you're like, why is it back and forth?
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  Yeah, you're right.
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  You're right.
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  All right.
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  See, I win.
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  Anyway, so you got to read it a little differently.
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  This is.
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  It's God's word in literary form.
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  And, you know, people have a hard time with that.
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  It's like, what do you mean?
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  It's God's word.
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  Didn't humans write it?
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  Yes.
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  Doesn't that sound contradictory?
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  No, because God inspired every single word that's on the page.
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  So it is both fully divine and yet fully human because it was written by human hands.
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  How does that work?
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  We don't have anything else like that.
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  Well, the book's about a guy that's exactly that fully human and fully God.
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  So if it.
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  The attributes about the guy fit the book about the guy.
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  So it's interesting about it is that it is written over 1500 years by incredible amount of authors who did not know each other, and some of them didn't even live in the same time periods.
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  And yet it forms in the 66 books 1 congruent story that relies on each other throughout the entire of the collection and text.
• 10:56
  Yeah.
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  And if you.
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  Over 40 authors.
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  Yeah.
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  If you were to take it down to its most simple form, the very simplest is about one dude, Jesus, his first coming and his second coming.
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  On a grander scale, it's talking about the fact that God created everything.
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  We messed it up.
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  We can't fix it ourselves.
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  So God did something for us.
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  He fixed it.
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  And by accepting that, we can be forgiven and have eternal life.
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  So.
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  As we expand, that is like the very most basic way of talking about the Bible.
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  I'm taking it from the very basics, and we're gonna go up from there.
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  I thought so.
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  Yeah, no, absolutely.
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  Could you almost.
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  Because I speak in movie terms, could you almost liken it to, like, when you watch like something like, say, a Marvel movie, there's 437,000 people who worked on the graphics.
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  Right.
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  You know, it's like.
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  Or the color grading or all these different things.
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  Could you say, like, hey, you've got the director who has a vision, and my vision is this.
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  And I want it to look this way and feel this way.
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  Okay.
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  He's got to communicate that to 47 people who are all editing the same footage.
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  Right.
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  So you've got this section, you've got that section, you've got that section.
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  I want them all to look the same.
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  Want them all to feel the same.
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  So here's my directive.
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  So you are in Bangkok, you are in America, and I'm giving you both the same directive.
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  You're creating the same thing.
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  And now we're going to put it together.
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  Oh, look at that.
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  It all worked.
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  No, no, no, it would not actually.
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  It'd be.
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  There's honestly nothing else like, there is.
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  Nothing else like it.
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  And.
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  And you'd have to take that Analogy and separate out to a writer who assigned his writings to a whole bunch of different authors over the course of 1500 years.
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  Okay, that's my fleshly.
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  None of them got it wrong the first time.
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  Fair enough.
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  I mean, wild.
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  Actually, I just.
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  It you can't because there is nothing else.
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  That was my fleshly brain trying to work this out.
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  I think that's the hardest part for a lot of people to wrap their head around is the fact that, that how can it be congruent with that many different people writing it?
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  There's got to be contradictions, you know, and with that many years in between, there's got to be, you know, edits that fix things or change things or whatever.
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  Especially with the fact that there hasn't been any new writings in what, 1800 years?
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  1900 years.
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  And so like somebody's had to have changed it at some point in time.
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  Over.
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  I mean we had, you know, all kinds of movements and in the church and the Catholic church changing over and starting a war.
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  Well, not starting a war, finishing a war.
• 13:27
  Verb changes and well, I mean, so it's interesting because we do get a lot of those outside attacks from different people about the Bible and like, well, what if it was written later than they say it was written?
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  Or what if it was written by someone else or what?
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  And all these things have been disproven.
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  There's so much war that goes into the Bible and its preservation.
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  But not only that, but also its translation so that it is as accurate as possible in every language that is translated into.
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  That being said, I mean, talking about how the Bible came together, we could do that for a while.
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  But today's focus is more on how do you read the Bible.
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  And I think that's where a lot of people get kind of caught up.
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  Because the Bible isn't something you just.
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  Like I said, it's not something you just open up on page one.
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  Okay.
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  God created heavens, earth and then read all the way to the end and go, okay, that made a lot of sense, right?
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  It's one of those things you have to kind of understand on a different level because some people treat the Bible in weird ways, right?
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  What are the ways they treat it?
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  You had a list, right?
• 14:21
  I had a list, yeah.
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  Somewhere.
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  Yeah.
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  Let's see.
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  It's not a self help book, right?
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  Oh, there it is.
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  There you go.
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  It's not a fortune cookie.
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  It's not a fortune cookie, which you said earlier.
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  That's true.
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  Yep.
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  It's not a collection.
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  A collection, a quill action it's not a bunch of quotes.
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  Right.
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  It's not a.
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  They're not a bunch of standalone sayings.
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  Although, I mean, we have some of those, like proverbs or psalms have.
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  There are some.
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  Some standalone things in it, but, I mean, they could stand on their own, is what I'm saying.
• 14:53
  Yeah, but.
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  But the whole thing is not that.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  It's also not all literal.
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  Right.
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  It's also not all figurative.
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  That's important, I think, when we're reading it, to understand.
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  Yeah.
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  Because there definitely are some very literal things.
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  It was not all written in the same language, so there are different contexts in which we have to understand.
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  Their culture was different.
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  Probably at least three languages.
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  Yep.
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  And you said 1500 years.
• 15:26
  Yeah.
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  There's a lot of changes in dialects.
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  Six years.
• 15:31
  Yeah.
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  You know, even more so in 1500.
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  So we have to keep that in mind.
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  You know, not just dialects, but I'm thinking, like, the way they lived life even, you know, like, from.
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  From the point of a well to a water system.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like, those kinds of massive changes, even.
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  So, so.
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  So what is it, then?
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  It is the revelation, meaning the revealing of God, who.
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  God is the best we can get to know him on this side of heaven.
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  It's the revelation of who we are and how we got here and the ways in which we are when it comes to God.
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  So basically, our position below him, as well as how far we've fallen from the mark he set for us, it is to show us our nature in a way that we can't fully grasp at times and our way
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  of our hearts, but also ultimately more about the love of God and how he wanted to save us from these things and ultimately has had a plan from the beginning to get us to be with him and be
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  saved from those things.
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  So, Matt, is it a science textbook?
• 16:35
  I would not call it a science textbook, although it is closer to a historical book than it is a science.
• 16:43
  I mean, historically, his story is the Bible.
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  The Bible has his story within it, but his story of the Bible goes beyond even the time that we're currently living in, which is one of the things that makes it unique.
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  Instead of just being strictly a history book, this talks about things that are also to come.
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  So although we can understand the things that happened, there's also things that we can look forward to.
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  Right.
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  Which actually makes things a little complicated because I would say at least most of the prophecies and things of what's to come that is talked about in there have also happened In a form most.
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  Yeah.
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  For instance, I mean, like, I'll give you an example out of it.
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  So the Book of Daniel highly.
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  That that was, it was attacked a lot because of how many amazing prophecies were in there that when they were given at the time, I mean, God basically spilled out the next few hundred years and how things were
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  going to go down.
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  And so people were like, well, it had to be written later.
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  But the problem is even if they was written when they wanted it to be written, it still has prophecies that were going to come to true.
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  They, that would have been hard for them to predict.
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  So it's wild.
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  God actually puts so much in there, not just for a certain people at a certain time, not just for certain people that were going to come at another time, but for all of us for all time.
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  And so there's so much in there.
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  And so the difficulty then is how do I go about this, how do I read this and try to get the most out of it?
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  How can I get the further understanding, how can I start to get that love for scripture and then of course, do what the Bible says and start to make it a part of you?
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  Right?
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  And I think, I think a good way to talk about it is, I mean, you're a preacher.
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  You like numbers.
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  Threes.
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  Threes are good, right?
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  I mean, you're not bad.
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  Oh, I thought you meant the book.
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  I think it's your favorite book.
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  Numbers is definitely his favorite favorite.
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  Numbers is his favorite book today anyways.
• 18:43
  No, when, when preaching you give you.
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  You try to do things in certain pockets.
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  Three points.
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  Right?
• 18:49
  So three point.
• 18:50
  Yeah, three points.
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  Three points.
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  You're not a five point.
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  Sermons can be cool.
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  Yeah, I'm just thinking like, okay, so talking about what does it say?
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  Yeah, right.
