April 25, 2026

The Blockhead Project: A Democratic Vote And "Half Tribes"

The Blockhead Project: A Democratic Vote And "Half Tribes"
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Well a Blockhead nation, good grief, good afternoon, good evening.

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Thank you for whatever time you tune into this little podcast.

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Feel free to come into the Blockhead mansion and take

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a seat with me and relax as you are listening

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to your favorite Blockhead. It's been a minute since I've

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jumped back on the microphone. As I'm now doing a

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bi weekly podcast. I happen to be a Peanuts fan

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who's simply just like you. I'm a sinner in need

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of a savior, and what I do is I'm gonna

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spend a lot more time as a Peanuts fan showing

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you the correlation between scripture and America's favorite kid. I

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guess you can say more as many have already stated before,

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the Gospel according to Peanuts, or as a famous book

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called The Parable of Peanuts. I'll show you a lot

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more of that in this particular episode. So I just

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want you to know that since I am on this

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new chapter, there are a few things that I will

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share with you, and I have my website recommendations in

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the blog, So what I'll be using through this episode

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is probably gonna be stepbible dot org. Just to collect

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my thoughts. I'll be using Got Questions dot org, and

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I'll be using Blueletterbible dot org. Those are the main

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three that I go to whenever I need anything to

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keep my thoughts clear or anything that's Scripture related. That's

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typically where I will go, and that's where we're gonna

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spend a lot of time in is just dissecting a

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few things from a Peanuts fan, from Charles Schultz, who

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very well could have been a very good minister in

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his lifetime, but he also was a guy who knew

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how to sprinkle in democratic ideals and principles sometimes from

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a kid's perspective that was a little bit skewed. And

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I can show you that very easily with a Since

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summer is coming up pretty cool and pretty soon, it's

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gonna be here before we know it. One of my

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favorite episodes growing up from the Peanuts was called Race

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for Your Life Charlie Brown, released in nineteen seventy seven,

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And there is a democratic vote that happens, So I'll

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just kind of catch you up. In the episode, they

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have this raft river race. You have the boys versus

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the girls. You also have an opposing camp that are

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basically the bullies, but at some point they reunite and

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they spend the night in the cabin. But basically, when

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the night comes to an end, Patty comes up and says,

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we're now in a democratic fashion. I say that in

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quotations are going to vote whether the boys sleep out

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side or the girl's sleep inside. You see how one

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side that's going to turn out, and that the boys

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are gonna have no input whatsoever. And they do pull

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out these ballots and they vote, and there's a glimpse

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of harsh reality in there where Charlie Brown tries to

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speak up for the guys even though the girls need

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to freshen up, and basically he just says, it's cold

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out there. We found this place and we were here first,

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you know, valid kid expression. And she comes back and says,

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you saw what the vote said. It was unanimous. Don't

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you believe in a democracy meaning one party gets left

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out completely? It seems to be a little bit of

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women's lib on steroids in many ways, but ultimately the

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guys do sleep outside, the girls sleep inside. So there

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is a there's a way that even Schultz shows how

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just because you say that you will do things in

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democratic fashion, that does not mean that everybody gets included,

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even though that might be what we strive for from

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a moral and ethical perspective, to make sure every voice

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is heard, it doesn't happen, but that there's a there's

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a fun spin on that. But ultimately they they have

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the river race and it continues and it kind of

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gets lost in the shuffle. But there's more to be

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realized about the peanutes that you may have missed. A

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simple one would be Lucy with her psychiatric booth and

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the simple idea behind that. The parable I think we

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could fully get to is Lucy has taught us that

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we sometimes need to just listen and not be so

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ready to share our opinion coming from a podcaster, No

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who should listen more often? You know Charlie Brown, who

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teaches us then never give up. You do have Snoopy

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who is one as own man. But there is an

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interesting comic strip where we'll pull it into that one

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since we're going from TV to comic strips now, there's

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one where Snoopy gets caught getting into the refrigerator. Was

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Charlie Brown due He pulls out a Bible and says

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thou shalt not steal, where quickly Snoopy comes back with

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a rebuttal. And what rebuttal does he give, Well, that's

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kind of debatable on where he got this from. But

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he's going to say pretty much, and I quote that

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thou shalt not muzzle the ox in the field. Now

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here's what that ultimately means. This is coming. If you

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want to go to Deuteronomy, the Old Testament law, you

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would find this. But I can kind of show you

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what he might have been hinting at. You shall not

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muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain. Well,

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that would be mentioned by the US Paul in One

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Timothy chapter five, starting in verse seventeen and verse eighteen.

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So maybe we can dissect and we can even dismantle

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everything that Snoopy tries to say here. So he's caught

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in the act. But he's also saying that I deserve

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my wages. So here's what it says. One Timothy Chapter five,

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verses seventeen through eighteen. Let the elders who rule well

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be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor

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in preaching and teaching. For the scripture says this is

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from Judoronomy twenty five. You shall not muzzle an ox

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when it treads out the grain and the labor deserves

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his wages. That might have been a little bit of

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tongue in cheek that Charles Schultz was using. But if

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you go to the commentary, this is what I'm pulling

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straight from stipbible dot org. It's a commentary from a

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man named Paul Jean, and it's really talking more about

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the members of God's family. It's really more talking about

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the elders the leadership of the church, which is really funny.

