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Steve Webb: The time is here. Here it is.
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From Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring family Audio
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Bible and podcasting since 2004. I'm your OG God caster, Steve
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Webb. This is the daily show where we're reading through the
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entire Bible in a year. And today is August 1, the first day
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of the last month of season 12 of the Lifespring family Audio
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Bible. And today, they're just 30 more episodes. More about
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that a little bit later. Today is Monday. So we're going to
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read from one of the books of the law. We're currently in the
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book of Deuteronomy, and we're going to read chapters 20
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through 22. I'm calling today's episode, there are two. The show
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notes page for today's episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12
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e 334. My email address is Steve at Lifespring media.com. And I
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would love to hear from you. Let's get started.
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Deuteronomy chapter 20. When you go to war against your enemies,
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you may see horses, chariots and armies larger than yours. Don't
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be afraid of them because the Lord your God, who brought you
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out of Egypt will be with you. Before the battle starts, a
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priest must come and speak to the troops. He should tell them.
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Listen Israel, today you're going into battle against your
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enemies. Don't lose your courage. Don't be afraid or
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alarmed or tremble because of them. The Lord your God is going
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with you. He will fight for you against your enemies and give
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you victory. The officers should tell the troops if you have
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built a new house but not dedicated it, you may go home.
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Otherwise you might die in battle, and someone else will
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dedicate it. If you have planted a vineyard and not enjoyed the
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grapes, you may go home. Otherwise you might die in
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battle, and someone else will enjoy the grapes. If you are
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engaged to a woman but have not married her, you may go home.
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Otherwise you might die in battle and someone else will
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marry her. The officers should also tell the troops if you are
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afraid or have lost your courage you may go home, then you won't
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ruin the morale of the other Israelites. When the officers
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finished speaking to the troops, they should appoint commanders
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to lead them. When you approach a city to attack it, offer its
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people a peaceful way to surrender. If they accepted and
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open their gates to you than all the people there will be made to
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do forced labor and serve you. If they won't accept your offer
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of peace but declare war on you set up a blockade around the
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city. When the Lord your God hands the city over to you kill
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every man in that city with your swords. But take the women and
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children, the cattle and everything else in the city,
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including all its goods as your loot. You may enjoy your enemy's
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goods that the Lord your God has given you. This is what you must
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do to all the cities that are far away, which don't belong to
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the nations nearby. However, you must not spare anyone's life in
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the cities of these nations that the Lord your God is giving you
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is your property. You must claim the Hittites Amorites,
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Canaanites, parasites Hivites in Jebusites for the Lord and
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completely destroy them as the Lord your God has commanded you.
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Otherwise, they will teach you to do all the disgusting things
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they do for their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your
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God. This is what you must do whenever you blockade a city for
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a long time in order to capture it in war. Don't harm any of its
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fruit trees with an axe. You can eat the fruit, never cut those
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trees down. Because the trees of the field are not people you
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have come to block eight. You may destroy trees that you know
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are not fruit trees. You may cut them down and use them in
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blockades until you capture the city.
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Deuteronomy chapter 21. If a person has been killed and is
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found lying in a field in the land, the Lord your God is
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giving you for your own and it is not known who killed him.
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Then your leaders and judges will go out and see how far it
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is to the cities that are around the dead man. The leaders of the
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city that is nearest to the dead man will take a young cow from
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the cattle. The cow must never had been worked or pulled the
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plow. The leaders of that city will bring the young cow down to
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a valley with flowing water which has not been plowed or
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planted. They will break the cow's neck there in the valley.
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Then the religious leaders the sons of Levi will come near for
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the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bring
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good and the name of the Lord. Every question about what is
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right and every fight will be decided upon by them. All the
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leaders of that city nearest to the dead man will wash their
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hands over the young cow whose neck was broken in the valley.
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Then they will say our hands if not killed him. Our eyes have
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not seen it. Oh Lord, forgive your people Israel whom you have
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set free. Do not put the guilt of killing a man who did no
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wrong on your people Israel and they will be forgiven for the
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guilt of the man's death. So you must take away the guilt of
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taking the life of a good man by doing what is right in the eyes.
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Have the Lord. When you go to battle against those who hate
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you, and the Lord your God gives them to you, and you make them
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go with you. And you see a beautiful woman and have a
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desire for her as a wife, bring her home to your house. There
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she will cut off all the hair from her head and cut her nails.
