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Your identity can't be anchored anywhere else without splitting allegiance, folks,
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And split allegiance is exactly what Deuteronomy twelve warned against.
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No synchronism, no blend him, No Jesus plus Jesus plus this,
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Jesus plus fear, Jesus plus status, Jesus plus control. The
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high places in the Bible were attractive because they promised
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power without obedience, and that hasn't changed. We still love
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the idea of influence without surrender. We still want blessing
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without demolition. But Jesus doesn't negotiate with rival alters, folks.
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He just doesn't, and he never will. He doesn't share
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center stage. What do you expect him to? That's a
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question if you consider yourself a Christian? Do you expect
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Jesus to share center stage.
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Broadcast broadcast in the minds of the people.
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What if I told you one of the most overlooked
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spiritual warfare chapters in the entire Bible isn't in Revelation,
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It's not in Daniel, and not in even in Ephesians,
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but tucked inside a boring old Testament instruction manual Deuterotomy twelve. Yeah,
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the chapter that sounds like building codes and ancient food
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safety rules. Eight up. Absolutely, But here's the problem. If
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you read it like a checklist, you'll miss what it
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actually is. And this just happened to melat week, guys.
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So this is amazing. It's an eviction. Notice, it's God
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looking at his people and saying, before you move into blessing,
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tear down everything that will poison you once you get there.
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And lately people are starting to notice something. You say
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this all the time. We're living in a world where
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everything wants your worship, right, not just your attention, not
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just your money, your actual worship. I mean even candy
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crush or something along that way. That either way, your fear,
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your identity, your loyalty. Right now, it's never been easier
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to build little altars without even meaning to. And that's
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why tonight we're going to walk through a a phrase
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you'll you might not have heard before, but you'll feel
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it in your bones once you do. Okay, So Deuterontomy
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twelve fulfilled by Jesus, Because here's the tension. In Deuteronomy twelve,
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God says, destroy the high places, smash the altars, burn
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the asheroth poles, don't even ask how the other nations
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worship right, because the moment you start studying it, you'll
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start to imitate it. But then Jesus comes and suddenly
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worship isn't tied to one geographic place anymore. It's not
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tied to the temple. It's not about that temple on
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a hill. It's about a kingdom that's inside you. So
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what happens to the command to tear down the high places?
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Does it get retired or does it get upgraded? In
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this episode, we're going to follow that thread all the
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way from Moses to Messiah, and we're gonna talk about
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ancient high places and how God took them so seriously,
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and how Jesus didn't cancel this lesson. He aimed it
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straight at the modern heart. Well, weave in a few
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related angles people have been asking about lately too, things
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like biblical worship versus synchronism, and how high places in
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the Bible spiritual compromise, and why true worship in spirit
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and truth is more confrontational. It's more confrontational than most
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people realize. And look, I'm not coming at you from
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some preaching mountaintop oats, I promise I think people that
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have listened to me. Know I'm saying this is someone
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who's had to catch myself mid thought and realize, oh, right,
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there is an altar like all wow, absolutely not an
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alter made of stone, made of habit, made of comfort,
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made of fear dressed up as wisdom. That's a big
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one to me. And if you've ever felt that tension
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where you want God but you also want control, of
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course you're not alone. And this chapter was written for
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people exactly like us. Deuterotomy twelve isn't old rules. It's
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God saying, before you step into promise, tear down what
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will corrupt you once you get there. Now. That's not
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ancient history, that's right now, that's right now. And here's
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the question we're opening tonight with. If Deuteronomy twelve is
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fulfilled by Jesus, then what are the high places he
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expects you to tear down? Because if you don't choose
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what you worship, something else will botto mine. Something else
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will and it won't ask permission either. So before we
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go deeper, do me a favor, And if this episode
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hits you in the God even a little bit, I'll
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show it. I'll show like the show, share it, and
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leave a review. That's not vanity. That's how and I
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always forget this. That's how the algorithm works, and that's
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how it learns. This conversation matters, and it's how broadcasting
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seeds grows. And one more thing. Send this to a
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friend who's been saying something feels awfulately but I can't
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put my finger on it. They're closer to the truth
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than they realize. And before we go, Before we go there,
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I want to tell you guys that I have a
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three part series. It's basically a guide about smashing individual
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and internal alters. You'll understand more as this goes on,
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but I want you to go check it out at
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my substack and the link is in the show notes. Okay,
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Section one, The high Places, Ancient Altars, modern shadows. The
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most dangerous altar in your life probably doesn't look like
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an altar at all. It doesn't sit on a hill,
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it doesn't have smoke rising from it, it doesn't have
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carved idols. It looks normal, absolutely normal. And that's exactly
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why Deuteronomy twelve is so unsettling, because when God tells
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Israel to destroy the high places, he isn't just talking
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about like random architecture. He's talking about influence. Let's go
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back for a second, and the high places I say
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that in the Bible are elevated spots, often on hills
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or under large trees, where pagan national where pagan nations
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worshiped their gods. They had fertility, rituals, sacrifices. Spiritual performance
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is meant to manipulate divine power.
