Joshua 8 | Serving the Lord in the Land: Covenant, Unity, and the Final Choice

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Wow, a lot of snapping, which is
great 'cause today we're

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rapping, we're rapping.
Wrapping up Joshua not not

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freestyle rap.
If you thought that listener

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that.
Would be a sight to see.

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Not that we're bantering, but
man, we we try to clap in

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service today.
And.

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It was all over the place.
Great.

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I I did appreciate it was for
the most part on two and four,

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not one and three, 'cause it
was, it was a two and four type

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of song.
It's.

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Great.
Well, with with Joshua, we're

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entering the final section of
the book.

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So just like high level, like
the highest level, Chapters one

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through 4, we're crossing the
Jordan, we're entering the

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promised land.
Chapters 5 through 12, we're

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taking the land battles
everywhere.

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The section we just finished
over the last couple of

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episodes, chapters 13 through
21, we're dividing the land,

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hopefully possessing the land.
What we read last week is

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Joshua's like, how long are you
guys gonna wait till you

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actually possess it?
And then these final chapters

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that we're talking about here,
we're looking at 2223 and 24.

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We're talking about resting in
the land.

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And so from here on out, these
are just, this is Joshua calling

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for an assembly on several
occasions.

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It's not just one occasion, it's
Israel's response in the light

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of what we've just allowed read
last week, Michael read.

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Maybe it's worthwhile to read
even just the last verse, verse

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45 of chapter 21, 'cause it kind
of encompasses a big part of

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Joshua.
And if you can hear the pages

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rustling, Michael is turning
feverishly.

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Not one of the good promises
which Yahweh had made to the

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House of Israel failed.
All came to pass so.

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God gave Israel rest.
He did exactly what He said he

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would do.
And now we're kind of, you know

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what, what's the people's
response?

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We know what it should be.
The last three chapters in

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Joshua kind of chart this course
of how Israel's fate's gonna

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turn out based on their
response.

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So that's where we're going.
That's good.

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I'm excited.
Let's take it to the next level.

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Let's fire up that twangy music.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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Chapter 22 of Joshua, we'll,
we'll see what we want to read,

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what we don't want to read.
If we're looking at the 1st 8

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verses, it's very positive.
It's a commendation and really

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it's a call back to kind of the
beginning of the book.

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There's 2 1/2 tribes.
Can you remember what they are?

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The 2 1/2 tribes, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Ephraim No, no, no, no.
Ruben and Manassa.

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Ruben half tribe of Manassa
that's the half and I think it's

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Gad Oh yeah yeah are the ones on
the east and and basically I.

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Didn't know what necessarily
what you're asking, but oh, he's

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asking the ones that remained on
the east side of Jordan.

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Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and, and, and we kind of

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kind of started out.
Moses talked about this

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initially and then Joshua was
like, hey, guys, remember what

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you told Moses?
You gotta come with us across

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the river, fight with us, then
you can go back.

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You're not just like piercing
out.

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That would be bad.
That would be, I think even

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called back.
And so that's like similar to

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what we did before we got into
promised one.

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We didn't know Big God and we
got 40 years of wondering, let's

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not do this.
No bueno.

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Again, no Bueno is right.
They lived out the chapter 1,

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you know, negotiation that they
kind of talked out and Joshua

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here we won't read it, but in
verses one through 8 really said

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good job, guys.
Actually, let's let's read one

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of these verses, verse 5.
Only be very careful to observe

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the commandment and the law
which Moses the servant of

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Yahweh commanded to you to love
Yahweh your God and walk in all

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His ways and keep His
commandments and hold fast to

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Him and serve Him with all your
heart and with all your soul.

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Sounds like Deuteronomy 4-5 and
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Yeah, very similar.
And I think as we go throughout

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this, it'll be echoes of Moses
to where Joshua essentially

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hears like Eastern tribes, great
job commendation and then this

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command like you did good.
Just from here on out, observe

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with your whole heart, with your
soul, live, live for God.

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Then we transition to kind of a
weird story.

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Verses 9 through 20, we read
that these eastern tribes build

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an altar that's significant
size.

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Let's read verse 12 to learn a
little bit more of what what

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they were doing.
When the Sons of Israel heard of

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it, the whole congregation of
the Sons of Israel gathered

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themselves at Shiloh to go up
against them in war.

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Yeah, so they made this big, you
know, monument of sorts, this

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altar.
It's actually an altar.

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Let's see what verse 10 says.
It says they built an altar by

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the Jordan Jordan, and it says
an altar of imposing size.

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I don't know what size that
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Mine says a large altar in
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So it's not small.
It's it's not only is it large,

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but it's an altar, which you
would think that's a place where

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you would for sacrifices.
And so the other tribes see it

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and say we're gonna make a war
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It gets very tense.
Essentially what happens is

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Phineas and the heads of each of
the tribes come to confront like

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why is there another altar?
There's one Shiloh's the place

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where we go to to really
worship.

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This was really condemned in the
law of Moses in Numbers 25.

