Bible In A Year: Leviticus

Leviticus reveals God’s holiness and character through detailed instructions about sacrifices, offerings, and covenant life. These commands are not empty rituals but God’s direct words teaching His people how to approach Him and live as a holy nation. The offerings build on the faith of the patriarchs and prepare the way for understanding the prophets and the work of Christ. Leviticus shows that obedience flows from who God is—holy, just, merciful—and that His people are called to reflect His character in every generation.

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Why We Avoid Leviticus

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Hello, everyone. My name is Tim Webb, and I'm here with David Klingler, Dr. David Klingler, as we are walking through the story of God, and our desire is just to help people, the people of God, learn the Word of God and grow in their faith in that. We want to encourage you as you're walking through this study. If you're interested in other books and diving into those, you can visit our website where we have daily devotionals. We have some also some study guides, the blog posts, Q ⁇ A with David. And so just an opportunity to go deeper in learning the story of God and specifically diving into different books of the Bible. So David, today we are uh going to be walking through Leviticus. Correct?

Dr. David Klingler 1:11

So this is how it always goes, right? So you can say, okay, I'm gonna read through the Bible. Great. Well, um, you start at the beginning. So you so you read Genesis, and you know, it's not bad. I mean, you you know, kind of make it through there. In Exodus, you you start uh through Exodus, and and you know, for many of us, especially us older folks, we've we've you know, we've seen the movie, right? The Ten Commandments, the old Brenner, and all that. And so, oh, this is familiar to us, you know. And then you start getting to the end, and it's the tabernacle and building the tabernacle, and it starts to get really dry, and you're going, man, what this is horrible. Uh and and you flip forward to the next book, does this get any better? And you go, nope. Nope. And you still more spot, and you go back to you know the gospel of John or Ephesians or whatever it is. Let's go study Romans some more, you know. Um and and so the the the book of Leviticus is um um is a book that we don't spend much time in. You know, if if you were to kind of hold your if you if you read your Bible a lot or you study your Bible a lot, usually uh if you if you close your Bible and look kind of on the the edge of the of the pages, you know, but there's that gold edge there. Some places that gold edge is still like brand new. And in some places it's worn out, man. There's uh I'm just looking at my Bible. I I do this every once in a while. I'll I'll close it and I'll look and I'll say, Where am I not spending enough time? You know, where where am I majoring and where am I minoring? And and do I need to balance it?

SPEAKER_01 2:36

You don't have a lot of underlining or highlighting in Leviticus. Usually not in Leviticus.