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They were visual, visually impressive, they felt sacred. They were
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culturally and culturally embedded. And God tells Israel, before you
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build anything of your own right, tear all of that down,
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not to repurpose it. Do not rebrand it, not redeem
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the esthetic, destroy it, God says, destroy it. Why does
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he say this Why Because high places create muscle memory,
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They normalize behavior, they train desire, and they reshape identity.
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And God knew something about the human heart that we're
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still learning the hard way today. If you leave the
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alter standing, eventually you'll use it. Guys. This is why
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you need to Yeah. Anyway, now here's where it gets uncomfortable. Okay.
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We don't have canaanite hills covered in shrines right now, Okay,
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but we do have elevated spaces. And what I mean
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by elevated spaces, platforms and screens and movements, narratives. And
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lately people are starting to notice how quickly cultural conversations
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become moral absolutes. Right, how easily identity attaches to ideology, man,
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oh man, how fast outrage becomes ritual. That's altered behavior,
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and it demands loyalty, It demands it promises belonging, and
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it punishes dissent. Man, Guys, all these protests, I want
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you to think about people that do this and these movements.
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They demand loyalty, they promise belonging, and they punish if
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you dissent. This is altered behavior through and through sound
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familiar I mean, it really does. Deuteronomy twelve isn't just
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about geography, folks. It's about removing spiritual infrastructure before it
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removes you. And here's the honest part. I've had to
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ask myself this question more times more than once. What
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have I left standing? Because it doesn't look bad like
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it looks good? What habit do I revisit when I'm stressed?
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What narrative do I replay when I feel threatened? Because, guys,
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altars aren't necessarily like this desk right, or or like
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this this desk. Sometimes they're inside us, but I'll get
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into that. What fear do I consult before I pray?
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These are what you call high places, not demonic statues
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or anything. Internal agreements. And if you've never felt that
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tension between knowing truth and still learning leaning towards comfort,
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you're in the same boat Israel was promise on one side,
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old influence on the other. And if you leave the
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altar standing long enough, you will eventually worship at it,
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not because you meant to, but because it's there. Right,
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it's there. And here's the part that should make you
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just pause. God didn't tell Israel to study the high places.
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He didn't tell them to analyze the rituals. He didn't
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say understand it. So you're informed. And we do this
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a lot in my space. I do it, Gosh, I
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do it all the time. He said destroy it. And that's, frankly,
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that's radical, especially in a culture like ours that believes
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exposure equals immunity. But what if exposure without boundaries equals imitation.
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What if the very thing you think you're just observing
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is slowly discipling you. Now this is where things start
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to shift, because if Deuteronomy twelve, fulfilled by Jesus, means anything.
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It means those physical high places weren't the final target.
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The hills were never the real issue. The heart was.
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And when Jesus steps into the scene, he doesn't point
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to the mountain. He points to you, right at you,
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to me before we go there. If someone audited your
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emotional reflexes this week, what would they say you worship.
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That's a huge question, folks, and I want you to
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do it. I want you to audit yourself. We're about
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to find out what Jesus did with Deuteronomy twelve and
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by section two, from one mountain to one man. What
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if the biggest shift in human history wasn't political at all,
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It wasn't technological, it wasn't even it wasn't even military.
