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Speaker 1: All right, what's up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I need to say before we start that we're we

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Speaker 1: you guys have not liked with the latest format of

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Speaker 1: this podcast, I haven't heard your complaints because those are

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Speaker 1: future complaints that haven't happened yet. But I really like

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Speaker 1: what we're doing. A man has been a big part

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Speaker 1: of this. Parker has been a big part of this,

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Speaker 1: and so is Paul.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: So what we do here is we answer your questions

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Speaker 1: podcast at grangersmith dot com is the answer is how

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Speaker 1: you how you asked the question, and then hopefully I'll

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Speaker 1: give you the answer I'll ask it. I I think

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Speaker 1: it's important that we've been answering a bunch of questions

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Speaker 1: kind of bundled into one. Today is a big one.

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Speaker 1: I get asked this all the time. Personally, I get

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Speaker 1: asked this if I'm doing some kind of Q and

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Speaker 1: A at a conference. This is a major question. And

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Speaker 1: then on the podcast itself, the last one hundred episodes

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Speaker 1: or so, I've gotten this a bunch and the question

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Speaker 1: is how do you read your Bible? Speaking to me personally,

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Speaker 1: how do you, Granger read your Bible? And I think

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Speaker 1: that's a great question. And I kind of figured out

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Speaker 1: a system on my own through listening and watching other people,

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Speaker 1: and so this wasn't taught to me. So it's not

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Speaker 1: the right it's not necessarily the right way. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there is a right way to read

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Speaker 1: your Bible as long as you are reading it. I

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Speaker 1: think there are wrong ways. Maybe we should start with that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: a wrong way. In fact, I just heard this today.

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Speaker 1: I heard this today from a friend friend of Amber,

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Speaker 1: and she said, my boyfriend just talked about a Bible

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Speaker 1: verse and it was Lamentations three and it was great

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Speaker 1: as your Faithfulness. And she was like, he screenshotted great

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Speaker 1: as your Faithful Faithfulness and sent it to me and says,

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Speaker 1: this hits differently. And the girlfriend said why, and she said,

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Speaker 1: because I'm realizing now that the Lord looks on our faithfulness,

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Speaker 1: not our works. And I was like, that verse is

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Speaker 1: not about the man. That's the faithfulness of God.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeremiah's writing that about God. And and in fact

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Speaker 1: lamentations are are It's a horrible, horrible story of how

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Speaker 1: the Babylonians were wrecking Jerusalem, and Jeremiah's watching it weeping

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Speaker 1: up at the Lord and as great as your faithfulness?

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Speaker 1: That that that is what happened, and what here's the deal,

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Speaker 1: and this is what this is where it was wrong.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get any of that because he got the

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Speaker 1: notification of the Bible app the quote of the day.

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Speaker 2: So he has no context.

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Speaker 1: There's no context.

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Speaker 2: That would be the wrong way to the wrong way

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Speaker 2: to read the Bible is out of context.

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Speaker 1: That's one verse at a time that pops up on

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Speaker 1: I mean that is so far fetched that I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Did you start thinking to yourself, where in the Bible

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Speaker 2: does he say that my faithfulness is great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I couldn't understand that. I actually walked away

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Speaker 1: time ago, I did a couple of years ago, I

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Speaker 1: listening to it. Don't go listen to it because I

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Speaker 1: wasn't very good preacher. I'm still not. But whatever, But

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Speaker 1: that is a wrong way. We cannot read our Bible

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Speaker 1: that way. Here's another wrong way. And this came up

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Speaker 1: doing on this episode right now. It's so important. Fact.

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Speaker 1: Last time you and I were on a show together

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Speaker 2: Would you pick up, for lack of a better one

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Speaker 2: I didn't like this book? I what do you not

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Speaker 2: The Bible is not chronological in every single chapter. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: It's after Kings where am I I thought marked, I'll

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Speaker 1: I like this, So just context, that's all we're asking

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Speaker 1: So to this guy in the crowd, I say, have

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Speaker 1: So I just pointed out this guy and Romans is

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Speaker 1: just try to read emotionally on what you think you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so another wrong way to read the Bible

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Speaker 2: No, my my personal encounter with how I'm reading now

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Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever talked about it. I've mentioned

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Speaker 1: And the reading the Bible is it is. It is

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Speaker 1: life changing. It's life transforming, it is life giving, and

