Day 347: 1 Chronicles 4-6 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study & Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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8. 0:24family. WELCOME TO DAY 347 AND 347 MORE
9. 0:28NAMES OF THE GENEALOGY. NO, I'M JUST
10. 0:30PLAYING. WELCOME TO DAY 347. We're in
11. 0:321st CHRONICLES CHAPTERS 4, 5, AND 6.
12. 0:36WE'VE DIED AND GONE A GENEALOGY HEAVEN
13. 0:39AND WE love it here. Um, I hope that you
14. 0:42enjoyed today's reading. No, for real
15. 0:44though, I mean, we are like kneedeep in
16. 0:46a genealogy. Uh, talk about a
17. 0:48ninechapter genealogy, but we are going
18. 0:50to wade through it and we're going to
19. 0:52love it. We're going to love it. We We
20. 0:53love genealogies here at the Bible
21. 0:55department. If you haven't done today's
22. 0:57reading, I actually want you to stop the
23. 0:59video, pause the audio, go read the
24. 1:02genealogies, okay? These names will
25. 1:05bless you. Maybe you'll get names for
26. 1:07your children. Names like Ishma in
27. 1:11Idbbash. I haven't seen a kid named
28. 1:13Idbash in a long time, you know. Maybe
29. 1:16you'll hear the Holy Ghost tell you to
30. 1:18name your kid Hazel Pony. Hazel. Hazel.
31. 1:24H. Oh gosh. Hazel pani. Panai. Hazel.
32. 1:28Panai. Anywh who her hur r her. Haven't
33. 1:33seen that name in a long time. All
34. 1:34right. Aam. That have you ever just
35. 1:37stopped and just read like just aam. And
36. 1:41this one's great. Ti. Good old tei. All
37. 1:45right. For real. Stop playing. Stop
38. 1:46distracting me. I have ADHD. All right.
39. 1:48We're gonna jump into our context clues
40. 1:50and I'm going to give you some nerdy
41. 1:51nuggets and I'm gonna leave you off with
42. 1:52a timeless truth. To be honest, I'm very
43. 1:55very excited about the timeless truth
44. 1:56today because we're going to talk about
45. 1:58a word called legacy. And uh for a long
46. 2:02time, I've kind of had like I don't
47. 2:04know, I don't know if I like that word.
48. 2:05That word just felt very secular. But
49. 2:08honestly, after reading these
50. 2:10genealogies, legacy is not a secular
51. 2:12idea. Legacy is real. and uh knowing
52. 2:16that man, my ances my my descendants are
53. 2:21either going to be blessed or cursed
54. 2:23based on my actions
55. 2:26is really what these genealogies are
56. 2:28communicating. So, by the end of the
57. 2:29episode, we're going to talk about
58. 2:30legacy. I can't wait. But before we get
59. 2:32there, we got to dive into our context
60. 2:35clues. All right, let's actually I got
61. 2:38to give you three pieces of context
62. 2:40today. Okay, first piece of context is
63. 2:42that Jesus would have seen the book of
64. 2:45Chronicles as the conclusion to the
65. 2:47Tanakh, not just a random history book
66. 2:50thrown in the middle. So the biggest
67. 2:53reason that we want to put Chronicles at
68. 2:55the end of the Old Testament or the
69. 2:57Hebrew Bible is because that's how Jesus
70. 2:59would have engaged with the Bible. And
71. 3:01when we hold the scriptures, we kind of
72. 3:03want to get the scriptures as close to
73. 3:07the scriptures that Jesus would have
74. 3:08engaged with for obvious reasons. Okay?
75. 3:11So, I want us to read Luke 11 verse 51.
76. 3:16Luke 11:51.
77. 3:18I'll go there in Logos Bible study
78. 3:20software. Luke 11:51.
79. 3:24It says this. I'll actually start in
80. 3:26verse 50 just so that we have context.