Hearing God’s Direct Words

Offerings Rooted In Genesis

Law As Lens For The Story

Blessings And Curses Framework

David And Goliath Through Leviticus 26

Dr. David Klingler 2:41

And uh but one of the things that we are doing with our Deuteronomy study, we've got a Deuteronomy uh study that's uh uh that we're working through. Uh but uh but the law um it reveals the character of God, it reveals the instruction to Israel. This is the rules they're supposed to follow as they go through the Old Testament. And so uh if you're watching a movie and you're fast forwarding through all of the parts that don't pertain to you as the watcher of the movie, you're going, yeah, you know, you're watching CSI, you're going, yeah, I don't I'm not a detective, I don't care fast forward. I'm just looking for someone to say something that's catchy that I can remember, right? And underline and frame one put on my wall, you know. And and that's kind of how we treat the Bible. But but I I point this out all the time. I uh I started color-coding my old testament, just it just helps me see what I'm looking at. And and uh in the book of uh of Leviticus, verse one, uh it's a continuation of the story, that's the structure. Uh, and then it uh it's you know, so the verse one says, Then the uh the Lord called to Moses and he spoke to uh him from the ten of meing, saying, quote, right? Uh there's no quote in uh quote quotation marks in Hebrew, but but it it conveys that uh that the whole uh uh everything's changing. There's a speaker that's that's talking, and so uh and the speaker is the Lord. Uh and so this is the Lord being quoted. Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them. Uh and so all of chapter one, and all of chapter two, and all of chapter three, and all of chapter four, you know, you get four one, it says, uh then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, and and so it continues, chapter four, and chatter. This is what the Lord is saying, the direct instruction of the Lord. So you say, Well, we believe the Bible is the Word of God. Well, does the Bible directly quote the Lord? Yes, it does. When? And what are the longest quotations? Well, this is it. This is some of the longest uh quotation of the uh of the the Lord speaking is the book of Leviticus. Um but so why don't we um read it? Well, uh several reasons. Number one, um we recognize almost immediately that that we're not offering burnt offerings, we're not offering, you know, uh grain offerings or peace offerings and all that. So we say, well, it's really it doesn't relate to us, um uh and so or it doesn't apply to us, and so we skip it. But we also don't recognize how it ties in to what's already been said, because you know, sometimes the translations aren't um particularly helpful, and and when they're translating the same word in a different way, you don't see it. But but these burnt offerings in chapter one, this is what uh what Noah was offering back in chapter eight, uh the uh a burnt offering to uh to the Lord. And in chapter two, you got these the the the grain offering, and uh and and that's what yeah, in uh well in uh chapter two of Leviticus, you're getting Genesis. Yeah, yeah, Genesis, yeah. Um so Noah's sacrifice uh or offering in uh in Genesis and Abraham's uh offering of uh the grain offering to the travelers in chapter 18. And and so all through here, what uh the story has informed this book. So the reason why we're doing what we're doing, Moses says to Israel, quoting the Lord, is because our the patriarchs did this by faith, or or because you remember back this is what happened in the story. And so what's happening in the story is getting codified into the law, uh, and there to do it. Israel is to continue to do by faith what their forefathers did by faith previously in the story, or or Which Paul's going to tie absolutely in Romans. Yes, absolutely, and so so this is all tying together. And so if we want to know what God is like, what he cares about, and if we want to understand the Old Testament story and the prophets, and what Jesus is doing in the in the uh the gospels and uh and you know how Jesus is interacting with the Pharisees, it's the law. Uh when when the um you know when the the Pharisees who had believed uh in the the the gospel in in Acts chapter 15, but they still think that the Gentile needs to be circumcised and keep the law. They're getting this from the law. And so, so uh the antagonists in many of the books uh that Paul's dealing with, for example, or or you know, first John or Peter, uh New Testament books, uh the antagonist is a Jew. He's a lawkeeper. And so if you want to understand what they're doing and what they're believing, you gotta understand the law. And so the extent to which we understand, you know, Deuteronomy, Leviticus, those are books we skip, right? Right are really central to uh understanding not only the story, so that you can evaluate how are they doing, um, but even some of our the stories that we know the best. Uh I think here of David and Goliath, right? Uh if we flip over to uh Leviticus chapter 26, uh this is a a key chapter, Leviticus chapter 26. Uh this is the uh the blessings and the curses chapter in Leviticus. Uh you get the same thing in Deuteronomy chapter 28. Um and so when we get here uh in a couple weeks when we start to talk about the book of Deuteronomy, we're gonna be talking about Deuteronomy chapter 28, Deuteronomy 30, Deuteronomy 32. But Deuteronomy 30 uh 28 is the blessings and curses chapter. Uh and so Leviticus uh 26 is blessings and curses to the to the first generation of Israel. There's a couple things to point out here that would help us understand the story. And even the the uh David and Goliath, this is uh 26, 6. So this is when Israel's in the land, they'll be blessed, uh, and the Lord says, I shall sh shall grant peace in the land, uh, so that you will uh you may lie down with no one to make you tremble, and you will eliminate the harmful beast from the land, and no sword shall pass through your land, but you shall chase your enemies, and they will fall by the sword. Five of you will chase a a hundred, a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, your enemies will fall by the sword. You say, Well, what does that have to do with the David and Goliath story? Well, here's Goliath, the enemy, with his sword, uh, the enemy's there. Israel's presented as all, you know, kind of shaking in fear in their tents. Yeah, ready to go out. They're in their tents. They so they they they aren't lying down in peace. The sword's there, the enemy's there in the land. And and so, you know, you you're seeing this setting of of the David and Goliath story is in contrast to what's being shown here. Uh, and uh, you know, and then in the story, uh, Israel wanted a king. Uh, we want a king like the nations to fight our battles for us, and they saw all they ask for a king, and God gives them what they ask for, gives them Saul. And uh, and so there's Goliath over there, they're trembling, the sword's in the land. They're not lying down with without fear, they're lying down in fear. Uh, and uh and this uh Goliath says, Choose one man from among yourself, you know, and everybody turns over and says, Hey, Saul, you're up. This is this is why you're chosen. This is why we asked for you. We wanted a king like the nations to fight our battles. This is your day. And right and Saul says, I ain't going out there. Didn't you read last chapter?

