WEBVTT 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:12.000 You're listening to the Midweek Motivation Podcast from the Dodo Hills Baptist in the David Metaverney. 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:17.359 Here's your host, Mark Lewis, David Burgett, Laura Bulric, and Mr. 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:18.640 Grant Deagle. 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:25.199 Welcome to the Midweek Motivation Podcast for April the 15th. 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:29.519 Grant, that's April the 15th, tax day. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.560 We're here at DeSota Hills Baptist Church. 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:35.359 I'm Mark Lewis. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:36.719 I'm Grant Steagall. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.479 We hope this programming can encourage folks throughout DeSoto County and beyond. 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.640 Be sure to subscribe and share our link on social media. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:54.479 We have some very exciting information that we wanted to talk about right off the bat before we get to our calendar and our midweek moment. 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:56.880 And that is Hunter Smith. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:58.399 Hunter Smith. 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:09.599 Announcement. 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:09.840 Yeah. 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:10.640 Announcement. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:18.400 They're announcing that they're um bringing forth Hunter Smith to be our next minister of students. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:20.400 Very, very exciting. 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:23.599 Uh I did get to meet him weeks ago. 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:26.560 Super, super, super nice guy. 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:33.280 Um has an extremely um amazing resume and C V. 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.200 So just just everything. 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:37.200 Everything is super exciting about this. 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:43.840 I think Hunter's gonna fit in well with our congregation, with our church, with our staff, uh, with our students. 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:45.439 Um for sure. 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.480 Um Hunter lives in Huntsville right now. 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.400 He and his wife, Sarah, have two kids, Hank and Edith. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:59.680 Um Hank is four, I believe, and uh Edith is they're young. 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:01.280 Yeah, like two. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:02.719 I think she's two. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:03.120 Yeah. 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:08.319 Um, so uh yeah, and uh Sarah is from the Mid South area. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:16.000 Uh she grew up in kind of the Arlington area, and uh Hunter grew up in Kentucky, a Kentucky boy. 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.800 So um, yeah, um I we're I'm excited. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:21.520 I'm excited. 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:30.800 So this Sunday, actually this weekend, um on Saturday, that we're gonna have a student event on Saturday afternoon from five to seven at the pavilion. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:32.719 Uh just a lot of games. 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.080 Um we're gonna set up, you know, gaga ball, nine square, those kind of things, have pizza. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.919 Um, it's for students, it's for parents of students, it's for volunteers in the student ministry. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:52.319 And honestly, if you're just a member of church and care about students and you want a chance to meet Hunter, come out on Saturday afternoon. 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.120 We're gonna be down at the pavilion, weather permitting, and uh have a chance to meet him. 00:02:57.199 --> 00:03:02.560 He'll share a little bit with the students, um, his vision and his testimony and things like that. 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:07.120 And then on Sunday morning, the 19th, uh, he will preach in both services. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:14.479 And our constitution and bylaws now say that after he preaches, we will vote at the end of both of those services. 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:20.400 Um, so we will know the 19th direction moving forward. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.680 So all right, that's super, super exciting news. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:33.120 So be sure and come to church this Sunday to hear Hunter uh and get to know his heart because he is a super, super amazing guy. 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:33.599 Yeah. 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:42.800 All right, we need to move right along to the calendar, and I'm glad that you're here today because the calendar is salamed. 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:44.719 Yes, there is a lot going on. 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:55.360 This Sunday, obviously, again, Hunter is preaching, uh, but also our child our first through third grade children's choir will be singing uh in part in as part of that service. 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:04.960 Um, and then on the 22nd, um, which is next Wednesday, is the last spring class for Wednesday nights. 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:09.039 Um we're wrapping up the spring semester next Wednesday. 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:16.560 And that's mainly gonna end up affecting children's choirs, and then just our summer studies will start a week later, right? 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:17.279 Two weeks later. 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:28.879 So the 29th, we're not having any Wednesday night activities, and then we will start again um our Sunday, our our our summer Wednesday schedule will start on May the 6th. 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:31.600 Uh so that'll that'll kick back off. 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:35.279 Programming uh for the summer, it is doubt. 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:41.839 Really, the only thing that's left out in programming for students for children for preschool is no choirs. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:46.000 We don't do choirs in the summer, but everything else uh we're running, we'll have meals. 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:47.920 We shorten schedule, just a tad. 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:53.839 Just a just a tad, but we will have meals, we will have adult classes, um, all that's going on. 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:59.519 So students and children tend to play and preschool tend to play outdoors and do more outdoor too activities as well. 00:04:59.759 --> 00:04:59.920 Yeah. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.519 So we we we adjust the programming to make it um outdoor friendly since it's it feels great outside. 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:08.000 Now we've now you did you skipped over a few things we've got. 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:08.560 I didn't know. 