81. 3:28Therefore, this generation will be held
82. 3:30responsible for the blood of all the
83. 3:32prophets that has been shed since the
84. 3:34beginning of the world. Okay? So, this
85. 3:36generation, so Jesus is saying, I'm part
86. 3:39of the innocent blood that's going to be
87. 3:42shed. And this generation is going to be
88. 3:44responsible for all of it. Verse 51,
89. 3:47from the blood of Abel to the blood of
90. 3:49Zechariah, who was killed between the
91. 3:51altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell
92. 3:53you, this generation, not those previous
93. 3:55generations, but this one, the one that
94. 3:58kills the Messiah, the one who sheds my
95. 4:00innocent blood, you're actually going to
96. 4:02be responsible for all of the innocent
97. 4:06blood of all the prophets that's been
98. 4:07shed from the beginning to the end. And
99. 4:11the beginning here is Abel in the end is
100. 4:14Zechariah. Okay? Abel to Zechariah. So
101. 4:17that means that we've got to figure out
102. 4:19who Zechariah and what is Jesus talking
103. 4:21about. Obviously, we know that Abel's
104. 4:23story is found in Genesis 4. So that's
105. 4:27the beginning. So what is this end?
106. 4:29Well, the end is found in 2 Chronicles
107. 4:3224:20.
108. 4:332 Chronicles 24:20.
109. 4:362 Chronicles 24. And we're going to
110. 4:39start reading in verse 20. And we're
111. 4:41actually going to read all the way to
112. 4:43verse 22. Verse 20 says this, "Then the
113. 4:46spirit of God came on Zechariah." So
114. 4:49that's the same Zechariah that Jesus is
115. 4:51talking about. Son of Jehoeda the
116. 4:53priest. He stood before the people and
117. 4:55said, "This is what God says. Why do you
118. 4:57disobey the Lord's commands? You will
119. 5:00not prosper because you have forsaken
120. 5:02the Lord. He has forsaken you." But they
121. 5:04plotted against him and by order of the
122. 5:07king, they stoned him to death on the
123. 5:10courtyard of the Lord's temple. Verse
124. 5:1222. King Joash did not remember the
125. 5:15kindness Zechariah's father Jehoeda had
126. 5:18shown him, but killed his son, who said
127. 5:22as he lay dying, "May the Lord see this
128. 5:25and call ye to account." So why does
129. 5:29Jesus bookend the first shedding of
130. 5:32innocent blood with the last shedding of
131. 5:34innocent blood? Well, it's because this
132. 5:36story in 2 Chronicles would have been
133. 5:39seen as the end of the Tanakh. That's
134. 5:42right. This is the end of the Bible for
135. 5:45Jesus. Okay. Jesus didn't have a New
136. 5:47Testament. Jesus would have only had an
137. 5:49Old Testament. And that Old Testament
138. 5:51was split up into three parts. The
139. 5:53Tanakh, TN, the Torah, the Nevim, the
140. 5:56Ketuim. And the last book of the Ketuim
141. 6:00would have been the book of Chronicles.
142. 6:02So for Jesus, Jesus understands the
143. 6:06entire Old Testament as moving from
144. 6:08Genesis to Chronicles. Genesis to
145. 6:10Chronicles. And if that's how Jesus
146. 6:12understands the Hebrew scriptures,
147. 6:14that's probably how we should understand
148. 6:16the Hebrew scriptures. Okay, number
149. 6:18that's our first bit of context clues.
150. 6:20Second, Chronicles is a lot like
151. 6:21Deuteronomy. Okay. Ezra is now talking
152. 6:24to a new generation of Israelites, a new
153. 6:27generation of people coming back from
154. 6:29exile, a brand new generation. So in the
155. 6:33same way that Deuteronomy is Moses
156. 6:35giving the law a second time, the word
157. 6:38Deuteronomy means second law. He's
158. 6:40giving the law again, so it feels
159. 6:43repetitive. A lot of the things that
160. 6:45were said in books like Exodus and
161. 6:47Leviticus are now said in Deuteronomy is
162. 6:51because the law needs to be said to a
163. 6:55brand new generation. Okay? Genesis,
164. 6:58Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
165. 7:01The first generation that received the
166. 7:03law died in the wilderness. It's their
167. 7:05children that are going to go into the
168. 7:06promised land. And those children need
169. 7:09to hear the laws that their parents
170. 7:10heard. And they need to realize that
171. 7:13each generation of God's people is
172. 7:15connected to the previous generation.