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Right. You know, we know the story.

Dr. David Klingler 10:11

The Lord has removed his anointing from me. I ain't going out there, right? Uh and so here's David. And so David walks up, the Lord's anointed and says, I'll go out there and fight him. Uh and Saul says, Well, why would I let you, a youth, go out there and fight him? Uh, you know, he's been a warrior since his youth. You you're a mere youth. And David says, I'd killed the lion and the bear. I have eliminated the harmful beast from the land. Little boys don't kill lions and bears. That's right. Right? Um, I have. Because I have lived Leviticus 26, 6. I have have seen the uh the harmful beast being eliminated from the land, and so Saul says, Well, here's my sword. Okay, well then you're gonna need a sword. If we're starting, if we're quoting scripture here, your enemy will fall by the sword. Uh such a cool story. David says, uh, he's got a sword, I'll use his. Right. You know, it's just that's kind of you can you can hear the I have two guns, one for each of them. It's the doc uh he he has his own sword, I'll use his. He goes out there, you know the story, he chooses the five stones, he he slings the stone, it strikes the serpent, uh, the the the the representative of Satan on the head, he crushes the head, and then he kills him with the sword, and then the small numbers chase large numbers, and and and this is how the storyteller is telling you David's on the right side.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Yeah.

Discipline Sevenfold And Daniel’s Timeline

Dr. David Klingler 11:40

Uh and and uh the anointed one is bringing the blessing. And you go, man, this is just see, so you say, Well, well, you know, uh the the the story becomes in full living color because uh because the storyteller assumes that you as the reader, Israel, and uh uh in any reader, you you would know you'd know the law, right? Uh and uh and and so you'll see this if you don't know Leviticus, if you don't know Exodus, if you don't know Numbers and Deuteronomy, the law, then you really can't interpret anything after. Let me give you another example. This is in the second half of chapter 26. So 1 through 13, if you're obedient, I will bless you. If you're disobedient, uh then I will curse you. And this is 14 all the way down through 46. And and um and so the Lord's gonna judge them with you know with various kinds of uh judgments. Uh he's gonna bring the enemies against them, war, famine, death, just and all of this was was written, um uh was uh was brought upon them uh to uh do you see it's in chapter 26, verse 18. It says, and after these things you do not obey me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. Uh it's a really interesting uh word there. Uh it's uh it's punish, it's chastise, it's uh it's translated kind of all over the place. Uh, but uh, but our word here uh is the the the word it's it uh it when it's translated into Greek, let's do it this way. When it's translated in the Greek, it's from this root word that we get you know young child from, little child, right? And so the verb is to uh to train up a child, right? To discipline a child. Uh you ought to be thinking Hebrews, the the father uh disciplines those he loves. And uh and so all of this uh you know, we think punishment or judgment. No, this is this is discipline for training up a child, uh training up sons. Sons I have reared, but they've rebelled against me. And so uh and so the just as uh as the Lord disciplines Israel, he uh punishes, well, that kind of conjures up the wrong, you know, he's he's this is part of their discipline and training, right? You do this, you're gonna get this, so that the Lord is disciplining, he's training you as a child because he loves you, right? Right. And and so if you do this and you don't respond to the to the discipline, then uh he will discipline you, uh punish you uh uh uh sevenfold for your sins, right? Sevenfold for your sins. And and this is going to repeat it, be repeated, the sevenfold judgment all through your all through this section, chapter uh 20, uh 26, verse 24. Uh then I will act with hostility against you, um uh and uh even I will uh will strike you sevenfold for your sins. Uh uh again, that's um the verse 23. If by these things you have not returned to me, but act with hostility uh for me. That uh the the the return that that turned to me language, that that's the if the the instruction, the discipline hasn't worked, it's the same word, right? Uh then I will judge you sevenfold. Uh um you will uh you know you will not eat, you will not be satisfied, verse 28, and I will judge you again sevenfold, sevenfold, sevenfold. So the discipline of the Lord, if you don't respond, then the discipline increases, and it's going to be multiplied sevenfold. Now, um, if you know the story, um, you jump forward in the story, and we you know, we say we're in Jeremiah 29, 11. Here's another verse. So we we know David and Goliath's story, we know Jeremiah 29, 11. I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, a future and hope, and all this.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Yeah, we like that verse.