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What if it was geographical? Because in Deuteronomy twelve, worship
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is locked in place right at least for the Israelites
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and for most people, and even now with churches. And
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then Jesus shows up and quietly just detonates that map,
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detonates it. In this chapter, God keeps repeating a phrase,
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the place the Lord your God will choose. Say it again,
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the place the Lord your God will choose. It's deliberate,
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it's protective. It centralizes worship, so Israel won't scatter into
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spiritual chaos. Okay, eventually that place becomes Jerusalem, right, I
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mean they just spent forty years in the desert or
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forty years and well, yes, they just spent all that
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time in the desert, and now the temple Jerusalem, the epicenter.
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That becomes the epicenter, one altar, one srific sacrificial system,
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and one authorized space. You had no freelance spirituality. God
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did not give for that. But then there's that moment
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in John four. Jesus is sitting at a well and
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some Maridan woman asks him a territorial question, which mountain
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is right. You can actually feel the tension Jeerism or Jerusalem,
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who owns the sacred real estate? And Jesus says something
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that would have rattled both sides. The hour is coming
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when you will worship the Father, neither on this mountain
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nor in Jerusalem. True worshipers will worship in spirit and truth.
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Those are Jesus' words, not here, not there. Something just shifted, folks.
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This is where Deuteronomy twelve fulfilled by Jesus becomes more
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than theology. It becomes confrontation. The command to centralize worship
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didn't disappear, guys, It just relocated the place the Lord
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will choose. Remember the place the Lord will choose. It's
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no longer a hill, it's a person. Jesus becomes the
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meeting place, the altar, the priest, the sacrifice that is
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not metaphor, that's fulfillment. The entire temple system collapses into him.
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Let me say that again. I'm gonna say it again.
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The entire temple system collapses into Jesus, and when he dies,
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the veil terrors. Not because the rules relaxed, because access
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was completed. Deuteronomy twelve centralized worship to protect Israel from
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spiritual corruption. Jesus centralized worship in himself to protect humanity
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from spiritual separation. Now here's where this gets personal. And
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we love the idea of worship anywhere right, It sounds
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freeing in general, it sounds freeing. But Jesus didn't say worship. However,
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he said spirit and truth, which means location is no
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longer the issue at all. Alignment is you can stand
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in a church and still worship fear. You can sing
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lyrics and still bow to control. You can say Jesus
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and still serve your own high place. The geography moved inward,
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and frankly, that's more invasive. That's invasive to a lot
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of people. Because under Moses you could point to the hill, right,
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you could point at the hill. Under Christ, you have
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to look at your own heart. Wow. And here's the
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unsettling part. People just don't talk about guys. If worship
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is now centered in Christ, that means every other center
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is exposed. Every ideology demanding ultimate allegiance, every movement asking
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for unquestioned loyalty, every narrative that defines you before God does, period.
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Those aren't just opinions, their rival alters. And lately people
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are starting to notice how aggressively culture comes for devotion. Right,
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that's not random. I'm sorry, it's not random. That's worship
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language without the word worship. So if Jesus fulfilled deuterontomy
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twelve by relocating the altar into himself and then into
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us as living temples, what does that mean for the
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high places we never physically demolished. Because here's here's the
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tension we're walking toward. If the altar moved inward. Then
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demolition did too. And that's where this stops being history
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and starts being frankly, starts being surgery. Section three, demolition
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in the heart. Here's the heart. No one can outsource.
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Deuteronomy twelve fulfilled by Jesus means the alter moved inward.
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Then demolition is no longer a national project. It's personal.
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Nobody can do it for you. It's personal. And that's
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way more uncomfortable than smashing a stone pillar. Right, Because
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like under Moses, Israel could physically tear down high places
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that you could see the rubble, you could point to
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the ashes. Under Jesus, the battlefield just totally relocates. Now
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the high places are subtle, their internal agreements. There, the
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thought patterns you revisit it when you're tired, the coping
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mechanisms you protect, the narratives you won't let God challenge.
