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S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: It's an amazing thing to be gripped by the grace
S2: and the power of God. And on this freedom Friday. Oh,
S2: goodness sakes. Been in Joel early this morning. The prophet Joel.
S2: There's a lot of debate as to when it was
S2: actually written. Could have been eighth, ninth century. Could have
S2: been right before the Babylonian captivity, mostly in I think
S2: eighth ninth century. But the principle is powerful. Nation of
S2: Israel had turned their back on God, and the call
S2: of Joel was repent, turn around. But then the promise
S2: is astounding. The promise is restoration. And I read from
S2: a classic verse that some of you know, I will
S2: restore to you the years that the swarming locusts have
S2: eaten the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army,
S2: which I sent among you. You know, God will oftentimes
S2: allow us to sit in the pain of the locusts
S2: eating up our life. But God in his goodness holds
S2: out a hand and says, repent, turn around. But not
S2: only that, our God says, I will restore, I will restore.
S2: And you know, I was considering this this morning. And
S2: what are the practical restoration things God did for me
S2: when he called me out of darkness into the light.
S2: And by his grace I turned around, repented, and started
S2: following Jesus Christ, and gave my all to him. More
S2: than going to church, I became part of the church
S2: because I was now born again. And it's kind of
S2: funny because the Lord restored my health, my membranes in
S2: my nasal passages that had been fried from cocaine use
S2: for a few years. It was pretty heavy. In fact,
S2: I was talking with my son, who's in Miami yesterday,
S2: about that very story, and I was just rehearsing with
S2: my son because it's good to pass along the power
S2: of God in our lives. And I was just telling him, Kevin,
S2: you know, I your dad was in rough shape, man.
S2: Your dad was at a point when I couldn't even.
S2: I couldn't even party with friends. I had to party
S2: alone because of the shame of nosebleeds. I was just
S2: destroying my body. He said, dad, you're in bad shape,
S2: weren't you? I said, yes, son. I was in bad shape.
S2: But then God saved my soul and he restored my life.
S2: And it's that restoration piece that shows the incredible mercy
S2: and goodness of God. He'll take all those wasted years,
S2: all those wasted relationships, Lost revenue. Lost family. Lost jobs. Maybe. Worst.
S2: Lost opportunities. And he'll restore them. You know, I just
S2: want to ask you this morning. Are you done letting
S2: the locusts of this world and the world systems in
S2: your own foolish behavior? Are you done letting that ravage
S2: your life? I want you to know today our God,
S2: by his grace, can tell you to turn around and repent.
S2: Surrender your life fully to Jesus Christ, and he will
S2: restore those years, those opportunities, relationships. It's the ultimate do over.
S2: But it's better than that. It's a new you. You
S2: become a new creation. How? By the power of Jesus Christ.
S2: The conviction of the Holy Spirit right now is speaking
S2: to you, saying it's time to turn around. For some
S2: of you, you've been born again, truly born again. But
S2: you've allowed the locusts of this world to devour some
S2: sweet time and opportunities. And today is your day to
S2: turn back to the Lord again. For some of you,
S2: you've been on the broad path that leads to destruction
S2: your whole life. Oh, you might have, you know, beautified
S2: it a bit with a little bit of religion. God
S2: doesn't want you to get religion. He wants you to
S2: get relationship with him. And it's only found as Joel
S2: spoke to the nation of Israel with repentance, turning around
S2: and surrendering your life to Jesus Christ. Is that you today?
S2: Are you ready to give your life to Jesus? God
S2: brought you here for this reason. Don't ignore it. Don't
S2: let pride keep you walking down a path. Don't let
S2: a religious spirit keep you thinking I can fake it
S2: till I make it. Now the locusts are eating it up, man.
S2: Your pride, your self-will. Thinking that you got it figured out.