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Speaker 1: to this right now, it's not just reading your Bible

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Speaker 2: So you have those in your life. You have your

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna start every day. I'm gonna read one chapter

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Speaker 2: of the New Testament, start in Matthew, and then just

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Speaker 2: start reading. And I read through the end and I

433
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Speaker 2: was like, Okay, you know what I could probably do

434
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Speaker 2: is add a psalm. I do a psalm every day,

435
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Speaker 2: and then a chapter of the New Testament. And then

436
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Speaker 2: you and I were talking and you said, well, have

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Speaker 2: you tried the McShane plan. It's like, I don't even

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Speaker 2: know what that is, never even heard of it.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's a good point to remember. It's

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Speaker 1: not quantity, no, No, it's just the daily practice of

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Speaker 1: it that I'm looking for first. It's it's like if

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Speaker 1: I was telling you you need to run, you need

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Speaker 1: to be a jogger, and then you would say how

444
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Speaker 1: far do I need to run? I go, I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I don't care how far you run, just run. I

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Speaker 1: just want you to put your shoes on. And if

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Speaker 1: you run fifty feet then, and if you do that

448
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Speaker 1: every single morning, you run fifty feet with your jog

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Speaker 1: and choose and come back, then I'm expecting that by

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Speaker 1: next week you're running seventy five feet. I'm expecting that,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not requiring it, or I just want to

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Speaker 1: build the habit. I've said this before, but by no

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Speaker 1: means am I ever trying to put myself forward as

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Speaker 1: someone that's got it going on, by no means using

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Speaker 1: any kind of bragging language. But the only reason I

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Speaker 1: bring this stuff up is to just encourage to maybe

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Speaker 1: model something that I'm seeing from other guys. Everything I

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Speaker 1: do is modeled from someone else. I'm not inventing any

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Speaker 1: of this. In fact, everyone all the way back to

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Speaker 1: the first century, we're all just modeling that and trying

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Speaker 1: our best. But the reason I even bring it up

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Speaker 1: is so that people go, Grandri could do it. I

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Speaker 1: could do it. And so one thing I say it

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Speaker 1: is last year in twenty twenty three, I didn't skip

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Speaker 1: any mornings in twenty twenty three except four, and that's

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Speaker 1: when I was in Pakistan and it was literally illegal

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Speaker 1: for me to bring a Bible in any in any form,

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Speaker 1: even on my phone, even an app. It was illegal

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Speaker 1: in that country completely, So I just relied on memorization. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and that's it. And and it was a special time

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Speaker 1: actually in Pakistan, not to not have my Bible. It

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Speaker 1: was a special connection I had because because the Word

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Speaker 1: is life for me, the Bible's life. And so as

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Speaker 1: I separated the umbilical cord from life. Yes, sure I

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Speaker 1: went to Pakistan. I said, Lord, Lord, I need you,

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Speaker 1: and I just went through my you know verses that

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Speaker 1: I knew and and my prayer life was fruitful. And

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Speaker 1: because I think the Lord sustained me knowing I know

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Speaker 1: you love my word, and thank you for that. But

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Speaker 1: when I pull it away, you still have me. So there,

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Speaker 1: I think there's something to say for that. But but

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Speaker 1: when I was in Pakistan, it was the only four

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Speaker 1: days and then I ended up catching back up later.

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Speaker 1: But I say that once again not to brag, but

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Speaker 1: to just set set an example for others that might

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Speaker 1: be wondering. I'm pretty busy, Granger, Like, I've got a

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Speaker 1: lot going on, my work, my wife, my kids, my schedule,

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Speaker 1: I go fishing, I get on airplanes to that. To

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Speaker 1: all of that, I say, I could probably match you

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Speaker 1: in all those things. Yeah, I've been moderately busy the

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Speaker 1: last several years, and I don't skip it because this

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Speaker 1: is life and whatever else is going on, whatever busyness

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Speaker 1: I've got going on, I need to get up earlier

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Speaker 1: or I don't if I can't get up, if it's

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Speaker 1: not doesn't make sense. If I'm getting up at three

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Speaker 1: am to go get a flight, and it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: as much sense to get up at two thirty to

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Speaker 1: read the Bible or two. Then I'll say, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to read in the morning when I wake up,

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Speaker 1: but I'll read in the airport, sitting there way.

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Speaker 2: Away to flight.