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She will change the clothes she wore when you took her away and
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stay in your house. She will have sorrow for her father and
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mother for one month. After that you may go into her and be her
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husband, and she will be your wife. If you are not pleased
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with her, you should let her go wherever she wants, and do not
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sell her for money, or act as if she were a servant because you
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have put her to shame. If a man has two wives, one loved and the
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other not loved, and both the loved and the one not loved have
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born him sons. And if the firstborn son belongs to the
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wife who is not loved. On the Day when that man divides what
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he has for his sons, he cannot make the firstborn of his loved
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wife, the firstborn before the son of the wife who is not loved
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who is the firstborn, he must respect the firstborn, the son
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of the wife who is not loved by giving him twice the share of
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all he has. He is the beginning of his strength and the right of
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the firstborn belongs to him. If a man has a strong willed son
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who goes against him and does not obey his father or mother,
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and when they punish him, he will not even listen to them.
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Then his father and mother will take hold of him and bring him
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to the leaders of his city at the gate of his city. They will
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say to the leaders of his city, this son of ours is strong
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willed and goes against us. He will not obey us. He eats and
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drinks too much, then all the men of his city will kill him
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with stones. You must get rid of the sin from among you, all
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Israel will hear about it and be afraid. If a man has sinned and
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should be put to death and he is put to death and you hang him on
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a tree, his body must not hang all night on the tree, you
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should be sure to bury him on the same day. For he who hangs
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is cursed by God. So do not make your land unclean which the Lord
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your God is giving you
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Deuteronomy chapter 22. If you see another Israelites ox or
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sheep out where it doesn't belong, don't pretend that you
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don't see it. Make sure you take it back. If the owner doesn't
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live near you where you don't know who owns it, take the
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animal home with you. Keep it until the owner comes looking
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for it. Then give it back. Do the same if you find a donkey,
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some clothes or anything else that another Israelite may have
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lost. Don't pretend that you don't know what to do. If you
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see another Israelites donkey or ox lying on the ground, don't
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pretend that you don't see it. Make sure you help him get back
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on his feet. A woman must never wear anything men would wear and
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a man must never wear women's clothes. Whoever does this is
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disgusting to the Lord your God. Whenever you're traveling and
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find a nest containing chicks or eggs, this is what you must do.
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If the mother bird is sitting on the nest, never take her with
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the chicks. You may take the chicks, but make sure you let
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the mother go, then things will go well for you and you will
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live a long time. Whenever you build a new house, put a railing
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around the edge of the roof, then you won't be responsible
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for a death at your home. If someone falls off the roof.
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Never plant anything between the rows of your vineyard.
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Otherwise, you will have to give everything that grows there to
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the holy place. This includes the crop the planet and the
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grapes from the vineyard. Never plow with an ox and a donkey
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harnessed together. Never wear clothes made of wool and linen
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woven together. Make tassels on the four corners of the shawl
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you wear over your clothes. A man might marry a woman sleep
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with her and decide he doesn't like her. Then he might make up
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charges against her and ruin her reputation by saying I married
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this woman but when I slept with her, I found out she wasn't a
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virgin. The girl's father and mother must go to the city gate
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where the leaders of the city are and submit the evidence that
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their daughter was a virgin. The girl's father will tell the
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leaders I gave my daughter in marriage to this man but he
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doesn't like her. Now he's made up charges against her. He says
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he found out that my daughter wasn't a virgin. But here's the
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evidence. Then the girl's parents must spread out the
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cloth in front of the leaders of the city. The leaders of that
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city must take the man and punish him. They will find him
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two and a quarter pounds of silver and give it to the girl's
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father. The husband ruin the reputation of an Israelite
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virgin. She will continue to be his wife and he can never
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divorce her as long as he lives. But if the charge is true, and
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no evidence that the girl was a virgin can be found. They must
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take the girl to the entrance of her father's house. The men of
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her city must stone her to death because she has committed such a
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godless act in Israel. She had sex before marriage while she
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was still living in her father's house. You must get rid of this
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evil. If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with a
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married woman, both that man and the woman must die, you must get
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rid of this evil in Israel. This is what you must do when a man
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has sexual intercourse with a virgin who was engaged to
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another man. If this happens in his city, take them to the gate
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of the city and stone them to death. The girl must die because
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she was in a city and didn't scream for help. The man must
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die because he had sex with another man's wife, you must get
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rid of this evil. But if a man rapes an engaged girl out in the
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country, then only the man must die. Don't do anything to the
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girl. She has not committed a sin for which she deserves to
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die. This is like the case of someone who attacks and murders
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another person. The man found the girl out in the country, she
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may have screamed for help, but no one was there to rescue her.