S2: The power of the gospel, the good news that changes everything,
S2: is that God by His Spirit is turning you around
S2: today saying, Surrender to Jesus. Some of you in a
S2: fresh way, some of you for the first time, and
S2: those of you for the first time. I'm inviting you
S2: to give your life to the one who saves and
S2: In restores. Totally restores. And I know you're ready. Because
S2: the spirit of God's prompting it in your heart. And today,
S2: I just want you to agree on a few things
S2: with God, not with me. I'm just a messenger. But
S2: agree with God that your sin has separated you from
S2: the life that is found in Jesus Christ. Just tell him, yeah, God,
S2: that's me and that there's no life found apart from
S2: Jesus Christ in the shed blood that he spilled on
S2: the cross for your sins. Tell him that's me. But
S2: count the cost here. Are you ready to surrender? All
S2: because the kingdom of God is only fit for those
S2: who say all to Jesus, I surrender all to him
S2: I freely give. Will you do that today? And here's
S2: the hope if you do. The prophet Joel's words echo
S2: echo through all of time and eternity. God says, I
S2: will restore all that the locusts have eaten. I'm going
S2: to pray for you right now. I want you to
S2: get your phone ready. There are some of you. And
S2: if it was just for you today that I am
S2: sharing this out of Joel chapter two, verse 25. God said,
S2: you're worth it all. So if you today are surrendering
S2: your life to Jesus totally. Oh, you may have short
S2: armed him in the past, short armed him, and you
S2: may have said, yeah, I believe I'm talking surrender your
S2: life to Jesus. And I want you to get your
S2: phone ready, and I'm going to pray for you right now. Father,
S2: I thank you for those that are surrendering to Jesus
S2: today who are affirming I'm a sinner. I've been going
S2: my own way. I've had my back to God. Just
S2: say it in your heart with me. But today I'm
S2: turning around. I surrender my life to Jesus Christ I
S2: see it, I've been blind, but now I see. And
S2: today I give it all to Jesus Christ. Save me
S2: and restore the wasted opportunities of the past. Redeem the
S2: time that has been lost. God. In Jesus name, Amen.
S2: If that's you, I want to welcome you to the family.
S2: It's an astounding thing. It's an amazing thing when God
S2: saves souls like this. And on this Freedom Friday, I
S2: want you to know that not only do you have
S2: freedom in Christ, you have the ability to watch God's hand,
S2: restore all the squandered opportunities and wasted years or months.
S2: And if today you have surrendered your life to Jesus
S2: Christ for the first time, I want to help you
S2: send the word new. Text it to us. Text the
S2: word new to 800 555 7898. Get your phone. Text
S2: new right now to 800 555 7898. Just new to
S2: 800 555 7898. Open that link. Walk through those through links.
S2: It's going to give you some really helpful stuff. The
S2: last link, the third link actually has a snail mail.
S2: And we're not capturing data. God's captured your heart and
S2: we're ready to help you. To live in God's power
S2: and not by your own strength any longer. We're going
S2: to send you a resource. We're going to we're going
S2: to help you in every way. We can just text
S2: the word new right now to 805, five, five, 78, 98.
S2: That's it. Just new to 805 five, five, 78, 98
S2: and God will restore years, months, wasted opportunities, lost finance,
S2: all of it. God will turn it all around. Coming
S2: up here, we may celebrate by shouting out the last
S2: four numbers of your telephone number. We know that you
S2: know that you have been captured by God and turned
S2: around by his grace today. Grateful for what God's doing
S2: in your life, my friend. When you get a chance,
S2: Text the word new. Just the word new to 800 555, 78, 98.
S2: It's Freedom Friday.
S1: You can take them out of Alaska, but you can't
S1: take Alaska out of him. Carl is in the crew.
S1: It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Surrendering to Jesus today. What an incredible thing to be
S2: a part of and to witness what God's doing in
S2: your life. Just shout out the last four numbers of
S2: your telephone number. And you know that we know that
S2: God's at work. 7103 3434 6447. Uh, someone here, let
S2: me get this number 1522. Um, 1008 6614 8019 2487 5518.
S2: Welcome to the family. Welcome to the family. You know.
S2: There's so many people, young Thunder, who stop by here
S2: from time to time. God catches them unaware. Wouldn't maybe
S2: darken the door of a church, but God. And that's
S2: one of the beauties of what we're doing here with radio. I'm.
S2: I was just blown away yesterday. I thought about the
S2: impact that two little campuses here in Chicagoland that I'm
S2: a pastor of 180 Chicago church are making. And it's
S2: it's significant, but the swath of people that are reached
S2: through radio is astounding. Yeah, it's overwhelming man.
S3: It is. And we I mean, we hear the stories
S3: all the time, you know, of of people who didn't
S3: even mean to find us. And and that's something that
S3: God does. You know, sometimes they're like, I turned on
S3: my car and somehow it was on your station and
S3: I never put it there. Or I was just scanning
S3: through and I happened to land on you. And something
S3: you said made me want to stay for a second,
S3: because it's the truth of God's Word in it, and
S3: it cuts the heart. And and so God's doing something
S3: because it's his word. It's his word shared. Yeah.