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  What does it say?
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  That's a, as a first step, there's a.
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  What, what did it mean to them?
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  Right.
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  We have to, we have to understand what it meant when it was written.
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  And what does it have to give to us.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  So you're talking observation, interpretation and application.
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  Look at that.
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  He's got fancy Bible terms for it.
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  Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean, that's actually the way we should.
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  There's a lot of things in the Bible that aren't necessarily easy to understand.
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  And the one thing you should not do is continuing to do what a lot of people do is try to open it up, find something that sounds good, quotes good, or somehow backs up some of the thought processes
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  you're looking for, and then pull it out of scripture out of its context and go, this is how it applies now.
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  Favorite one, Philippians 4:13.
• 19:46
  Why that one specifically?
• 19:47
  Because that's my favorite one to pull out of context.
• 19:50
  Oh, that you love to pull out of context.
• 19:51
  Absolutely.
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  How do you pull it out?
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  I love that.
• 19:54
  Everybody does that.
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  That's like.
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  That's what I'm saying.
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  That's my favorite one that people pull out of context is, is I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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  I can win a football game.
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  Right.
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  I can.
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  I can.
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  I can pass this test right now.
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  I mean, I can.
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  It's.
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  It's not completely.
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  That is completely pulled out of context.
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  That's not completely wrong, though.
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  But you can do all things through Christ.
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  But it's not in that statement.
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  Right.
• 20:17
  But it's highlighting the point that, like, somebody would read that and go, oh,.
• 20:20
  I'm giving an example of something that you're bringing up.
• 20:24
  Oh, stir it.
• 20:25
  Stir the pot.
• 20:26
  Yeah.
• 20:26
  No, but.
• 20:26
  No.
• 20:27
  So you're right.
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  So you don't want to take it out.
• 20:29
  You want to make sure you understand it.
• 20:29
  And so how can you do that?
• 20:32
  And so first off, when you read the Bible, and I actually, I tell.
• 20:36
  I was just telling a student about this the other day, um, anytime I go to read a scripture, especially one that I've read before, I try to almost clear my mind and read it as if it's for the
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  first time.
• 20:46
  Yeah.
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  And just see what it has to say to me.
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  What.
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  What is it?
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  What are the words it uses?
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  What is it trying to say?
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  What details do I notice?
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  What, what phrases?
• 20:56
  All this stuff.
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  Anything.
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  Everything I can notice about the text itself.
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  I think that's the first thing you do.
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  And that's what we call the observation.
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  Part of it is where you're just, let me see what it has to give me.
• 21:05
  Well, and I think the other part, real quick, before you do that, is like, we talk about how it's different, right.
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  We talk about the past, talk about the future.
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  But you also think if I.
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  If I read a Harry Potter book and then I read the same Harry Potter book, like it's the same story, like nothing changes, but for some reason, you could read a proverb and the next month read the same
• 21:21
  proverb and it changes.
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  There's something in there that makes you, oh, that's new.
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  That's different.
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  I don't understand.
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  I did.
• 21:26
  Absolutely.
• 21:26
  And the same student I was talking to the other day, I told him, I said you could open up, because he was really interested, and he he got a new Bible from me and he was so excited about,
• 21:35
  he wanted to read through it.
• 21:36
  And I said, that's great.
• 21:36
  I said, but you, if you read it from COVID to cover and then you stopped and then you went back and did it again, you're going to go, how did I miss all this stuff?
• 21:43
  And then you're going to do it again.
• 21:44
  You're going to say the same thing again and again and again because it is, it is the living word.
• 21:48
  It's going to have a lot of different things to tell us, different ways of, of application.
• 21:53
  And I think, I mean, that's, I mean, that's how we know it's God's word, is that he reveals things even inside the revelation that is the Bible.
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  He reveals things as he knows that we can understand them and take them.
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  So just as you're walking in your Christian life and he's going to slowly but surely make you better, slowly but surely draw you closer to him and make you a better reflection of him in the same ways is
• 22:15
  the more you read scripture, the better your understanding will be.
• 22:18
  And you're continuously find things that you didn't see before, understandings you didn't fully understand before.
• 22:24
  I mean, even preachers, I mean, it's, it's fun.
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  Like, so myself and Pastor Nick when we're doing sermons for the church here, you know, I can't tell you how many times we've been like, hey, this thing I just saw, I just saw this thing.
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  I did it.
• 22:35
  I remember we were doing, we were going through.
• 22:39
  Actually, I think it was Philippians.
• 22:40
  We were going through Philippians.
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  And I was doing chapter four.
• 22:43
  Well, I was doing part of chapter four.
• 22:45
  And I remember, I mean, I did a whole thing on, on Philippians in seminary.
• 22:51
  Like, I studied it.
• 22:52
  Even my professor said, I think you got a pretty good handle on Philippians.
• 22:55
  And I thought, yeah, I know Philippians.
• 22:57
  And twice since then I've gone through that book and been like, well, how did I miss?
• 23:02
  I mean, that.
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  I remember getting ready for that sermon going, this is huge.
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  I don't know how I missed this the first time.
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  Like, this is so good.
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  But that's what it does.
• 23:10
  Like, God's like, all right, yeah, I'm glad you're.
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  He'll start kind of building your faith and he'll build your knowledge and understanding, and that's where real wisdom comes from.
• 23:19
  So, yeah, you want to do it.
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  So you're going to try to observe it.
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  Try to observe it for the first time.
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  And not only that, but try to do it in an unbiased way.
• 23:25
  Just read it.
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  Read it.
• 23:27
  Read it for what it says that first time during that observation step.
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  Like, don't read something into it.
• 23:34
  Don't assume anything.
• 23:35
  Just read what it actually says.
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:37
  That's a common thing that people do is they actually try to read things.
• 23:40
  In the Bible, and that's called eisegesis.
• 23:43
  Yeah.
• 23:43
  So they're actually going to go, yeah.
• 23:45
  Where is exegesis is what.
• 23:47
  Pulling things from where it's supposed to.
• 23:49
  Be, actually getting what the Bible tells us and bring it.
• 23:51
  Which is what the importance of the next two steps of it is.
• 23:54
  Yes, yes.
• 23:55
  So don't isogeet it.
• 23:57
  We're not doing that yet.
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  Read it.
• 23:59
  Which is basically going, I think, going before you even open the book, I think the Bible says this.
• 24:04
  Let me see where it is.
• 24:05
  And then you're trying to see it.
• 24:06
  My understanding that must be it.
• 24:08
  Let me try to find something to back me up.
• 24:10
  Yeah.
• 24:10
  And so what's interesting, I.
• 24:12
  I tell you what's fun for me is that I'll go in and if, if I, you know, I'll be like, I think the Bible said this.
• 24:21
  I think this is where it mentions this.
• 24:23
  And I'll go in and I'll read it.
• 24:24
  And perhaps it did.
• 24:25
  But then sometimes God's like, you know what else it says?
• 24:28
  You know what else it means?
• 24:29
  So, yeah, so you want to read it.
• 24:31
  Try to read it for the first time.
• 24:32
  Don't go in with your biases.
• 24:34
  Don't go in with understanding you already have.
• 24:37
  That is actually the tricky part, because sometimes we're like, well, I know this passage.
• 24:41
  Yeah, okay, sure.
• 24:42
  Read it again and do it as if you've never read before, because like I said, you can get more out of it than you think you do.
• 24:48
  And then once you have that, once you have as much as you can get out of it, then you have to look at it into the greater context.
• 24:55
  And there's two contexts I need you to understand.
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  It's before you go there.
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  Before you go there.
• 25:01
  I don't, I don't want to exit the observation just yet.
• 25:03
  He's got more.
• 25:04
  But the off ramp.
• 25:05
  The off ramp, just on the off ramp.
• 25:07
  Right.
• 25:07
  Is that this does not mean the observation step is like years long.
• 25:13
  It could be, but.
• 25:14
  But it doesn't have to be forever.
• 25:15
  You don't have to.
• 25:16
  You don't have to know all the things that's in it in order to move from the observation step to the next step.
• 25:22
  I just Want to point that out?
• 25:23
  It's not like you're gonna be stuck in that step all the time.
• 25:26
  Sure.
• 25:26
  So for like the first five years,.
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  I mean, he could be in that step daily.
• 25:30
  Right.
• 25:30
  Because when he's doing.
