Feb. 24, 2025

Christian Podcast: Bible Recap

Christian Podcast: Bible Recap

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A discussion about the podcast, Bible Recap

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast Making Theology Central.

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Okay, I want you to think about Christianity right now.

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I want you to think about Christianity inside the church.

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I want you to think about what's going on outside

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of the church. Do you feel that right now a

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fire has been lit inside the church and outside the church?

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A spark has started a fire and there is and

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when I say fire, not in a bad way, but

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in a positive way, a fire of passion or zeal

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or hunger for the things of God. Do you feel

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like there's some kind of I don't know, I don't

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want to dare say the word revival, but there's some

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something is happening inside the church, something is happening outside

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the church? Or do you feel maybe the opposite? Are

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you kind of like I think right now things are

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not going so great spiritually? How would you even measure it?

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How would you even measure if something a fire has

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been lit inside the church or outside the church? How

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would you measure it? Would you measure it based on

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the number of downloads a podcast has received, are based

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on the number of books purchased? Would you determine that

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a revival is going on, that a move of God

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is happening, based on a number of podcast downloads or

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books sold. Now we're going to talk about all of this,

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and we're going to talk about a particular book and

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a particular podcast. But first I need to say good

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afternoon everyone. It is Monday, February the twenty fourth, twenty

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twenty five. It is currently one thirteen pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live from the Theology

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Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I'm

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going to do my very best here to try to

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be positive, try to be rational, reasonable. Now I know

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there's a part of me. In fact, the thought just

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crossed my mind right when I was giving my intro.

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There was a there was a thought that entered in

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my mind. I'm not I'm not going to lie or

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deny this. I was like, WHOA if I was to

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name the podcast we're going to be talking about, if

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I was to name the book that we're getting ready

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to talk about, and I gave that in the title

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and said exposed, you know, just you know, shocking secrets

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about the name of this podcast or this book. I

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could ensure that I would get a lot of downloads

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and a lot of streams. I could really utilize the

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popularity of what we're going to be talking about to

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my advantage by saying shocking secrets revealed, expose something along

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those lines the way people do things on YouTube, and

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then it could really benefit me. But I don't want

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to go into this like I'm trying to expose something

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or I'm trying to reveal something. I'm really going into

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this because someone asked me to talk about it now.

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Right before we went live, I did discover some things

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that I think are well. They bother me, they may

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not bother you. But let me put this all together

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and hopefully this will this will be beneficial. So are

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you ready? Okay, So here is what happened. At eleven

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eighteen am. Eleven eighteen am, so less than two hours ago.

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Almost two hours ago, I received an email. It had

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a link to a news story posted at the Christianpost

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dot com. Underneath that it says, do a review of

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this podcast. Is it philologically sound and what makes it popular?

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I'm like, okay, that's that's a good request, right review it?

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Is it theologically sound and see if you can determine

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what makes it popular. All right, So I click on

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the link and it takes me to the Christianpost dot

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com with a story that was published yesterday, February twenty third,

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twenty twenty five. All right, here we go. Now it

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gives the name of the individual. I'm gonna let her

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tell you her name here in a minute. But she

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is sharing, this individual sharing how God is using the

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Bible Recap to spark a fire both inside and outside

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the church. So God is using the Bible Recap. The

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Bible Recap's sparking a fire. Now do you see the fire?

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Do you see it? Now? Many people may say they do.

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But what are they basing this fire on? Well, the

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Bible Recap. If you do not know, it's a podcast,

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a very very popular podcast, and it is also a book.

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In fact, if you go to Amazon dot com, go

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to Amazon dot com, type in Bible Recap, you will

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find The Bible Recap, a one year guide to reading

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and understanding the entire Bible. You can purchase it for

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eighteen dollars and fourteen cents. Kindle hardcover will cost you

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nineteen dollars and eighty cents. Spiral bound will cost you

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forty dollars and sixty nine cents. Okay, you can buy

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it new, Oh, nineteen dollars and eighty cents. Okay, that's

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the hard hardcover. Right now, we'll talk about the book

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and a little bit, but it's also a podcast, and

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that's what I was asked to review, is to review

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the podcast. Now I've got I've got this story here,

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so I'm gonna read a little bit of the story

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and then we're gonna we're gonna dig in. I just

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started doing a little bit of research and for the

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most part, I'm just I'm just going to be honest

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with you my attitude towards it. And I've seen the

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Bible recap on podcasting charts numerous times. In fact, we've

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been we were we kind of have a series on

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the Christian Spotlight on different Christian podcasts where I kind

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of turned the spotlight on to show you what's going

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on in the Christian podcasting world. And there are so

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many obviously, and we keep up with the podcasting charts

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on Spotify, right, And I've seen the Bible recap on there.

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I've seen it. But I'm going to be honest with you,

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I've never covered it. I've always skipped it, right. I've

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always skipped it because I know this is going to

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sound bad, but I kind of like, oh, it's another

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one of those. It's another one of those, right. And

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when I say another one of those, what I mean

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is kind of a five to ten minute short and

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giving you kind of like we're going to walk through

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the Bible in a year with these little five ten

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minute summaries of maybe a couple of chapters or a

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section or a book, whatever, and just get you through

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the Bible any year five ten minutes. You're not going

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to be able to do much with it, but it's short,

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it's to the point, and it works for people with

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their busy lifestyle. I'm just gonna be I know that

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sounds like I'm being dismissive. I'm not trying to be dismissive, obviously.

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You know. My approach is radically different. Hour long episodes,

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hour and a half hour and forty five minutes, a

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completely different approach. Now, in some ways I wish I

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could do a little five minute, ten minute things. I've attempted, right,

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Today's focus that an entire podcast series was supposed to

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be a little ten to fifteen minute thing, and I

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never can quite pull that off. It's not in my

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I'm not strong at it. I want to make myself

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be able to pull that off because there is a

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place for that, because people are busy, they have things

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to do. But I'm just gonna be honest. I've always

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kind of been dismissive of it. I'm like, eh, okay, whatever,

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there's a lot of these kinds of things out there.

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I'm like, all right, there's you know, and these and

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there always tend to be somewhat popular. So I was

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kind of dismissive of it. So when I saw the email,

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I was like, okay, great. When I saw the story headline,

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that's when I kind of sighed and was like, oh man,

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kind of rolled my eyes, which I don't typically do.

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And I'm gonna tell you, why did I know this

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is gonna sound like some of you are not gonna understand.

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I get bothered because I've been in the Christian world

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now since you know, I became a Christian as a teenager.

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I've been around in the Christian world for a very

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long time, and I have seen these things happen over

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and over and over again. And if you've been a

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Christian for a long time, you know it as well.

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Something will happen. It will be a movie or a

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Christian book or a Christian DVD, going depending on the era, right,

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the Christian, this the Christian, that the Christian, and it'll

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be like this is revolutionized the world. This will change

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your Christian life. This is renewing the church. This is

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bringing change to the church. God is moving and they

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always hype it right like, oh, this is remember the

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prayer in Jabez. It's revolutionizing the way people pray. It's

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bringing a revival to the church. It's changing things. It

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changed my life the prayer and Jaybas Oh you heard

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all of those testimonies. It came and then where is

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it today? Oh, the purpose driven life. It's revolutionizing, it's

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changing people's lives. You just name the book. Whichever book

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rises makes it to that like, oh, this is the thing.

