What Do You Focus On? | Torah | Numbers 15

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What do you spend the most time thinking about? Is there anything that you tend to fixate on? In today’s episode, Patrick uses Numbers 15 to discuss the connection between what you think about and who you are. 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: Numbers 15

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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. One of the strangest features of the Book of Numbers is the way it
0:16.4	flip-flops between stories and legislation. It can be incredibly confusing if you're just
0:21.6	reading straight through the book.
0:23.4	In chapters 13 and 14 of the Book of Numbers, which we looked at yesterday, we read the tragic
0:28.7	story of Israel's rebellion against Yawe.
0:32.1	You'll remember, the spies are sent by Moses and God into the
0:35.4	promised land but they return in a not so great way. They say that giants are in
0:40.5	the land and Israel has no hope of conquering it.
0:43.0	Whether or not Yaway is with them and the consequence of their rebellion and the fact that the people
0:47.8	believe them, they buy into the bad reports, the consequences are dire.
0:52.1	Yaway gives them exactly what they want.
0:54.3	He says, you don't want to go into the promised land?
0:56.2	Well, you don't have to go.
0:57.6	Instead, you can wander in the wilderness for a generation.
1:00.6	But rather than continuing to the next story, which is exactly what we would expect, you know,
1:05.1	what's the next story on the journey, instead the author does something weird.
1:09.7	We enter into a long legislative section of laws about keeping the Sabbath, concluding with laws about
1:16.3	clothing.
1:17.3	I mean, let me just read you the last section.
1:20.0	Numbers 1537. Yoways said to Moses, speak to the Israelites and say to them,
1:26.0	throughout the generations to come,
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