S2: It's just words of life to people. That and the
S2: cool thing about the Moody brand is that people that
S2: are even far from God have a hunch that if
S2: they're hurting, this is where you turn. Yeah. Isn't that
S2: isn't that cool?
S3: It's a blessing.
S2: Coming up in a few minutes. I want that hope
S2: of the gospel to spur you on today to spur
S2: you on. Come on friend. Come on friend, let's follow
S2: Jesus today with a whole heart.
S1: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
S1: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: This is our last full hour of pre share, one
S2: hour a week. For the last couple of weeks we've
S2: been tackling this. And I'm humbly asking you what's God
S2: going to do in your heart today. What's he doing
S2: in your heart? I know you've are blessed. Today alone
S2: we've had goodness sakes. I want to say close to
S2: 40 people surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ.
S3: Yes, yes.
S2: And I know that you appreciate Moody Radio. That's why
S2: you're here. And I'm asking you to signal it in
S2: a big way. We want to point this ship in
S2: the right direction. We're a few degrees off. We've just
S2: got to get this thing nudged back true north to
S2: keep on pace with our goal. And I'm asking you
S2: to help with that. Today. We've got something really cool.
S2: I do not have a name yet, but we've got,
S2: I mean, everything on the table for this one hour,
S2: and I'm asking you to be a part if you've
S2: never given before. This is the last day that we've
S2: got a kind of extra special thing. I don't know
S2: what is that that they get for that? It's a
S2: special mug.
S3: Yes.
S2: I think it's the Carl and Crew mug or moody
S2: radio mug, but suffice to say, everything's on the table
S2: here because we have a $10,000 match challenge going right now.
S2: I do not have a name for that, but every
S2: gift of every amount will be doubled for this hour,
S2: and I'm praying we break through it. Some of you
S2: will not be able to be here next week. Or
S2: maybe you are really feeling like, okay, let's get this
S2: thing pointed this right direction. Right now we're asking you
S2: to jump in and make it happen today. What's on
S2: your heart, Young thunder?
S3: Yeah. Listen, I am so grateful for those of you
S3: who are already participating with us. I got saved in
S3: large part due to the teaching on Moody Radio. The full,
S3: unashamed proclamation of the gospel is what God used to
S3: cut my heart. And so all of your gifts have
S3: a shareholding in my story. And so thank you. And
S3: for those of you who haven't given, who are maybe
S3: thinking about giving, there are hundreds of people like me
S3: every month right now, today, the last couple of hours
S3: that have given their lives to Christ because of the proclamation,
S3: the simple proclamation of the gospel on Moody Radio. Maybe
S3: they've never heard it before. Maybe they've heard it before.
S3: But God used this to be the time. Your gifts
S3: will have part in that.
S2: Okay, one hour, one hour only. We're going to we're
S2: going to sprint to the finish here. And I'm asking
S2: you to be a part. Every gift is doubled. And
S2: here's what we've got for you today. Um, every gift
S2: that's given, um, we are going to send you. All
S2: you got to do is request it. If you're calling in,
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S2: give you a biblical strategy with killing sin. I say
S2: we because I wrote it, but I feel like we
S2: all did together. Boom crew, you're part of this here.
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S2: If you call or giving online, just click that box.
S2: Say send me the book because you desire to conquer
S2: what has been defeating you, taking that next step with Jesus, boy,
S2: the gospel changes everything, does it? Every gift of any
S2: amount is doubled right now. And if you're new to
S2: the crew never given before, we got an extra special
S2: mug that we're sending your way. And I mean lots
S2: of really cool stuff. And I know you don't give
S2: to get. You give because of what the Lord's been
S2: doing in your heart. And we're grateful. I'm going to
S2: go take a break here, I guess. Oh, we got
S2: to tell him how to give their gifts. Some people
S2: are going, come on now, already. Here we go.
S3: That's right. You can call (800) 600-9624. Call or text share
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S2: Yeah. Debbie from Spokane, Washington got us out of the
S2: chute here. We're down to 9900in this match challenge. And
S2: I want to humbly ask somebody maybe won't be here
S2: next week or just feels prompted. And they've got five, ten, 15, 20,
S2: maybe 30 K and you want to lay it down
S2: as match challenge money to be used during share we want.