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Speaker 1: On the flight itself, I'll read then, but I make

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Speaker 1: it a point that I don't miss it. And so

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Speaker 1: I say all of that to hopefully wipe away excuses

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Speaker 1: from people that think they're too busy. And and then

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Speaker 1: I think we should lead into what this podcast really

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Speaker 1: is about. And you kind of alluded to that. How

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Speaker 1: specifically do we read our Bibles? Now this part what

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Speaker 1: everything I said until this part I think is you

510
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Speaker 1: need to do everything I've said up until this part.

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Speaker 1: You need to do it. You need to understand the

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Speaker 1: importance of it. As the Bible has told us the

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Speaker 1: importance of itself, and you need to understand the gravity

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Speaker 1: of it, the weight of it, the desperation for every

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Speaker 1: breath of it, and you need to do it every day.

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Speaker 1: So up until this point everything I would say, do

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Speaker 1: it now, you're on your own. After that, like you said,

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Speaker 1: and I think you said it well, one paragraph, if

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Speaker 1: you read one paragraph, it's something. Don't read one line. Please,

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Speaker 1: don't read one verse. Otherwise you might think that's your

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Speaker 1: faithfulness and not God is talking about. But if you

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Speaker 1: read one paragraph a day. There is another thing I'm

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Speaker 1: studying in the Bible, and that is with my family worship,

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Speaker 1: and so that's another thing separate. And with that, we're

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Speaker 1: working through the Book of Mark and we read maybe

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Speaker 1: as much as the kids can handle. And sometimes that's

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Speaker 1: only one paragraph, right, and I think that's also enough

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Speaker 1: for the average viewer to listen. If you're like, look,

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Speaker 1: I don't have time, or I don't understand it, or

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Speaker 1: I don't desire it. If any of those things are you,

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Speaker 1: then I would say, let's go to one Let's go

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Speaker 1: to one paragraph. In the Gospels, they're called perickepees, the

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Speaker 1: little sections that have a little title, and then there's

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Speaker 1: a little section what I do.

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Speaker 2: Like if that is your statement? Though, I find it

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Speaker 2: hard to believe that you've made a commitment to Christ

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Speaker 2: and have zero desire. Am I wrong in that?

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Speaker 1: No, it's a really good check engine light for you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, so this truck's not running right because

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Speaker 1: I don't care about the Bible. Granger, you say all

541
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Speaker 1: this stuff, I don't understand. It makes no sense to me.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you just told me you dedicated your life

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Speaker 2: to Christ and you're saved, and so you have no desire.

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Speaker 1: So so you got to check engine light in the truck.

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Speaker 1: You need to you need to take it into the station.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong? I don't desire your word? In Someone nineteen,

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Speaker 1: which is a man after God's own heart, loves the word.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you even just want to go selfishly

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Speaker 2: look for the benefits, you know, Let's start there. Let's

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Speaker 2: start on service level, flesh level.

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Speaker 1: I think the atheist just read the Bible? Why not?

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Speaker 1: It's the It's it's the most popular literature in the world.

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Speaker 1: You're going to read Homer's Odyssey, why not read the Bible?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: You don't have to believe it if you're a mister atheist,

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Speaker 1: But why not read it now? Secretly? As Christians, we

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Speaker 1: know what Hebrews four twelve says that it's sharper than inituated.

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Speaker 1: Sword pierce into the division soul in the spirit, you know,

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Speaker 1: and we know that.

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Speaker 2: We know that if they start reading it will happen.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but you can go in as a skeptic. That's

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Speaker 1: fine with me. Maybe we could spend just a few

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Speaker 1: seconds here on translations. I typically recommend against everyone hold

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Speaker 1: their breath the King James. Look, I think the King

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Speaker 1: James is great. In fact, i'm reading currently the New

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Speaker 1: King James. But I would recommend against the King James

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Speaker 1: only because of it's hard to understand, especially for people

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Speaker 1: that don't that aren't turn off a lot that aren't

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Speaker 1: from sixteen they don't live in the year sixteen oh five.

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Speaker 1: Then I would say, hey, you you should probably read

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Speaker 1: a more modern translation and hang on with me. People

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Speaker 1: are already getting pissed off, I could tell. But I'm

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Speaker 1: going to I'm going to go through the reasons behind

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Speaker 1: what I just said, and I'm gonna hopefully make you

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Speaker 1: feel better if you're really people are angry at me

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Speaker 1: right now. I could feel it because I just talked

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Speaker 1: to I said, don't read the King, James.