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Everyone has to get it and we always know what happens. Right,

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once the book reaches that level where this is the

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thing that's going to change your life, you've got to

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get a copy. Then church after church starts buying copies,

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and then little Bible studies start breaking out, and then

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what do the publishers do? What do the authors do.

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All that we got to merchandise is we've got the

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purpose driven church and the purpose driven life, purpose driven church,

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a purpose driven hat, a purpose driven pen, a purpose

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driven sweatshirt, and then we've got the prayer of Jabez

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this and a prayer of Jabez coffee mug, and then

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we got this, and we merchandise merchandise, merchandise, merchandise. And

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so what I tend to see is something hits at

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the right time, gets all of the popularity, gets all

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of the attention, and then you merchandise the heck out

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of it right, and then it just becomes this big

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industry built around it to sell, sell, sell, And when

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it's all said and done, all the people who purchased

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the merchandise purchased the book, I don't know if their

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lives were truly ever changed. They may claim it was,

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But I know whose lives are changed. The people who

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make millions upon millions of dollars, The people spending all

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of that money for the supposedly new Christian hot item

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that's going to change their lives. I think a lot

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of times, if they're really honest, did it really change

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your life? You may get excited, but did it really,

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And the same thing is true is oh, we got

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a revival breaking out here, We got a revival breaking

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out here. I just know this the Christian world there,

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I mean, let's not be can we just be blunt?

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There is a Christian industrial complex. And if you can

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get the right person, make them the right celebrity. You

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can pack out arenas selling tickets for people to get in.

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You can pack out churches where people pay money to

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get in so they can hear that person supposedly speak

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about the Bible teach the Bible. Then they'll tell you

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to see my merch table. Well I won't call it

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a merch table, see my book table. And then they'll

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sell this, and sell this and sell this. And money

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is moving, money is flowing, and a lot of and

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before it's all over, people make whoever's putting on the

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conferences is making money. If the churches are renting out,

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they're building, they're making money. The people selling the books

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are making money, the people making the t shirts are

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making money. Everyone's making money. Our lives really being changed.

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I don't know. I will call myself skeptical. I will

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call myself I'm not saying oh sure, but it happens

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every single time. So now the Bible Recap, well supposedly,

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is sparking a fire both inside and outside the church.

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Let's read a little bit again. You can go to

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the Christianpost dot com. There's a picture of her. You're

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gonna hear from her in just a minute. Here we go.

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For years, conversations about the decline of biblical literacy and

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warning church and I'm sorry. For years, conversations about the

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decline of biblical literacy and waning church attendants has dominated

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discussions among faith leaders. But Tara Lee cobbles her podcast,

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The Bible Recap, has transformed the way people engage with scripture,

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proving that hunger for the Word of God is far

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from dead. So she has transformed the way people engage

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the Bible. She's transformed it before she came along. Oh

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this is the way we engage the Bible. She comes along, Oh,

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it's been transformed. So what is she doing so differently?

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And she is proving that people's hunger for the Word

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of God is not dead. Now, let's just make sure

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we understand. At least on the Spotify podcasting charts, she's

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not even number one on the Spotify podcasting chart. There

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are others the Bible in a Year. I think his

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dominating and it's the same kind of thing, taking the

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people through the Bible in a year. So there are

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lots of podcasts out there doing this. Does that demonstrate

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that people are hungering for the Word of God? Well,

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you could say possibly, it reflects that we could go

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back and forth the Bible Recap. The Bible Recap podcast

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drawing millions of listeners each month. Her book series Study

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All right, so we got merchandise, We've got books, they're

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being sold, We've got the podcast. Now, she goes on

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to say, it has blown me away. She goes, this

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is a tool that has helped individuals, churches, people come

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closer to the Lord and the Reason it's selling well

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is because these people want what will not stop talking

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about it. They will not stop talking about how God

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has used it in their lives and their hearts. Marriages

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have been transformed, people have turned back from suicid, children

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have come to Christ. So because of her book, people

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have not committed suicide. Marriages have been transformed. Wow, this

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sounds like everybody's gotta get a copy now. See. I

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know I'm gonna sound jaded here. I know I'm going

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to sound cynical, but I've heard these claims a million times.

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change you. It's gonna do this. It did this by

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this time, all the books that promote this, and how

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many pastors do this. Oh, you've got to be here

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next week we're gonna begin a series and this series

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This series will save your children. The series. Pastors will

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hype it as well. Christians don't need a hype man,

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They're their own hype man. And I've heard it a

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million times. If all the books and all the sermon

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series and all the Christian conferences will do what they claim,

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they will do. I mean Christians should basically be walking

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on water. Well, I mean we should just be flying

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around like superheroes with perfect everything. So I'm a little cynical,

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have been guilty of doing that. I try never to say, oh,

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listen to this podcast. It's going to change your life.

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It's going to transform your life. I hope I would

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never say that, because I think a lot of that

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is it feels like marketing one oh one. It does

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not feel like I mean, did the apostle Paul begin,

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you know the Book of Galatians, read this, and this

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will change your life, This will transform you. I don't know,

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I don't know. Maybe that's a bad illustration, but let's continue.

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Lord is doing through this and in individual hearts and lives.

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She added, when our hearts and lives are transformed, we

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don't shut up about it. We just keep talking and

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we want to tell everybody. My own article just completely

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moved away here. We want to tell everybody. And so

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the people that are hearing is wedding their appetite. What

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I see happening is an awakening within the church that

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is peaking the curiosity outside the church. An awakening is happening.

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People's lives are being transformed. How we engage the scriptures

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are being transformed. An awakening is happening in the church.

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All because of the Bible recap, podcast and associated merchandise

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or books are guides Now, she shares her cobble shares

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her own journey with the Scripture was far from effortless.

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Despite growing up in the church, she struggled to read

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through the Bible, and to a pastor friend guided her

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through it, answering questions along the way. After completing it

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on her own multiple times, she realized some something crucial.

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a desire or time. It was a comprehension problem. Oh

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that's interesting. Now, I have been told a million times

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by Christians that, hey, as Christians, we can comprehend it.

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We've been given by the Holy Spirit, we can understand it.

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Now I reject that, but okay, I will agree that

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there's a comprehension problem in the American Church. How many

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times do I lose my mind when it comes to sermons,

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thinking someone's lacking in Bible comprehensions. So I would actually

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agree with her that I do believe there's a comprehension problem.

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All right, now, let's see what her solution is. I

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found when I tried to encourage other people to do it,

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they would have the same thing happened to them as

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happened to me. The one time that it worked was

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when I had when the time I helped a girl

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personally answering her questions along the way, That's what sparked

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the Bible Recap. I wanted to help remove barriers for

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people who wanted to read and understand and love God's words.

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So there were barriers. What will remove those barriers? The

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Bible Recap? And you can get the book for nineteen

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dollars and eighty cents hardback or eighteen dollars on your kindle.