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:20.319 So also on on this Sunday that afternoon is a Grand Prix work day for our DeSoto Hills Grand Prix, the third annual DeSoto Hills Grand Prix. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:20.879 Yes. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:23.519 Um you there's a work day on the 19th. 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:24.800 That's just if you need it. 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:32.240 Um if you Laura, for all those who are going to participate in the Grand Prix, Laura will get can give you your bases and things like that. 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:38.399 But if you need extra help, extra Legos, things like that, uh, you can come on the 19th and work on that. 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:42.720 On the 25th, uh that's Saturday, there is a test track day. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:56.879 So if you want to bring if you want to bring your uh Lego car and let it run down the track, see how it does, kind of get more of an official weight on it, and make sure your car weighs in the right amount. 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:08.240 You can come do that on Saturday, test it out, and then on Sunday afternoon is the third annual DeSoto Hills Baptist Church Grand Prix. 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:11.519 Yes. 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:20.079 So and uh could you go ahead and give us some insight on what snacks might be available during the Grand Prix? 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.759 We typically have some refreshments of some sort. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.399 I I'm not the best at give you that. 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:27.920 Last year we had popcorn. 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:28.800 I know that. 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:32.720 Lots of snacks and drinks, but yeah, I don't know what that's gonna be. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.279 But the grand prix is gonna happen. 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:43.600 Uh the dads will hover around the track closer than we probably should, just because we are just as into it as much as the children are. 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:44.000 Right. 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:49.120 We try to be cool and keep our distance, but the truth is we tend to creep up closer and closer and closer. 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:49.839 Yes. 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.399 Uh but the Grand Prix will be at five o'clock. 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:54.160 So uh be a lot of fun. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.399 So make your plans to come to that. 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:04.480 Uh also that Sunday morning of the 26th, uh all the other children's choirs will be singing that service. 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:11.199 Uh, preschool choir, fourth through sixth grade choir, and student choirs are all singing as part of that service. 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.759 So uh busy, busy, busy morning. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:14.720 Busy morning, yes. 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:15.839 And then the very next week. 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.720 The very next week is Graduate Recognition Sunday. 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.439 Uh May the third is graduate recognition Sunday. 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:34.000 So if you have a graduate or know a graduate, make sure that they are getting their information into David uh so we can um we can have that ready and feature them and be ready for that. 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:38.879 Um then again on the sixth that Wednesday night, our summer Wednesday night schedule starts. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.120 And on the 10th is Mother's Day. 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:42.399 So Yes. 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:44.240 Yeah, it's it's running. 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:52.720 And then the 17th, I know this is a long way out, but the 17th is that night is night of worship and um business meeting. 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:53.360 Yes. 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.439 Um then Wednesday would be salute to summer. 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.800 And then Wednesday the 27th is salute to summer. 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:03.439 So full full calendar for the next uh few months. 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:03.920 Yeah. 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:16.959 The truth is we want you to be a part of all of these activities, so be sure and uh pencil them in on your calendars now because uh we don't want you to plan something else on top of any of those. 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:21.600 And if you're like me and don't put it on that put it, if I don't put it on my phone calendar, guess what? 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:22.639 It doesn't exist. 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:24.480 It does not exist. 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.240 All right, we're now gonna move on to the portion of the podcast that we call the midweek moment. 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:39.759 So we've been working through the covenants. 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:50.399 Uh, we've looked at the Adamic covenant, we've looked at the Abrahamic covenant, and then um tonight or today we're gonna look at the Mosaic covenant. 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.919 Call it the Mosaic covenant because it was given to Moses. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:10.000 Um we find really that covenant in Exodus, Exodus chapters 19 through chapter 19 through chapter 24, uh, we see that covenant, and there's some the a few things that we see uh in this in this covenant. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:14.960 First, really in chapter 19 and 20, we see the ceremony of the covenant. 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:26.559 In chapter 19, verses 1 through 6, he says, And on the third new moon, after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.159 They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai. 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:34.080 They encamped in the wilderness, there Israel encamped before the mountain. 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:37.759 Now in verse three, we kind of get into what the covenant is. 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:52.960 While Moses went up to God, the Lord called out of the mountain, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel, you yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:10:08.799 Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all of the earth is mine, and you shall be and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.639 These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel. 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:25.360 So that's the covenant you really go through and see in the next few verses how Israel accepts the covenant, and then God consecrates the covenant uh by calling Moses up on the mountain. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:34.720 Um, and you see God descend on the mountain with thunder and lightning and clouds and all of those things, and you see Moses go in. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:40.080 But when Moses first gets there, God says, Hold on, Moses, you need to go back down and warn the people. 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.320 If they even just touch this mountain, they're gonna die because I'm a holy God. 