What's Your Deepest Desire? | Torah | Exodus 40:34-38

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

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What do you want most in life? What makes you most excited? What are you living for? Is there anything that you put in the place of Jesus? In today's episode, Patrick uses Exodus 40:34-38 to discuss the true purpose of your life. 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 40:34-38 Resources: O Say, Can You Stand? with NBA Forward Jonathan Isaac

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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.
0:15.8	What do you want most in life?
0:17.4	We recently interviewed Jonathan Isaac.
0:19.5	He's a power forward for the Orlando Magic and he's also the author of I Stand. This was on our other
0:24.7	podcast Truth Over Tribe but I appreciated his story deeply because Jonathan is
0:29.9	just like you and me. He wants approval, he wants success, and as a young man the one place he found it all was basketball.
0:37.4	He was a stellar high school player who turned into a stellar college player whom the
0:42.2	Orlando Magic drafted super early and he was going to be a stellar
0:46.7	MBA prospect. But then every athlete's worst nightmare hit, he got injured.
0:53.3	On ESPN, people began to conjecture about his future.
0:56.5	Would he be a draft bust, like so many other top-ranked players?
1:00.0	Meanwhile, he felt distance from his team.
1:02.4	While they were practicing and playing, he was going through physical therapy and recuperating.
1:06.8	How would he get their approval?
1:08.4	How would he win back the approval of Orlando Magic fans?
1:11.4	How would he get ESPAN to stop calling him a bust? How could he ever be successful as an NBA player?
1:17.0	In the midst of that, he found himself making choices he never wanted to make, just to fit in with his teammates.
1:23.4	For the first time in his life he had a lot of money and a lot of fame but the more he
1:28.0	pursued stuff and pleasure the emptier he felt. One day he was in a hotel elevator with another guy he didn't know and the other guy didn't recognize or know him.
1:38.2	But somehow this guy figured out in his head that Jonathan Isaac wasn't very happy.
1:43.7	That in some sense he'd gotten everything that he wanted,
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