• 25:31
  Even when he's doing the sermon prep, going back and going, okay, I gotta read this.
• 25:36
  Just read this again and observe.
• 25:38
  There's many lessons and teachings and sermons that I do.
• 25:40
  It's like.
• 25:41
  Yeah, just constantly doing.
• 25:42
  Right.
• 25:43
  I'll say.
• 25:43
  Even in the last calendar year I've had, I've heard four different people preach on David and Goliath.
• 25:48
  And all four were completely different points of view of the same exact thing.
• 25:52
  I'm like, he's got some wrong views on that.
• 25:54
  He and I have different views.
• 25:56
  That's funny you mentioned that, because one of the first.
• 25:58
  The very first episode, I think we argued about that.
• 26:01
  It was one of the first episodes that you were.
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  It was the very first argument he and I ever got into in person.
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  And he was wrong.
• 26:07
  And he's wrong.
• 26:07
  He's still doesn't want to believe it anyway.
• 26:10
  But we could dig into that.
• 26:11
  But anyway, you said there were two contexts.
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  Yes, two contexts.
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  So you gotta.
• 26:15
  Okay, so the.
• 26:16
  So once you have observed as much as you can, now you've got to place it inside its context.
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  So the first context you're going to look at is the context in which it.
• 26:25
  It right where it sits.
• 26:27
  Yeah.
• 26:27
  So.
• 26:28
  And some of the easiest ways to do that, read a bit before it and read a bit after it.
• 26:33
  That's one of the easiest ways to do it.
• 26:34
  See what it says within the greater work or within the book that you're reading.
• 26:38
  So for instance, if you are reading Philippians, read the greater letter of Philippians.
• 26:42
  Read that full chapter.
• 26:43
  Make sure it fits within that chapter, within those.
• 26:46
  Within its.
• 26:46
  The.
• 26:46
  Where it's at in the Bible and within maybe that book of the Bible.
• 26:49
  Those are some of the immediate context.
• 26:52
  And when you're doing this, especially on the little ones, especially on the littler books, read it.
• 26:56
  We just read the whole book.
• 26:57
  I mean, Philippians, It'll take you 20 minutes, 30 minutes max read.
• 27:01
  Right.
• 27:01
  Like the whole thing.
• 27:03
  And so if you want to blow through it.
• 27:04
  Well, no, what I'm saying is, is for.
• 27:06
  For the context.
• 27:07
  Right.
• 27:08
  If you're looking at Philippians 4, 13, just read through the whole thing and then go back to it.
• 27:13
  You know what I mean?
• 27:13
  To.
• 27:13
  To get.
• 27:14
  Read through the chapter.
• 27:15
  No, read through the whole book.
• 27:16
  Book, yeah.
• 27:16
  That's interesting.
• 27:17
  Well, it's a I mean, it's a letter, right?
• 27:19
  It's one letter.
• 27:20
  So yeah.
• 27:21
  So yeah.
• 27:22
  So you want to get that.
• 27:23
  And then once you see where it fits in there.
• 27:26
  Okay.
• 27:27
  With staying there, you're looking at the time frame it was with a time period it was written in.
• 27:32
  Okay.
• 27:32
  And the people is written too.
• 27:34
  These are important things.
• 27:36
  Okay.
• 27:36
  What's the setting inside this?
• 27:39
  It all kind of hinges on that.
• 27:40
  Like it's, it's a must.
• 27:42
  It's not a suggestion.
• 27:44
  You need to have that information and you don't have to have it memorized, but you have to understand it when you're, when you're digging through like, hey, this people like Paul's letters.
• 27:54
  Right.
• 27:55
  Like Corinthians would be all kinds of confusing if you didn't have it in context.
• 27:59
  Yeah, it can be.
• 28:00
  So yeah.
• 28:02
  So you have to have that because you can't apply anything to yourself if you don't know how it applied to them.
• 28:05
  And so that's kind of a quick snippet, kind of jump ahead, jump back.
• 28:09
  So you have to understand it within the context it's written in, which means also, you know, what were these people going through?
• 28:15
  Who are these people at?
• 28:17
  If you were like, how do I know any of that information?
• 28:20
  How can I?
• 28:21
  I don't.
• 28:22
  You don't.
• 28:22
  You're speaking a different language now.
• 28:24
  I don't.
• 28:24
  It's.
• 28:25
  If it's not in the book, how am I supposed to know these things?
• 28:28
  I have some suggestions.
• 28:31
  So there are a lot of great resources that you can go to on the Internet for this part of it.
• 28:38
  Be careful with Google.
• 28:39
  Yep.
• 28:40
  Okay.
• 28:40
  And, and be careful with YouTube.
• 28:42
  Yeah.
• 28:43
  Because although there are some great things you can get through there, there are.
• 28:47
  Some, A lot of opinions.
• 28:49
  Yeah.
• 28:49
  Ye people wanting to argue about stupid things that don't really matter.
• 28:52
  I always, always go to Wikipedia.
• 28:54
  I like Bible.
• 28:56
  No, no, no, no.
• 28:58
  I like Bible Hub.
• 28:59
  Bible Hub's good.
• 29:00
  So I would look into.
• 29:01
  If you want to go into.
• 29:06
  I'll tell you, Bible Gateway.
• 29:08
  It's not on.
• 29:08
  Wasn't on our list.
• 29:09
  But I was thinking about today because I use it a lot.
• 29:11
  Bible Gateway is one of those ones where you can look at the, the verses and then there are some free resources along the sides that you can look at and get some commentary and get some little things to
• 29:22
  help you understand some of the, the context in which everything happens.
• 29:26
  You can actually.
• 29:27
  It's actually really not expensive.
• 29:28
  If you really want to dedicate your.
• 29:30
  Dedicate yourself to a lot of Bible study the Bible plus Bible Gateway has this like plus package that'll give you a lot more resources to look into.
• 29:38
  And that's just one.
• 29:39
  I mean, there's different websites.
• 29:41
  You can get the Bible app, the U version Bible app on your phone's amazing.
• 29:45
  There's blue letter Bible, there's Bible Hub.
• 29:48
  Those are give you different things.
• 29:49
  Bible Hub is really great.
• 29:51
  Blue letter will give can do.
• 29:53
  You can look into the Greek, you can look into the Hebrew and the Aramaic, and you can get those kinds of things to help you back up kind of more word understanding, depending on how deep you have time
• 30:01
  and desire to go into this.
• 30:02
  And, and, and me, I'm such a nerd that I'll go as deep as I can find until I feel like I've gotten lost in it.
• 30:10
  But yes, so try to get as much resources as possible.
• 30:13
  Possible.
• 30:13
  We are in an era which it's almost shameful that we're in the most Bible illiterate time because there's more information out there than there's ever been on how to understand the Bible.
• 30:23
  I actually did some of this today.
• 30:27
  I was having a debate with somebody the other day about just a passage over Cain and Abel and, and the, the reason for the offering, whatever, being rejected.
• 30:43
  And so, and the person came back to me and was like, well, this is, this is what this Hebrew word meant here.
• 30:51
  And so I did a deep dive and it just takes a quick doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, you know, pull up the, the, the Hebrew.
• 31:02
  What's it called?
• 31:03
  Interpretation.
• 31:04
  Oh no, the Hebrew linear.
• 31:06
  What's the, what's it called when it's got like it broken down to each word?
• 31:10
  Linear.
• 31:11
  Okay, well, that's not what I'm thinking, but yeah, basically.
• 31:14
  Basically the, the fancy concordance thing.
• 31:17
  Yeah, yeah, concordance.
• 31:18
  So I went to the, the Internet and went to, to find my favorite one, which I can't remember what it's called at the moment, but so.
• 31:27
  And I clicked on the word and it shows you, like, where that's used, that specific word is used in everywhere else and how it is used and understood in those different places.
• 31:38
  And then it completely was able to put together a small packet of something that refutes it just based on doing a simple search of the word and how it's actually used in Scripture.
• 31:52
  Sure.
• 31:53
  I mean, I got to do that today.
• 31:55
  Yeah, that's one of my favorite things.
• 31:56
  There you go.
• 31:57
  Word dives.
• 31:59
  No, no, no.
• 31:59
  I was just gonna.
• 32:00
  I may have let us down the wrong path, but I started thinking about like, the questions that I get from a lot of people when they say, start reading the Bible.
• 32:07
  One of them being which version?
• 32:09
  Right?