Dr. David Klingler 15:33

Yeah, well, we don't like the verse like before.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

No, that's right.

Be Holy Because God Is Holy

Justice, Mercy, And Partiality

Knowing Law To Read Narrative Clues

Dr. David Klingler 15:37

29 1 through 10 is um because you rebelled against the Lord, the discipline of the Lord and uh set forth in in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 is coming. And namely, specifically, um, 70 years. You're going to be kicked out of the land for 70 years because you didn't keep the Sabbath for 70, you know, 70 Sabbaths, and so we're gonna kick you out and we're gonna give the land the rest that it was supposed to get and it never got because you never kept the Sabbath. So seventy uh years have been decreed uh as judgment for you. And uh and so uh the seventy years was the discipline, it was the training of the child. At the end of that time, they were supposed to uh repent and be restored. Well, they didn't. Uh and so now we're in Daniel chapter 9, and Daniel says, uh, I was reading over there in Jeremiah 29, 1 through 10, you know, the those are the verses before the wonderful plan for your life. Right. Uh and um um and so he's reading and he's confessing his sins and the sins of the people, and and uh Gabriel the messenger comes and says, Here's the problem, Daniel. Israel has not repented. And so 70 times seven. So so seventy years was the judgment, and because you didn't respond to it, uh now we're going to pour out judgment upon you sevenfold for your sins. And so that's sevenfold, uh, that that informs uh Daniel, it makes perfect sense. And so so if we don't know Leviticus, two examples of this, if we don't know Leviticus, we really don't know uh know the Bible. Well, one more turn over to uh to to chapter uh 19. I I I I love uh this this is this is just good. Um uh and we you you can find examples of this all the way through uh the book of Leviticus, but uh uh but uh 19.1 says, Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy. For I am the Lord your God, right? You shall be uh holy. Um we've we use that word so much, I don't think it means a whole lot to us, or or maybe we all conjure up our own definition or something like that, but but you're to be holy, you're to be you're to be set apart. Um you are to be set apart from the nations, you're to be different from the nations because you're my people, and I'm different from any other God. That's right. And so so the instruction that the Lord gives to Israel uh is because of who he is. You do this because I do this. Uh uh you care for the orphan and the widow because I care for the orphan and the widow. And so, uh, and and so this uh um every one of you shall, uh this is in verse uh verse three, every one of you shall uh f fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbath. I am the Lord your God, right? In other words, the reason why you do what you do is because I am who I am, and you are who you are in relation to me. And so if if if Israel was created to be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, uh, to be image bearers, to care about what the Lord cares about, to do what's good and right in his eyes, uh, then the reason why they are to do what they do is because the Lord is who he is. Now, I think this is uh gosh, this is huge for us today. Oh, absolutely because uh it it still stands for us. The reason why we are to do what we do is because the Lord is who he is. Now, if if we mis uh misinterpret, misrepresent what God is like, right? God is love, right? You know, we hear, oh, God is love. Well, uh we better know exactly what it means uh when we talk about God's love, right? Because God love involves it involves discipline, uh training a child, and and and and if we make God's love like us or like our whatever definite, you know, uh tolerant and you know, like a I don't know, uh a grandpa who always is fun and nice and and you know, sit on his lap. Yeah, yeah. Um uh that's not the God of this body. That's right. Right? Yeah, uh and so if we create God in our own image, and then all we're doing is is following ourselves, following our own desires. Now, the reason why we're to do what we do is because the Lord is who he is, and we gotta know who he is, what his character is, so that we know what to do. Right, right. So there's a direct relationship here. Here's an example. You shall not oppress your neighbor, uh you don't rob him. Uh the wages of a higher man uh are not to remain with you all night until morning. I love that one. Right. Um you shall not curse the deaf man nor place a stumbling flock uh block before the blind, but you shall fear the Lord, your God, for I am the Lord. You shall do no injustice in judgment, you shall will not be partial to the poor, nor defer to the rich. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor defer to the rich or the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly. You don't go about as a slanderer among your people. Uh you're not to act against the life of your neighbor, for I am the Lord. You shall not hate your fellow countrymen in your heart. You've heard it said, You shall not commit murder, but I say to you, you shall not hate your brother in your heart. Jesus just quoting Leviticus. He's he's quoting uh um he, you know, the Pharisees are quoting Exodus uh 20, Deuteronomy, you know, you shall not uh commit murder, command, great command. But he says, No, no, no. Uh you shall not hate your your brother, your neighbor in your heart. You shall surely repu reprove your neighbor. Did you catch that? You will reprove your neighbor. Um part of love is correction, care for, protection. If you See your brother doing something uh dumb. Uh, if if you see a kid, your child running towards the street, what do you stop and pray for them? You go get them. Hold of them. You run hold of them. Don't walk and you grab them. Why? Because you love them, right? You're looking out for them. And so, because this is because you know uh the Lord cares for you, uh, you're to care for your children, uh, you're to care for the poor man. You you you don't think that you know there's no added value for being poor, nor for being rich. And so you can see um both of those errors in our culture today, where some some folks say, well, you know, they're rich, they must be blessed by the Lord, and until they turn rich and wealth and blessing into being something from the Lord. Or the other the other side says, Well, you know, the poor, see the you know, blessed are the poor. And so, well, there it must be some kind of virtue in being poor. But the book of Deuteronomy says the Lord's not partial to either one. Uh judge it, uh, James in in James chapter two. This is exactly what James is dealing with. The rich man walks in, the poor man walks in, and you're showing partiality one and not to the other. Uh, but you're it's not like you're supposed to favor the poor man over the rich. You know, it it's just you're you're to judge with righteous judgment, which means you're to judge fairly, just as the Lord judges you. And uh, and when the Lord judges us, when the Lord evaluates us, uh it's not pretty. No, we're fairly and so we need mercy, and so we give mercy. Why? Because I am the Lord. The Lord's not impressed with the rich man walks in. True. He doesn't have anything that he needs from the rich man, and the rich man has nothing to negotiate with. No, he doesn't we tend to think we do, right? If you do this for me, Lord, then I will do that. That really is a massive misunderstanding of what the Lord is like. Um, yeah, there's no negotiating with him because frankly, what do you have that you didn't receive?