173. 7:17And so there's a repetition. You need to
174. 7:19hear what your parents heard. And so
175. 7:21Chronicles is not just repeating what
176. 7:24Samuel and Kings has said. It's actually
177. 7:26reiterating the lessons from Kings and
178. 7:28Samuels from a different perspective to
179. 7:30a new generation. And that's context
180. 7:32that we're going to need if we're going
181. 7:34to understand Chronicles. Well, third,
182. 7:36prophetic history is different than a
183. 7:38priest history. Okay? I need you to
184. 7:40remember the the history books that we
185. 7:44call history books that are not actually
186. 7:46history books are former prophets. So
187. 7:49Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, these are
188. 7:52former prophets. These aren't history
189. 7:55books. We call them history books cuz
190. 7:58we're Americans and we're Westerners and
191. 8:00we just call things stuff based on what
192. 8:02we think they are. But really in the
193. 8:04Hebrew scriptures, they're former
194. 8:06prophets. And what are the prophets
195. 8:07doing? The prophets are doing something
196. 8:09very different than priests are doing.
197. 8:12Okay? The prophets are making sure that
198. 8:15when God sends the people into exile,
199. 8:18it's for just cause. So the prophets are
200. 8:22almost giving the history of what
201. 8:25happened to answer the question. If
202. 8:28you're confused as to why you got into
203. 8:29exile, this is why. It's almost like a
204. 8:32legal account. It's like it's a record
205. 8:35of wrongs, which is what it is. Like the
206. 8:39prophet is seen as a part of God's legal
207. 8:42court of law. And so the prophet is
208. 8:44holding the people to account and
209. 8:47answering the question, why did you go
210. 8:49into exile? But that's not what a priest
211. 8:52does. Think about it. A prophet speaks
212. 8:54to the people for God. But a priest
213. 8:56speaks to God for the people. A priest
214. 8:59is interceding for the on behalf of the
215. 9:02people to God arguing their case. So
216. 9:05think about a prophet almost like a
217. 9:08prosecuting attorney and think about a
218. 9:11priest almost like the defendants's
219. 9:14attorney. It's an advocate. Okay. So the
220. 9:17priest and are not asking the question.
221. 9:20That is why for the prophets, they're
222. 9:23going to hold David accountable to
223. 9:25killing Uriah, to raping Beth Sheeba.
224. 9:28Like they're going to hold people
225. 9:30accountable. It's like this is literally
226. 9:32what you did. Whereas a priest doesn't
227. 9:35have that same perspective. A priest is
228. 9:38going to apply grace. A priest
229. 9:41understands like, yeah, people fall,
230. 9:44people fail, but how about we present
231. 9:48them in their best light? And to be
232. 9:49honest, the Bible needs both. If the
233. 9:51Bible only had one, we would lean way
234. 9:55too far into probably legalism. And if
235. 9:58the Bible had the other, we'd probably
236. 9:59lean way too far into grace. What we see
237. 10:03with the books of Kings, which is going
238. 10:05to give a very prophetic lens versus a
239. 10:08book like Chronicles, which gives a very
240. 10:10pritoriented lens, is the Bible's
241. 10:13practicing tension, which I hope to God
242. 10:17you're practicing. If you haven't got
243. 10:19anything else out of a year of studying
244. 10:21the Bible with me is that the truth
245. 10:23should be held in tension. I know that's
246. 10:26hard for a lot of people who have
247. 10:27binaries in their head or what I call
248. 10:30dumb dichotoies, but for the rest of us,
249. 10:33like seriously, you don't need to be a
250. 10:35polarizing person cuz you shouldn't be
251. 10:37thinking in terms of polls or binaries.
252. 10:39You should be thinking in terms of a
253. 10:41spectrum. Now, you shouldn't think about
254. 10:43sexuality that way or gender, but in
255. 10:46terms of the Bible, you should. Okay?
256. 10:48Because the Bible is fluid and it's
257. 10:51creating tension for itself. Okay? That
258. 10:54is the last piece of of uh just context.
