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Speaker 1: Hello, Faith for listeners, good morning, and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Bible Explain podcast. On this absolutely lovely, lovely morning, we've

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Speaker 1: But today we're going to be talking about first chronicles

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Speaker 1: twenty eight and part of twenty nine as well, and

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Speaker 1: today's topic is did God want this temple built or not?

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that today. Stay tuned. So, as you

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Speaker 1: guys saw the past couple days my podcast episodes, we're

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Speaker 1: so it looked like all my episodes were just like deleted,

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Speaker 1: and as of right now, I don't believe they fixed

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Speaker 1: it yet. So unfortunately, you're only going to see my

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Speaker 1: trying to work out, and I really hope they fix

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Speaker 1: YouTube and also on Rumble because my mom also handles

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Speaker 1: my Rumble channel as well, which is absolutely fantastic. And

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Speaker 1: thank you mom for doing all of that. I greatly

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Speaker 1: for the podcast while everything is hopefully being fixed. But

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Speaker 1: for right now, let's go ahead and read First Chronicles

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Speaker 1: twenty eight eight through twenty one, and also First Chronicles

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Speaker 1: twenty nine one through nine. And I'm just gonna read

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Speaker 1: these these two chapters straight. I'm not going to take

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Speaker 1: a pause after First Chronicles twenty eight, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about everything going on in these two chapters. So grab

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Speaker 1: your Bible and your cup of coffee or your cup

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Speaker 1: of tea this morning, and let's give reverence to God's

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Speaker 1: word as we read First Chronicles twenty eight, starting on

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Speaker 1: verse eight. Now, therefore, in the sight of all Israel,

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Speaker 1: observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh, your

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Speaker 1: forever you, Solomon my son, know the God of your Father,

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Speaker 1: you off forever. Take heed now, for Yahweh has chosen

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Speaker 1: David is encouraging everybody to seek the laws of God,

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Speaker 1: He says, you, Solomon, my son, know the God of

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Speaker 1: going to be accomplished, even though he unfortunately has to

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Speaker 1: encouraged about actually, But faithful listeners, I really hope you

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