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So this is what he has to say about it. First,

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the members of God's family are called to care for

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those who care for them. Earlier in that passage we

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had talked about widows. In other words, who qualifies as

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a widow. If you've been left a three million dollar

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a state by your husband, you're not supposed to double

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dip in the church. If you have family, the family's

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supposed to attend to you. But if that widow has nobody,

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and absolutely the church steps in and make sure that

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she's cared for. In some cases she's even meant to remarry.

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It just depends on what the status is. And this

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is a young guy, Timothy telling this to the Church

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of Ephesis or these kind of problems are running amok.

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So here's what it further says in the commentary, as

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was the case between widows and their children, the honor

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due to elders, especially those who labor in teaching and preaching.

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It's material, it's financial to avoid any miss understanding. Paul

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uses scripture. This particular instruction is worth pondering in Christian

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circles that maintain the odd belief that pastors and missionaries

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should pursue a vow of poverty. In other words, our

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pastors should be poor because Jesus had no home and

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nowhere to rest his head. That's where Paul stepping and

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going whoa, whoa, wa, Wait a minute. He's declaring that

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these leaders that do that are considered worthy of double honor.

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He even goes on into a paternal role that they

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play in the family of God. And a charge against

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an elder is to be admit only under the evidence

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of two or three different witnesses. So that chapter is

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loaded with how we handle our beloved leaders of the church,

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our elders, how to treat them so that discreds anything

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Snoopy tried to just pull. As he's saying, well, these

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are my wages, well, wages for doing what and on

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top of your house all day for you know, being

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slothful all the time, for getting caught with your hand

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in the cookie jar literally and talking about not muzzle

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the ox okay, and don't put a muzzle on him

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and walk him around the block and add extra cruelty. Well,

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you're reading it out of context, so I think that's

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kind of where we were headed on that one. But

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that's really what that whole part of the Bible is

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talking about. If we're talking about first Timothy, if you're

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going by old Mosaic law and Dodo me twenty five, well, yeah,

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there's a way to treat your ox, and there's a

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way to pay the laborers their wage and what they

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are worth for a day's work. That's really all that

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was talking about. So a little fun spin on that

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one was really interesting. But what we plan on doing

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here is, since that's how this podcast is gonna work,

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I'm showing you the peanuts in relation to and in

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correlation with scripture. I used to just throw in a

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scripture of the day and do a reflection with this podcast.

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I refuse to do that anymore. Blockad Nation, that's not

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how this is going to work from now on when

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you listen to this show, most of it's gonna be

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embedded in what scripture says. I'll spend a lot more

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time in Bible study with you, with myself pausing on it,

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reflecting on it, praying over it, meditating upon what the

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word says. And for those that are not ready for that,

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I do have a book recommendation for you as well.

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My book recommendation would be simply Wild at Heart by

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John Eldridge. We just came from a men's Bible study

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earlier this morning and we have gotten to the fourth session.

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We talked about the battles that matter the most for men,

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where we are called to come alongside God who's already

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won the battle, for us to be equipped, for us

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to be ready for our enemy. Mean that Satan is

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on the prow devouring like a roaring lion. And from

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my song recommendation today, I simply use a song that

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talks about being in God's presence. I use Cutlass better

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as one day. So if you want to look into

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the blog and you want to see the recommendations of

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websites that I use, books that I use, songs that

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I use they're there in the blog and the description.

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We will pick up on the scripture of the day

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and expound an even further into the Bible as we

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get into part two of this episode. And I thank

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you from the bottom of my heart for still being

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here to stick around more to come. Our scripture reading

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for this podcast comes from Jessis chapter thirty two, verses

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twenty four forty thirty. And Jacob was left alone, and

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a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

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When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob,

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he touched his hip socket and Jacob's hip was put

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out a joint as he wrestled with him, and he said,

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let me go, for the day has broken. But Jacob said,

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I will not let you go until you bless me.

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He said to him, what is your name? And he

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said Jacob, And he said, your name shall no longer

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be called Jacob but Israel, for you have striven with

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God and with men and have prevailed. Then Jacob asked him,

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please tell me your name, but he said, why is

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it that you ask my name? And there he blessed him.

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So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying

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for I have seen God face to face, and yet

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my life has been delivered. So this is where we

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get into the tribes of Israel name for Jacob's children.

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And there's really only one major emphasis that I'm gonna

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give you today for our adults Bible study on Sunday

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mornings that I've been teaching. We spent a lot of

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time in the book of Hoseiah and one of the

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tribes that's used quite often is Ephraim, the most populated

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of all of the tribes. There's another one that just

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isn't talked about a whole lot, and that is Manassa,

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and I'd like to spend some time in that. And

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this is coming from God questions dot Org on what

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the tribe of man Nassa represents. So I'm going to

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read a few of these verbatim, and some I'll stop

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and meditate upon. After Jacob wrestled with God all night long,

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God's renamed him Israel. You have struggled with God and

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men and have overcome in Hebrew, that's what that means.