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They have found the thing that real will remove the

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barriers so that you can understand the Bible. You just

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you got to give them money, Okay, all right, all right,

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all right, maybe that's okay. Now you could put it

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in a pdfile and make it free, but okay, okay, okay,

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I digress. But but bu bup up up up bud.

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But you also have the podcast, so maybe the podcast

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can do with the book, can all right, let's see

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if we have here, right. So, The Bible Recap launched

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in January twenty nineteen, and just seventeen days later, Cobble

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started receiving emails from publishers eager to turn the content

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into a book. Though she was working one hundred hours

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one hundred hour weeks to complete the podcast, she recognized

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the demand and released the Bible Recap book in twenty twenty.

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The response was overwhelming. Now, I look, I may get

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very net in all of this, but let me say

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to her, working one hundred hour weeks on your podcast,

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that's some that's some time. That's effort. Okay, As someone

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who's been broadcasting forever, who one hundred hour work weeks,

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that's crazy. I got nothing but respect. Obviously, I'm not

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that disciplined. I'm not willing. I mean, I don't know

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would I be even willing to put in one hundred

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hours a week on a podcast. I don't know if

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I would be. I don't know. I'm just gonna be honest.

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I don't know. Maybe if I was making money off

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the podcast, maybe I would then I would just see

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it as a job. So I got nothing. But I

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mean that's work, that's work, that's hard work. So nothing

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but respect for that. Right. So then they published the book.

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We found that people who had done the podcast had

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then picked up the book wanted more resources. She said.

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They wanted a study guy, a discussion guide, a way

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to deepen their understanding. Then we started hearing from parents

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who told us my kid listens to the Bible recap

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with me every day. That's when we knew we needed

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a children's line. So then they begin to create all

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of these other content and they go on and then

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the story continues and you can read the rest of

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the story there. Right, So it was a in some sense,

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an overnight success. She releases the podcast and within what

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a short amount of time? Was it seven days? I think,

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hang on, let me go here? Was it seven days?

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Hang on? Don't hang on? I want to make sure

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I state this correctly. Seventeen days. Seventeen days after launching

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her podcast, publishers were like, let's turn this into a book.

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That's amazing. Seventeen days and the publishers already heard the

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podcast and wanted to turn it into a book. I mean,

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that's amazing. So everything she's done, she's been successful. She

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has worked hard, crazy hard, one hundred hours a week.

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I mean that's I got nothing but respect for all

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of it. Now, am I skeptical that this is the

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thing that's going to transform lives and change life? I am.

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And the reason I'm skeptical has nothing to do with her.

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It has something to do I've heard these claims a

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million times in my Christian life. I mean, you can

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just go go to it. Well, I mean, I know

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it's dated, but if if there is one in your city,

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just go to the Christian bookstore, walk around and just

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read what's on the book covers right, how they're how

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they're hyping it, how they're promoting it. Transform your life,

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will change your life. Your marriage will never be the same,

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your church will never be the same, your life will

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never be the same, your prayer life will never be

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the same, your Bible study will never be the same.

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This is gonna change it. Everything makes that claim. Well,

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when everything's making the claim, then I think there's a

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right to be a little bit going. This is marketing

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right now. I'm not trying to take away what she's claiming.

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I'm just saying that I'm gonna be skeptical about it,

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all right, We're gonna be I mean, hey, we don't

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need anything else, ladies and gentlemen, because in twenty twenty five,

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we have something that will transform the way you handle

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the scriptures. It's called the Bible Recap. You just need

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the Bible Recap and then your way of dealing with

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the scriptures and those barriers that's keeping you from understanding

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will be gone. All you need is the podcast. I

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don't know if you need the book as well, but hey,

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you need that, all right. So there's the story. So

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I started doing a little bit more work here. So

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I started doing a little bit more work because I

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was curious, right, So I utilized AI to help me

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out here, and AI provides sources and everything else, all right.

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The Bible Recap is a comprehensive pro project by Tara

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Lee Cobble designed to guide individuals through daily Bible readings

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and hand understanding and engagement with the scriptures. It encompasses

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a podcast, a series of books, and various supplementary resources. Now,

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let me make it clear, they also have merchandise there's hats,

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there's shirts, there's all the typical merchandise, right, okay, So

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of course that happens every single time something kind of explodes,

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all the other stuff is coming, you know it. You

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know you're going to get the books, the hats, everything. Okay,

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So we knew that was going I mean, as soon

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as you know something is this popular, you knew it

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was going to happen. The podcast was launched in twenty nineteen.

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The Bible Recap podcast offers concise daily summaries and insights

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corresponding to a chronological Bible reading plan. Each episode aims

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to clarify complex passages and highlight key themes, making the

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Bible more accessible to listeners. The podcast has achieved significant

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popularity with over three hundred and twenty eight million downloads.

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Over three hundred and twenty eight million downloads, Now we

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could have we could have this kind of discussion right now,

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three hundred and twenty eight million downloads. Does that, then,

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Is that proof that there's an awakening in the church?

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Does that prove that? What is three hundred and twenty

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eight million downloads prove? Some may argue, well, if it's

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that popular, how can you do a Bible podcast and

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be that popular, because you're going to end up offending someone.

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If you're doing a Bible podcast, you're gonna either you're

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gonna sooner or later, you're going to offend either the

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reform people, the non reform people, the charismatic the non charismatic.

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You're gonna reform, You're gonna offend someone. But if you

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can be that popular, is there a reason why you're

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that popular? Is it because you stay away from anything

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that could offend a specific group? I don't know. I

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mean you can draw your own conclusions there. It has

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also reached the number one spot across all categories on

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OPPS podcast charts, so it seems Apple's all the information

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I could recap. Pointing me to Apple on Spotify, I

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think it's like number eight, number nine. It's in the

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top ten, which is still amazing success, all right. A

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Building on the podcast success, Cobble authored the Bible Recap Book,

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published in November twenty twenty. This companion resource provides written

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summaries and reflections to complement the daily readings. The original

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hardcover edition, just the original edition sold more than three

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hundred and fifty thousand copies. There's an entire product line

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Right Leather Version, you know, fake Leather version, Personal Size Editions,

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study Guide, devotional discussion guide, Journal, and all of this

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has sold over six hundred thousand copies, millions of downloads,

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hundreds of thousands of copies being sold. The widespread a

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pill of the Bible recap is evident and its sub

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substantial download and sells figures. The podcast consistently ranks in

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the top ten on Apple Podcasts, reflecting its strong listener base.

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Listeners appreciate Cobble's approachable style and her ability to demystify

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complex Biblical text, fostering a deeper connection with the Bible.

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User reviews frequently commend the podcast for enhancing their daily

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scripture engagement and understanding. Right Tara Lee Cobble approaches the

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Bible from a Christian perspective, aiming to present the Bible

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as a unified narrative that reveals the character of God.

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Her interpretation aligns with mainstream evangelical theology. So this would

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be evangelicalism, modern evangelicalism. Now I don't know exactly. Is

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that modern evangelicalism mixed with a little bit of charismatic

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I don't know, or is she going to stay away

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from anything that would be too philological, that would define

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her philologically. Is it going to be kind of vague? She's, hey,

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thisage is complex, But is she going to get into well,

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what's the proper baptism salvation? Like, I don't know, Like

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that would require a lot. To the fact that she's

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so popular, I'm assuming she hasn't offended too many people.