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Paul later says something radical. You are the temple of
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the Holy Spirit. That's not poetic, that's freaking seismic. Because
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if you are the temple, then whatever sits at the
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center of your decision making is functionally your altar. And
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here's the tension people are starting to feel lately, We've
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got information everywhere, right access to sermons, to podcasts, to
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debates to expose's and films and documentaries. We can analyze
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everything and deconstruct everything. But analysis is not demolition. It's
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just not. You can sit there and analyze something all day,
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but if you don't demolish it, it's not demolition. And
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exposure is not repentance. So knowing about a high place
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isn't the same thing as tearing it down. This week alone,
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how many emotional reactions did you justify without examining? Ask yourself,
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how many times did anxiety drive your response before prayer did?
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How many decisions were shaped more by fear of loss
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than love of truth? Probably more than a few. Because
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that's alter language. Because worship isn't just singing. It's what
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you trust, what do you trust, And it's what you
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sacrifice for, actual sacrifice for it's what you defend when challenged. Damn,
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Worship isn't what you sing, it's what you trust when
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you're under or pressure. Let me say that this gently.
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We live in a moment where cultural narratives are so loud,
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political ideologies are loud, I mean so loud. Identifying frameworks
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are loud. Yeah, what do you say when someone asks
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you what you are? What do you tell them? Who
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are you? Do you identify as something other than Christian?
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Or you know whatever? Identity frameworks are loud and right now,
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everything wants to tell you who you are everything. But
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if Jesus centralized worship in himself, then your identity can't
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be anchored anywhere. Your identity can't be anchored anywhere else
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without splitting allegiance, folks. And split allegiance is exactly what
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Deuteronomy twelve warned against. No synchronism, no blending, No Jesus
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plus Jesus plus this, Jesus plus fear, Jesus plus status,
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Jesus plus control. The high places in the Bible were
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attractive because they promised power without obedience, and that hasn't changed.
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We still love the idea of influence without surrender. We
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still want blessing without demolition. But Jesus doesn't negotiate with
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rival alters, folks, He just doesn't and he never will.
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He doesn't center stage. What do you expect them to
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That's a question. If you consider yourself a Christian, do
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you expect Jesus to share center stage? And here's where
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it gets really unsettling. Sometimes the high place isn't something
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obviously sinful, right. Sometimes it's something good but elevated way
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too high. Family becomes ultimate, career becomes ultimate, mission becomes
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the ultimate. Even ministry can become a high place if
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it replaces intimacy right with Jesus. That's the subtle treap.
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You don't have to bow to a carved idol to
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compromise worship. You just have to let something else define
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your security. So if deuterontomy twelve fulfilled by Jesus means
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to alter moved into the heart, then the real question
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isn't where do you worship, it's what still has authority
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inside of you, in you, And demolition doesn't happen by accident.
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It happens by surrender. I learned this last week, two
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weeks ago, last week, to my core, to my heart,
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and we're not going to end cleanly here. I never
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really do, right. But because this isn't about information, it's
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about inventory. An inventory takes courage. So before we land
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this plane, we need to talk about what happens when
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demolition actually begins, Like you start smashing altars side of you,
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because tearing down a high place feels like loss. I'm sorry,
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it does a lot of times before it feels like freedom.
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But trusts me, it feels like freedom before you step
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into promise. Tearing down a high place doesn't feel spiritual
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at first. It feels like loss. It feels like letting
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go of something that gave you stability, something familiar. We
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all know this. It's something that made you feel safe,
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and that's why most people never do it. They never
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do it. It doesn't mean the command softened. It means
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actually that it intensified. Is had to demolish stone structures
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before entering the land, right Israel, We have to demolish
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internal structures before walking in freedom. It just this makes
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so much sense to me. And here's the tension that
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makes this urgent. Right now, Lately people are starting to
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notice anxiety is higher. Loyalty lines, Oh my gosh, the polarization.
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Let loyalty lines are sharper, right, and cultural, cultural, sexual,
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just identities are louder. They're just so loud. Everything is
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pulling for ultimate allegiance. That's alter pressure. And if you
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don't consciously choose where worship belongs, something else will occupy
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the center. Hold this over and over again. Jesus didn't
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relocate worship to make it casual. He relocated it to
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make it personal. And that's exactly what it is this week.