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The name Israel represents not only the modern day country

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that we know today, but originally this is going to

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be Jacob's offspring to whom God promises a great nation

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who descendants will be like dust of the earth, spreadut

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to the west and to the east, north and south,

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all through the book of Genesis. And so if you

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look at the grandsons of Jacob, you have one of

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them in particular that because can consider the half tribe.

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So early on we learn about Manassa frequently referred to

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as this and so this is what it has to

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say about The designation highlights the choice made by some

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of the tribe to reside east of the Jordan River.

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So really it's not so much that they are cursed

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or didn't follow or judge God or questioned God. It

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was just they decided that it was more suitable land

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on the east side of the Jordan River than it

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was on the other side to raise their flocks. So

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the rest of the tribe settled west of the Jordan

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in Canaan, following Joshua's command to enter and possess the

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promised land. You need to read into the story of

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Joshua to know that one but this is the tribe

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that stayed on the other side. As is evident through scripture,

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God does allow his children to choose God does endow

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with his children freedom of choice. And Manassa as a

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half tribe, it doesn't mean they would be those of

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you that are into Harry Potter and things like that.

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When they call them a mud blood, it's not a

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mixed breed or a hybrid. It's nothing like that. It's

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just where they chose to stay and raise their flock.

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And so that's kind of where this is gonna go

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with God questions. So I'm gonna read a little further.

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Exercise in free will can lead to undesirable, even disastrous results,

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especially if you disobey God, because that's happened with other tribes. Ultimately,

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you're gonna have the splitting of ten tribes in the

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north known as Israel, which the capital would be Samaria,

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and you're gonna have the southern kingdom of Judah. And

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that's gonna be a laid out story as well. Again,

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if you want to keep reading in the Book of

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Hosea with us, we've been studying. We've been studying Hosea

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chapter nine starting tomorrow morning. But that's a harsh reality.

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Or the half tribe of Manassa desired more land because

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they were and I quote a numerous people. They may

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have had the numbers, but they're unwilling to follow Joshua.

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And so you got that one side of it. But

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the other hand, the tribe of Manassa does exhibit faithfulness too,

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because we need to remember Gideon, who would later become

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one of Israel's best judges. There's an entire chapter in

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the Old Testament called Judges, and this is one of

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the best ones. And so that one questioned God when

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he was called to save Israel out Amidian's hand. One

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of Gideon's objections was his clan and I quote was

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the weakest in Manassa, and I'm the least in my family.

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That goes back to Judges chapter six. So Gideon required

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proof from God twice before he acted. But once he

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was convinced of God's will, Gean moved forward with thirty

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two thousand troops to conquer the Midianites. But then God

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told Gideon that he had too many, and God reduced

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it down to three hundred men. So, following God's lead,

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this force actually uprooted the enemy. The battle proved God

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was with Gideon the whole time, and he was with

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the half tribe of Manassa. So there's a lot of

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lessons that emerge out of this one that God has

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a just God, okay, and if you consult with the

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Lord like Moses did, Moses agreed and developed rules designed

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to keep property within certain families when it comes to

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the promised land. So it's a lot to unpackage with

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the story of Manassa what we can learn from that tribe,

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and I hope that you will spend time block head Nation,

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meditate him on that, and interpret the tribe Manassa in

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for yourself. Where if you want to look a little further,

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you'd have to go into the Book of Judges, which

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again that can be a difficult one to follow. But

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really that's a quick synopsis of it, and I can

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always point you to more. But I'm going to end

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today with this simply with the scripture of the day,

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the Daily Promises. Let's keep it simple. Acts, Chapter sixteen,

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verse twenty one. The promise of salvation. It says, and

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they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, that thou

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shalt be saved and thy house shall be saved. Here's

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what reflection from Blue Larah Bible says about that the

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promise of salvation is a gift to the ones that

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believe in Christ. Earlier, we had heard this story in

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this chapter about a Philippian jailer who wanted to know

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how he could possibly be saved, and Paul and Silas

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simply put this way. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,

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which will result in your salvation. Our very eternal lives

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rest on the simplest of things, our belief in Christ's

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power to save us. Rejoice in such things as they

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are the cause for so much joy. If you're carrying

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chains today, blockhead Nation, I pray that you look to

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God today and just say, Lord, take them. He's been

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able to handle it the whole time. Instead of you

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trying to carry around your baggage and your backpack full

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of rocks and your chains that abound you, look up

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and look to Him and say, Conscious, take him, because

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he can handle it. He always has been able to

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handle it. He created you, and better is one day

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in his courts than thousands elsewhere. I pray that this

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touches your life this week, Blockhead Nation. We'll talk again

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in two weeks. Feel free to reach out anybody that

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needs it. Some of you that have me through your

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social media, you can follow me on all of those

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I will respond. Surely is the coming of the dawn

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whose the hit Chapter six. Feel free blockhead Nation. Remember

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your chains are gone once you lay him at the

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feet of Jesus God bless you all. We'll catch you

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in two weeks, same blockhead time, same blockhead channel. Will

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to the to, they will to their day the