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Speaker 2: I almost sent you a via a video to react to,

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Speaker 2: which was a preacher saying, thank God we have the

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Speaker 2: King James, therefore we no longer have any need for

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Speaker 2: here or for the Greek and I just laughed and

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'm sure we have other things

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Speaker 2: to talk about. So I didn't send it to.

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Speaker 1: You, Okay, So what am I to do? And then

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Speaker 1: that'll help with that discussion. I'm gonna hit screen record

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Speaker 1: on this iPad, which is my Bible. So here we are,

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Speaker 1: we're looking at Psalm forty two one. That's the last

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Speaker 1: thing we read. So what we're looking at here is

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Speaker 1: an app and I choose to read my I read

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Speaker 1: different pieces of media for different situations. For instance, with

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Speaker 1: our kids when we do our family worship, I'm reading

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Speaker 1: the actual paper Bible when I get up in the morning,

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Speaker 1: and I read my own devotional time. I'm using this

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Speaker 1: the screen I'm looking at right now. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of reasons. One it this is syncing with my phone.

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Speaker 1: What's on my iPads syncs with my phone. So when

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Speaker 1: I have those moments when I'm like in an uber

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Speaker 1: and it's three o'clock in the morning and I didn't

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Speaker 1: get to read. I'm reading right here on my phone.

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Speaker 1: It's always on me, so I don't have to have

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Speaker 1: my Bible in my bag. I don't have to have

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Speaker 1: because that's a good excuse. If you don't, you're like, man,

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Speaker 1: my Bible is not in my backpack. I guess I

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Speaker 1: can't read today. That's a bad hangout.

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Speaker 2: Eliminate those barriers.

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Speaker 1: Eliminate barriers great. Another reason is it's got a light.

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Speaker 1: It's got a backlight to it, so I'm reading early

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Speaker 1: in the morning. I don't necessarily need a lamp or

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Speaker 1: a light on the airplane or in the terminal or

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Speaker 1: in my living room. It's got its own light. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: Another reason for the iPad is this particular thing I'm

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Speaker 1: looking right here. This is called Lagos or other people

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Speaker 1: pronounce it logos l O g O S. That is

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Speaker 1: an app and effectively go out here. So it's right

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Speaker 1: here on the top left, Lagos Bible. It's blue and

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Speaker 1: it has a white cross on it, and there are

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Speaker 1: many versions. So don't take don't think that this is

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Speaker 1: the only way to do it. But what we're looking

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Speaker 1: at here is, as you could see on the screen,

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Speaker 1: the as a deer pants are flowing streams. So pants

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Speaker 1: my soul for you, Oh God, is highlighted in yellow.

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Speaker 1: So I could highlight that. I could. I can go

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Speaker 1: in here and highlight any verses, and as I get

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Speaker 1: as I come back to it, I see what I

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Speaker 1: previously highlighted. Also, you see on the top left on

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Speaker 1: this verse one there's a little tea, and I could

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Speaker 1: hit that tee and it's going to say Joel one twenty.

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Speaker 1: So there is a reference to Joel one twenty and

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Speaker 1: it says, even the beast of the field pant for

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Speaker 1: you because the water brooks are dried up great and

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Speaker 1: fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. So there's

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Speaker 1: a connection between Joel one twenty and Psalm forty two

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Speaker 1: to one. Great. Another thing I could do on Longos

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Speaker 1: is I could take a word like soul and I

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Speaker 1: hit soul, and now I have Hebrew, and I could

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Speaker 1: look at the word study on soul and the way

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Speaker 1: that this was used, and I could study the word.

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Speaker 1: I could study. If I'm in the New Testament, I

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Speaker 1: could study the Greek of it, and I could see

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Speaker 1: the way that this was translated. So this goes back

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Speaker 1: to the kind of this King James conversation is I

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Speaker 1: could look at what do these words means? So if

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Speaker 1: I don't trust a translation, then let me look at

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Speaker 1: what the actual word says myself. So I don't have

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Speaker 1: to sit here and go I don't trust a certain translation.

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Speaker 1: Well it's twenty twenty four. We have logos. Look at

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Speaker 1: the word yourself. Look at the word yourself that was

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Speaker 1: found on the actual scroll itself. So I can get

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Speaker 1: a definition of the word. I can get the Hebrew word.