• 32:09
  Oh, yeah.
• 32:10
  So there's a.
• 32:10
  There's an app I downloaded called Got Questions.
• 32:12
  I was playing around with it while you were talking, and I was just.
• 32:14
  It came back to, like, it was what?
• 32:17
  What?
• 32:17
  I've never heard of the Pure Word Bible.
• 32:19
  Have you heard of the Pure Word Bible?
• 32:20
  And it's funny, when I click on it, the very first thing it says is the.
• 32:24
  The Pure Word Bible is a questionable version of the New Testament produced by people.
• 32:29
  By prophecy watchers that's focused on biblical prophecy.
• 32:32
  But so obviously, that's a funny example, but.
• 32:35
  So what's your favorite?
• 32:37
  My favorite?
• 32:37
  Yeah, what's your favorite?
• 32:39
  The one that I find easiest to read is the New Living Translation.
• 32:41
  Okay.
• 32:42
  Oh, you're an NLT guy.
• 32:43
  I'm an nlt.
• 32:44
  How about you?
• 32:44
  I grew up reading niv, but all right.
• 32:46
  Yeah, a lot of us and everyone,.
• 32:49
  Like, people who are kind of, like, just getting into Bible.
• 32:51
  The what now?
• 32:52
  It's the which one.
• 32:53
  And then, although I do use the NLT when I'm teaching middle school, high school, I do for myself, the middle of the road one for me is the csb, the Christian Standard Bible, also.
• 33:07
  Known as the Holman Christian Standard.
• 33:09
  Well, it kind of dropped that, but it used.
• 33:11
  Right, But I'm just saying, like, those are similar.
• 33:13
  So.
• 33:13
  Yeah.
• 33:14
  And then when I went deeper, I used that one alongside the nasb, which is a New American Standard Bible, and the nkjv, which is the New King James Version.
• 33:26
  Okay, hold them all together.
• 33:27
  So I'm not a fan of the New King James.
• 33:29
  I'm not really a fan of the.
• 33:31
  The New American Standard Alth.
• 33:33
  I think it's.
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  It's solid.
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  I just.
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  I'm not a fan of it.
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  My.
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  My go to has become the csb, the Christian Standard.
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  But my favorite and the tried and true is the esb, the English Standard Version.
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  So I've got this gentleman that I know who's very good at, like, just poking holes in things and asking hard questions.
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  And so I'm hearing him in my head as you guys are talking, and the very first, I can hear him asking the question of.
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  Well, it sounds like you guys are just trying to find a format of the Bible that fits your narrative.
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  It sounds like you guys aren't really focusing on the true actual Scripture.
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  Okay, so that's.
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  That's wrong.
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  Okay.
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  I can't speak for him, but I.
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  Can address that, like, directly, though, because the biggest thing I got from learning Greek, the Koine Greek of the New Testament in college was that my very final.
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  Final.
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  Right.
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  The very last thing that I did for the.
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  The year that I took it was we were given just a chunk of text and told to translate.
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  Okay.
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  And so as I'm doing this, it starts.
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  It starts to formulate what I'm actually translating, and it's John 1.
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  And as I get through and I translate all this, it hit me that the guys who translated the esv, Completely different guys that translated the csb, then translated the.
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  The New Living and translated the.
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  The New King James, all these.
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  These are different groups of people.
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  They all came up with basically the same exact thing.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't have to know the original language because all of these guys who are working against each other to some degree.
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  Not against each other, but they're all trying to make their money.
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  Right.
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  Like, they're all trying to do their due diligence.
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  Right.
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  They're all saying the same thing.
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  Mm.
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  And if.
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  If they weren't right.
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  Doing their due diligence, it would say something different, which is why things like the questionable one you pulled up or the passion translation.
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  Right.
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  Or the message even, to some degree, could be used as a paraphrase.
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  I don't like it.
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  But it's.
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  It's not a good one.
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  It's not a good one.
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  But.
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  But those ones, they.
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  They sometimes say something different.
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  Yeah.
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  And we don't stand on those.
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  Right.
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  Like, and so I would say that that, to that person is like, look, once you've done the.
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  The work of.
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  Of learning and understanding, that, like, you can rest on the fact that these guys have been working their butts off to be as exact as possible and to see that there are no major doctrinal differences at all.
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  Not even.
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  There's no minor doctrinal dishes.
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  Differences, I don't think, across any of the translations that are legit translations.
• 36:41
  Yeah.
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  I can't think of anything.
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  There's.
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  I mean, certain stories leave some things out or such or rewords, but usually it's just.
• 36:51
  Yeah.
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  It's not even like the actual.
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  Like, this is what we believe.
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  It's.
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  It's the little things here and there.
• 36:58
  Yeah.
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  It's mostly just, like, translation of words.
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  So instead of saying, like, he rose, they say he lifted or he floated.
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  It's like someone like that.
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  Yeah.
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  So.
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  But what does this all mean to you?
• 37:08
  That's.
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  Okay.
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  So for you, you're hearing us say a bunch of translations out.
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  And if you're like, listen to this, and you're like, what are they even talking about?
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  So which Bible should I get?
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  You're not giving any reasoning.
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  All right, here's the number one thing you need to do.
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  You want to go.
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  I would go to a Bible store if you get a chance.
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  If not, then try to find a bookstore that has a couple different translations.
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  And also it might be good to ask your pastor or someone you know along those lines and kind of go through.
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  And the funny thing is, you can actually do this online as well.
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  You can go into, like, the YouVersion Bible app, even Bible Gateway, and you can go through different translations and you're going to read them.
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  And here's the thing.
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  You want one that you can understand.
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  Yeah.
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  So the NLT is really great.
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  The reason I use that for kids is it's way more digestible.
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  The way they word it is, I would say, easier on the ears and the eyes because it's something that makes more sense to them and doesn't get away from what the text means.
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  And that's important.
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  English Standard Version is really good at that.
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  It changes some things up a little bit from some other versions when it comes to wording, but it means the same thing.
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  So with that being said, you got to find one that you can understand once you go into the greater study.
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  Like, once you get a little deeper, and if you can get to that level, then you'll find yourself being more specific about certain things, maybe adding another translation stuff as you go.
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  But so don't worry about that.
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  When you first get started, you want to get one that you can understand, and that can be a reasonably.
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  Trusted translation.
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  Translation, not paraphrase.
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  Yes, that's important.
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  That.
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  That will help you get to it and then use your other sources to help understand while you can.
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  So don't get too caught up.
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  I mean, just because I read one, he reads one, he reads one, doesn't mean that any one of them's necessarily the best or better than either one.
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  But we.
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  We have our reasonings.
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  I will plead with you not to get the King James.
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  And here's why.
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  I understand.
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  Some people, some people like it, some people were raised on it.
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  I would argue that those people don't even understand all of the words in that.
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  In fact, there's a friend of mine.
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  Who's dying right now.
• 39:16
  Yeah, I'm sure.
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  Are they listening?
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  Because, I mean, we can.
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  We can go round about it.
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  There's.
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  There's a lot of words in there that don't mean what they originally meant.
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  They don't mean the same thing today.
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  And it's hard to read.
• 39:31
  Well, I mean that too.
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  But there's things like the word parbar.
• 39:35
  Yeah.
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  Now there might be scholars out there that know what the word parbar means, but I went to Bible school and I don't know what parbar means.
• 39:44
  Do you know what parbar means?
• 39:45
  No.
• 39:46
  Yeah, see and that's, that's in the King James in the Old Testament it's like second Chronicles or first something.
• 39:53
  Anyways, so, so what I'm saying is, is stay, stay away from that one until you've, you've gotten the understanding.
• 39:59
  And if you really want a King James style, go with the new King James.
• 40:03
  It's actually pretty good about keeping it keeps language more modern.
• 40:07
  I appreciate the new King James and the reason that it's one of my kind of side study Bibles is because it keeps certain things in context and I can get in that to another cache.
• 40:19
  There's, there's parts of the Bible that are like some manuscripts omit this.
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  Or somebody puts it all in there and keeps it all in context so you can kind of see it.
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  And I appreciate that for what it is.
• 40:30
  And so anyway, so you want one that you can understand.
• 40:34
  Yeah.
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  And you know, because you're going to want to feed off of this thing.
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  So that's important.
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  But yeah.
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  So all this to be said like as you're feeding on this and understanding all the context and using all your sources, try to get as much about what this is trying to say.