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:45.919 They can't come up right now. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:52.480 And so he goes back and warns them, and then you enter into chapter 20, where God gives the Ten Commandments. 00:10:52.639 --> 00:11:17.519 Um, and then you see some um how the people are become terrified in chapter 20 because of all the things that are happening, and then God uh they give them the rest of the laws, and then there's a confirmation of this covenant at the in chapter 24, and you see Moses come down with the two the two tabnets, but tablets, but here's the here's the promise. 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:19.919 And so he the God makes the covenant. 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:24.720 If you obey this law, you here's what's gonna happen. 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.720 And here's the promises that he makes. 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:37.279 And we just read it, but just to remind you, in chapter 19, verse 5, he says, Therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my command commandments, here's the promise promise. 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:45.919 You shall be my treasured possession, so they'll be his treasured possession among all peoples, for the earth is mine. 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.720 You shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.240 These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel. 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:59.840 So they're gonna be a prized possession, a royal priest, so meaning they're gonna have access to God. 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:03.840 They're gonna be a holy nation set apart from all the other nations. 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:14.559 So all and they're gonna be, because they're set apart from the other nations, as they're gonna be priests of the other nations, so the other nations should be able to look to them and say, This is how we worship God. 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:20.879 Over on in chapter 23, he talks about he is gonna defend them from all their enemies and all of these things. 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.360 So that's the old covenant, all right. 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.320 So we see Christ really fulfilling this covenant. 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.759 Last week, when we talked about the Abrahamic covenant, we went to Galatians. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:39.360 We're really in the same passage of Galatians uh today to see how Christ fulfilled the old covenant. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:45.360 But in in Galatians chapter 3, verse 19, he says, Why then the law? 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:57.039 It was added because of transgressions until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.360 Now, an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:02.480 Now, listen to this. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:05.600 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:06.960 Certainly not. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.679 For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:24.639 But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:37.440 So what the law did is it it was it imprisoned everybody to sin, so that those who believe in Jesus could be freed. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.120 Well, well, how does Jesus do that? 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:54.960 Down in verse 27 for as many as you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:59.679 And if you are Christ, then you're Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:08.480 So what Christ does is he justifies us, and here's how he kept the law perfectly, he was the one who did that. 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:17.440 He died on the cross, taking the punishment that deserved, that that our sins deserved, that we were imprisoned to. 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:23.279 In the old covenant, he even set up ways because he knew they would disobey it, disobey it. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:30.639 He set up ways for them to um atone for their sins through the blood of bulls and goats and sacrifices. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:39.919 But we read on Easter Sunday how that never really accomplished justification for us because they had to keep offering them. 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:49.840 But Christ, when he offered his sacrifice once and for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God because his sacrifice appeased the wrath of God. 00:14:50.080 --> 00:15:04.799 He took the punishment that we deserved, and then he places on us his righteousness, the righteousness that is given to those who believe, who have trusted him in faith and repentance. 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:06.720 And so then here's the promise. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:13.039 Remember the promises of the old covenant: treasured possession, royal priesthood, holy nation. 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:21.120 In first Peter chapter 2, verses 7 through 9, or actually just start in verse 9. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:26.080 Here's what Peter says about those who have believed in Christ. 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:26.639 Okay. 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:45.440 You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possess possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into this marvelous light. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.360 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people. 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:54.559 Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:05.279 And so what he is saying is those who have believed, you were not a people, you were, you were, um, you had not received mercy. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:13.120 But when you believe in Christ, you receive the mercy that he gives us on the cross, that he died for us, that he arose to save us. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:24.879 We become God's people, and in becoming God's people, we as those who believe become his treasured possession, his royal priesthood, a holy nation. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:38.320 That happens because Christ fulfilled the Mosaic law perfectly and justified us, gave us his righteousness, and so we see fulfillment of that old covenant in Jesus. 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:56.080 And I don't want it to come across that way, but I'm curious about your thoughts. 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:18.319 The children of Israel saw so many amazing things, and you mentioned uh in today that they were terrified, and yet it they still screwed up a lot and it's just puzzling for for the for a culture today that doesn't see some of the things uh visually that they saw. 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:32.960 Yeah, we don't see those things, but but at the same time, Mark, I mean we don't we maybe we don't see God come on the mountain and give the covenant, but we see God do some incredible things. 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:45.119 I mean, the the the act of salvation that is a miracle in and of itself that God would take us and and redeem us. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:52.720 It's it's a it's an act of God, and and sometimes you even see those testimonies of people who had reached the lowest of lows, right? 