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Cobble's work encourages personal engagement with the Bible, aiming to

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help individuals see the overarching story of redemption in God's

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consistent nature through the text. Now, The Bible Recap has

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garnered positive feed feedback for its clarity and structure, some

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critics have emerged. A review from twenty twenty one express

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disappointment in suggesting that the book did not meet the

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reader's expectations, possibly due to a misunderstanding of its intended purpose. Additionally,

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discussions on platforms like Reddit highlight that while the podcast

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provides a structured reading plan, listeners may benefit from consulting

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additional commentaries to gain broader interpretation. But I mean it's

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only a couple of minutes. You'll you'll see so, AI

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basically said The Bible Recap serves as a valuable tool

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for those seeking to read and understand the Bible and

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a structured and insightful manner, fostering a deeper appreciation for

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the scriptures. Then it provides me some links to some

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in depth reviews of it, and I'm like, okay, great,

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you know, let me do just a little looking around.

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So the first thing I did is I'm like, well,

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let me find a recent episode. So I grabbed the

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episode from yesterday, all right, and I'm just gonna let

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you hear just a few minutes of it so you

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kind of get an idea of what it is. By

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all means, whatever podcast app go look for it right now,

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The Bible Recap. Subscribe to it, listen to it for

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a month, and draw your own conclusion. Buy a copy

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of the book, The Bible Recap on Amazon dot com

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or wherever you get books. You can also find like

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one hundred pages available online like a pdf file. I

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think it's Google Books. I think you can find it there,

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and you can. You can, I think look at a

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one hundred pages like kind of a preview. So I

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would say, you know, purchase the book, you know, support

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it that way if you're going to if you want

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to look at it and kind of dig into it. Always,

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always kind of want to do that if I can,

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even if I disagree, even if I disagree. And the

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reason I'm telling you to listen to, the reason I'm

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telling you to read, is because I want you to

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see it and hear it for yourself. So we're going

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to play a little bit of this, and then we'll

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get to the area where I get a little frustrated.

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All right, are you ready?

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Here we go, Hey, Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble

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and I'm your host for the Bible recap. Let me

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start out by saying this book has been poorly named

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in English. In Hebrew, it was called in the Wilderness.

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For those of you who don't love actual numbers, just

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know that even though this book does contain them, it

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also contains some highly underrated stories of scripture, some of

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my favorites. Most people won't wade through the numbers to

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get there, but we're not afraid. We know we'll learn

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something even in the days of actual numbers.

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So let's go.

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Numbers is the fourth book in the Torah, also known

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as the Books of the Law, the Book of Moses,

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and The Pentateuch Numbers is the continuation of the story

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of this family we've been following since day one back

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in Genesis one. According to the timeline laid out in scripture,

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we've been following this family for almost twenty seven hundred

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years of their lives. Adam eventually led to Noah. Then

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God wiped out the earth's population except for eight people

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in Noah's family, and they started over with a clean slate.

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Through Noah's second son, Shim, we eventually get to Abraham

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and God makes a promise to Abraham to be the

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father of many nations. His second son, Isaac, is the

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child through which this promise will be fulfilled, and that

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promise transfers through to Isaac's second son, Jacob. Jacob has

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twelve sons, and ten of them sold one of them, Joseph,

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into slavery. But God loved those twelve brothers and promised

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to give them the land of Canaan to live in

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where their enemies, the Canaanites lived. This one brother's enslavement

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took a turn for the good, but then resulted in

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all of his family and their descendants being in slavery

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in Egypt for four hundred years. Just thirteen months ago,

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God rescued him out of Egyptian slavery through the hand

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of Moses and his older brother Aaron. Moses just spent

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forty days on Mount Sinai for the second time, with

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God passing down laws for him to give to these

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twelve tribes of people who are the descendants of those

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twelve brothers we met almost five centuries ago. The last

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time we saw Moses, he was on Mount Sinai with

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God getting instructions about the covenant God was entering into

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with these twelve tribes. Today, God and Moses are talking again,

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but this time they're meeting in the Tabernacle, which is

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in the midst of their encampment in the wilderness of Sinai,

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not far from the mountain. In this conversation, God asked

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Moses to take a census of all the men aged

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twenty and up from these twelve tribes. This is the

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kind of thing someone might do in preparation for war

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counter soldiers. Given what you know so far, who do

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you think God might be pairing them to fight against.

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After they're all counted, we see that Judah's tribe is

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the largest of the twelve by far, they are more

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than twice the size of some of the other tribes.

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Do you remember back in Genesis forty nine, when Jacob

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Israel was dying and he prophesied a blessing over each

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of his sons, including the two sons of Joseph that

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he had formally adopted as his own, Efriam and Manassa.

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What we learned in these two chapters today about the

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size and pre eminence of the tribe of Judah aligns

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perfectly with what Jacob Israel said about Judah on that

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day over four hundred years ago. God is fulfilling the

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words he spoke through Jacob Israel when he said, Judah,

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your brothers shall praise you, your hands shall be on the

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neck of your enemies. Your father's sons shall bow down

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before you. Did you notice that when it came to

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Joseph the numbers diverged into the lines of his two sons,

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Efriam and Manassa. This is the result of his father,

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Jacob Israel's adoption of Joseph's two sons as his own heirs.

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So given this a day, it seems like there are

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now thirteen clans or tribes, not just twelve that could

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throw everything off right, Not to worry. God has a

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plan for it all, and we'll see that unfold in

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the days ahead. Maybe you also noticed that he told

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Moses not to count the Levite tribe. They were the

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tribe of priests whose jobs and lives were centered around

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the tabernacle, to work around it, to live around the

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perimeter of it, to care for and protect it, to

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protect others from coming in contact with the holiness of

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it so they don't die, as well as disassembling it,

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carrying it through the desert anytime they moved, and reassembling

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it in the new location. So the Levites were the

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one tribe of the original twelve that were set apart

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in this way. In chapter two, God gives orders on

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how all the tribes would be arranged in their camps

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around the tabernacle. This is a brand new structure for them,

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and it's supposed to be in their midst, in the

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very heart of the encampment. The inner rectangle would have

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been the Levites, and the outer rectangle had three tribes

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on each side, dividing them into four groups. If you're

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visual and you want to see how the camp may

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have looked, we've included a link to a diagram in

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the show notes. God also gave them their marching orders,

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group by group, tribe by tribe, for when they moved

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through the desert with a tabernacle. What was your God

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shot today? Where did you see God's character on display?

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For me, it was in this census. And surely that

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was one of the purposes God had in mind for

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them as well, helping them to see His work in

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all this, building their trust in Him and in his promises.