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Speaker 1: I can get what the Hebrew word means. I can

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Speaker 1: go way deeper than that I could look. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can get really really deep. What I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: on the screen now is the English Standard version. This

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Speaker 1: is my preaching text that I use. Sure, it's also

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Speaker 1: my personal reading and my personal devotional. It's it is

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Speaker 1: also what I read with the kids. But I said

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Speaker 1: personal devotional. That's wrong. That's this is my preaching text,

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Speaker 1: and this is what I read with the kids, and

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Speaker 1: this is what I teach with. But my personal reason

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Speaker 1: my church uses it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So you stay in line with the same verbiage.

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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's the best easiest way

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Speaker 1: to answer that. My church reads the ESV, and there

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Speaker 1: I think it's an excellent translation. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: other reasons, but let's start there. But my personal devotional

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Speaker 1: translation changes every year. Right now, I'm in the King

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Speaker 1: James or the New King James. Last year in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, I read the CSB Christian Standard Bible.

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Speaker 2: So go ahead, New King James. Is that take out

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Speaker 2: a lot of these and dows?

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, that's pretty much where that's It's the same

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Speaker 1: as King James, just without the these and dows.

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Speaker 2: That's where a lot of a lot of people get

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Speaker 2: hung up in that verbicon, these and thousand. There they

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Speaker 2: be talking about at this point.

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Speaker 1: The New King James and the King James. They come out.

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Speaker 1: They come out of Textus receptus manuscripts, and the ESV

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Speaker 1: and the CSB comes out of the Alexandrian Old manuscripts.

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Speaker 1: The Alexandrian manuscripts are slightly older and found slightly more recently.

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Speaker 1: Interesting we found recent more recent we have found Alexandrian

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Speaker 1: manuscripts that are older. The older ones sometimes exclude certain

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Speaker 1: things which is why people see now and it's like

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Speaker 1: popular on TikTok to go look at this Bible, y'all,

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Speaker 1: it's missing verse twenty three, right, how dare they remove

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Speaker 1: twenty three? Well, the reason is not because someone's being

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Speaker 1: deceitful and taking it out of a major translation that

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Speaker 1: we all can trust. It's because the older manuscripts don't

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Speaker 1: include it.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it's wrong. And none of that

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Speaker 1: changes major doctrine. It's all all of those instances where

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Speaker 1: something is excluded or included. It's it's always second, third,

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Speaker 1: fourth tier type stuff. It's never a major doctrine. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't change any of our beliefs. It doesn't change the faith,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't change anything about what we believe. It's just

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Speaker 1: slight details. But what's cool is that we know that

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty four. We know these slight differences. And

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Speaker 1: as I read logos, I could go back, So watch

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing now on screen. I can go to

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Speaker 1: text comparison, and I could go to let me see

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Speaker 1: if I go to we're looking at some one, let's

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Speaker 1: go to Psalm one. And so now I have the ESV,

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Speaker 1: the l e B, the NASB, the NIV, the NRSV,

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Speaker 1: the KGV, the good old King James, and the NKJAV.

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Speaker 1: It goes on and on, and so I could sid

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Speaker 1: he and go. Blessed is the man who walks not

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Speaker 1: in the council of the wicked. Blessed is the man

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Speaker 1: who does not walk in the advice of the wicked.

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Speaker 1: How blessed is the man who does not walk in

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Speaker 1: the council.

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Speaker 2: Of the wicked.

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Speaker 1: Blessed is the one who does not walk in step

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Speaker 1: with the wicked. Blessed is the man that walketh not

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Speaker 1: in the council of the ungodly. Blessed is the man

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Speaker 1: who walks not in the council of the ungodly. How

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Speaker 1: happy is the man who does not follow the advice?

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Speaker 1: So here it is, here's all that. This makes everybody

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Speaker 1: happy and logos even monitors. Right here the percentage of

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Speaker 1: difference in what the translation you're looking at is. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, the KJV is thirty one percent different than

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Speaker 1: the ESV in Psalm one one, And you could look

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Speaker 1: right here. Blessed is the man that walketh not in

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Speaker 1: the council of the ungodly. Blessed is the man who

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Speaker 1: walks not in the Council of the Wicked slightly different,

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Speaker 1: but you see what I mean, it's the same thing. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's the same idea. It's very obvious if it's different,

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Speaker 1: if it means a different thing, or if it hits

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Speaker 1: differently or a different emotion, that would be wrong. And

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Speaker 1: these major translations are not wrong. It's a different way

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Speaker 1: of looking at an ancient translation. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: it's probably fair to say that none of them are

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Speaker 1: exactly right right.

