Can a Just God be a Merciful God? | Torah | Exodus 34:1-28

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

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What's the picture you have of God in your head? Is he an angry judge? Is he the ultimate pushover? In today's episode, Patrick shares an example of the kind of love that God shows Israel in Exodus 34:1-28. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Exodus 34:1-28

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.5	I'm Patrick Miller and right now we're going through the Book of Exodus.
0:14.0	Recently one of our listeners Tommy Martin shared a story with me that
0:19.6	really moved me to tears because in it I heard one of the most clear expressions of God's love and forgiveness I have ever heard in my life.
0:28.5	Now I want to warn you if you're listening to this with children or teenagers, you might want to turn this off because there are
0:34.1	some sensitive topics touched on here but with that said I want to tell you a bit of Tommy's story.
0:40.0	About 13 years ago his mom called him and she said hey I just read something in the paper and
0:45.9	you're going to hear about it but I want you to hear it from me first and so of course he's a
0:50.4	little bit confused and asked her what happened.
0:52.8	She went on to tell him that his eighth grade basketball coach was just arrested
0:56.5	in the largest child pornography bust of all time.
0:59.6	This guy had over 200,000 child pornographic images.
1:04.7	So as you can imagine, he was a little bit shocked and disturbed,
1:08.0	but his mom went on to say they were pictures of teenage boys.
1:11.1	And finally, it clicks with him what his mom is saying that inside
1:14.5	of those 200,000 pictures there were likely pictures of him and his friends
1:18.8	when they were naked in the locker room. As you can imagine he feels all different kinds of emotions in this moment.
1:24.8	On the one hand, he feels incredibly violated.
1:27.0	What is this guy done?
1:28.0	Who has this guy shown these things to?
1:29.7	Why did this to me?
1:31.0	How could he violate me when I trusted him so much? On the other end there's
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