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You know something similar
happened and a plague ensued

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because they did not follow, you
know exactly what God said.

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Aiken's not that two distant
memory where it's like one

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person's sent effects everyone.
So they're like, we got to snuff

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this out the.
Coaching technique, by the way,

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like, hey, this person is not on
time.

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We're all running that type of
thing.

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That's great.
Don't you know when a coach is

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like, all right, we're running a
lap and you're like, I saw

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someone cut a corner, but you're
like, you don't like, I don't

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know what you say.
And everyone's like, oh, and

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they're like policing themselves
a little bit.

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But is that to me, that's odd.
It's like why?

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It's like it's a weird thing to
build that.

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Altar.
What were they thinking?

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Let's find out.
Versus 21 through 29.

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The eastern tribes essentially
say it's, it's not what you

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think.
They said we actually made this

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altar to prevent future
unfaithfulness.

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It's going to be a monument.
We're not going to literally,

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you know, worship here.
We'll still go to Shiloh.

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Like it's not where we gather on
festivals and all these things.

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But we're kind of like
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We're on the wrong side of the
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You know, people are going to
read the Torah and they're going

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to be like, you guys aren't
really part of Israel.

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Future descendants might, you
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We might actually get excluded
because we're like on the east.

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We're on the wrong side of the
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Yeah, it's like the railroad
tracks, like they're on the

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wrong side of the railroad
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You're not in like the real
promise line and and it makes

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sense where, you know, if you've
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fan, you look at Pittsburgh,
they got like a bajillion

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bridges over on every Little
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You know, not as easy to, you
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today to where that is kind of
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It's not like, you know, living
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a deal in Charleston area as as
it was so that that would be

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big.
And so the altar wasn't made for

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burnt offerings, but rather a
witness that they were Yahweh's

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people.
It would, you know, in short, it

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it would actually just serve as
like, Hey, you are God's people.

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God's been faithful.
Let's look at this.

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The western tribes were
basically saying, Hey, we can't

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have unity if you're going
against what Moses said, which

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what what they thought.
And the East were like, no, no,

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actually we want unity.
We're saying we're part of you

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because of this.
And at the end of chapter 22,

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they kind of come to a
resolution versus 3034 kind of

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irons this out.
Phineas speaks for the tribal

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committee and says, hey, we
checked it out.

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Things are good.
We don't have to go.

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So where's the question for you,
Michael?

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You know, do we look at a
passage like this and say, hey,

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this teaches us to work through
misunderstandings?

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Do we look at a patch like this
and say like, hey, keep your

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guard up for like people
bringing up false idols?

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Like what?
You know what's What do we do

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with this?
Well, I think we would always

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need to be careful drawing a
prescription from a description.

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So that's your first general
practice.

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But I would say, yeah, I think
that that you're the the hairs

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on the back of your neck, if
you're on the western side,

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should go up a little bit like
what God commanded us that we're

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going to sacrifice here.
Currently at Shiloh in the

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Tabernacle.
You know what happened when

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Aaron made the Golden cap?
Yeah, that's.

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Right.
And that's like the yeah, that's

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that's funny.
It seems like so long ago with

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the beginning of Exodus, right?
But yeah, you know, it's just

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like 40 years, maybe 40.
That's crazy.

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About that, yeah.
People know about this, Yeah.

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And so I think it's fine for the
the Western tribes to be like,

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yeah, we gotta go check this
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And I think it's fine for the
Eastern tribes, say, hey, it's

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not what you think, not what you
think.

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Let's work through this.
This is more of a testament.

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It's like those 12 standing
stones.

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This is our testament that say
that we are part of the

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Commonwealth of Israel.
Don't forget us.

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We're gonna come over and we're
gonna don't exclude this.

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I think that's good.
It is weird.

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It's like from my perspective,
I'm like, man, it's weird that

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they build an altar, but it's
purely a monument.

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It's just like, but it makes
sense.

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You know, and you talk and you
don't know what people says and,

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and then they.
Probably had like yellow tape

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over it.
They're like.

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Don't sacrifice here.
Verse 31, Phineas says today we

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know that Yahweh's in our midst
because you have not committed

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this breach of faith against
Yahweh.

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Now you have delivered the
people of Israel from the hand

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of Yahweh.
And I do like the fact that

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they're like, they're on guard.
They're like, hey, sin effects

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everyone.
We're on top of it.

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And so hey, good.
We're getting to the end of the

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book in a good way.
Joshua 23, this is the second of

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three assemblies we're going to
read about to finish out the

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book.
And the emphasis is similar to

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what Moses talked about in in
Deuteronomy, faithfulness to

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Yahweh and things will go well
for you in the lands.

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Disobedience.
Things will not.

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Joshua is an old man.
We've read it a couple chapters

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ago where it was like very
explicit, like, yeah, like the

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Lord was like Joshua, you are
over.

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It's it's so good.
So let's look at Joshua 23.