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I think of all they've been through since God first

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promised Abraham that he would increase his offspring, and here

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we are, numbering into the millions if you count women

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and children. Some believe this is not the actual number,

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that it's a literary device that indicates a large army,

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but of much smaller size. But regardless which scenario is accurate,

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these twelve tribes of some great size are evidence of

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God fulfilling his promises. I've said it before and I'll

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say it again. What God initiates, he will sustain and

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he will fulfill. We've seen so much sin in this

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storyline so far, and it all goes to show that

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you can't manipulate your way out of his plan. You

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can't fear your way out of his plan. You can't

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murder your way out of his plan. You can't escape

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God's good plan for your good and his glory. We're

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in it, you guys. This is the plan. It's mountaintops

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some days, and pits and prisons other days. But here

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we are on all kinds of days, trusting that He's

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where the joy is. Where do you recap? Where do

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you get your daily dose of joy? Show us a

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picture of yourself listening, or just show us the spot

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where you spend time with God. We would love to

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see it. Does your dog join you, your baby, your coffee

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or a front porch? Or do you recap in your

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cube at work or at the gym, or while wearing

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your sheet mask at night? Snap a picture, post it

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to your socials and tag us We're the Bible recap everywhere.

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There you have it. Now, She's got a pleasant speaking voice,

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very articulate, very clear. I do like that she's putting

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things in some form of a chronological order. Right, it's

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been this long, it's been this long, it's been this long.

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That's all extremely beneficial. It also sounds kind of like

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the introductions that you get in almost any basic study

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Bible that you could just read for yourself. Right, I

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just picked up the first Bible that I have here,

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the Fourth Book of Moses, called Numbers, the Jew the author.

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Then it has the Jews Samaritans in the early Church

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testify to moses authorship. Several New Testament passages attribute events

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cited from Numbers to Moses. John three, fourteen, Acts seven,

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Acts thirteen, First Corinthians ten, Hebrews three through four. And

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there are more than eighty claims within Numbers that state

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that their Lord spoke to Moses. Numbers thirty three to

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two says that Moses recorded their journeys at the Lord

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command as an eyewitness who kept detailed records, and the

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central character of the events in the book, no one

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was better qualified to write the book than Moses. Okay.

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So we have proof and argument for the authorship of

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Numbers being Moses. Okay. Then we have the time of

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fourteen forty four to fourteen oh five BC, the key

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verse numbers fourteen twenty two through twenty three, So I

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could read that. Then I have at SYINAI, this newly

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resurrected nation of Israel receives its laws, its systems of

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sacrifices and its national character or national charter. The people

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then should be ready to take the next step into

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the promised Land, but they are not. Numbers largely has

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Israel and a holden holding pattern. While the book records

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further steps taken in organization and organizing the nation, its

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central narrative is that of the refusal of the people

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to go into Canaan. But God still does it give

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up on his people. He continues to discipline them in

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an effort to have a new generation ready to fulfill

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his plan. And this context Numbers points to God's sovereignty,

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his patience, and his desire to bless his people. Now,

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of course she spoke more clearly and articulate than I did.

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I stumbled over my words. But what I want you

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to see is what she did was kind of just

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a basic introduction. She went backwards and put it all

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in a chronological order, which is very well, which is

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very good. I mean by all means I'm not criticizing it,

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but I mean honest, like, that's the thing that's sparking

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a fire in the church. This is the awakening, this

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is transforming lives. This is the thing that maybe I

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need the book. Maybe if I had the book, then

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my life would be transformed. Then the awakening would be happening.

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Now is the awakening happening? But please note the brilliant

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marketing strategy there at the end. Hey, where do you

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spend time with God? Make sure you tag us and

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post on your socials a picture of where you do this,

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or you do this, or you do that. Make it fun.

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Everyone post on their socials. Bible recap is tagged. This

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gets people knowing what's going on, and then other people

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listen to the program. Brilliant marketing. I mean, I got nothing,

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but that's brilliant, right, you get it. All is spreading

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on social media in a fun, creative way. That's brilliant.

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I got nothing but respect for that. Just if I

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was to ask you questions about what you just heard,

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I did I personally, I purposely did not interrupt it. Right,

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it was only five minutes long, right, So I mean,

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I mean, so I purposely did not interrupt it. But

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I mean, come on, you listen to that this morning. Now,

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I know what they would say, Well, it's not just

697
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supposed to be listened to. Then you're supposed to get

698
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:56.880
the book or the study guide and you're supposed to

699
00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:59.639
read the text itself. Okay, I agree with all of that,

700
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:01.760
but even if you read the text, you did all

701
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:06.840
of that. I see where I'm having all heart. That's

702
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gonna be transformative, that's gonna be There are people on

703
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.480
the Sermon's two point oh app who do kind of

704
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.800
a morning devotional with their daily Bible reading that probably

705
00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:23.159
goes into more more well at least more in depth

706
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:28.159
than that. So why is this thing the new? Why

707
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.440
is this the flavor of the month or the flavor

708
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:32.360
of the week or the flavor of the year. I mean,

709
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:35.559
I don't want to be dismissive, but what what is it? So?

710
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:38.119
I don't know, but I wanted you to lose hereous.

711
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:42.760
So here's where my problems began. So I opened up

712
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.079
Spotify because I wanted to see where they are on

713
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:48.960
the Spotify podcasting chart. Right, this is where I'm gonna

714
00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:52.599
get pretty frustrated. Right, So I was like, oh, the

715
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:58.400
Bible Recap their number, They've got thirteen thousand plus review

716
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like a star ratings. They have a five point oh

717
00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:08.320
thirteen thousand people have gone there and given it five stars.

718
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:14.280
That's insane. But that's right. Now, we're we're like at three.

719
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:17.159
We've got like a three star rating on Apple. I

720
00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:18.960
think we've been dropped down to like a three. Some

721
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.519
people don't like us right now. If I kept everything

722
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:25.400
to five minutes, maybe I would not see anything to

723
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.599
offend people. Right, Okay, maybe it's popularity is due to

724
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.920
being short. And if it's only five minutes, can you

725
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:35.199
get into much theological depth. No, so you're not gonna again.

726
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:37.679
You're not going to offend anybody. But so I was looking.

727
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:40.239
It's number nine on the chart, so I clicked a

728
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tapped on it. You can go to Spotify and see this,

729
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:44.719
and at the very top, I was like, wait, what

730
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:51.840
is this exclusive episodes for subscribers, And I'm like, you've

731
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:55.719
got to be kidding me. They've got stuff hidden behind

732
00:42:55.719 --> 00:43:06.599
a paywall, and I start getting frustrated. As someone who

733
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:11.679
has been broadcasting and uploading content to the Internet from

734
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.920
way back right, Someone who used to record messages put

735
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.199
them on cassette and send them to anyone around the

736
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:23.599
world for free. We didn't charge anything. Someone who used

737
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:27.519
to put fish bowls at the counter of Christian bookstores

738
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:31.079
filled them with cassettes of my messages and they could

739
00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:35.239
take them for free. Never sold a thing, never put

740
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:39.320
anything behind a paywall. Ever did that. I immediately like,

741
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:44.800
behind a stinking paywall. The thing that's gonna transform lives,

742
00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:47.760
the thing that's cruck causing an awakening. We're gonna put

743
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:51.800
some of our content behind a paywall. So then I'm like,

744
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:53.480
I got to look into the money. I got to

745
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:56.440
look into the money. So I started doing a little

746
00:43:56.440 --> 00:44:00.559
bit of work, all right, So here is what I found.

