Ep 66: A Weird Parody

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Well, good morning, I'm Daniel
Dalp and this is for your Sunday

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morning drive.
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Dr. and encouragement on your

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way to worship and helping you
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opportunity.
And I hope you enjoy today's

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episode.
It's admittedly a little bit

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more light hearted than some of
the ones I've recorded recently,

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and I don't think that's a bad
thing.

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Let's go ahead and get the show
on the road.

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This is episode 66, a weird
parody.

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Let's go to church.
My wife and I recently went and

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saw a concert.
And it wasn't just any concert,

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mind you.
No, dear listener.

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The star of the show for this
evening of musical delight was

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none other than the wickedly
talented, industry revered

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lyrical genius and quite
possibly the most gifted musical

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mind of our age.
Yes, yes, you guessed it, the

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one, the only Weird Al Yankovic.
Now, if you aren't familiar with

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his body of work, I highly
recommend him.

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You see, his specialty is parody
songs.

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He's known for delightful
parodies such as eBay, Ode to a

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Superhero, and Amish Paradise.
And I've been a big fan of Mr.

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Yankovic since I was in middle
school, much to my parents

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chagrin.
I remember them being bewildered

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that I could recount every lyric
of an 11 minute song like

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Albuquerque, but couldn't for
the life of me remember the

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formulas that I needed to
succeed in algebra or calculus.

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Well, say la vie.
And I think the reason I was

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always fascinated by Weird Al
music is because it took

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something that was popular,
something that maybe took itself

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a little too seriously, and he
made it his own.

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A true parody, albeit much more
lighthearted.

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You see, the skeleton of the
original work was still there in

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music and rhythm and in essence,
but it came out the other side

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of his creative process, a
wholly different work.

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Gangster's Paradise became Amish
Paradise, I'm Bad became I'm

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Fat.
Piano Man became Ode to a

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Superhero and so on and so
forth.

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Now hang in there.
There is a spiritual connection

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here somewhere.
You see, parody is all well and

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good for things like music.
In fact, it's probably a habit

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that many of us have.
Have you ever, for humor's sake,

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change the words to a song just
to make someone crack a smile?

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You see, you took something
original and you made it your

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own.
And that's all well and good.

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But now the spiritual and the
sobering connection.

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Do we sometimes make a parody of
God?

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Let me explain.
Do we tend to worship and lift

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up our own preconceived notions
about who God is and what He

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wants rather than the reality of
how He presents Himself to us?

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Do we do this in place of
scriptural truth?

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Do we have a tendency to turn
the latest spiritual sounding

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jargon or social influence
buzzwords and lift those up as

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tenets of doctrine rather than
going back to the basic

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instructions of God breathed
inspired scripture?

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You see, we need to take God
seriously.

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We need to seek to know the God
of the Bible, not to focus on

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and Revere our own silly little
caricature of him.

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For instance, in the sermon on
Mars Hill in Acts 1722 through

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25, Paul stood in the midst of
the Areopagus, and he said, Men

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of Athens, I observe that you
are very religious in all

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aspects.
For while I was passing through

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and examining the objects of
your worship, I also found an

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altar with this inscription to
the unknown God.

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Therefore what you worship and
ignorance, this I proclaim to

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you.
The God who made the world and

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all things in it, since He is
Lord of heaven and earth, does

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not dwell in temples made with
hands, nor is he served by human

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hands, as though he needed
anything, since He Himself gives

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to all people life and breath
and all things.

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Are we like those people in
Athens who worshipped in

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ignorance a parody of the one
true God?

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What does this look like for us
today?

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Well, maybe we say things like
God is love, and that's true,

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but we fail to also recognize
His justice and His wrath and

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His grace and His Holiness and
all the other aspects of His

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nature.
Do we cherry pick?

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Friends, my encouragement to you
today is to get to know God on

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His terms, according to the way
He describes Himself in

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Scripture.
Don't let Him be unknown to you.

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Don't just assume that you know
Him and what His Scripture says.

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Read it for yourselves.
Discover it.

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Worship the true God because you
have to admit that worshipping,

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seeking and serving a parody of
God rather than the genuine and

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all sovereign monarch of the
universe.

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That's a little bit risky and
it's more than just a little bit

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weird.
Well, those are my thoughts for

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your Sunday morning drive.
Now it's time to hear yours.

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Our discussion questions for

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this week are do we know God?
Do we know know what His Word

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says about him?
What are some preconceived ideas

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about God or the Bible that
you've had to cast aside in the

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face of truth, and how has that
helped you grow as a Christian?