• 40:49
  The next thing you do the second level.
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  Because I hadn't gotten to the second level yet.
• 40:52
  We're only on the first level.
• 40:54
  Okay.
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  Now this is level one.
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  Now second level is something you're only going to get better at as you go.
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  Okay.
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  I do not expect a first timer to get good at this.
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  Day one.
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  If you did, you probably wouldn't need to read the Bible because when I tell you that, you'll understand.
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  You need to not only look at the context of where it is within the book, within the chapter, within the, the where those people were and at the time, but you also need to understand it inside the context
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  of the bible into the 66 books.
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  The 66 books are one congruent story.
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  And so that's another thing that people mistranslate things from.
• 41:28
  They take things and they're like, well this must mean something different than.
• 41:30
  But then they realize that it's actually contradicting what the Bible is saying as a whole.
• 41:34
  The Bible does not contradict itself.
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  If you Want a cheat sheet to understanding the whole Bible.
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  It does not contradict itself.
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  There's many people who want to claim it does, but it doesn't.
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  And they've tried and they have failed.
• 41:46
  It does not contradict itself.
• 41:48
  Okay, so if what you're seeing doesn't seem to fit within the greater context of the Bible, you might want to go back in and look at it again or try to figure out how it does.
• 41:57
  And so that's a key thing.
• 41:59
  And like I said, if I don't expect you to be good at that, day one.
• 42:02
  But as you continue to read it, as you read more books, as you read more chapters, you're going to start to slowly but surely figure out the more of the theming, more of.
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  I don't really like to use the word theming, but more of how it actually plays out and how it all fits together, and you'll get better at that, too.
• 42:18
  And I think that's especially true with, if once you stick to that whole.
• 42:26
  Looking at the whole.
• 42:27
  I mean, people do that for all.
• 42:29
  All sorts of different historical documents.
• 42:31
  It's not even just Bible, right?
• 42:32
  Like, you look at the whole context, you look at everything, and when you look at the whole context, then you can actually see whether it's actually contradictory or not.
• 42:40
  Right?
• 42:41
  Like, so.
• 42:42
  So when we're talking about this, I think it's important to point out that a lot of people right now it's really popular to say that, you know, the Bible wasn't even canonized until the Council of Nicaea.
• 42:56
  And, and the fact that, like, the idea that, you know, there was a bunch of books removed or added and whatever before and after all that stuff, it's a really popular thing right now, and I want to put
• 43:08
  that to rest.
• 43:08
  The Council of Nicaea didn't have anything to do with deciding what the canon was of Scripture.
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  That was already actually decided on way before that came about.
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  So that's not true.
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  In fact, there's plenty of scholars out there right now, Wes Huff being one of them, who actually does.
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  That's what he does for a living, is looks at manuscripts like what we're talking about in its entirety and tries to understand, like, is this missing a word here?
• 43:39
  Is this missing a thing here?
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  Or should this even be in here?
• 43:42
  Right.
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  Or is this actual, you know, legit?
• 43:45
  Did somebody write this in later?
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  Is it match the inks?
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  Like, he.
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  That's what he does.
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  And so even scholars that are actually digging through some of this right now are putting that to rest.
• 43:58
  Right?
• 43:58
  So the the canon has been there since the, since the early, early, early apostle church fathers, right.
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  Since John finished it up or whoever wrote the last book.
• 44:09
  I don't even know probably John.
• 44:12
  But that being said, all, all historical critics or whatever, they will look at the whole text in its context, right?
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  Like they're going to be like, okay, this doesn't make sense.
• 44:28
  And they're going to use that to, to be like, these are probably two different writers writing at different times.
• 44:34
  You know, like they will, they can pull that apart.
• 44:37
  So it's, it's a, it's a legitimate way of actually dissecting any text that's a historical text.
• 44:43
  I just pointing that out because people right now are, it's really popular right now online to, to, to be like, oh, this is not how you do it.
• 44:51
  So, so anyway, yes, you want to get it, you want to understand it within its place within the 66 books.
• 44:58
  And, and once you have that, then, then you, you get to.
• 45:03
  You, you're going to get yourself in a better position and understand fully what it's trying to say and what had to say to those people.
• 45:09
  What had to say to that time.
• 45:10
  What has to say that is important to know from there, right?
• 45:17
  We go to how to.
• 45:18
  We apply it, right?
• 45:21
  Yeah, Application.
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  So if this meant that for them, how can this apply to me?
• 45:27
  How does this work in today's world?
• 45:30
  And that's an interesting thing because that is one of those areas we kind of talked about it earlier, where the living word is going to teach you what you need to know quite often.
• 45:41
  And now I want to on a.
• 45:43
  So God's word doesn't change, but the way you understand it does.
• 45:47
  That's true.
• 45:49
  Okay, so you're going to find these new things, you're going to find these new understandings.
• 45:53
  The word didn't change, but you changed enough to understand it in a better way.
• 45:57
  And so that's going to be important.
• 45:59
  But yeah, once you're able to go and start digging all these out and you know, for those of you who are just starting off, I mean, this sounds like a lot of work.
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  I get it.
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  Do the best you can with all this.
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  Like, if you don't have a lot of time, okay, read the, read what you want to read.
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  Read it within its, its immediate context.
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  Try to best understand it best.
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  You can ask a lot of questions.
• 46:18
  If you have time to go not,.
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  I was going to say you have.
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  Time to look it up online, do so.
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  If you have time to ask people, do so.
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  But you know, do the best you can and then try to see what you can apply.
• 46:30
  You're too nice.
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  I'm gonna.
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  I'm gonna say that if you don't have time, it's not a priority.
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  Well, I'm trying to.
• 46:38
  I know that you're being nice, but I'm saying, listen, listen.
• 46:42
  They got to hear that too.
• 46:43
  They have to hear that side, that if it's not a priority, you will make it a priority.
• 46:47
  If it's important to you, well.
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  And if it's not important to you, well, then.
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  Yep, it's the.
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  I will.
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  I will say that if you.
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  Sorry, I was just gonna say they got the.
• 46:54
  The person who says, I don't have time to read the Bible just told you that they binge watched all four seasons of Ted Lasso in two weeks.
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  It's like.
• 47:01
  So, yeah, if the more you.
• 47:02
  Though you do let your give yourself the time and the more you do find more understanding on the scriptures, there's a good chance you're going to find a greater heart for the scriptures in it.
• 47:11
  And therefore rinse, cycle, repeat.
• 47:14
  Okay, so here would be a.
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  Here would be a.
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  Here be a question.
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  As the pirates would say, there are.
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  Especially when you're first starting out the.
• 47:24
  There are two concepts.
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  If I sit down with the Bible, 66 books, that's a big book.
• 47:29
  And I go, holy crap, I got to get through this book.
• 47:31
  Oh, my goodness, how big the words are.
• 47:32
  Because sometimes.
• 47:33
  Right, I know, but I think about, like, if I were to read again, let's just say Harry Potter.
• 47:37
  If I read through all seven Harry or eight, however many books.
• 47:40
  There are all eight Harry Potter books.
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  And now my goal is to go back through them again.
• 47:44
  It's like the thought is just daunting of, like, how many times I gotta go through this thing.
• 47:47
  Like, I don't have time.
• 47:48
  I don't have time to go through all of this stuff and then combine that with the majority of people out there, especially when they first start reading.
• 47:55
  There's a.
• 47:55
  There's a gentleman that I know very well, and he started and goes, yeah, I've been reading every day.
• 47:59
  Goes, but dude, I'll be honest with you, man, it's so boring.
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  Like, it's so hard to get through.
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  It's not an interesting story.
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  It's like, that's his perspective.
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  So what do you say to those people?
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  First off, the first thing I would do, and this might sound like nitpicking, but stop trying to get through it.
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  Oh, that's not the right perspective.
• 48:18
  There you go.
• 48:19
  Okay, this isn't about getting through it.
• 48:21
  Getting through it implies that you want to get done and then put it on a shelf and let it collect dust and never open it again.
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  As if you could ever accomplish that.
• 48:28
  There are scholars around the world that will tell you, some of the guys that you mentioned, some of there are people that this is, their whole life is interpreting scripture and they will tell you they are never done
• 48:39
  reading scripture.
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  Okay?
• 48:41
  This isn't something you get through.
• 48:42
  This is something.
• 48:43
  It's a continuous journey.