747
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:05.840
The Bible Recap offers additional content through its recap recaptions

748
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:08.880
or recap recaps. I guess this is how you would

749
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:14.239
say it subscription program. It provides members with exclusive resources

750
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:21.199
and community engagement opportunities. The subscription tiers and their associated

751
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:26.599
benefits are as follows. You ready official Facebook group. To

752
00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:29.119
be a part of the official Facebook group, three dollars

753
00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:34.760
a month access to the official recap recap t ins recaps.

754
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:36.599
I guess this is how it's supposed to be stated

755
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:41.440
Facebook group, facilitating engagement with the TBR team and fellow

756
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:43.519
Bible readers. So if you want to be a part

757
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:46.599
of the Facebook group, that's three dollars. So if I

758
00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:50.400
was to create a Theology Central Facebook group. I guess

759
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.559
I could charge people three dollars to be a part

760
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:55.519
of that. Oh, three dollars per month. I'm sorry, No,

761
00:44:55.559 --> 00:44:58.480
not just a one time fee. Three dollars a month

762
00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:00.559
to be a part of a faith this book group

763
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.000
for crying out loud. Right, but wait, there's more. Transcripts.

764
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:09.320
Seven dollars a month includes all benefits from the previous tier,

765
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:13.199
plus weekly delivery of the Bible recap transcripts. You want

766
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:17.360
transcripts seven dollars. Now if you go to the sermons,

767
00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:20.000
If you go to sermon audio website right now, look

768
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.840
up Theology Central, you'll see the transcripts for every one

769
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:29.480
in my program for free. That's seven dollars a month

770
00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:35.880
to get the transcript Okay, now I'm getting frustrated. Oh

771
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:40.559
but wait more. Ten dollars a month encompasses all previous

772
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:44.760
benefits along with monthly bonus content such as additional podcast episodes,

773
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.079
video Bible stuff, study resources, and more. So ten dollars

774
00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:51.199
a month you get a little bit more. But wait,

775
00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:58.159
there's more. The Bible Kneecap this is ten dollars a

776
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:01.760
month offers the benefits of the official Facebook group the

777
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:06.440
TBR transcripts, plus access to the Bible kneecap, a daily

778
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:10.760
two minute prayer podcast corresponding to each day's reading and recap.

779
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:13.639
So you want to be able to get a prayer

780
00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:17.199
podcast based on the reading, Well, guess what you can

781
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:20.280
pay ten dollars a month to get. And that's I guess,

782
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:22.360
on top of the other content. I don't even know.

783
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:24.360
Now we're up to at least ten dollars a month.

784
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:26.000
I guess if you want all of this, maybe it's twenty,

785
00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:27.960
but at least ten dollars a month. Ten dollars a

786
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:30.480
month so that you can pray along with the scriptures.

787
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:33.760
What a great idea, A great I need to start

788
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:36.159
doing that. Hey, guys, I'm gonna start charging ten dollars

789
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:37.840
a month and I'm going to do a two minute

790
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:43.119
prayer podcast. Oh you want the combo where you get

791
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.480
the bonus content plus the Bible kneecap, it's fifteen dollars

792
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:49.079
a month. Oh, but do you want to be able

793
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:56.480
to ask questions and get a response? Fifty dollars a month.

794
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:03.679
It includes all the aforementioned benefits. With the added perka.

795
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:09.280
You can submit one philological question per month related to

796
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:13.960
Bible recap the reading plan and receive a personalized response

797
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:18.079
from Tara Lee Cobble. You can ask her one question

798
00:47:18.119 --> 00:47:21.800
a month for fifty dollars a month. I have been

799
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:27.880
receiving email and answering questions for basically thirty stinking years.

800
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:34.719
Fifty dollars a month to ask one question. Someone emailed

801
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:38.199
me what a little over two hours ago, And I'm

802
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:41.320
a media while I'm producing a forty seven minute episode

803
00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:44.360
based on what they asked. People all the time email

804
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:47.199
and I will do an hour program, our half program,

805
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:51.760
two hour program. Sometimes it turns into a series. But

806
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:57.320
to ask one question fifty dollars a month and you

807
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:03.559
get a personalized answer from the new Christian celebrity. Oh no,

808
00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:10.079
we're against celebrity culture. Now, if you want the super

809
00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:17.320
Recap TIS program one hundred dollars a month. This encompasses

810
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.159
all the benefits from the question and response here, plus

811
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:24.840
contributes additional support to help the TBR develop resources and

812
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:28.400
multiple languages, create materials for kids and families, and partner

813
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.320
with prison ministries like God behind Bars. Basically, this is

814
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:33.320
you're paying them one hundred dollars a month, so in

815
00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:37.760
a sense, you're giving them a monthly donation one hundred

816
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:45.639
dollars a month. These subscription options are designed to enhance

817
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:50.320
the Bible reading experience by providing exclusive content and fostering

818
00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:56.119
a supportive community. How do you foster a supportive community?

819
00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:59.239
You have people pay to be a part of that

820
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:05.480
support community. For more information or to become a Recap

821
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t visit the official page the Bible Recap dot com. Previously,

822
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:15.360
the Bible Recap managed subscriptions through Patreon, and twenty twenty

823
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.719
four they transition to Supercasts to offer a more streamlined experience.

824
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:23.920
This move result in a six times increase and the

825
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:29.519
subscription growth and a twenty five percent increase and revenue

826
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:38.320
per subscriber for existing Patreon supporters. Detailed instructions are available

827
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:41.800
to assist in migrating to the new supercast platform. By

828
00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:46.280
subscribing as a Recap member, they not only gain access

829
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:50.079
to exclusive content, but they support the ongoing mission of

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the Bible Recap to make Bible reading accessible and engaging

831
00:49:54.039 --> 00:50:01.960
for a global audience. Now, while specific annual revenue figures

832
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:05.199
for the Bible Recap from subscriptions and merchandise sales are

833
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:11.159
not provide are publicly disclosed, valuable available data provides some insight.

834
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As of September twenty twenty four, the Bible Recap transitioned

835
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to subscription community known as recaps from Patreon to Supercasts.

836
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:24.079
This move resulted in a six time increase in subscription

837
00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:27.719
growth and a twenty five percent increase and revenue per subscriber.

838
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:31.679
Prior to this transition, the recaptans community had grown to

839
00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:38.440
ten thousand members, positioning the Bible Recap as number twenty

840
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:42.719
four on Patreon's top creator list. So at one point

841
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they were in the top twenty four of Patreon's creator

842
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lists ten thousand members. Subscription tiers ranged from three to

843
00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:55.800
one hundred dollars per month, each offering various benefits. Assuming

844
00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:59.440
an average subscription fee of ten dollars per month with

845
00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:05.599
ten thousand subscribers, the estimated monthly revenue would be one

846
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hundred thousand dollars, equating to one point two million dollars annually.

847
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:18.079
One point two million dollars annually for what you just heard?

848
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.119
One point two million dollars so that you can ask

849
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:30.360
one question a month now. While the reported twenty five

850
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:35.960
percent increase in revenue per subscriber subscriber post transition, the

851
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:42.480
annual figure could actually be around one point five million dollars.