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Right.

Exhortation To Read The Law

Dr. David Klingler 24:04

He, you know, everything you have, he gave it to you. Uh he gave you the ability, the the uh and so the mind, the physical, everything. Right. Uh and uh so that you would represent him with it, right? Uh but he's in control of your next breath. You have nothing to negotiate with. Everything that you receive is because he's merciful, compassionate, and slow to anger. And and so, because we've been given mercy, we give mercy to others, we extend mercy to others. And so if we don't know what God is like, then we don't know what we're supposed to be like. Uh we don't know what Christ was like. We don't know uh and so the book of Leviticus, the book of Deuteronomy, um it will help you understand the story. It will help you understand the character of God. You'll be able to evaluate Israel. And and one of the ways that that the storytellers tell you about how bad Israel is, is they just throw this in. He they did this and they did this, you're going, oh, wait a second, that's a violation of the law. Oh, that's a violation of the law. Oh, that's a violation of the law. Uh, and so the storytellers tell you, they're just blowing it in every way possible. But if you don't know uh the law, if you don't know that you're not to eat the fat portion of the sacrifice, and you're thinking, well, you know, I I kind of like my steak medium with a little, you know, nice marbling. It's nice. I like you know hey, that's not what they're saying, right? That that when Eli and his sons are eating the the fat portion, you're you're supposed to be as a reader, going, you know, you pull out your hair, you're going, No, what are you doing? Right? From the very beginning, the uh from uh from chapter four of Genesis, the fat portion was set aside. It was holy unto the Lord, it was the placeholder for Christ, it was to be treated with regard. It was what are you doing? Right? Uh and so if we don't know Leviticus, we'll miss this. And so, so I would just uh um you know listen to Leviticus. Um read it. Um, it's a you know, let it play, you know, get the Bible on audio. There's all kinds of websites out there, and let it pay, and just live, and you'll be shocked at how much is in Leviticus. You say, I know that verse, I've heard that, I know that. That's what Jesus was teaching. That's what Paul was saying. It's all the time. It's like, I can't believe I uh didn't know this, hadn't you know, it's because you're just skipping it, right? We're just skipping it. So so much of what's happening in the rest of the Bible is dependent upon the law of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. So just uh uh would just exhort our listeners to to um stop the podcast and listen to the Bible, right? Our words are to help you understand the Bible, but we want you in the Bible, listening to the Bible, reading the Bible.