S2: We're asking everyone to just stop and consider, is this
S2: a time that God would have you just jump in
S2: and say, I'm all in for the gospel? It does
S2: change everything. It changed me and I want it to
S2: change others. What a vote of confidence that would be
S2: if you would do that today. Every gift is doubled
S2: right now because of. And I'm going to try to
S2: get a name here. Somebody plopped in ten grand and
S2: we are going for it today. Every gift is doubled
S2: up to ten grand. We might be able to lump
S2: in some more money. You never know what God does here,
S2: but right now we're asking you to make a call
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S2: Moody radio.org. That's how you give online. Be sure to
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S2: doubled right now. I'm going to keep it here until
S2: we get another gift in before we go to a song.
S2: 800 696 24, 800, 696 24 or Moody radio.org. Just
S2: going to hang on here waiting for that to happen
S2: and grateful for what God's doing in you. One hour
S2: only of have shared today. This is pre share. We
S2: jump in in earnest on next Tuesday. But the team
S2: said let's let's get this ship pointed in the right direction.
S2: We're a little bit behind the curve of where we
S2: want to be, where we want to be for pre share.
S2: We're a little bit behind the curve, but we're doing
S2: pretty well. Uh, Edith just came in from Chicago with
S2: a gift of 100 bucks. Now we're down to $9,800
S2: in this match. Challenge every gift of every amount. This
S2: makes it super doable. For those of you that are
S2: brand new to the crew, never given before, give five bucks.
S2: We'll send you the book. Give a buck, give ten,
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S2: going to get it your way, okay? We're going to
S2: get out of God's way. How do they do this,
S2: young thunder? Um, I'm just praying that we got a
S2: firestorm of people storming the gates here, man.
S3: Yeah, you can call or text share to (800) 600-9624. That's
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S3: online at Moody radio.org.
S2: Alessandra just came in from Kentucky. Way to go.
S3: Thank you.
S2: Alessandra. Way to go. We're just asking you to pour
S2: it in right now. 800 696 24 or Moody radio.org.
S2: Be sure to ask the operator for the book or
S2: click the box online. Godspeed, guys. We'll report back straight
S2: ahead what God is up to. Father, thank you that
S2: you are at work today. This is your work in
S2: the hearts of people. Thank you for the gospel because
S2: it changes everything. It changed us.
S1: She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her.
S1: Super die is in the crew. It's Carl and crew
S1: on Moody Radio.
S2: I have a. Desire deep one that the last 190
S2: some slots for prayers for share. We had 600. We're
S2: down to 190. And change would be filled by you
S2: that you would jump in. I promise you it will
S2: be a great experience, challenging, praying for 30 minutes. But
S2: we're going to give you prayer points. We're going to
S2: give you everything you need. And my goal was to
S2: have this thing filled up by the end of today,
S2: Freedom Friday. It's going to be hard, but if you
S2: can be one of those, we're going to be one
S2: more step toward getting those seats filled, and we're going
S2: to send you if you sign up for the prayer
S2: crew during share, grab a half an hour slot somewhere
S2: and you'll see a whole roster on this sign up sheet.
S2: It's very cool form. We're going to send you video
S2: links in the morning that are going to give you
S2: an inside scoop as to what's going on. We're going
S2: to also have a portal so that we can hear
S2: back from you what God is showing you. We benefit
S2: from that so much. I'm going to have elders on
S2: my home, at my home here tomorrow morning, early for
S2: a couple hours of just prayer, and I do. I
S2: believe God moves through prayer. Yeah. Do we get insights? Oh, absolutely.
S2: And we're going to gain those from you. So I
S2: want you to come and grab these last couple hundred slots.
S2: And man, I'd be grateful for that. So I humbly
S2: ask you, if you've waited. Today is the day I
S2: want you to come and get them. Let's try to
S2: get these 200 knocked out here. And in the 8:00 hour,
S2: we're going to have one hour of just asking God
S2: to aim this effort toward true north through to the Polaris,
S2: our Savior, Jesus Christ. Aim everything right at Him and
S2: His glory. And that's going to be in the 8:00 hour,
S2: knowing that some of you won't be here next week
S2: during share. Some of you already have commitments. You're going
S2: on vacation. You've got too much going on at work.
S2: You might not be tuning in. I want everyone to
S2: be a part of share who's benefited from Moody Radio
S2: in some way. That's that's my humble ask this year.