852
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:55.760
One point five million dollars, and you get oh my goodness, gracious,

853
00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:01.239
oh but wait, there's more. In addition to this subscription revenue,

854
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:05.760
the Bible Recap offers a range of merchandise, including apparel,

855
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:09.880
study guides, devotionals. While specific sales figures for these items

856
00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:12.920
are not publicly available, the popularity of the brand suggest

857
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:18.880
a significant contribution to overall revenue, notablympanying the accompanying book,

858
00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:21.239
The Bible Recap, a one year guide to reading and

859
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:24.920
understanding the entire Bible, has achieved substantial success. As of

860
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June twenty twenty four, the original hardcover has now sold

861
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over five hundred thousand copies, and the entire product line,

862
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:37.760
including various editions supplementary materials, has collectively sold more than

863
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:42.800
eight hundred thousand copies. That's from Baker Publishing Group, all right.

864
00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:46.559
Assuming an average retail price of twenty five dollars per book,

865
00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:50.000
total gross revenue from book sales would probably be somewhere

866
00:52:50.039 --> 00:53:03.920
around twenty million dollars. So, according to what I can find,

867
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:07.760
the Bible Recap generates millions of dollars in annual revenue.

868
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:11.840
The financial success reflects the widespread appeal and impact on

869
00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:16.559
the platform's offerings. Oh there's a fire, there's an awakening

870
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:19.679
of God happening in the church, and I'm only, I

871
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:26.760
don't know, making a couple million dollars. Now, if you

872
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go to the actual website, which I have right here. Oh,

873
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:35.239
look there's a store. There's a store. Hang on, let

874
00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:37.119
me go to the store. Got to get to the store.

875
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Here's a store. What do we have? Oh, all the

876
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fat is the Lord's has praying hands and it says

877
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all the fat is the Lord's twenty eight dollars. The

878
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Bible Recap for Kids twenty five dollars, The Bible Recap

879
00:53:54.679 --> 00:54:01.920
T shirt thirty five dollars, bookmarks five dollars, The Discussion

880
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.599
Guide fifteen dollars, The Study Guide twenty dollars. If you

881
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want a sweatshirt forty dollars. If you want a different

882
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sweatshirt that says he does he does the doing, forty

883
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:19.440
five it's just a gray shirt which just says he

884
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does the doing forty five dollars. If you want one

885
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that says hey, Bible Reader's hoodie for a small little

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print forty eight dollars. If you want a hat twenty

887
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five dollars. If you want a bracelet of fifteen dollars.

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If you want a scripture and memory kit eleven dollars.

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If you want some baby onesie's twelve dollars. If you

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want a Bring your Wins and Losses tank top twenty

891
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one dollars. If you want a beanie fifteen dollars. If

892
00:54:48.199 --> 00:54:51.760
you want a tie die shirt twenty three dollars. I'm

893
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:56.719
not even going through all of the materials, t shirts, books, onesies,

894
00:54:56.800 --> 00:55:00.559
for babies. Oh, in a Wakening of God, What's happening

895
00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:04.360
in the church? Because a podcast is popular that offers

896
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I don't know what we called that. I got right here.

897
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This is the feature a Daily Bible Study Guide. You

898
00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:20.280
can get this per quarter for I don't know if

899
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:29.599
you go to see here. The Fundamentalists, the Fundamental Evangelistic Association, right,

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00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:31.519
you can subscribe to this. It's not much I'd have

901
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to look up. It's www. F e A Today dot org.

902
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F e A Today dot org. That's www dot f

903
00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:44.840
e A Today dot org. You can subscribe to the

904
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:47.719
feature a Daily Bible Study Guide. They began the year

905
00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:52.519
by doing a daily devotional through all sixty six books

906
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of the Bible. All right, here's what they have for numbers. Numbers,

907
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the Book of Pilgrimage. The Book of Numbers describes the

908
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wilderness experience of Israel. It is the record of their

909
00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:14.280
prolonged discipline due to disobedience. The book's title refers to

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the two numberings of the people at Mount Sinai chapter

911
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one and the Plains of Moab chapter twenty six. Historically,

912
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it continues where Exodus leaves off. It is the story

913
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of the wilderness wonderings of a redeemed people who failed

914
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:33.159
to enter the Promised Land. Along with the preceding Book Numbers,

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presents a picture of believer's experience Genesis, creation and Fall, Exodus, Redemption, Leviticus,

916
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:44.400
worship and fellowship, Numbers that which should follow, namely service

917
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and walk. The events in in chapter thirteen and fourteen

918
00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:52.519
are pivotal to the book. At God's command, the tribes

919
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left Sinai and set out to possess the Promised Land,

920
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which was but an eleven days march from Kidish Barnea.

921
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At Barnea on the borders of Canaan, twelve spies was

922
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:08.280
sent ahead to scout out the land. After forty days

923
00:57:08.280 --> 00:57:11.559
they returned, ten of them giving an evil report. The

924
00:57:11.599 --> 00:57:15.960
other two, however, encouraged the people to press forward. Unbelieving Israel,

925
00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:18.880
afraid to trust God at his word, murmured and rebelled.

926
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Thus the Lord condemned them to sojourn in the wilderness

927
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for forty years. All who had been numbered, save Caleb

928
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and Joshua, the two faithful spies, would die there, and

929
00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:32.000
a space of thirty eight years, Israel almost ceased to

930
00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.159
have a history. Only one passover is recorded during this time,

931
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:40.440
and even a circumcision was neglected. They eventually came back

932
00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:43.840
to ketish Barnea once again, no more no nearer to

933
00:57:43.960 --> 00:57:48.159
Canaan than before. A backslider cannot advance until he first

934
00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:51.840
returns to the point where rebellion began and starts anew.

935
00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:54.199
There you have it. That was for January the eighth

936
00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:58.320
numbers the Book of Pilgrimage. Now I didn't read it

937
00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:01.199
as well as she did, but you could get this

938
00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:04.880
for I don't know, like I think, for an entire year.

939
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:06.800
In fact, let me just look it up, for an

940
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:09.920
entire year, for an entire year. Hang on, let me

941
00:58:09.920 --> 00:58:13.400
look at this, Let me look at this. Hang on,

942
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:21.360
right here, we go all right, here we go. There's

943
00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:25.320
articles here, there's podcast here. All right, let me go

944
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:32.119
to their publications, their publications. Here's the publications future twelve

945
00:58:32.199 --> 00:58:39.840
dollars a year. So for twelve dollars a year, that

946
00:58:40.280 --> 00:58:43.039
devotional actually gave more content in some ways, and what

947
00:58:43.480 --> 00:58:45.760
her content was a little differently focused, but it was

948
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:47.960
at least equal to the same level of content. Now

949
00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:49.679
I could have broken it down a little bit more.

950
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:56.079
Twelve dollars a year, that's a whole year of devotionals

951
00:58:56.119 --> 00:59:09.480
and studies. But hey, these guys, they I don't know,

952
00:59:09.559 --> 00:59:12.159
I don't even know what to make you decide what

953
00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:15.440
you want to do with all of that information. But

954
00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:18.079
you know, as soon as something is popular, all the

955
00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:21.800
merchandising is coming. I have a hard time believe that

956
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:26.159
I should not be answering questions until I get paid

957
00:59:26.280 --> 00:59:34.920
fifty dollars a month to get a question to answer it. Man,

958
00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:41.679
there's a lot of pastors, a lot of Christian podcasters.