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:54.000 And then God saved them. 00:17:54.079 --> 00:18:12.799 But even for those who didn't like I used to think I didn't have a testimony because I didn't drink and do all the things, but but he took me a sinner and saved me, and then he continues to work and do incredible things in my life. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:16.720 But how often do we go, why God? 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:17.680 Why me? 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:19.680 Why are you doing this to me? 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:22.799 I think it's the same kind of thing. 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:33.759 We just we I think as sinful people so often have short-term memory loss, and it becomes a thing, God, but what have you done for me lately? 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.839 And yeah, I give the Israelites a hard time, I really do. 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:45.039 But when we're honest, when we're honest with ourselves, though, like we we do a lot of the same things. 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.960 They saw some terrifying things in the old testament. 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:59.519 I mean, even the things that God allowed to happen in Egypt, they were witnessing it, they knew what was going on. 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:18.720 And if you walked through the sea and then saw the water swallow up the pursuers, and then Moses goes up on the mountain and you build a bunch of idols, you're toying with something you've seen firsthand you should not be toying with. 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:19.359 Right. 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:27.279 I mean, we're not talking about what we deal with today, which is some would say an intangible faith. 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:34.079 I mean, well, I just I just think we we don't recognize the depravity of ourselves. 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:39.680 Um I don't think they recognize it in themselves, but I don't think we do either. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:46.880 How how easily we turn from God um at the slightest little go wrong. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:52.000 And and and for them, I mean the the the go-wrong wasn't long. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:57.440 I mean, so from the Red Sea to Mount Sinai, they estimate about three months. 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:07.599 And in that three months, like I know one time at least they didn't have water and they cried out and said, God, we we should have just Moses, why'd you lead us out here to die? 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:08.720 We should have died in Egypt. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:10.480 Well, God brings them water, right? 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:16.000 And then they they're hungry and they cry out for food and they say, We should have just died in Egypt. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:17.680 Why'd you bring us out here to die? 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:29.279 And man, all that happened in less than three months, and so now they're at they're out at Sinai and going, Oh my stars, like how amazing is this? 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:38.400 This is and and then for 40 days, and Moses is on the mountain, they say, Well, he must have died up there. 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:43.839 Aaron, give us a God that we can worship, and we'll say he's the God that brought us out of Egypt. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:51.680 So you we think that wasn't very long, but and I'm not even gonna speak into anybody else's life, I'll speak in mine. 00:20:53.359 --> 00:21:11.599 I have gone from mountaintop experience with God to almost the next day my truck breaks down, and I'm mad at God because how dare he let my truck break down. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:12.319 Right. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:26.960 And so we just I mean, it's like my uh my pastor growing up at Troy used to say, sin will take us further than we want to go, keep us longer than we want to pay, and make us pay more than we want to pay. 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:37.359 And it it blinds our eyes to the goodness of God and and what he can do. 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:43.599 And and and scripture is a it's a constant repetition of that. 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:45.279 Adam and Eve. 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:49.279 They walked with God daily in the cool of the day. 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:57.839 And we know that because after they sinned, it says God came down calling to walk with them in the cool of the day, and they were hiding. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.759 So that was a regular occurrence where they. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.119 They walked with God daily. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:08.079 And at the first sign of God doesn't love you. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:09.839 He does eat this fruit. 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:11.680 If he loved you, he'd let you eat it. 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:13.519 And they ate the fruit. 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:21.440 And all through the Old Testament, it's them turning away from God and turning away from God and Him calling them back and Him calling them back. 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:33.279 And then even in the New Covenant, that's why the New Covenant, He set it up, not based on our obedience, but instead based on Him obligating Himself to our benefit. 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:44.480 So He the New Covenant had to be that because we are such a stubborn and stiff-necked people that we need him because we're not going to do it. 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.039 Right. 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:47.200 So I mean, I'm with you. 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:47.920 I'm with you. 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:55.119 I I agree with you totally that it I don't understand how they did it, but when we are totally honest with ourselves, we do it all the time. 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:56.000 Right. 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:56.880 Yeah. 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:01.920 It just I guess it feels different because you haven't seen the ocean split. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:02.880 Right. 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:03.680 Right. 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:09.359 I mean, that that would be that would be something I would not forget in three months. 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:11.599 I'm just I'm just gonna be honest. 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:12.720 Hey, thanks for listening. 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:16.000 If you don't have a church home, we'd love to see you here on Sunday mornings. 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:21.680 You can catch our services online at Desotahills.com, our YouTube channel at DeSota Hills Baptist for all our church family. 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:22.160 We love you. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.039 We'll see you back here bright and early next Wednesday morning. 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:26.160 God bless. 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:29.119 This has been your midweek motivation. 00:23:29.279 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