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Can you read verse one?
Now it came to pass after many

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days, when Yahweh had given rest
to Israel from all their enemies

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on every side, and Joshua's old
advanced in years.

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Here we are, same story.
Verse 2 will tell us that he

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summoned all of Israel, its
elders and heads, its judges and

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officers.
So not not necessarily everyone,

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but all of the major leaders are
here for this one.

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Contrasted with the future
assembly, which would be more of

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of all of Israel.
And in a way, this is Joshua's

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last will and testament.
I would love to do series and

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maybe we'll just cover it, but
I've always thought of like a

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Sunday school series or
Wednesday night series on like

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called like famous last words
and you just take like every

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like.
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And you're just like, yeah,
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And you're, like, looking at,
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they knew they were going to die
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You know, they're at the end of
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They're looking back like a lot
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basically we're boiling it down.
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chapter, he anticipate that that
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He he admits, he says, hey, I'm

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Just like you know, everyone's

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It's not up to me.
It's up to you all.

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It's up to the leaders to lead.
You guys have seen what Yahweh

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has done.
At some point your children are

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not going to have seen this.
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this.
You mentioned the 12 Stones.

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Like children are going to ask
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Like you need to be able to tell
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you're going to be off the scene
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Talks about a condition for
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Let's read verses 6 through 8.
Be very firm then, to keep and

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to do all that is written in the
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that you may not turn aside from
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left.
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with these nations, these which
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name of their gods, or make
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them, or bow down to them.
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your God, as you have done to
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So, So what what Joshua was
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exhortation like be faithful.
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In verse 9 and 10, he says
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driven out these nations.
No one's been able to stand

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before you.
You've seen this.

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It's like this motivation from
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just read.
It's like, hey, be careful, obey

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the Lord.
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fear, saying hey, if you turn
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nations, know for certain that
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nations before you, but there'll
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for you, a whip on your sides
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you die also.
Almost like that's what

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happened.
It Yeah, it's almost like I've

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read this in Judges before.
The snare and the trap and all

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these things and so it he gives
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He gives a positive God's so
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He doesn't think and he gives a
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are good drivers that do what's
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And then ends the chapter in
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That kind of gives the two edged
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Yahweh will work.
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Something's going to happen.
Can you read verses 14 through

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16?
Now behold, today I'm going the

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way of all the earth, and you
know in all your hearts and all

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your souls that not one word of
all the good words which Yahweh

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your God spoke concerning you
has failed.

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All have been fulfilled for you.
Not one of them has failed.

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It shall come about that just as
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your God spoke to you have come
upon you, so the Yahweh, so

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Yahweh will bring upon you all
the threats until He has

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destroyed you from off this good
land which Yahweh your God has

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given you.
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of Yahweh, your God which He
commanded you, and go and serve

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other gods and bow down with
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will burn against you and you
will perish quickly from all the

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good land which He has given
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So interesting.
I don't know if they teach this

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in like homiletics class to be
like, hey, always end with a

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downer, like end, end your
sermons just like worst case

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scenario, 'cause that's what
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And it's like that's what Israel
needed to hear.

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Because you know, we know we
know the story to it doesn't,

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doesn't well, but these things
come, come to passage.

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This is Joshua to the leaders.
Like hey, leaders lead.

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There's a good track, bad track.
We know what happens and that

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that's that's chapter 23.
That's how he ends his talk to

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the leaders as far as what's
recorded Chapter 24, covenant

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renewal at Shechem.
Homestretch.

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Homestretch.
Yes, this.

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This is it.
This is the.

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Last last chapter.
Chapter This is great.

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Here we read that all the people
of Israel are gathered, and I

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think it might be worth a brief
review.

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They hear Shechem.
You've probably heard it before

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if you're doing your Bible and
reading like you've heard this.

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Well, one of the first places we
read about Shechem is Genesis

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12.
You know what happens to Genesis

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12.
Yeah, that's where we get the

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Abrahamic covenant, yes.
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So connecting all these big
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Yeah.
Is Shechem also where there was

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a the well given and Abraham is
like trying to deal with the

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local people or I.
Think I think you might there's.

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Like 2.
They.

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Buy it or something for price
silver.

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You might be right, you might be
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I get confused with 'cause it
happens like twice or it happens

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with maybe Jacob as well or I
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But Shechem definitely Genesis.
Well, that's the place where God

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met Abram and said I'll give you
this land and the Joshua

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standing in the land at Shechem,
he's about to pass off the scene

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as like all the people kind of
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So it's, it's really exciting,
solemn, great moment, tense

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moment, all all of these
different things. 24 two verse

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13 really an honor, not an honor
but but keeping this idea of

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Shechem going to to Abram.
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history, talks about Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Aaron,

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talks about things that happened
with them, Egypt, the crossing

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of the Red Sea.
Go ahead and read for fun.

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Let's read verses 12 and 13.
It says, Then I sent the Hornet

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before you and it drove out the
2 kings of the Amorites from

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before you, but not by your
sword or your bow.