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This is what you must do when a man rapes of virgin who isn't
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engaged. When the crime is discovered. The man who had
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sexual intercourse with her must give the girl's father one and a
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quarter pounds of silver, and she will become his wife. Since
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he raped her, he can never divorce her as long as he lives.
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A man must never marry his father's wife because this would
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disgrace his father.
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I'm going to talk about Deuteronomy 22. Today, have you
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ever heard the phrase fools rush in where angels fear to tread? I
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don't think I'm a fool. But if I am, so be it. You know, every so
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often current events and or cultural conditions can't help
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but influence my commentary on the day's reading. This is
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obviously not a political or a news show. And I do dislike
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participating in political speech on this show. And as a
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matter of fact, I don't think that what I'm going to say is
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political because I'm only going to talk about what the Word of
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God says. But some might want to paint today's episode with a
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political label, whatever, when I'm about to talk about needs to
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be addressed, especially with what's going on in our current
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culture. Genesis 1:27 says, so God created humans in his image,
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in the image of God, He created them, He created them male and
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female, and dropping down just a couple of verses, Genesis 1:31
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says, And God saw everything that He had made, in that it was
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very good. Deuteronomy 22:5, that we read today says, A woman
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must never wear anything men would wear, and a man must never
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wear women's clothes. Whoever does this is disgusting to the
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Lord your God. Now, listen, I am not a trans folk. I do not hate
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people of either sex if they disagree with me or with
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scripture, and I'm certainly not afraid of them. That is what
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phobia means. You know that right? The reason I'm talking to
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you about this today, my motivation on everything that I
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ever say on this show is to explain the scriptures in such a
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way that the true nature of God is revealed. I believe that when
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he is properly understood, people's hearts will be changed,
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and eternal lives will be saved. Failing that, my hope is that
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there will at least be an understanding and maybe even
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less antipathy. Now, when these scriptures were written, it was
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common for men and women to wear clothes that were similar. Both
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sexes wore long robes but with distinctive styles that
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differentiated between the sexes. Deuteronomy 22, five was
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a command not to blur the lines between the sexes, or to
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purposely dress in the manner of the opposite sex. You see, as
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Genesis 127 says, God created only two sexes, male and female.
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There is not a spectrum. It's either one or the other. Now
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before you say, but Steve, some people are born with the organs
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of both. Well, yes, I know that's true. But listen, we live
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in a world that is suffering the effects of sin. Ever since Adam
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and Eve sinned, all of creation has been under a curse. Romans
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822 says, All creation groans. Every living thing on the planet
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is less than God intended it to be. Humans were not meant to
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die. Humans were not meant to be born with any kind of defects.
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And there was not supposed to be any disease. Every system on the
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planet is not what God originally intended. The weather
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isn't even the way God intended it to be. Earthquakes weren't
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supposed to be something we worried about. Everything is
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broken. Sin ruined everything, including how we think about
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ourselves and each other. Birth defects do happen. And when a
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baby is born with a defect, it isn't because God made it
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happen. It's because of the condition of the world. It's
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because of sin, not the sin of the parents. It's just the
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effect of everything on the planet. Creation groans,
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remember? Yes, God does allow bad things to happen, but he is
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not the cause of bad things happening. Well, couldn't he
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just step in and stop bad things from happening? You ask? Well,
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sometimes he does. But other times he doesn't. The thing we
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have to remember about God is He is sovereign, which means that
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he does what he does. And he answers only to himself. But no,
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this his way is perfect. Deuteronomy 32 Four says, He is
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the rock, his works are perfect. And all His ways are just a
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faithful God who does no wrong, upright and justice he, beloved,
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one day, everyone who has ever been born will see the truth of
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that and acknowledge it. So back to the subject at hand. God says
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that it's wrong to dress in the manner of the opposite sex. Why?