• 48:44
  Just as your faith is going to continue to get better and better as you go, hopefully your understanding of the Bible will do the same thing.
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  So it's never something you're done.
• 48:52
  You can read the same book, you can see the read the same chapter, same verse again and again and again.
• 48:57
  And you can still find something different, which is amazing in itself.
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  And you'll find that, you know, application just kind of goes all over the place.
• 49:07
  I will say, though, there's some ways to kind of help alleviate some of the stress when it comes to doing this.
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  And one is a very obvious.
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  You don't always have to do it by yourself.
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  Although I always encourage people to read the Bible by themselves.
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  And here's why.
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  Because it's the same as praying when it comes to you're spending time with God as you pray, you're getting special attention from God because he is hearing your prayers.
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  So that's time with God.
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  But as you read his Word, also spending time with God.
• 49:37
  So it's important to spend time with God alone.
• 49:39
  Jesus did it, we should do it.
• 49:41
  But if you're one of those people that's like, I'm not sure how to do this on my own.
• 49:44
  I need help.
• 49:46
  Bible study groups.
• 49:47
  Bible study groups all day long.
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  You can even do them online now.
• 49:50
  Not my favorite way to do it.
• 49:51
  I like in person stuff.
• 49:53
  But churches, Bible study groups, asking people that do this, you know, get with them, they can help you study this and you know, and tell you what I know, we'd be as daring as to go, hey, if you
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  have a question about any specific text, put it in our comments.
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  And we'd love to talk about it, I'm sure.
• 50:16
  You know, or argue about it, one of the two.
• 50:18
  We've done both, but yeah, so that's one way to do it.
• 50:24
  And then also you have, outside of your church and your small groups, you have, like I said, we're going back to the Internet.
• 50:37
  There's actually a tremendous amount of people doing great things with media to help you visually see some of this stuff, which can actually be amazing.
• 50:47
  Now be careful because oftentimes when they're doing visual things, they have to take some artistic licensing to help you visualize it.
• 50:56
  So don't use it as the truth.
• 50:58
  Use it as something along with your scriptures to help kind of try to visualize the truth that you're reading.
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  Okay.
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  The one does not replace the other.
• 51:06
  Okay.
• 51:07
  The Bible is still the authority, but sometimes can help.
• 51:10
  There are shows out there.
• 51:11
  There's shows like the Chosen.
• 51:13
  Have you, have you, have you dug into this thing called the Bible Recap?
• 51:16
  Have you heard of it?
• 51:17
  Oh yeah, I've seen it.
• 51:18
  Yeah.
• 51:18
  Yeah, My wife's going through it and she said this like it's.
• 51:21
  They'll read this section of Scripture and then this woman comes on the screen and basically explains this is the setup, this is why they said that and this is what we're getting out of it.
• 51:29
  And then she's like just that little five minute snippet of this lady, which crazy.
• 51:34
  I actually listened to a podcast with her on it and she was talking about how when she went through and created all these videos, she got herself to the point where she was about near death because of like
• 51:45
  how stressful putting all this together was.
• 51:48
  But she's obviously glad that she was able to put all together.
• 51:51
  But it was a way to help people who like, I read all these words, I don't understand anything.
• 51:55
  I just read.
• 51:56
  And then somebody pops up on the screen and goes, this is what it all means.
• 51:59
  And you go, oh, that actually makes sense.
• 52:01
  Thank you for helping put that together.
• 52:02
  And then so along with like these videos, I mean even like was the Bible project has got ones that explain chapters and books, which is really great.
• 52:11
  There's great scholars out there and teachers.
• 52:15
  I have a book that's really great for.
• 52:18
  It's called the Bible from 30, 000ft.
• 52:20
  It was written by Skip Heitzig.
• 52:22
  And he, he kind of, kind of does an oversight of every book of the Bible which kind of gives you kind of context and what it's basically giving you not doesn't go into all the details.
• 52:32
  But if you're looking to go understand a book and why it was written and when it was written and kind of the general things it's trying to tell you, it's really fantastic.
• 52:40
  But yeah, there's so many things you can look to and resources.
• 52:43
  Remember, always reach out and God wants to help you.
• 52:47
  I would also tell you that before you read the Bible, pray.
• 52:53
  This actually has been something that has been a great thing for myself because there's two things that I find can get in the way of me properly reading the Bible when I go down to sit and read it.
• 53:05
  One is the wrong heart condition.
• 53:09
  And so I have to go, okay.
• 53:11
  As I'm trying to read, my mind's on so many other things.
• 53:14
  I've got this busy schedule.
• 53:16
  This is bothering me.
• 53:17
  That's bothering me.
• 53:18
  And if it's getting in the way, I have to reset myself.
• 53:21
  So oftentimes I'll pray.
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  God help me clear all this out.
• 53:23
  I want to read this fresh.
• 53:24
  I want to read this new.
• 53:25
  And that's the other thing is that because I have read it some of this a lot, I'll pray for him to help me read it new, help me get what he's trying to get for me to get out
• 53:37
  of it that day.
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  And as well as not just hear or see the application, but show it to me.
• 53:44
  Sometimes I've prayed that before.
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  I've read like in the morning, for instance, or even earlier in the week.
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  And then something will come up in the week that God kind of helps me understand it or even in.
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  Later in that day to help me understand scripture in a new way.
• 53:58
  So it's fascinating what God can do when we invite him into interpreting his own word.
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  It is His.
• 54:04
  He is the.
• 54:05
  The author.
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  So, I mean, if anybody's going to help you understand it, he's going to do a better job than anyone else.
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  So pray that he's with you in this.
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  And then not only are you reading his words to you, but you're speaking to him and the conversation is just going full circle.
• 54:19
  And that's an amazing way to do that.
• 54:21
  But, yeah, try to make sure you're in the right headspace, red heart space and.
• 54:25
  And help ask for his help for this.
• 54:27
  Yep.
• 54:28
  Yeah.
• 54:29
  I like your.
• 54:29
  You talking about context, though, because, I mean, somebody once put it to me where they said, if somebody 20,000 years from now reads a manuscript about stuff that was going on in our time, and they read a bunch
• 54:38
  of cheese heads were in Lombardo in the Bay, and it turned into quite a massacre.
• 54:44
  Right?
• 54:44
  People go, the what and the who and why.
• 54:47
  It's like, but we in this understand that it has to do with the Green Bay packers and they went crazy.
• 54:52
  Right?
• 54:53
  Yeah.
• 54:53
  So you read a bunch of this stuff in scripture, you're like, I don't understand.
• 54:56
  What does this even mean?
• 54:57
  Like, even to the point where somebody brought up recently, it's like, so I don't understand so we're supposed to believe that the Bible is.
• 55:03
  Is this great thing, and God's amazing, but in the Bible it says women can't speak.
• 55:06
  Like, so how does this work out?
• 55:08
  It's like, okay, well, let's go into context.
• 55:11
  Let's read what the book says now.
• 55:13
  Let's see what the.
• 55:14
  What the people were like in the day, what were they dealing with, and things like that.
• 55:18
  So there's multiple layers.
• 55:20
  Yeah.
• 55:20
  Did we go to level three yet?
• 55:21
  We went to one and two.
• 55:22
  That was.
• 55:23
  I just had two levels.
• 55:24
  Okay, cool.
• 55:24
  All right, go ahead.
• 55:25
  Nothing.
• 55:26
  I just making sure.
• 55:27
  Yeah.
• 55:27
  Three was application.
• 55:28
  So just trying to figure out how to apply it to yourself.
• 55:30
  Sure.
• 55:31
  Yeah.
• 55:32
  Yep, yep, yep, yep.
• 55:34
  Well, and I had a kid on my baseball team who had given his life to Jesus.
• 55:38
  I gave him this big study Bible.
• 55:39
  And I said, if you ever have any questions, please come to me immediately.
• 55:42
  He goes, okay, I don't have any right now.
• 55:44
  The next day.
• 55:45
  Next day at baseball practice, he comes up.
• 55:47
  He goes, I have a question.
• 55:48
  I said, okay.
• 55:49
  He goes, so one of the commandments is don't kill.
• 55:52
  Like, yep.
• 55:53
  He goes, but my dad was in the army, and he.
• 55:56
  And he killed lots of people.
• 55:57
  He goes, what do we do with that?
• 55:59
  And was like, oh, boy, you started strong.
• 56:02
  We talked about that episode recently.