Israel As The Reader And God’s Mercy

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Wow. I think we also, or at least I have, as I'm reading through this, and our default is us, making about us, uh you've said many times the reader is Israel. Yeah, the writer is Moses in these books, and he is as God's representative, he's introducing them to this amazing God that delivered them. Yep, absolutely. And so I just want to remind our listeners of that. And if you as I'm, you know, as a young man, as I was moving into the New Testament, and I'm looking at the old and I'm I'm trying to tie all this together. If you want to know this God, oh yeah. You you better better not miss this part.

Dr. David Klingler 27:31

One of the ways that that the storytellers, the the the narrators of the old testament and the prophets uh show you how compassionate and gracious and slow to anger, merciful this God is, is if you know the law, you know how bad they're blowing it. Right. And you're just going. I I love what my old buddy and mentor Charlie Bayless used to say. He read the old testament, he said. Um and then he would talk about his own character, and he says, If I was God, I would have wiped me out a long time ago. And we would all laugh. And he'd say, Don't laugh. I'd have wiped you out first. Well, yeah. When you read the old testament and you see what Israel's doing, and you see it in in full HD color, how bad they are blowing it. I mean, it's every verse, they're just offense, offense, offense. And the Lord doesn't wipe them off the map immediately. Now you're starting to learn about how compassionate and gracious and slowed anger. And even after he expels them from the land, he's doing it because he's a loving father who's disciplining his children uh with the intention of bringing them back. And so that's why Paul's going to say um that there's nothing that can separate us. He's talking about you know in in chapter uh um eight uh of uh of Romans and nine, ten, eleven, he's talking about it. There's nothing that can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, because this character of God is just overwhelming. So if he's that way, for I am the Lord your God, you be that way. And it's powerful.

Gentiles Grafted In And Humility

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Well, I don't want to get in the weeds too much, but I'll never forget when as I was reading through Romans one time and going into chapter 9, 10, 11, um, it dawned on me the reality of how much he cares for Israel, how much he loves Israel, he's chosen and then for us to be the Gentiles, sure, who don't know this God, to be grafted in through faith, it the enormous gift of mercy to be the people outside of the nation of Israel, that he would even bring the gospel to us, but with a purpose. Sure. So I as a church, as a and that's when uh I started watching the church and seeing how the church was responding to Israel or responding or elevating themselves, I'm going, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Yeah, read Romans. Go back and read Romans. Yeah, read Romans, and you know, just so anyway, I I just the magnitude of this mercy is so yeah overwhelming.

Dr. David Klingler 30:07

Yeah. And and if the Lord disciplines those he loves all through the Old Testament, this is the word, right? Uh and and the writer of Hebrews is gonna uh use this, the uh Jesus is gonna talk about this, Paul's gonna talk about this, uh then discipline and love go together. Right. Uh and so if we're called to represent the character of God and called to love uh one another and love our children, uh then discipline goes with that. You know, we're looking out for one another, for what's best for them. And and so you you'll see this all throughout Paul's writings that uh uh that you care for one another, protect one another. If you see your brother sinning, you go get them, right? James is gonna talk about this, Jesus is gonna talk about this because discipline and love go hand in hand. And right, and this is the character of God.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

So just huge stuff that we can get from a great book, great brilliance. Well, David, thank you for today. Uh it's exciting to walk through this story with you and uh appreciate what you're doing. Help us see uh the story of God, see it unfold. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

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