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I gave you a land on which you
had not labored and cities which

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you had not built, and you have
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You are eating the vineyards and
olive Groves which you did not

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plant.
And if you just peruse chapter

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24 right now, I have this
circled in my Bible when I was

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reading this, but Joshua's
talking as y'all like as y'all

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like he's like y'all What you're
saying this and it says I did

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this, I did this, I did this, I
took your father Abraham, I gave

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him Isaac, I gave Esau.
I did this in the midst of you,

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I sent Moses and Aaron.
I brought you out of Egypt.

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I brought I did this in Egypt.
I brought you out of the land of

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the Amorites.
It it just over and over is like

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it's the point couldn't be more
clear.

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God did all this like over and
over says I did this, I did

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that, I did that and ended with
what you said.

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I'm the one who even sent the
Hornet before you drove them

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out.
I gave you this land.

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You did not build these lands.
You did not, you know, you're

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not eating the fruit of the
vineyards and olives.

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You did not even plant those.
Other people planted those.

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You, you did not deserve any of
this.

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It is very, very clear going
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And then it turns to this
covenant ceremony with what you

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talked about last time, these
famous words in Joshua for the

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last chapter.
And, and this whole verses 14

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through 24 is like a back and
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It's like a responsiveness
between Joshua saying something,

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the people responding.
Go ahead and read verses 14 and

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15. 14 says Now therefore fear
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sincerity and truth, and put
away the gods which your Father

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served beyond the river and in
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If it is disagreeable in your
sight to serve Yahweh, Choose

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for yourselves today of whom you
will serve, whether the gods

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which your father served, which
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gods of the Amorites, in whose
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But As for me and my house, we
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Man, what a what a what a
statement, what a what a line.

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The people's response in
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You know, far be it from us to
serve other gods.

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We know it was Yahweh who
brought us out of Egypt's.

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They drove out before us all the
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We they respond, we will also
serve Yahweh because he's our

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God.
Then Joshua comes back and read

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verse 19 and 20.
Because, again, not what you're

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gonna hear in homiletics class
about crafting a sermon.

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Then Joshua said to the people,
you will not be able to serve

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Yahweh, for he is a holy God.
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He will not forgive your
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If you forsake Yahweh and serve
foreign gods, then He will turn

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and do harm and consume you
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So to recap, Joshua's like
choose you to say whom you are

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served.
People say, hey, sign me up,

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I'll serve.
Joshua says no.

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He won't.
He's like this is bad.

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And then the people's response,
verse 22 says or sorry, verse 21

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says no, we will serve Yahweh.
He's like, no, they're like no

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Joshua, we're wrong.
And then Joshua responds.

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Your witnesses against
yourselves.

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That you've said you've chosen
Yahweh to serve them and they

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say we are witnesses, kind of,
you know, ratifying.

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I think Moses had the same
clarity.

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I think it's the same.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
He's like, I've been with you

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long enough.
I know.

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I, I, he, he's like I, I know
you're not going to you're not

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going to stay with.
Isn't that crazy?

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Can you imagine?
Can you imagine Pastor Drill

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being like, hey, obey, you guys
say you're gonna obey.

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Everyone's like, yeah, we'll
obey.

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It's like, no, you're not that
what a what?

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A that's like guts, you know?
And then we get.

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That should be a strategy.
You know, he always talks about,

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hey, I want this sermon to go
with you, but it's not.

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But but.
God's gonna judge you.

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You're gonna have, you're gonna
have the trials this week, Yeah.

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Oh my goodness.
And so verses 25 through 28,

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Joshua made a covenant with the
people that day and put in place

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statutes and rules for them at
Shechem.

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And Joshua wrote these words in
the book of the law God, and he

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took a large stone and he set up
there another reminder by the

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sanctuary of the Lord.
And Joshua said to the people,

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Behold, this stone shall be a
witness against us, for it has

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heard all the words that Yahweh
spoke to us.

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Therefore it shall be a witness
against you, lest you deal

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falsely with your God.
So Joshua, send the people away,

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every man to his inheritance.
You know it it.

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And when I read something like
that might be of Jesus being

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like these stones would cry out.
You know these, you know, all

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these things.
And so they had had this

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witness.
And then the rest of the chapter

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talks about Joshua's death and
burial.

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We actually kind of started the
whole series with these, you

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know, quote UN quote, different
funerals with at the beginning

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Moses, then Joshua.
And then it says Eleazar talks

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about Joseph's bones, all these
things.

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And you know, that's that's
wrapped.

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That's how it ends.
And so it ends with like.

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Very happy and cheering.
Yeah, you read.

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It's like man, all of this like
conquering and promised land,

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and it's great.
But it does end like many other

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might be of our Ezra Nehemiah
series, like good things

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happened, but it ends like
you're like, this is not how

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it's supposed to be.
There should be like more.

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And if you're feeling that way,
that's good.

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And it's crazy you feel like
that after like Deuteronomy.

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You're feeling like that here.
After judges.