• 56:05
  We did go back and we did.
• 56:07
  The 1010 Commandments episode.
• 56:08
  Yeah.
• 56:09
  Yep.
• 56:09
  We got into that a bit more.
• 56:11
  Well, and that's a.
• 56:11
  That's a good example, because the Ten Commandments don't say don't kill.
• 56:17
  Not in the original language.
• 56:19
  Right.
• 56:20
  It's murder.
• 56:20
  And then the.
• 56:23
  The taking of an innocent life.
• 56:25
  Sure.
• 56:27
  Intentional taking of an innocent life.
• 56:31
  So I think it's important to know that.
• 56:33
  Right.
• 56:33
  Like, that's.
• 56:34
  That's part of what we're talking about.
• 56:35
  Because the major implications.
• 56:38
  Right, If.
• 56:39
  If it's don't kill, then.
• 56:44
  Well, I was protecting my family.
• 56:46
  I was sure, you know, protecting my country.
• 56:48
  I was doing what I was told to do.
• 56:50
  Well, what about David?
• 56:52
  God told David to go kill people.
• 56:54
  Yep.
• 56:54
  How do you.
• 56:55
  That becomes a quick.
• 56:57
  A quick contradiction.
• 57:00
  Right?
• 57:00
  I mean, if we don't understand the context, it becomes a quick contradiction.
• 57:04
  Right.
• 57:04
  God wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah.
• 57:06
  Is understanding the context.
• 57:07
  Right.
• 57:09
  So I'm sure you have this conversation all the time.
• 57:11
  I actually.
• 57:11
  I do, yeah.
• 57:13
  It's like, well, you said the Bible doesn't contradict itself.
• 57:15
  God said, don't murder anybody.
• 57:16
  And then he sent Joseph.
• 57:17
  Joseph rode into a thing on a horse with a Bunch of heads of people he murdered.
• 57:21
  It's like, how do you explain that one?
• 57:22
  You know?
• 57:23
  Yeah.
• 57:24
  So with all this being said also when it comes to reading the Bible, most people want to know where do I start?
• 57:31
  Yeah.
• 57:33
  And what are your guys thoughts on that?
• 57:35
  Where do you, when people ask you, hey, where do I start?
• 57:38
  What, what should I read first?
• 57:39
  Because I, that's another way they say is where do I, what should I first?
• 57:43
  Is there a book I should read first?
• 57:44
  So I started Genesis.
• 57:46
  No, I tend to tell people the four gospels are start in John.
• 57:48
  At least I've said it a million times and I'll continue to say it.
• 57:52
  John, I'm starting John.
• 57:53
  I think a solid book, it's the best one to start with because it tells you who Jesus is, what he did, why he did it and that he loves you.
• 58:05
  Like those are important.
• 58:07
  Like that that's, it's a good foundation.
• 58:09
  It's.
• 58:10
  To me, it is the to everyone gospel.
• 58:15
  It's written to everyone, you know, like it's the gospel that's just written to say, hey, this is the whole story and Jesus loves you and that's why he did it.
• 58:26
  Like, not that all the other gospels don't have that because they do.
• 58:30
  But they, they all have agendas.
• 58:32
  Each one has it and it has an agenda in who it's talking to.
• 58:36
  Right.
• 58:37
  That's why not all of them list chronologies.
• 58:41
  They're not chronologies.
• 58:42
  Chronological order.
• 58:43
  Right.
• 58:44
  None of the names, the, oh, the lineage, genealogy, the genealogies.
• 58:50
  Oh my gosh, not all of them list genealogies, you know, but some of them do.
• 58:55
  And so there's, they're speaking to different peoples and they're trying to relate things to different peoples.
• 58:59
  I feel like John's relatable to everybody and that's how it was written for.
• 59:02
  It was, was, it was too just.
• 59:05
  Solid choice, solid choice.
• 59:07
  I started when I started reading the Bible.
• 59:09
  I did it in such a weird way that I don't suggest to anyone because I honestly as a kid started reading the Law and Proverbs.
• 59:19
  That's how I started reading the Bible.
• 59:21
  And then it went from the Law and Proverbs to the Law, Proverbs and the Gospels and yeah, back then Revelation was the scariest book I could pick up and now I love it.
• 59:35
  But the, yeah, that's how I started.
• 59:38
  I don't suggest that ever.
• 59:42
  So starting with a gospel and then going into that would actually bring clarity.
• 59:48
  Going, starting with a gospel is a good idea.
• 59:51
  Starting with the law can be a lot of do's and don'ts, and it just sounds like a very restrictive.
• 59:56
  By the way, when you say the.
• 59:57
  Law, what I mean is I read through the back end of Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus.
• 1:00:03
  Ah, interesting.
• 1:00:04
  That's an interesting place to start because.
• 1:00:06
  Yeah.
• 1:00:07
  Once you go to.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah, Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy, numbers lost my attention.
• 1:00:11
  Yeah.
• 1:00:11
  100.
• 1:00:11
  That's usually where people stall out.
• 1:00:13
  They get to about the numbers portion and go, dude, what do I do with this?
• 1:00:16
  Well, it's because it's easy to not understand what you're reading.
• 1:00:19
  You got to help.
• 1:00:20
  I think there's such amazing things for the book of numbers in the visualizations.
• 1:00:25
  And not only that, but, I mean, just understanding how certain things connect.
• 1:00:29
  For instance, the snake, the bronze snake on the.
• 1:00:31
  On the pole.
• 1:00:32
  Sure.
• 1:00:32
  Understanding how it connects to the crucifixion or how the camps were laid out and how if you actually visualize what that looks like, it's in the shape of a cross with God in the center.
• 1:00:40
  Actually, the numbers put some things into perspective for me too.
• 1:00:43
  Like talking about how the men of fighting age were age 20 and above.
• 1:00:50
  And then it puts into perspective.
• 1:00:52
  Well, okay, that.
• 1:00:54
  That tells me how old David could have been up to.
• 1:00:58
  Sure.
• 1:00:58
  You know.
• 1:00:59
  Yep.
• 1:01:00
  It tells me how old like, oh, dang.
• 1:01:10
  Caleb would have been.
• 1:01:13
  And.
• 1:01:13
  And dang it.
• 1:01:15
  My brain is off.
• 1:01:16
  It's all good.
• 1:01:17
  Moses and Aaron, Joseph.
• 1:01:19
  Who came after Moses?
• 1:01:21
  Joseph.
• 1:01:21
  Right.
• 1:01:21
  What, he handed off to Joseph.
• 1:01:24
  Yes.
• 1:01:25
  Right.
• 1:01:25
  No, I'm sorry.
• 1:01:29
  Joshua.
• 1:01:30
  Thank you.
• 1:01:31
  Oh, my God.
• 1:01:31
  That's the one.
• 1:01:32
  My brain was blank.
• 1:01:33
  Brain was stuck on Joseph.
• 1:01:34
  It told me.
• 1:01:34
  It told me how old Joshua would have been because he was a spy.
• 1:01:38
  So he would have had to have been a fighting age, too.
• 1:01:41
  So he would have had to have been at least 20 when he did that.
• 1:01:44
  And then they spent 40 years in the wilderness, which means he would have been at least 60 before he ever took.
• 1:01:49
  You know, I mean, it put a lot of things in perspective for me.
• 1:01:52
  Whenever I listened, I listened through numbers, the.
• 1:01:55
  You know, but most people will read through that and they won't make that connection.
• 1:01:58
  Right.
• 1:01:58
  So then they're anxious to make that connection.
• 1:02:00
  Yeah.
• 1:02:01
  I wouldn't tell anyone to start with Book of Numbers probably.
• 1:02:04
  I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a great book.
• 1:02:06
  I love the book, but not a place I'd have people start.
• 1:02:09
  I actually, I would say the next thing I was.
• 1:02:11
  I did Genesis and Genesis.
• 1:02:13
  I.
• 1:02:14
  Oh, my gosh, I adore the book.
• 1:02:16
  Of Genesis.
• 1:02:16
  It is so amazing.
• 1:02:17
  And there's so much.
• 1:02:19
  I absolutely love teaching it.
• 1:02:20
  I love getting into it.
• 1:02:21
  I did a full series with the high schoolers a few years ago, Genesis and seven is what I did.
• 1:02:27
  Seven weeks in the book of Genesis and just kind of hitting all the big stuff, as much as I could fit into it.