259. 10:58Okay. Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah are
260. 11:01all part of the writing section of the
261. 11:03Tanakh. So, they do not have a prophetic
262. 11:05focus. It may be covering the same time
263. 11:08period as Samuel and Kings, but it is a
264. 11:10very different story. It's not a
265. 11:12prophet's telling of the story. It's a
266. 11:14priest's telling of the story. A prophet
267. 11:16is asking, "Why did this exile happen?"
268. 11:19The priest aka Ezra is asking this
269. 11:22question. What do we need to do now? How
270. 11:26do we rebuild? How do we return,
271. 11:28rebuild, and repent? Not let's talk
272. 11:32about what happened. No, no, no, no. How
273. 11:35do we rebuild our lives now that this is
274. 11:38a reality? How do we move through this?
275. 11:41How do we get out of this? Ezra is
276. 11:45looking back in order to move forward.
277. 11:48And that is a massive, massive, massive
278. 11:50difference. What is going to be clear is
279. 11:53that the good kings of Judah were
280. 11:55successful because of how they treated
281. 11:56the temple. Okay, that is the angle that
282. 11:59chronicles is going to come come from.
283. 12:02David's house survived because of David
284. 12:05of because of Yahweh's house cuz David's
285. 12:08treatment of the temple is why David's
286. 12:11house is protected. Okay, they are
287. 12:14forever connected. David's house
288. 12:16survived because of Yahweh's house.
289. 12:18Period. So for Ezra's audience, if life
290. 12:22with the second temple is to be blessed,
291. 12:24if they are to survive and be
292. 12:26successful, they need to be like the
293. 12:28good kings of Judah and treat the new
294. 12:31temple and its festivals as those kings
295. 12:34did. And again, who are the main
296. 12:36characters connected to the temple going
297. 12:37to be? Four characters. David, who
298. 12:40prepares a temple, Solomon, who builds a
299. 12:43temple, and then Hezekiah and Josiah who
300. 12:46both cleanse the temple. So the four
301. 12:49heroes of Chronicles are going to be
302. 12:51David who prepares a temple, Solomon who
303. 12:53builds a temple, Hezekiah who cleanses
304. 12:55the temple, and Josiah who cleanses the
305. 12:58temple. Indeed, one of the most
306. 13:00significant repeated phrases in the
307. 13:02entire book of Chronicles is work that
308. 13:05he undertook in the service of the house
309. 13:08of Yahweh. Work that he undertook in the
310. 13:11service of the house of Yahweh. This is
311. 13:14a big focus of the book. All right, I'm
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345. 14:39We're going to get 1 2 3 4 5 six tribes
346. 14:43that we're going to get genealogies for.
347. 14:46The lion share is going to go to Judah.
348. 14:48That's chapter 4:es 1-2 and 23. We're
349. 14:51going to study Judah. Now, Judah's the
350. 14:53gold standard. Judah is where David
351. 14:55David is from the tribe of Judah and the
352. 14:57Messiah is going to come from the tribe
353. 14:58of Judah. So, gold standard. However,
354. 15:01the genealogies are going to acknowledge
355. 15:03Judah was not the firstborn son of
356. 15:05Jacob, aka Israel. So, what happened?
357. 15:09And the next tribes that we're going to
358. 15:12get are going to tell you who got passed
359. 15:16over and why. So, Simeon, okay, uh
360. 15:19Simeon is going to be Chronicles 4
361. 15:24starting in verse 24. And he's next in
362. 15:28this list after Judah, probably because
363. 15:30of what happened to Simeon as a tribe.
364. 15:33Like Levi, Simeon was cursed that his
365. 15:36descendants would have no portion in the
366. 15:38land. But unlike Levi, whose loyalty to
367. 15:41Yahweh was rewarded by him becoming
368. 15:43their portion, the child of Simeon
369. 15:46showed disloyalty to Yahweh during the
370. 15:48incident of the all of Peor. Okay, but
371. 15:52all of Peor. So for them, the curse
372. 15:55became true and Simeon was given
373. 15:58territory completely within Judah. This
374. 16:01meant that over time they basically
375. 16:03dissolved into Judah, becoming one with
376. 16:06them. You could say that Simeonites
377. 16:09became Jews. The word Jews comes from
378. 16:14Judah. Okay? You're a Jew because you're
379. 16:17from the tribe of Judah. Okay? So when
380. 16:20someone in the biblical context says
381. 16:22Jew, they don't mean any of the 12
382. 16:25tribes. That was referring specifically
383. 16:28to people of the tribe of Judah. Okay?