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You're, yeah, you're this is
like a theme where you like

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things.
Honestly, you read this whole

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book, it's not like it's full of
like everything's been terrible,

446
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,800
like little hints.
It's like there's a lot of

447
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,480
really good things.
After first Sam, you're like OK.

448
00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:28,960
Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we're finally getting it.

449
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,880
And then like, you know, 10
chapters in, you're like, oh,

450
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,320
David's messed this up.
Yeah, it is.

451
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,160
Yeah.
It is very, very crazy where

452
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,160
it's like you can't, you can't
read.

453
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,840
It's like even if you're like
skipping around Scripture a

454
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,680
little bit, it's like you're
kind of getting a lot of the

455
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,000
same beats, you know what I
mean?

456
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,800
But that that's Joshua in a
nutshell.

457
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:54,000
I I've enjoyed going through it
because I think, you know, you

458
00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:00,320
get Jericho, you get AI and you
sometimes don't appreciate all

459
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,920
the other stuff that's going
going through there.

460
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,040
And so I know for me, like
reading through is like, wow,

461
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,840
I'm reading some books on it.
It was, it was helpful for me to

462
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,400
see wow, there.
There's a lot in here.

463
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,240
Even with some of this
monotonous stuff.

464
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,760
It's like, oh, this is
structured in a way to say

465
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,520
something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

466
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,800
After this.
We're we're running concurrently

467
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,280
with the Colt series right now.
Yeah, We'll see what's we'll

468
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,720
see.
We've got a couple things maybe

469
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,800
that that that's in store for
our next little series. 8 weeks,

470
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,360
two months.
Yeah, it's, it's pretty good.

471
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:36,280
Basically, our New Year's
resolutions through.

472
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,760
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, it was all either our

473
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,000
crossing to Jordan or on, on
Joshua, man, your two sons,

474
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,400
Jordan and Joshua.
Jordan and Joshua, that's right.

475
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,240
Well, might be a good time to
transition to the to the last

476
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,520
our last take cause one of my
New Year's resolution.

477
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,560
I was actually working really
hard on it was I was gonna like

478
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,760
show a video of me like nailing
it and I was like not good at it

479
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,320
yet.
But I've been practicing like

480
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,840
standing on my hands and walking
on my hands.

481
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,080
James Dunham has tried to do
this too.

482
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,520
And I'm I'm getting, I don't
know if you've.

483
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,560
Seen he's slimmed down pretty a
lot.

484
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,480
OK, I but he might he.
I think he's would say himself.

485
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,040
He's probably now has to work on
building up the muscle.

486
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,920
Yes, yes, yes, yeah.
And I was like, I'm, I'm not, I

487
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,920
was never, I was not good at it.
But I've like made a lot of

488
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,120
progress.
Are there like steps that you

489
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,440
take like you do this first and
then?

490
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,960
Different schools of thought.
I'm glad you asked and the

491
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,840
reason I say this is I'm getting
off track with something else

492
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,080
we'll we'll bring up, but it's
like I was like every day

493
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:35,680
practicing for like 10 to 15
minutes.

494
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,080
A lot of what you do is
flexibility and the risk cause

495
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,480
wrist injuries will derail you.
And I've tried this in the past

496
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,440
and it's like, you know, turns
out your wrists probably weren't

497
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:46,520
meant to support your body
weight.

498
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,160
And so if you don't have the
right flexibility to you really

499
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,240
stretch.
So every, every, you know,

500
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,280
warming up the wrist, doing some
extension and flexion, like

501
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,040
really, really stretching out.
And then one school of thought

502
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:01,280
is climb up against the wall
with like your belly facing the

503
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,880
wall and building up, getting
used to being upside down.

504
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,480
And that helps you get
straighter and straighter.

505
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,440
Also, you're putting weight
through your hands and maybe

506
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,160
you'll wall walk, you'll walk
your feet up the wall and walk

507
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,880
back out.
Build up strength.

508
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,040
The other school of thought is
like that's great for strength

509
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,120
and range.
Most if you're not really

510
00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:21,160
learning balance to where
they're I don't know if you know

511
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,760
what a crow pose is.
It's kind.

512
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,720
I did not know any of this until
I was like going geek Dash.

513
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:29,680
But it's like you kind of start
a crow pose is kind of like your

514
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,760
knees are bent and you're kind
of like.

515
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,280
You're putting pressure on
pressure.

516
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,040
On your hands, Yeah, You're kind
of like down.

517
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,840
Set like where your elbows and.
You elbows are bent.

518
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,160
And you kind of like put your
knees on your elbows.

519
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,960
Exactly.
And so you're learning balance

520
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,880
and overtime, you're also
getting used to being upside

521
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,040
down.
But if you do both of.

522
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,560
Them and you get yes, so this
there's those are it's good to

523
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,680
do both.
There's different, you know,

524
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,800
problems you'll run into, but if
you're doing both, I think

525
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,840
you're hitting it.
So I would I was doing both and

526
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,080
I and then the other thing you
really need to learn is just how

527
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,320
to bail.
Like basically kind of you're

528
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,480
not talking round off.
Putting together hay or

529
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,160
anything?
No, because also, yeah, the

530
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,240
biggest thing you can do is you
you start going overboard, you

531
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,880
want to like cartwheel out of
it.