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Speaker 2: Because they're English.

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Speaker 1: They're English, but we know that the word is preserved

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Speaker 1: for us in a way that we could trust it

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Speaker 1: that it is still the inerate word of God. It's

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Speaker 1: spoken differently, but it's the same essence, it's the same feeling,

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Speaker 1: it's the same nature character of God that comes through

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Speaker 1: the text that we can believe and wrap our lives around.

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Speaker 1: So I hope this makes people comfortable. It makes people comfortable.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think a question two that can come up

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Speaker 2: is like, well, how are they just now discovering new

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Speaker 2: scrolls with this text? And what have you? We saw

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Speaker 2: it firsthand. I mean literally, there will be an area

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Speaker 2: of ten feet by forty feet that a year ago

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Speaker 2: was solid ground and today it's steps of of a

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Speaker 2: Roman colisseum or what have you, that that is uncovered

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Speaker 2: little by little and they're doing that every day in

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Speaker 2: all of these old historic places over in Jerusalem, over

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Speaker 2: in that area, and they are discovering stuff all the time.

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Speaker 1: With you know what, we should do another episode on

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Speaker 1: the the historicity of the Bible and the accuracy of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of stuff, because because I'm like, man, we're almost out

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Speaker 1: of time, and I want to go to that. But

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Speaker 1: that's probably another episote to another episode. Right now, this

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Speaker 1: is just how to read, how to read the Bible.

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Speaker 1: So back to the screen here. If you look what

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Speaker 1: I as I scroll on Lagos, I've got the English

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Speaker 1: Standard version here, there's the King James right there. So

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Speaker 1: for all the people that are that love the King James,

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Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. I actually love it too.

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Speaker 1: I just don't read it on my daily devotional because

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Speaker 1: it's hard. But as I am going through my preaching

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Speaker 1: or teaching and I want to look at and what

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Speaker 1: does the King James say here? I don't want to

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Speaker 1: miss that, And so an easy way is to go

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Speaker 1: to this text comparison and then back to my reading.

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Speaker 1: So now let's get specifically to what this podcast is about.

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Speaker 1: How do I Grangersmith? How do I read? Here's here's

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Speaker 1: a I read right here. This is my mc shane

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Speaker 1: reading plan. Help me spell it? M apostrophe c h

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Speaker 1: e y n e y n e yes mic Shane.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the details of who

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Speaker 1: McShane was. That's probably irrelevant. He was a brilliant man

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Speaker 1: and a dear brother from a couple of centuries ago.

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Speaker 1: But he was absolutely brilliant, died young. I believe he's

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Speaker 1: twenty nine when he died. Oh really, yeah, brilliant man.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: And he put together a really neat Bible reading plan

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Speaker 1: that includes two chapters from the Old Testament and two

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Speaker 1: from the New. What it does is if you read

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Speaker 1: it every single day in one year, you will have

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Speaker 1: made it through the New the New Testament twice, the

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Speaker 1: Psalms twice, in the Old Testament once if you stick

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Speaker 1: every day to those four chapters. And sometimes it's five chapters,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's three. It changes a little bit, but usually

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Speaker 1: it's four.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's not a whole chapter. One nineteen might be

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Speaker 2: split up.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes it's not a whole chapter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So.

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Speaker 1: Looking back to the screen. This is it says session

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Speaker 1: complete because that's what I did this morning. So you

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Speaker 1: could load the mcchain plan through.

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh that's great.

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Speaker 1: So you go to logos and you could load a

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Speaker 1: reading plan and you could you could load any plan

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Speaker 1: you want. There are the chronological plans. There's read the

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Speaker 1: Bible in one year plans, there's the McShane plan, there's several. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I don't really care what you do. Like I said, a.

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Speaker 2: Plan just really helps. It helps you organize your life

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Speaker 2: as you're organizing everything else. A plan goes, hey, if

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Speaker 2: you do this today, it will help you get through.

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Speaker 2: It help you accomplish a goal that maybe you've set

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Speaker 2: for your h If it's just reading today, that might

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Speaker 2: be the goal. And that's great. It does that. If

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Speaker 2: it's reading the Bible in a year, it does that

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me hit plan overview. Go to plan overview.