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Well, because for one thing, it is rebellion against his will.
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If he created you, as a male, he wants you to be a male. If he
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created you, as a female, he wants you to be a female. God
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truly does love you and he has a marvelous plan for your life. He
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wants the very best for you. And to reject that plan is really
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cutting off your nose to spite your face. I've said it many
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times here on this show. God's laws are not given to take our
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fun away. He's not a cosmic killjoy. He is a loving Father
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who knows what is best for us. But there is an enemy. He's
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called Lucifer, Satan, the devil, the god of this world and
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many other names in the Bible. His mission from the beginning
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of the creation has been to pervert God's creation, and keep
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people from having a relationship with God. He takes
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what is beautiful, and he perverts it. What we're seeing
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in our culture today with a blurring of sexual boundaries
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and distinctions is really nothing new, as is evident by
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the fact that God talks about it here in Deuteronomy 22. people
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today think that they're being progressive by advancing this
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agenda. They're not progressive. They're puppets of Satan. The
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good news is that their sin can be forgiven. God said and
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Ezekiel 1823, do I take any pleasure in the death of the
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wicked declares the Sovereign Lord, rather, am I not pleased
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when they turn from their ways and live? And second Peter three
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nine tells us, The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as
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some understand slowness. Instead, he's patient with you
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not wanting anyone to perish, but for everyone to come to
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repentance. What is repentance, repentance is turning away from
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or going in an entirely new direction. It is agreeing with
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God that I have sinned, that I want to begin living as he wants
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me to, that I acknowledged that his way is better than my way.
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But listen, I can't do it on my own. It's impossible for me to
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live a perfect life. Only one man has ever done that, and his
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name is Jesus. But Jesus is more than a man he is also God. He is
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fully God and fully human. And he is the only way that I or
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anyone else can have a restored relationship with God. John 316,
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to 21 says, For God so loved the world that He gave His one and
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only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have
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eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to
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condemn the world, but to save the world through him, whoever
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believes in Him is not condemned. But whoever does not
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believe stands condemned already, because they have not
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believed in the name of God's one and only son. This is the
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verdict. Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness
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instead of light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who
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does evil hates the light and will not come into the light for
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fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by
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the truth comes into the light so that it may be seen plainly
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that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
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Listen carefully. God loves you, and He loves you enough to give
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you free will. You have to decide the time is now. If you
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have not yet accepted the free gift of salvation that Jesus is
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offering you today, you can do it now. The simple fact is you
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may not have tomorrow, the lovely lady Liana and I were
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reminded recently how quickly our lives could be snuffed out
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with no warning. We were involved in a hit and run
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traffic accident and believe me, there was absolutely no time to
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think about what was happening. We were driving along a street
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that we'd been on literally 1000s of times before just a
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little more than two miles from our home. When all of a sudden
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there was a terrible crashing sound of metal against metal.
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Our car shook and I had to wrestle the steering wheel to
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keep control. LeeAnn screamed and I watched the car that had
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sideswiped us accelerate down the road in front of us. Praise
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the Lord, we were not hurt, but we could have been, because
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instead of rear ending our car, he sideswiped us, he missed rear
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ending our car by just inches. The point is, you never know how
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or when your life will be over. When you make the decision now
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to follow Jesus, if you want to have a changed life, a change in
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eternity, let me lead you in a prayer where you'll tell God
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that you want to turn from your sin, and that you want to follow
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Jesus, Will you pray with me? Now once I publish this podcast,
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I don't know who will hear it, where they'll hear it or when
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they'll hear it. I still have episodes from almost 18 years
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ago up at Lifespring media.com. And they get listened to. And I
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have no idea how many episodes are on hard drives all over the
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world. So whether you're hearing this on the day that I publish
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it, or days, weeks, months or years later, this invitation is
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for you to hear right now, as you're listening to my voice.
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Decide now that this is the day to have your eternity changed.