532
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,360
And if you can learn that then
you can practice.

533
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,480
The hardest thing is finding
that balance point, and that's

534
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,240
what people struggle with.
Even if you have the, you

535
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,000
struggle with the strength or
the range of motion or the

536
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,720
balance or the three pitfalls,
because if you don't have the

537
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,240
range of motion, that's when you
get hurt too, because your

538
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,320
wrist, you don't have that.
Yeah, and a lot of people.

539
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,040
That's a lot.
It is a lot and.

540
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,800
This is this is not enough range
of motion right now to do it.

541
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,640
It exactly and when your elbows
straight, it's harder because

542
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,080
your you know your muscle so
it's even harder, you know so

543
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,160
and part of the stretching, if
you're putting your body weight

544
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,360
through it, you'll get there
overtime, but you have to like

545
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,720
ease into it at the same time,
yes.

546
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,880
Takes takes connective tissue a
while to adapt.

547
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,720
Totally.
Slower than muscle tissue.

548
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,080
Part of it's like you should
practice like 5 to 10 minutes,

549
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,200
like it's better than practicing
like an hour, you know what I

550
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,720
mean?
You just need to be consistent

551
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,760
short amount of time and I was.
Getting like reading your Bible

552
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,000
or something?
Exactly, that's like better

553
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,400
gains and I was getting like
better land was annoyed because

554
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,240
I would like do it.
I'll be like wait, check this

555
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,480
out.
It's like 4 seconds, 8 seconds.

556
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,640
And I couldn't.
And I was learning how to walk

557
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,560
on my hands because I would lose
balance and have to walk.

558
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,720
Like people say, like don't do
that if you really want to

559
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,520
balance, you just, you know,
learn to learn how to bounce you

560
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:26,480
up.
But I was like learning really

561
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,120
well and then all of a sudden.
Catastrophe.

562
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,640
Not catastrophe.
I started, I took a new

563
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,480
endeavour and I'm coaching this
Northwood soccer team.

564
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,080
And so I I have not had as much
time to devote to, even though

565
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,000
it's only like 5 or 10 minutes a
day, I just haven't done it.

566
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,920
While the soccer players are
warming up, you're you're

567
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,000
practicing this.
I mean, that will kind of really

568
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,240
set the tone for who you are.
And I was like, so pumped

569
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,120
because I was actually making
progress.

570
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,920
I wasn't good at it yet, but I
saw the pathway there, like my

571
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,480
first, like really for most of
January, not a lot of progress.

572
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,600
I was focusing on flexibility.
Like I wasn't actually

573
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:04,920
balancing.
I was like just building it up.

574
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,920
I could like just start to like,
I could like, I was starting to

575
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,320
find my balance point.
So, you know, but James Sims

576
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,840
doing this, he's doing this.
He's trying to walk.

577
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,480
Off well, he said he only said
that he remembered his dad being

578
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,280
able to that's and now that he's
kind of trimmed down, he's like,

579
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:25,240
oh, I'm going to give this a try
and it did not end well.

580
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,960
But I don't know if so, maybe
you got to you got to maybe you

581
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,880
got to give him all these.
I'm sure he, I'm sure he will

582
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,160
listen and he'll know now.
Totally.

583
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,400
I did like 'cause I was just
doing the the most frustrating

584
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,840
thing for me was I was just
doing against the wall and I was

585
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,680
not learning the balance point.
And so I was like not making

586
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,360
progress.
But but then when I started in

587
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,880
the Crow post thing and I was
like learning that slowly, you

588
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,120
know, putting just like gripping
the floor, you can like feel

589
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,840
your balance.
It's like a, it's like a light

590
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,520
switch man.
I got actually super excited.

591
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,240
Haven't done it in like 2 weeks
at all.

592
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,040
It's just like, man, I probably.
Lost a lot of coaching for two

593
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,360
weeks, so you can't put all
that.

594
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,240
Blame on I've been coaching for
one week.

595
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,200
Maybe it's just maybe it's just
been a week off, maybe it's just

596
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,840
been a week, but it feels like I
was doing it like a lot.

597
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:13,000
I was really committing to it.
So we got this e-mail from our

598
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,160
athletic director and it's like,
hey, we need AJV boys coach and

599
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,000
I meet Liz like Zach Hale, his
wife teaches in the lower

600
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,280
school.
I think he'd be great.

601
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:28,640
And I told I told Jill, he's
like, do you do you know him

602
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:29,800
well?
He said, do you know him well

603
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,240
enough to ask him if he'd be
interested?

604
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,160
No, I was like, can't I know him
well enough?

605
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,040
And so I reached out to you and
then and then later that day I

606
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,920
had chess over lower school
chest.

607
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,520
So I went by and I was like, So
what do you think?