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Right now. You don't need a bulldozer, Okay you don't,
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it's too much, But you do need honesty. You need
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to look in the mirror with honesty. What thought pattern
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do you defend without question? You need to ask yourself
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these questions. What fear do you consult before you pray?
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Maybe you don't, Maybe you just don't, but you need
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to look at it. What narrative do you trust more
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than scripture? That's where demolition starts, not with noise, with
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actual surrender. Before God expands your territory, he exposes your
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all terse. Expansion without demolition is corruption waiting to happen.
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Bottom line, over and over and over. The Israelites showed
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us this over and over and over. You show yourself this.
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How many times do you try something different different? Right?
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That's the definition of insanity according to Einstein, trying something
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over and over and over again and expecting a different result.
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Expansion without demolition is corruption waiting to happen. And bottom
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line is this Before God expands your territory. He exposes
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your altars. If this episode stirred something in you, that's
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not condemnation, that's freaking clarity. And clarity is mercy because
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once you see the high place, you can remove it.
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You don't have to analyze it for months. Guys, you
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don't have to negotiate with it. You don't have to
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baptize it with spiritual language. Just tear it down. You
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You tear it down, and when you do, something will
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inevitably shift. Peace feels different, Prayer, it all feels cleaner.
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Obedience feels lighter, not because life got easier by any
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stretch of your imagination, but because the center got realigned.
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Deuteronomy twelve isn't ancient history, it's a present invitation. Before
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you ask God for the next season, ask him to
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reveal the altar that can't come with you. And if
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this converse station hit home, do three things that actually
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matter for this show, I'd like you to like it,
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share it, and leave a review. That's how broadcasting seeds grows.
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That's how these conversations break past the algorithm all and
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reach the person you didn't even know was wrestling with
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this yet. Send it to a friend who says they
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love God but feel spiritually stuck lately. This might be
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the missing piece for them. And if you're a researcher, writer, theologian,
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an investigator exploring biblical worships, syncretism, or the cultural pressure
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around allegiance, right now, reach out, let's corroborate, Let's go deeper.
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These conversations need clarity, not chaos. Because the hills are gone,
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the temple veil was, it's been torn. The altar is
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closer than ever. The only question left is what's still standing?
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Have a good one. You built the quiett stone by stone,
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called it, wisdom called it. You lit the fire, fed
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the face, swore you never bow in shape. But every night,
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when fresha.
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Speaks, your kneel to fear, you call it.
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You dressed it up, You crowned chamber, idol, stoneware, diamond rings.
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It doesn't shout, it doesn't scream, It whispers what you
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want to believe. It's such a safe, it's such are strong,
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but it's been rulling you all along.
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Tear it down, brick by break every line. You feel
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so big, Jeffer Town, if you will never men feel
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crawl no more. God's of fear and fin w also
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sing this hairy down, hear the sound of shames headed
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the ground.
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Control feels holy, feels so rid. You play the wall
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before the fight, you methy outcome God. The call it faith,
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but it's just face.
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Approval.
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Homes are sweet disguise. You rage your truth for safe comfort,
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says love, battle, rest, pain, don't.
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Even tru.
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It's something that knows it's wrong. You feel the pool,
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You feel it strong.
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You say I'm fiming under breath.
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You feel the weight. You chase the death, sent it down,
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barbering every lie you built so thick, set it down,
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let it fall. You will never let no crawl, no
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more yad of peer, and find no more altar than
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saren down here the sound of chaging the crowd. What
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do you run to when you break?
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Who do you trust when all start to shake? What's
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this quiet in the throne? What do you serving your.
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You know you know, you know it's not the hill
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is not the stone. If what you crown inside your bones,
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you can't a forward. I get changed. You can't see
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clearly through a flames. We found the rods, We find
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records Severn, break by break every lie you built so thick,
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Secret Owl let it fall. You would never let your
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crawl Watchro Fire, wat your name, Watchro Center, Watro fame.
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Secret Owl had your crowd, letting your goods hit the crowds,
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have crowds sell Z.
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Stand your crown.
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Let the old gods hit the crown
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S.