S2: Everybody doing something. And one of those first things that
S2: you can do is pray. So young Thunder, give out
S2: the link and put the mustard to it, my man.
S3: Yeah, absolutely. Carl talks about it all the time. Prayer
S3: is the engine room for a movement of God. We
S3: want to seek his face because it's not up to us.
S3: It's not. It's not up to Carl in the words
S3: he says. It's not up to me and the words
S3: I say. It's not up to the health of Ali
S3: and Diana as we've been praying for them to get
S3: healthy this week. God is in control. He's going to
S3: take care of it and our prayers just align us
S3: with his purposes. Yes. So if you want to join
S3: us in that this week and next week, text the
S3: word crew to 800 555, 7898. That's 805 five, five 7898.
S3: We want to have you there with us because prayer.
S3: We got to have it.
S2: Yeah. Changes everything, man. The gospel changes everything. And part
S2: of the gospel is prayer asking you to jump in
S2: right now. Thank you. Ahead of time. Text crew to
S2: 800 555 7898. Crew to 805 five five 7898.
S1: He's a sports fanatic with a stat for anything you
S1: can think of. Young Thunder is in the crew. It's
S1: Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: So you get into the sticky pages of the Word
S2: of God and you're wondering what's really here. They're loaded.
S2: I set before you blessings and curses. Life and death.
S2: Now choose life. You see story after story and call
S2: after call on God to our life and it's amazing.
S2: But sometimes getting a little help from a friend doesn't hurt. Right, Allie?
S4: Yeah. We've got a special guest with us right now.
S4: Doctor Ryan Cook, professor of Old Testament in Hebrew at
S4: Moody Theological Seminary. Even if you don't know his name,
S4: you will probably be familiar with his work. If you
S4: are a reader of Today in The Word, the devotional
S4: put out by our friends here at Moody. He is
S4: the author of this month's devotional on the Book of Deuteronomy.
S2: So, Doctor Cook, tell us something. What is the most
S2: recent powerful aha moment that you've had in the book
S2: of Deuteronomy?
S5: Well, going through this study, this time, that one of
S5: the things that stuck out to me most that I
S5: had never really noticed before, was the little word y
S5: o u u, which in English, you know, we use
S5: u for singular or plural unless you're in the south, right?
S5: Then you say y'all for the plural.
S6: But now we're talking.
S5: Yeah, we have just the u singular, u plural. But
S5: what happens in the book of Deuteronomy? Moses is is
S5: preaching a series of sermons to these children of Israel
S5: when they're about to go enter the land. He knows
S5: he can't go with him. He's not able to go
S5: and be a part of that. But he wants them
S5: to succeed. He wants them to do well, and he
S5: knows that for them to do well, it's going to
S5: be about their keeping the Lord first in their life.
S5: And so he goes through these covenant commandments with Israel,
S5: and he seamlessly moves back and forth between the you singular,
S5: like each individual Israelite, has a responsibility before the Lord
S5: to to keep their relationship with him first. But then
S5: in the next verse he'll switch to the you plural,
S5: that it's about you as a community, being faithful before
S5: the Lord as well. And it's just a great reminder
S5: for us that just like in Israel in the Old Testament,
S5: the people of God, the church today, we are saved
S5: as individuals. We have an individual relationship with God, a
S5: responsibility before him, but were also saved into a community.
S5: It's about the church and and the church being faithful
S5: to live before God as well. And it's just beautifully
S5: articulated through the grammar of of Deuteronomy. And that's something
S5: that really impacted me this time through.
S4: Now, the title of this month's devotional, Walk in Obedience
S4: The Book of Deuteronomy. There are a whole lot of
S4: rules that are covered in this book. For someone who
S4: maybe is newer to Bible reading or who struggles with
S4: some of the Old Testament reading, why so many rules?
S5: The first thing I'd want to say is, as followers
S5: of the Lord Jesus today, we're not under the mosaic covenant.
S5: This is not not our covenant directly. And so we
S5: might think, well then why are we reading this? And
S5: it is still God's revelation to us. It reveals God's
S5: heart to us, and we can look at even though
S5: we're not directly under those laws, we can look at
S5: the principles that they're based on as a source of
S5: authority and wisdom for our own lives today. There's many
S5: examples of that, but I think sometimes we get off
S5: on the wrong foot because we think about these laws
S5: in the wrong way. We might think about them as
S5: legalistic as if in the Old Testament, God only really
S5: wanted Israel to check the boxes off of this external obedience.