608
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,040
And she's your wife is like I
was.

609
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,880
Just pushing for it, yeah.
I was afraid she's gonna be

610
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,960
upset.
Like, yeah, he's already too

611
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,680
busy, he can't do this.
And she's like, no, I think

612
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,000
that'd be great.
I think it'd be like our boys

613
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,440
would be up there, really.
Pushing me.

614
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,920
That's one of the reasons I did
it.

615
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,600
Like I wanted to do it, but she
was like, you should do it.

616
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,040
And honestly, I was thinking
about this.

617
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,520
I mean, I could get fired after
this first season.

618
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,400
I'm doesn't go well, but it's
like great if I'm like for the

619
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,440
next like several years, I'm I'm
going to be coaching 3rd through

620
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,680
5th grade soccer with my boys.
My wife teaches 5th grade.

621
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,800
And now that I'm a coach, I bet
I have, I don't know if I do or

622
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:16,960
not.
I actually haven't.

623
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:18,560
I've been coaching the last
week.

624
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,800
I don't have the position yet.
I'm sure, I'm sure I do.

625
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,640
But I bet there's some pool to
be like, hey, can we do some

626
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,680
summer stuff?
Like, I bet I have more, I have

627
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,000
more credibility, you know what
I mean?

628
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,600
Yeah, I think that's the case.
When I was doing JV football, I

629
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,440
started doing like at the
spring.

630
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,000
I like interested 5th graders,
We'd start doing some stuff just

631
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,040
to like get them with the other
team, like help like try to get

632
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,720
throw that net while they're
still in fifth grade and stuff

633
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,240
and try to get them.
Because the the hardest thing

634
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:56,200
for football is that there's
probably one or two fifth

635
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,000
graders who are going to
actually contribute.

636
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,240
Oh yeah, right.
Then you have, I mean like

637
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:08,120
really contribute.
Then you have maybe 10,

638
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,560
depending on how big the class
is, that may come in as Subs

639
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,600
every now and then.
Everyone else, they're probably

640
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,280
not seeing the field unless like
you're way down and way up or

641
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,600
something like that and you're
trying, everyone's putting in

642
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,280
Subs and, and you're trying to.
I, I would tell them, you know,

643
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:30,160
this is an investment year,
'cause you, you're small, you're

644
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,600
going to hit puberty.
You played flag football.

645
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,680
This is all this is new unless
and you know, there have been

646
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,880
people who have done like
contact football and they really

647
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:47,120
know what they're doing, but
unless that was you I my

648
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,400
personal opinion, we shouldn't
be doing fight football 'cause

649
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,360
it teaches it's a raw.
Mentality, yeah, it's different.

650
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,240
That doesn't help prepare them
for it doesn't help prepare the

651
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,320
offense or the defensive.
Side I think about that, but

652
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,360
that makes a lot of sense.
So anyways, that's it.

653
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,000
Yeah, So I would try to like
cast that net to like try to

654
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,960
make a personal relationship
with them and like, hey, you

655
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,040
know, I like you.
You like me.

656
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,160
You're going to hate me as a
coach though, and you're not

657
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,200
going to hate this year but come
back in the 7th grade because as

658
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,840
1/7.
Grader, you'll be like totally.

659
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,800
It's totally different.
Just that one year of growing,

660
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,800
lifting weights, getting a
little bit more testosterone

661
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,160
makes a huge difference.
And then by 8th grade, like the

662
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,480
difference between 6th grader
and 8th grader, it's huge.

663
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,240
Yeah, that's that's and I was
like, man, yeah, if this worked

664
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,320
out, it's like it's like the
whole ecosystem that I'm in

665
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,560
anyway.
Like it would be cool to.

666
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,800
And it's like my yeah.
And my kids are young, so it's

667
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,520
like they could come up through.
It'd be really good.

668
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,640
We'll see if it works out, you
know, we'll see.

669
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,680
We'll see how it goes.
But yeah, so it's been, it's

670
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,000
been busy, but good.
I've been excited for it and

671
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,560
it's been fun.
Anything crazy new with you?

672
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,280
Well, I don't know if it's crazy
new.

673
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,200
We did talk about some of our
New Year's resolutions.

674
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,240
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so I have dropped 12 lbs.

675
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,440
Hey, the New Year's.
What's been your strategy?

676
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,200
Is there like a certain?
What have you been going with?

677
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:16,720
I well the strategy is having
some form of accountability.

678
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,240
So through my insurance, I can I
have a health coach.

679
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,560
Yeah.
And like there was a time when I

680
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,800
had a health coach and we met
weekly, but she was trying to

681
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:31,400
get in her hours to get her
final certification.

682
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,040
So I was kind of like her Guinea
pig and she's.

683
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,200
But it was really good for me.
And so I'm just going to meet

684
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,400
with these people like once a
month.

685
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,440
But I still I'm logging all my
food.

686
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,360
That's great.
I think calorie cap is big

687
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,240
because you know, if you'd never
and I have logged all my food

688
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,600
before.
I hate logging all my food.