384. 16:31So Simeonites essentially become
385. 16:34Judahites which becomes Jews. So that is
386. 16:38probably why they are listed here next
387. 16:40to Judah because they have become a part
388. 16:43of Judah which means it was likely that
389. 16:45many of the original audience had
390. 16:47Simeonite blood. Okay. Next is the tribe
391. 16:50of Rub. Reuben. This is chapter 5:es
392. 16:531-10. The next tribe is that of Reuben,
393. 16:56the firstborn of Israel. Now, this
394. 16:58Reuben is Israel, aka Jacob's firstborn
395. 17:01son. But this is a classic example of
396. 17:03how your actions can have consequences
397. 17:05for your children and for their
398. 17:07children, and so on and so on and so on.
399. 17:10Reuben lived, of course, centuries
400. 17:12before Ezra. But how does the recording
401. 17:14of Reuben's genealogy begin? Right here,
402. 17:17chapter 5. I'll pull it up.
403. 17:19>> Chronicles 5:1. The sons of Reuben, the
404. 17:22firstborn of Israel.
405. 17:25He was the firstborn, but when he
406. 17:27defiled his father's marriage bed, his
407. 17:29rights as firstborn were given to the
408. 17:31sons of Joseph, son of Israel, so he
409. 17:34could not be listed in the genealogical
410. 17:36record in accordance with his
411. 17:38birthright. And though Judah was the
412. 17:40strongest of his brothers and a ruler
413. 17:42came from him, the rights of the
414. 17:43firstborn belong to Joseph. Woo, that's
415. 17:46a mouthful. The sons of Reuben, the
416. 17:49firstborn of Israel. And then it gives
417. 17:51the descendants. But it doesn't give the
418. 17:53descendants without telling us Reuben
419. 17:55took one of his father's
420. 18:00wives as his own. He defiled his
421. 18:03father's marriage bed. And because of
422. 18:05one act, his descendants, hundreds of
423. 18:09years removed, are going to have to live
424. 18:12with that legacy. Key word legacy.
425. 18:15What's next? Chapter 5 11-22 tells us
426. 18:19about the tribe of Gad. A shorter list
427. 18:21for a less important tribe. Though his
428. 18:23list is ended with the story of how Gad
429. 18:26and the Reubenites in the eastern half
430. 18:28of Manasseh settled east of the Jordan.
431. 18:31So they're not in the promised land.
432. 18:33They decided to settle outside of the
433. 18:35promised land. Okay? You probably
434. 18:37remember this back when we got to the
435. 18:40book of Joshua. Okay? They didn't want
436. 18:42to go into the promised land. They
437. 18:45wanted to settle for something that was
438. 18:47less than what God had for them. And
439. 18:49because they rejected what God had for
440. 18:52them, they are the first to go into
441. 18:56captivity. Okay? They're the first to go
442. 18:58into exile. So Gad, the tribe of Eastern
443. 19:01Manasseh, and the Reubenites are all
444. 19:05going to be taken off into exile first.
445. 19:08Okay? because they're not in the
446. 19:10promised land. The halft tribe of
447. 19:12Manasseh on the east side of the Jordan
448. 19:14completes the section of G genealogies
449. 19:16of those who settled outside the
450. 19:18promised land. This halftribe eventually
451. 19:20became a tribe in their own right. But
452. 19:22their fate is mentioned here. How they
453. 19:26abandoned Yahweh and went after other
454. 19:27gods. And so Paul, Tiglath, Paleisa of
455. 19:30Assyria took them into exile along with
456. 19:33the tribes of Reuben and Gad at the
457. 19:35climax of the SC cyrophicatic war. These
458. 19:38three tribes then were the first to be
459. 19:41exiled. Okay. So Judah is going to be
460. 19:45talked about as the gold standard.
461. 19:46That's chapter 4:es 1-23. Then chapter
462. 19:504:4, we get Simeon and which is
463. 19:53essentially swallowed up by Judah. And
464. 19:55then we get Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh,
465. 19:57who are all the first to be exiled. That
466. 19:59gets us through chapter five. And then
467. 20:01chapter six. From verse one to verse 80,
468. 20:05we are going to get the tribe of Levi.