S5: I think a better way of thinking about it is
S5: like a marriage relationship. So when when my wife and
S5: I got married, we made these vows to each other
S5: that were really significant right to have and to hold,
S5: to be faithful to each other till death do us part.
S5: And I never once thought, you know, that's so legalistic.
S6: Like.
S5: My wife is only in my relationship with me because she,
S5: you know, would check these boxes off or whatever. And
S5: we don't think about it like that at all. It's
S5: about we joyfully entered into that because we wanted that relationship.
S5: And that's what really what the covenant is between God
S5: and Israel. It's how can they be in this relationship together?
S5: And it was viewed joyfully even in the Old Testament,
S5: even though they ultimately failed in keeping it. It was
S5: really seen as a gift from God to be able
S5: to to have that relationship with him.
S2: Doctor Ryan Cook is our guest. He's the key writer
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S2: You know, Deuteronomy is fascinating. I was in chapter nine
S2: here going through some musings as of late. And it's
S2: interesting that God is so relevant because he says to
S2: the nation of Israel, he says, listen, I'm having you
S2: go in to take the land because of the wickedness
S2: of the Canaanites. But hold on a second. Don't think
S2: you're all that in a bag of chips. He says, you, you,
S2: you are stubborn of heart, and it's not because of
S2: your righteousness, but it's because of the Absolute godlessness of
S2: the Canaanites. The book of Deuteronomy. Although, yes, under the
S2: mosaic covenant, boy, it's just take that little passage. It
S2: is so relevant to us. God is merciful when we
S2: are not perfect. Right? Doc?
S5: Yeah, you can see God's grace throughout the book of Deuteronomy.
S5: Just in the fact that God's in a covenant with
S5: Israel is itself an act of God's grace. But if
S5: you think of the context of Deuteronomy, Israel is about
S5: to enter the Promised land again. Moses can't go with them.
S5: And you think of what kind of advice would a
S5: leader give in that type of situation? Like you're about
S5: to enter this land, you're going to need to hold it.
S5: You've got to establish a nation. I might expect a
S5: book full of how to how to create a centralized government,
S5: how to have a powerful army. Yes, but for for Moses,
S5: he doesn't focus on that at all. He said it's
S5: about keeping your relationship with the Lord first. If you
S5: get that wrong, none of it, none of the other
S5: things matter. And in fact, if you are disobedient just
S5: like the Canaanites are, you're going to be judged too.
S5: Just like I'm judging them. And so it's God does
S5: a great job. Moses does a wonderful job of highlighting
S5: the priority of Israel's walk with the Lord as as
S5: what's really important for them to flourish as a nation.
S4: You mentioned the grace of God being reflected in this book.
S4: A lot of times we don't think about the graciousness
S4: of God in some of these tougher passages where there's
S4: a lot of talk about consequences for disobedience. Where do
S4: you where do you see the grace of God at
S4: work in this passage? And how can the grace of
S4: God transform our lives today?
S5: Yeah. So we just mentioned two things. There's a lot
S5: we could talk about, but one would be just the
S5: fact that God revealed himself to Israel at all is
S5: an amazing act of God's grace, that he would tell Israel,
S5: this is who I am, this is what my character
S5: is like. And this is the way that I'm calling
S5: you to live. That is an incredible gift to be
S5: able to have that. There's these some of these texts
S5: from the ancient world that have been dug up by archaeologists.
S5: And there's one where there's this Babylonian worshiper who says
S5: something like, oh, that if we only knew what the
S5: gods wanted, like the gods. It seems like what's right
S5: to a person is wrong to a god. And we
S5: try to get things right and we never know. Israel
S5: did not have that problem. Yeah. The Lord graciously revealed
S5: himself to him. That's a wonderful thing. The other act
S5: of grace in the book, I would say, is the
S5: Lord's love for the people of Israel that come through,
S5: and that his call for them was to love him.
S5: It was never about Israel. I want you to conform
S5: outwardly to my standard. It's I want your heart to
S5: be transformed. Love the Lord your God with all your heart,
S5: with all your soul, with all your muchness, with all
S5: your might. Um, and and having that as the center
S5: of what life is all about is a is a
S5: wonderful gift.
S2: You have. Set the deck, doctor Ryan Cook. He is
S2: the primary author. Right, doc? For this month's today in
S2: the word.
S5: Yes for this month. Yep.
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