689
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,920
It's a pain.
It is a pain I for for people.

690
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,480
It's a good thing to do.
I have never done it.

691
00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:01,120
I've been doing it recently and
it's hard if you're not trying

692
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,880
to hit your macros.
Like I'm not counting calories

693
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,440
necessarily, but I'm counting
like how much carbs were

694
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,760
protein?
And it's like, wow, I just

695
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,760
figured I would hit this.
It's like, no, you actually it

696
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,320
gives you OK, now I kind of know
what I'm eating and I could be

697
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,800
like, because you I just assumed
this has enough protein and

698
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,840
protein's hard to get unless
you're trying.

699
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,639
Very hard.
I was like, I know I get enough

700
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:22,600
protein, yeah, but I couldn't
get more, yeah.

701
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,400
Yeah, I my only way that I get
close to my protein is I have to

702
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,960
cheat.
Cheat and use like protein bars

703
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,400
where?
It's like it's like packed it's.

704
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,840
Packed in there, it's like.
You kind of do.

705
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,880
It's difficult to get natural
protein.

706
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,800
It's like you got to eat so much
volume of chicken or to, to get

707
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,520
all that.
I'm like, and I do it, but so

708
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:43,880
I'm doing that.
So that's been good.

709
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:49,400
And I also clay, you know, he
was trying to get to the 1000 LB

710
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:54,159
club and then for some reason
these 1000 LB club reels started

711
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:58,600
coming up and it's just like,
yeah, OK, I'm so I, I worked out

712
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,520
a strategy with chat.
Nice.

713
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,400
Yeah.
And so I've been lifting again

714
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,760
My my most recent lift, I felt
pretty good about my bench

715
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,520
press.
This was like 3 lifts in.

716
00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:12,800
Yeah.
And I, I was like my cause.

717
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,440
Well, when I was coaching, yeah,
I was lifting kind of heavy.

718
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,080
Oh yeah, with the other coaches
and with the guys.

719
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,400
And then when I stopped
coaching, I was like, you know

720
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,920
what, I'm going to do more reps,
you know, lower weight, you

721
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,640
know, So I was concerned about
how fast the strength was going

722
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,840
to come back.
Third lift I was already doing

723
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,120
205.
Oh man, so you're like 5?

724
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,680
Well if you're benching that,
I'm sure your deadlift squat are

725
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,520
pretty good.
My squat's pretty good.

726
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,240
Deadlift has always been the I
hate deadlifting.

727
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,720
I don't enjoy deadlifting.
I know lots of people.

728
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,600
I I grew up with guys who's
like, oh, I love deadlift and

729
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,880
they, they would live the
deadlift.

730
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,160
I hate deadlift so you know me
and chat both know that's where

731
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,440
the work is going to have to hit
because deadlift is normal.

732
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,680
That's how you get your numbers.
That's how you get your number.

733
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,320
Do you see?
Who Anatolia is?

734
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,040
Do you know this guy?
I know the name.

735
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,680
I probably know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,

736
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,560
yes.
He pretends like he can't lift.

737
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,600
And he's like, Hold.
My mop and then he looks like

738
00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:09,720
1000.
Pounds, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

739
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:16,200
So but sumo deadlift is allowed,
but I don't know if I've never

740
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:17,160
been.
I've never been a huge.

741
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,800
I've never assumed I lifted so
I'm gonna have to do the

742
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,080
deadlift in, but I always do
deadlift last in my workout.

743
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,640
So right now I'm doing a super
setting.

744
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,400
My bench and my squat and my
bench and my squat are basically

745
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,480
almost the same weights.
OK.

746
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,520
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So eventually my bench is going

747
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,560
to not grow, you know, stop
growing lineally and my squat

748
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,920
should continue to grow.
So.

749
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,800
So I superset those five sets of
five and then I do 2 sets of

750
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,600
deadlift after that.
Because yeah, I don't think

751
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,920
especially right now as I'm
strengthening my back, I don't

752
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,520
want to be doing like 5 sets of
five deadlifts 'cause you can

753
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:58,400
pull some stuff.
So yeah.

754
00:36:58,400 --> 00:36:59,800
Oh.
That's exciting. 1000 LB club.

755
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,800
That's great.
That's good, man.

756
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,960
Yeah, Check back in.
We'll see how the handstand and

757
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,920
1000 LB club is going.
That's good.

758
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,160
That's pretty cool.
Sweet, good update.

759
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,000
Any any final words?
I think that's good.

760
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,280
We're already in the last take,
all right.

761
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,080
Is anyone even listening to us?
It's just like 2 friends

762
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,880
talking.
It's not really we should have

763
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,480
like if you've made it this far,
make some comment either on

764
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,440
Spotify or.
That's right, if you're hanging

765
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,080
in there.
Or or YouTube make some comment,

766
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:31,880
let us know.
Do it.

767
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,000
That's our take.
Thanks for listening to Take 2.

768
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,320
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769
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,040
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