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Would you pray with me? Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you
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now confessing my sins. I know that I have not lived the way I
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should. And I asked you to forgive me now. Thank you for
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sending your son Jesus to take my sins upon himself. Jesus, I'm
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asking you to be my Lord and my Savior. Now. Show me how I
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should live. Teach me, help me to follow you. Thank you for
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hearing my prayer. Lord, I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. If you
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prayed that prayer, welcome to the family, you might have felt
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like a weight was lifted from you, you might have felt some
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strong emotion, or you might have felt nothing. Whatever you
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felt, that's okay. Our relationship with God is not
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based on emotions. Our relationship with God is based
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on his promise. And God promised that anyone who accepts Jesus
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will be saved. If you accepted Jesus just now and you meant it,
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you are saved because God promised it and he always keeps
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his promise. Now, if you did just pray that prayer with me,
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I've got to get for you. It's free. I want to send you a
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special edition of the New Testament called the new
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believers Bible. All you have to do is send me a quick email with
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your name and address so I can mail it to you at my expense.
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This New Testament has hundreds and hundreds of notes in it by
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Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Church written with new
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believers in mind, this New Testament with all these notes
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is meant to help you get a good start in your walk with God.
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Now, when I get your email, I'm not going to put you on a list.
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And I'm not going to send you any spam. I just want to send
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you this New Testament. And I would like to pray for you. And
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if you've got questions, I'll answer anything that I can for
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you. send that email to Steve at Lifespring media.com. And God
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bless you welcome to the family of God. Not to mention Welcome
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to the Lifespring family. If you have a comment on today's show,
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Okay, so on the last couple of episodes I told you that I had
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an announcement to make today. The time is here. Here it is, as
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you know by now now this season of the Lifespring family Audio
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Bible is going to be ending on August 31 of this year, just 30
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days away. The announcement is this season 12 will be the last
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season of the show. After that there will be no more new
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episodes of The Lifespring family Audio Bible. And it may
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be and I emphasize may be the last episode of the podcast
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career that began when God called me to create the world's
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first Christian podcast in late 2004. Let me explain, it truly
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has been one of my greatest joys to do as God called me to do all
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those years ago. If you want the details, you can find them on
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the about page at Lifespring media.com. But the bottom line
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is that when God called me, he said just three words, proclaim
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My name. And I've tried to do that on every episode that I
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have ever produced, whether for this show, or any of the other
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shows at Lifespring media.com. But after these last two seasons
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of this show, producing a show a day for two years, with just a
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two month hiatus between the two seasons, I gotta say I'm tired,
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more than tired, really, I'll be 68 this month and sitting at
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this desk and behind this microphone for the many hours it
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takes to study, to write, to record, to edit, and to publish
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this show, literally every day for two years. Well, it's taken
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a toll on my health. I honestly cannot do a daily show anymore.
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Now let me hasten to say that this season season 12 has been
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the best year I have ever had in podcasting. And it is you who
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have made it the best. We have had more back and forth, there
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has been more engagement than ever before. And it has been so
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exciting and so rewarding and thrilling and just heartwarming
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to get to know you. You've written notes of encouragement,
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and many of you have given donations to help pay the bills.
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There's the Lifespring family team Kirsty shot of San Pedro
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and Denise, this has been an amazing year. And I love you for
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all that you've done. And right now I'm asking all of you.
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That's all that's every single person all of you whether or not
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you have interacted with me ever before. I'm asking you one more
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thing, just one, if you got your ears on, I said that the August
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31 Episode may be the last episode of my podcast career.
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Whether it is the last episode depends on you. And when I say
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you, I don't mean the collective you. I mean, you listening to me
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right now in August of 2020 to you in your car right now, you
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doing chores around the house, you doing whatever it is you're
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doing right now, I need this from you. If there is a podcast
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that you would like me to create, or if you have an idea
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for a show, email me at Steve at Lifespring media.com. And tell
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me what you're thinking, I am willing to continue podcasting,
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but I just can't do it every day. Most podcasts are weekly,
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some a couple of episodes a week, some are one or two a
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month, very, very few are daily shows. But if there is something
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that you would like to hear me do, please let me know. And
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listen, as I said, I need to hear from each and every one of
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you every individual listening right now, even if you don't
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have an idea for a show, just say, Steve, you've had a good
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run, but go ahead and turn off the mic. Or say, Steve, I don't
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have a specific idea. But I just don't want you to quit
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podcasting or whatever. Just tell me what you're thinking. I
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was talking with my friend Ron Ploof and his wife a couple of
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weeks ago, telling them that I was really in a quandary about
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whether to hang it up at the end of the season. And then I was
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thinking of asking the Lifespring family for your input
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in Ron's wife said, you could take their ideas and then do one
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idea one week and another idea the next week and so on sort of
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an ask Steve thing. I liked that idea. Maybe I'll do just that.