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Speaker 1: This is my personal plan. You could see in the

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Speaker 1: top left McShane reading plan, and it's this is the

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Speaker 1: new King James version. I try to read a different

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Speaker 1: translation every year. I've done the n IV, I've done

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Speaker 1: the ESV twice, I've done the CSB, I've done CSB again,

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Speaker 1: and I've done new Now I'm doing the new King James.

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Speaker 1: This is all on the McShane, so I think it's

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Speaker 1: helpful for me to see different text. And I start

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Speaker 1: in March and so you could see it. I'm on

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Speaker 1: day thirty five and my next reading is Genesis thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: Mark seven, Job three, Romans seven. And then you could

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Speaker 1: see here these are the previous days and it's simple.

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Speaker 1: So as I'm reading, I could highlight, I could remember that,

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Speaker 1: I could tweet it or exit copy it and copy it.

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 1: I could click on all these little tabs which are

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Speaker 1: just so helpful, all the little little numbers here. Then

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Speaker 1: I can go back and see what is First Samuel. Oh,

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Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a connection between First Samuel and

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Speaker 1: Genesis thirty seven two. Anyway, it's a deep rabbit hole.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to get into it all. But this

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Speaker 1: is how I read the Bible. So I'll go back

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Speaker 1: to overview so that I'm ready tomorrow to hit read man.

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Speaker 2: That's great. And if if you're looking for it, this

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Speaker 2: we didn't go I've learned something right here today, but

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Speaker 2: we didn't go this deep. When you told me about

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Speaker 2: the machine plan. But that right there helped me tremendously.

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Speaker 2: And today this is this is even better. I didn't

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize you were really using the logos. I

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Speaker 2: was just using the Bible app if I need it

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Speaker 2: on my phone.

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Speaker 1: Or the great So this is the Bible app, dude.

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00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: Similar thing it does.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't import, but it just all go look at

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Speaker 2: my email because they get an email every morning, it's

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Speaker 2: the one at the top, and that in that account,

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Speaker 2: it's the the top emails that early and nothing else

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Speaker 2: has come in after that. And saw a click on

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Speaker 2: it first thing in the morning, see what the passages

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Speaker 2: are to read and then flip over either in my

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Speaker 2: Bible or if I'm traveling, flip over on my phone

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Speaker 2: and let's read those. Yeah. And I know a lot

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Speaker 2: of people look forward to those those tweets every morning,

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Speaker 2: and those come from your daily.

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Speaker 1: Reading that comes from this Mixshane plain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great.

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Speaker 1: I will post something from those one of those four chapters.

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Speaker 1: And that kind of forces me whenever I tweet it

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Speaker 1: or post it. That forces me to not just skim read,

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Speaker 1: but I got to read something worth taking away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you can, because you can't get into a place

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Speaker 2: where you are mindlessly reading.

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Speaker 1: I'm guilty of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And part of my prayer every morning before

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Speaker 2: do in many other circumstances, though, is to keep is

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Speaker 2: to take thoughts captive, take those thoughts kept. So those

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Speaker 2: thoughts that are not about what I'm reading right now,

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Speaker 2: either reserve those for later if I need to pay

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Speaker 2: attention to the thought later, or just cast it out

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Speaker 2: and be done with it. But right now it's my

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Speaker 2: time to read and understand and to get closer to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Amen, that's well, you guys. I'd love for you

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Speaker 1: to be able to comment below, if you're watching or

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Speaker 1: listening on a platform where you can comment, say I'm reading,

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Speaker 1: or even better, i'm starting now.

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Speaker 2: Yes, gonna be day one.

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Speaker 1: If we get an army of people that just do

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Speaker 1: this to be well equipped, ready for all the good

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Speaker 1: works prepared for you. That is, and that's the goal.

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Speaker 1: That's that would be amazing.

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Speaker 2: Is it? A Chinese proverb that says the best the

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Speaker 2: best day to plane a tree was twenty years ago.

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Speaker 2: The second is today. That sounds right, The best day

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Speaker 2: to start reading your Bible was twenty years ago. The

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Speaker 2: second best day is right now?

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Speaker 1: Is right now? Yeah? Yeah amen. If you guys comment that,

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Speaker 1: that would be super encouraging. See you next time. He

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me on the Granger Smith podcast. I

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Speaker 2: YII