Phil Robertson

So what happens?

As you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation.

I love that idea that it affects how we live with fear and trembling.

For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

There's the whole thing you just said about Pharaoh and the Egyptians and everything coming out.

Then he gives us the practical stuff.

Which is where we began this conversation, the idea of,

of looking bigger than ourselves.

And so I just find it fascinating when the name is then invoked and then lived, what it looks like in us.

And I think everything we were talking about earlier, I couldn't help but go back to Genesis 11, 4,

when they built the Tower of Babel.

And you remember what they said?

Come, let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens.

Why?

So that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the earth, which is exactly what God had told them to do.

Be fruitful, multiply.

Yeah, one of the texts there, Jason, was Deuteronomy 12, 1 through 7.

The name of the Lord was said, he will be in this place when he was telling about the promised land.

Same exact thing about the temple.

Well, and that would be kind of a misuse of carrying his name, what you just described.