469. 20:08Big deal. And guess why we get so much
470. 20:10focus on the tribe of Levi? You guessed
471. 20:13it, cuz Ezra is from the tribe of Levi.
472. 20:16And Ezra's writing the book. [laughter]
473. 20:18When you get to write history, you get
474. 20:20to write yourself as the star, baby. Uh
475. 20:23we now come to a tribe given almost as
476. 20:26much space and significance as Judah,
477. 20:28the tribe of Levi, cursed like Simeon,
478. 20:32okay, but chosen by Yahweh to be his
479. 20:35tribe of priests because of their
480. 20:37extraordinary loyalty to him. The list
481. 20:39of families and clans are given, but
482. 20:42also list of the Levites that David had
483. 20:44appointed to lead the choirs in temple
484. 20:46worship. Okay. So, it's been 600 years
485. 20:50since David's been alive, but the
486. 20:52systems that David set in place for
487. 20:55singing and for music and for
488. 20:57instrumentation and for the choirs are
489. 21:00still in place. And Ezra wants the
490. 21:03choirs who are in place in his moment to
491. 21:08feel connected to the legacy that David
492. 21:10established 600 some odd years ago.
493. 21:13Okay? that David had appointed to lead
494. 21:15the choirs and the temple worship and
495. 21:17then also the Levites who would live
496. 21:19amongst their brothers in the Levitical
497. 21:21cities with their pasture lands. Levi is
498. 21:24of course important. Ezra is of the
499. 21:27tribe of Levi. In the list we have
500. 21:30already seen in Ezra and Nehemiah focus
501. 21:32on the Levites and a priest. Without
502. 21:34them the temple will not function. You
503. 21:37cannot have a temple without Levites.
504. 21:39They are needed for the rest to work for
505. 21:42the nation to be restored. Not just for
506. 21:44sacrifice and for ritual. Remember this
507. 21:47is the legacy of David. But also to lead
508. 21:50them in worship, okay? For singing, for
509. 21:53song, for music. The second temple will
510. 21:57be a place of song of instruments.
511. 21:59Remember that at this exact time while
512. 22:02Ezra is writing chronicles, he is
513. 22:04probably also creating the book of
514. 22:06psalms. He's also compiling David's
515. 22:09psalms so that Israel could have a
516. 22:12hymbook for the Levitical choirs to
517. 22:15sing. So if there's anyone who's
518. 22:17literally trying to create a devidic
519. 22:21Israel, it is Ezra. Ezra is like David
520. 22:25was on to something. These choirs and
521. 22:28these priests in this temple, David was
522. 22:31on to something. Ezra is 100% a Davidic
523. 22:35style leader. Okay? He is putting
524. 22:38together a hymnbook for those Levitical
525. 22:41choirs with the psalms that David wrote.
526. 22:45Okay? He is writing chronicles. He's
527. 22:47probably the compiler of the Tanakh as a
528. 22:50whole. It was hugely important then for
529. 22:53the Levites and the people to see the
530. 22:55connections back to Israel and to David.
531. 22:59These new singers and priests were part
532. 23:02of a true line from Aaron and Levi. They
533. 23:05were legitimate just like the choirs of
534. 23:08Levites and priests from the first
535. 23:09temple. So these genealogies are proving
536. 23:13legitimacy, but they're also proving
537. 23:15redemption because Levi like Simeon, I
538. 23:18don't know if you remember this, okay?