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But I don't know. So even if you don't think that your idea would
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be appropriate for a whole separate podcast of an
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indeterminate amount of episodes, maybe it would be good
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for one or two episodes. I mean, if you're interested, chances
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are other people would be too. And the reason I want in need
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all of you to participate in this exercise is because I need
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to know how much interest is there. If there's a lot of
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interest, great. But if there's not a lot of interest, that's
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okay, too. I'm at the time of my life where there are things I do
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want to do. Leanne has several projects that she's been
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patiently waiting for me to do for her. And I've got some
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hobbies that I've put on the backburner for too long. I've
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got grandkids I want to spend time with them. There are things
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I do want to do but this is a big but as a servant of Jesus,
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my life is not my own. He bought me with a price I belong to Him.
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And it is him that I willingly serve. If now is not the time to
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turn off the Lifespring medium microphone I will willingly and
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happily keep right on going along. I just can't do the daily
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thing anymore, then I feel completely at ease with that
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decision. I believe the Lord has released me from that part of my
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call. But listen, Christians don't retire. As long as God
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keeps us here. He has a job for us. I'll always do something for
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the Lord. Maybe I'll be a podcaster until I can no longer
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speak, maybe only until August 31. But please tell me what you
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would like to see me do. Please make it a matter of prayer.
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Listen to the Lord and tell me what you come away with. I'm
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serious. Sometimes God speaks through godly people. And I
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truly do want to do whatever it is he wants my next step to be.
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Send an email to me it Steve at Lifespring media.com. I'm going
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to be taking your email all month long. But please don't
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wait till the end of the month. Also in your subject line put
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the next step so it doesn't get put into my spam folder. So
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that's it. That's the announcement. This is the last
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season of the Lifespring family Audio Bible and perhaps it'll be
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the last podcast. I don't know. I need to hear from you. Steve
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at Lifespring media.com subject line, THE NEXT STEP.
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On this date in church history, August 1 1953, British literary
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scholar and Christian apologist CS Lewis wrote in a letter on
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this date, how little people know who think that holiness is
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doll, when one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.
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Prayer requests and praises. Here's a praise for yet KathI is
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at Del and KathI's daughter's home and she has a strong
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appetite. So that's great. It's been a long time since she had
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any appetite at all. So praise God for that. Let's pray. Our
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heavenly Father, Lord, we thank You for Your Word. And we thank
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you for teaching us and I pray, Lord, that what we learned from
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Deuteronomy today and my comments about it would be
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received in the manner that it was given in love, your will for
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us as always, for our benefit. And I pray that if there is
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anyone listening now that have not asked Jesus to be their
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Lord, that they would do that now. Thank you for continuing to
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bring strength to KathI and I pray that you would complete her
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healing, and bless Christi and her husband for opening their
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house for KathI and be with Dallas. He's up the hill by
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himself. And bless the Lifespring family. Lord, I pray
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that you would meet the needs that each one has. And Father, I
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asked you to speak to them about what you want me to do once this
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season is over. Give them your thoughts. Lord, I pray, I pray
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this all in Jesus name. Amen. If you have a prayer request or a
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praise, please go to prayer dot Lifespring media.com.
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Please do remember to give some thought and prayer to the
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question of what you'd like me to do once this season is over.
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And then email your thoughts to me at Steve at Lifespring
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media.com with the words the next step in the subject line.
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Very important. The next step comment on this show and
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Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 334. And thanks to Kirsty Sean of San
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Pedro and Denise, that group of people that I affectionately
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call the team, thank you very much to you sat streamers. It's
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cool to have the early adopters of the Lifespring family. Thanks
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to Robert in the UK for your donation today and for being
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such a longtime Lifespring family member. God bless you.
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And beloved thank you for the honor of being with you today. I
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appreciate it. It's good to see you. Are you glad the show is
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here. Has it been a blessing to you this year? If so, please
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send some support to Lifespring media.com/support Until tomorrow
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may God bless you richly My name is Steve Webb. Bye