• 1:02:32
  It was awesome.
• 1:02:33
  And his next favorite book is Exodus, and, you know, it comes right after Genesis and then leads right into the next.
• 1:02:41
  And.
• 1:02:42
  And then the next one is Leviticus.
• 1:02:43
  That is his third.
• 1:02:44
  Third favorite, but also first favorite.
• 1:02:47
  So honestly.
• 1:02:49
  Although, you know what?
• 1:02:50
  Truthfully, Truthfully, if you were to go John, like, if you read John first,.
• 1:02:54
  John, and then go to Genesis right.
• 1:02:57
  After, dude, it would be a great way to actually start reading.
• 1:03:00
  And because I think once you've got John under your belt, like, you can go back and start reading through.
• 1:03:06
  Yeah, through the Old Testament.
• 1:03:08
  Yeah.
• 1:03:08
  And also, word of caution, just because a book is short doesn't mean it's the one that you want to start with.
• 1:03:12
  So, for instance, even Jonah.
• 1:03:14
  Jonah is hard to understand without understanding more things.
• 1:03:17
  Timothy.
• 1:03:17
  Definitely read Timothy first.
• 1:03:20
  No, don't do that.
• 1:03:21
  That'll scare you.
• 1:03:23
  So, no.
• 1:03:23
  But, yeah, I think John's a great one.
• 1:03:25
  Any of the gospels really fantastic.
• 1:03:28
  Start there.
• 1:03:31
  If you're more of.
• 1:03:32
  In the place of, like, I really understand God more and how he started everything.
• 1:03:38
  Genesis is.
• 1:03:39
  Is Genesis.
• 1:03:40
  I mean, it is in the beginning and it's going to tell you how he started everything.
• 1:03:44
  So, I mean.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, but a lot of it is out of context.
• 1:03:47
  A lot of it is like, well, I don't understand why this would apply to me.
• 1:03:50
  This is.
• 1:03:51
  Well, it's thousands of years more of.
• 1:03:53
  That's more.
• 1:03:53
  It's.
• 1:03:53
  It's.
• 1:03:54
  There's a lot of learning involved.
• 1:03:55
  And the further you go into the Bible, the more you can understand about Genesis in ways that are going to blow your mind.
• 1:04:02
  But, yeah, I mean, I got to say, if John is probably the easiest one to recommend.
• 1:04:10
  And then what I like to do is if they're like, all right, I've read through the Gospels now, where I usually say Romans, I tell them to go through the book of Romans.
• 1:04:20
  And the reason I say that is that I.
• 1:04:25
  I know I say this a lot.
• 1:04:26
  I love the book of Romans.
• 1:04:27
  It is, to me, it's like Paul's crescendo.
• 1:04:30
  It is his masterpiece.
• 1:04:32
  It is his heart of his theology and his belief and everything about him on a single letter.
• 1:04:39
  It is so wonderful.
• 1:04:40
  He had.
• 1:04:41
  So you gotta understand what the Book of Romans, just to give you a little clarif why I'm saying this.
• 1:04:45
  Paul so wanted to go to Rome.
• 1:04:47
  He had heard about the church there and it fascinated him, and he so wanted to go.
• 1:04:51
  But the Holy Spirit kept sending him elsewhere and in place he wrote this letter.
• 1:04:55
  And it is so good.
• 1:04:57
  It's got so many reasons.
• 1:04:59
  I mean, he thoroughly writes out why we need Jesus.
• 1:05:02
  And then what's amazing about when we have Jesus.
• 1:05:05
  And then there's just.
• 1:05:06
  There's just.
• 1:05:07
  I mean, that I'm putting it in simple forms.
• 1:05:09
  It is so much more than that.
• 1:05:10
  So much more than that.
• 1:05:11
  But it's a great.
• 1:05:12
  I said, if you want to go deeper and you've got the Gospels, if you think you got the Gospels, go into Romans and then start to understand more of why we needed Jesus and all this stuff to happen.
• 1:05:21
  And from there, I mean, if people really get into it and they're like, well, tell me more about Jesus, I go Old Testament and I start pointing out Messianic prophecies.
• 1:05:31
  I wish I could tell you that Isaiah was the next book, but usually that's not because Isaiah is a wild book that has so much in it that it's hard to understand without more context.
• 1:05:42
  But I like going up and showing them where the first Messianic prophecy comes from and where Psalm 22 coincides with the crucifixion and Isaiah 53 coincides with the crucifixion.
• 1:05:55
  And all these things that kept saying that Jesus is coming.
• 1:05:58
  And those are the areas that I tell them, look at how it said it and how it came to be.
• 1:06:04
  And then from there, once you have Jesus as that solid anchor and you understand fully who he is, that he was the one to come and there is no other, and he is the Lord of your life, the
• 1:06:15
  rest of the Bible, with that anchor in place, becomes way more accessible.
• 1:06:19
  And then, you know, it's just.
• 1:06:21
  It's like free range eating at that point.
• 1:06:23
  There you go.
• 1:06:25
  All right, final thoughts.
• 1:06:27
  Boy, oh, boy.
• 1:06:28
  Don't be discouraged.
• 1:06:29
  I.
• 1:06:29
  I have learned the.
• 1:06:32
  In my, in my own life, even just before conversations.
• 1:06:35
  I'm about to walk up to somebody to have a conversation, I'll stop for a second and say, holy Spirit, I need your help here.
• 1:06:39
  I don't.
• 1:06:40
  I don't know how to handle this situation.
• 1:06:41
  And I've gotten the same thing.
• 1:06:42
  If I'm out to sit down and read, I'll immediately go, like, all right, God, what do you need?
• 1:06:46
  What.
• 1:06:46
  What do you want to show me today?
• 1:06:47
  It's like, it's the importance of stopping and saying, God, I need you to guide me through this.
• 1:06:52
  Not just, like, I'm gonna flip this open, I'm gonna run through.
• 1:06:54
  I'm gonna turn on the audio and do that while I'm working on estimates.
• 1:06:57
  I'm just gonna listen to the audio.
• 1:06:58
  It's getting into my brain.
• 1:06:59
  It's fine.
• 1:07:00
  It's like.
• 1:07:01
  Right, so it's good.
• 1:07:03
  Yeah.
• 1:07:03
  Clear away the schedule.
• 1:07:06
  Yeah.
• 1:07:07
  For me, it's, you know, it's the heart condition of it all.
• 1:07:10
  It always goes back to heart condition.
• 1:07:12
  For me.
• 1:07:12
  Make sure you're in the right place.
• 1:07:15
  You know, if you're in there and God says, you know, knocking the door will be open to you.
• 1:07:19
  If you're eager, if you want to seek him and you're allowing yourself to find him, he will find him.
• 1:07:26
  Don't go in trying to do something else.
• 1:07:28
  Just see what he has to show you.
• 1:07:33
  Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  My final thoughts are exegete.
• 1:07:36
  Don't isogeet.
• 1:07:38
  Fancy words for Let the Bible tell you.
• 1:07:40
  You don't tell the Bible.
• 1:07:41
  Right.
• 1:07:42
  Yeah, that's.
• 1:07:44
  That is.
• 1:07:46
  Yeah.
• 1:07:47
  That's such a big one, though.
• 1:07:49
  Like, we.
• 1:07:50
  It's so easy to read things into it from our perspective when it's not written from our perspective, so we shouldn't do that.
• 1:08:00
  There you go.
• 1:08:00
  Once you.
• 1:08:01
  Once you.
• 1:08:02
  Once you understand why it was written, who it was written to, and what's there, the application becomes so easy because you understand it then.
• 1:08:14
  And when you read it again, you're like, oh, I need to apply this to this part of my life.
• 1:08:19
  Oh, I gotta apply this to this part of my life.
• 1:08:22
  So here's the challenge for the next seven days.
• 1:08:27
  Ooh, that's a complete week.
• 1:08:30
  Do this.
• 1:08:32
  Take a little passage, go through John something, and each day just write down a quick observation.
• 1:08:41
  Write down who that observer or who that was to and how it could be applied.
• 1:08:49
  It doesn't have to be a long thing, just even one sentence each or a couple of words or whatever that looks like.
• 1:08:55
  Just so that you're actively doing it.
• 1:08:57
  Just jot it down and then see how that starts changing how you look at it.
• 1:09:03
  That's my challenge.
• 1:09:04
  There you go.
• 1:09:04
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