539. 23:20Jacob has 12 sons, 10 + 2, 12. And two
540. 23:24of those sons are going to when their
541. 23:27sister is sexually assaulted is going to
542. 23:30trick a man to to the man who sexually
543. 23:34assaulted their sister to get
544. 23:35circumcised. And then they're going to
545. 23:38go through and just murder these men
546. 23:41while they're healing from the
547. 23:42circumcision. Okay. So, Reuben, Ruben is
548. 23:45going to take his dad's uh he's going to
549. 23:47defile his father's bed. Simeon and Levi
550. 23:50are going to be violent towards people
551. 23:54while they've been while they just took
552. 23:55the covenant, the sign of the covenant,
553. 23:57okay, on on their sexual reproductive
554. 24:00organ. And for that, they all lose
555. 24:03access to the birthright. But Levi is a
556. 24:07story of redemption. Although Levi is
557. 24:11rejected, Levi gets the favor of God
558. 24:14back. It's a massive story of
559. 24:16redemption. And so these genealogies
560. 24:18prove not only does is redemption
561. 24:21possible, Simeon's lineage and Levi's
562. 24:24lineage are right here next to each
563. 24:26other in this section of Chronicles, but
564. 24:29Simeon and Levi who both committed the
565. 24:32same sin together. Their tribes don't
566. 24:35experience the same result because one
567. 24:38group repented and one group did not.
568. 24:40And that's not just a story of
569. 24:42legitimacy, but it's a story of
570. 24:44redemption, which leads us right into
571. 24:47our timeless truth. It strikes me that
572. 24:50these list are all about legacy. These
573. 24:53are the legacies of these men whose
574. 24:56actions echo down in in history through
575. 25:00history in their families. Here we have
576. 25:03examples. And the question is, what kind
577. 25:05of legacy do you do we want to leave our
578. 25:10children and our grandchildren and our
579. 25:12great-grandchildren? Do we want to be
580. 25:14like these Levites whose worship was
581. 25:16remembered for centuries after their
582. 25:18deaths? Or do we want to be like Jabz
583. 25:20whose simple prayer uh in in the first
584. 25:24chapter of sign today in uh Chronicles
585. 25:27chapter 4? Do you want to be like Jabz,
586. 25:30whose simple prayer is still inspiring
587. 25:32and changing lives a millennia after he
588. 25:34first spoke it? Or will we be like
589. 25:37Reuben, whose sin marked his
590. 25:38descendants? Or like the eastern tribe
591. 25:41of Manasseh, who first rejected what God
592. 25:43had for them and then were rejected by
593. 25:46God himself and whose legacy was exile
594. 25:49and destruction. You get to choose your
595. 25:51legacy by choosing your actions. And
596. 25:54maybe you would live life differently if
597. 25:56you knew that there were going to be
598. 25:57history books with your name in it.
599. 25:59Maybe you would live life differently if
600. 26:01you knew that your children, your great
601. 26:03children, your grandchildren, your
602. 26:04great-grandchildren, and descendants of
603. 26:07yours that you'll never going to meet
604. 26:08are going to know your name and they're
605. 26:10going to know the truth about you
606. 26:12someday. Like maybe you're going to get
607. 26:15off, you know, scot-free doing dirt and
608. 26:19nobody's going to know about it till you
609. 26:20die. But guess what? After you die,
610. 26:23you're going to leave a legacy. What are
611. 26:25people going to say about you? And what
612. 26:27people say about you when you're no
613. 26:29longer alive is just as important as
614. 26:31what people say about you while you're
615. 26:33alive. That's the whole point of these
616. 26:36genealogies. We may not live in a
617. 26:38culture that has genealogies, but we do
618. 26:40live in a culture that still has legacy.
619. 26:43And legacy is not just paying for a
620. 26:45building to be named after you. legacy
621. 26:48is your lineage, your descendants,
622. 26:51knowing, man, my great great great great
623. 26:53great-grandfather was a man of God, a
624. 26:55man of faith, man of integrity. So, I
625. 26:58would challenge you to not just live for
626. 27:00the moment, but to live for legacy.
627. 27:03That's not just true for the annals of
628. 27:05history. That's true for you. That's
629. 27:08true for me. It's true for all of us.
630. 27:09It's a timeless truth. Tomorrow, we got
631. 27:11more genealogies. We're going to look at
632. 27:131 Chronicles chapter 7 8:9. Tomorrow is
633. 27:16day 348. But trust me, if you stick with
634. 27:19me one more day, we'll be out of the
635. 27:21genealogies. I'm trying to help make
636. 27:24these genealogies interesting. Well,
637. 27:26they are, but they're just foreign for
638. 27:28our culture. Anyway, I love you. I'm
639. 27:30proud of you. I'll see you right here
640. 27:32tomorrow, same time, same place. Peace.
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