959
00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:48.800
You are doing something wrong from a human perspective, because

960
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:56.840
you change it up. You could be making bank. You

961
00:59:56.880 --> 01:00:00.440
could be making Those numbers were staggering, the numbers we

962
01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:05.360
were pulling out. Now I understand that someone from from

963
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:07.519
their organs say well, some of the money goes to this,

964
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:10.199
and and I understand it may not be as much.

965
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:12.679
I'm not saying that's pure profit. I'm saying that's a

966
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:15.440
lot of money coming in to take things, put it

967
01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:28.800
behind a paywall. You draw your own conclusion. I'm not

968
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:30.679
going to say one way or the other. But you've

969
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:33.480
heard it the Bible Recap. Go find it on your

970
01:00:33.519 --> 01:00:36.360
favorite podcasting app. You go, hey, you only heard one

971
01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:39.079
part of well one episode. I mean they're only like

972
01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:41.039
five minutes long. You can go listen to, you know,

973
01:00:41.119 --> 01:00:44.400
listen to an hour of them, and just honestly ask yourself,

974
01:00:44.920 --> 01:00:48.360
is this the thing awakening the church? Is this the

975
01:00:48.440 --> 01:00:53.039
thing transforming you're engaged? There's nothing there transformative about how

976
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:56.079
you engage scripture. There is no Chronological reading plans have

977
01:00:56.159 --> 01:00:59.480
been around forever. I've been using chronological reading plans of

978
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:02.639
the Bible, well for a billion years. Okay, that's hyperbole,

979
01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:04.400
al right, So they've been around forever, and many of

980
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:07.039
those you can get for free. Okay, So a chronological

981
01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:11.000
reading plan, there's nothing transformative about that, right, Little devotionals

982
01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:13.000
that take you through the Bible they've been around forever.

983
01:01:13.039 --> 01:01:15.320
There's not a one thing transformative about that. I didn't

984
01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:18.280
hear that going. Oh, I've never thought about approaching the

985
01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:21.920
Bible this way. There's nothing transformative about that. As far

986
01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:25.239
as how I engage scripture, how it's changing people's lives, well,

987
01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:27.880
there's always those stories. Bethel Church will tell you how

988
01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:31.679
they've changed. I mean, every church, every religion, claims that

989
01:01:31.719 --> 01:01:34.480
they have transformed lives. So you can make your own

990
01:01:34.519 --> 01:01:37.440
determination about all the claims, all the money coming in,

991
01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:43.119
you make that judgment. Now, what I'm interested in is

992
01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:46.960
has the sermons three point oh app dropped yet? Oh?

993
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:49.840
In the sermons three point oh app. That's five to

994
01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.519
six thousand sermons added a week. Oh, and guess what

995
01:01:53.639 --> 01:01:57.320
it's free for you. But I guess some people would

996
01:01:57.400 --> 01:02:01.960
rather pay money to support five minute devotionals. I guess

997
01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:08.079
I don't know. Okay, hang on, I'm doing I'm doing

998
01:02:08.079 --> 01:02:14.239
a search here to see Oh nope, New York Times

999
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:16.199
did another one. Hang on, let me hear I'm gonna do.

1000
01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:23.159
I don't think we have a new update yet. Let

1001
01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:27.559
me look, I'm looking here, all right, No, no new

1002
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:30.320
update yet, no update yet, so we're still waiting for

1003
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:37.920
the update. Once that happens, we'll talk about it. I

1004
01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:40.199
don't know what I don't even know what to say.

1005
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:48.519
I don't even know what to say. I don't I

1006
01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:50.880
know this is going to sound self serving, but I'm

1007
01:02:50.920 --> 01:02:53.280
going to try to say this in a nice way. Hey,

1008
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:55.639
for the people who are giving you hours and hours

1009
01:02:55.679 --> 01:03:01.199
and hours of content for stinking free, support them. If

1010
01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:04.039
your church is putting hours and hours of content on

1011
01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:09.880
the internet, support your church. If people want you to

1012
01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:14.320
pay money to ask a philological question for crying out

1013
01:03:14.360 --> 01:03:18.679
loud and so you can get a prayer podcast, and

1014
01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:21.719
you can get additional content, and they want you to

1015
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:23.480
buy a book, and then they want you to buy

1016
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:25.159
their shirt, and they want you to buy their hat,

1017
01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:26.960
they want you to buy a bookmark, and they want

1018
01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:36.199
you to buy your baby a onesie. I don't know. Right.

1019
01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:39.599
For those listening to anyone on the Sermon's two point

1020
01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:41.960
oh Apple, the sermon Audio website, remember every one of

1021
01:03:41.960 --> 01:03:44.639
those broadcasters are paying sixty dollars a month to be

1022
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:55.639
on that application. Man, can you imagine if all Christian podcasters,

1023
01:03:55.840 --> 01:04:00.679
if all Christian podcasters could have one hundred people two

1024
01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:04.039
hundred people given you know, five or ten dollars a month.

1025
01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:13.159
But man, that I don't know what to make out

1026
01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:16.159
of it. I just know that whenever these things become

1027
01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:18.719
this popular and that podcast is in like the zero

1028
01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:21.440
point zero five percent of all podcasts in the world,

1029
01:04:21.719 --> 01:04:25.519
it's like way up there. So it is popular. Just

1030
01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:29.039
whenever it becomes that popular and entire industry is built

1031
01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:31.400
around it, and you can say, well, that's a good thing,

1032
01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:34.159
that's a bad thing. You can make your own decision.

1033
01:04:34.239 --> 01:04:37.800
I just man, as soon as I soon as I

1034
01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:40.599
went to Spotify, I'm like, wait, they got content locked down,

1035
01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:45.000
Like here we go, we get the Exorcist files. We've

1036
01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:46.880
talked about. Now that's catholic. So I don't really care

1037
01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:50.639
what they do. But they got content locked down as well.

1038
01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:57.480
So I guess what you do is you just got

1039
01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:01.440
to lock your content down and charge people for Maybe

1040
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:04.480
I think it's a psychological thing. If you put stuff

1041
01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:06.840
and lock it down, it makes it feel like, oh,

1042
01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:10.639
this podcast must be worth more because they're not giving

1043
01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:13.320
it all away for free, so it's worth more than

1044
01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:15.559
those people who just put hours and hours of content

1045
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:18.719
out for free. I think maybe it's a psychological thing

1046
01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:21.880
if you'll lock it down and charge people, then people

1047
01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:26.079
will pay. Maybe that's the secret. I don't know. All right,

1048
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:28.760
thanks for listening to the person who emailed me. I

1049
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:31.079
don't know if I answered all of your questions. And

1050
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:34.760
if I didn't answer all your questions, well tough. I

1051
01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:37.280
answered it for free, so you get what you pay for. Okay,

1052
01:05:37.280 --> 01:05:39.599
I'm joking. All right, everyone, have a great day. God

1053
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:39.920
bless