1 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,966 And welcome back this week, 2 00:01:14,966 --> 00:01:16,833 man, it's been a good summer. 3 00:01:16,883 --> 00:01:18,500 We've had ball games. 4 00:01:18,566 --> 00:01:22,533 every week for a little while and you guys are finally wrapping up with that. 5 00:01:22,583 --> 00:01:25,099 So, uh, wrapped up pretty well, right? 6 00:01:25,166 --> 00:01:26,133 You won your last three? 7 00:01:26,183 --> 00:01:27,316 League champions. 8 00:01:27,383 --> 00:01:28,166 Hey, hey. 9 00:01:28,166 --> 00:01:29,666 Yeah, yeah. 10 00:01:29,716 --> 00:01:31,033 Yeah, we are the champions. 11 00:01:31,099 --> 00:01:33,266 All right, I will take that every day. 12 00:01:33,616 --> 00:01:37,333 So we might be a little bit more on our regular schedule. 13 00:01:37,466 --> 00:01:38,549 starting next week. 14 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:42,683 I think I think I like not having the live stream because it's way less for me to worry about. 15 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:46,883 So I may just keep doing the recordings the way we have been. 16 00:01:46,933 --> 00:01:50,000 Uh, but yeah, we're we're picking back up 17 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,016 with the book of Genesis. 18 00:01:51,083 --> 00:01:54,133 We got through the 1st 5 days and we were about to dive into 19 00:01:54,133 --> 00:01:55,150 day number six. 20 00:01:55,650 --> 00:01:57,916 I did have to share with you guys. 21 00:01:57,983 --> 00:02:00,866 Um, you know, me, the fire starter over here. 22 00:02:03,916 --> 00:02:07,633 Somebody who was an acquaintance of mine made a Facebook post this morning. 23 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:09,733 I kind of couldn't keep my mouth shut. 24 00:02:10,033 --> 00:02:13,516 But he said, if our Christianity 25 00:02:13,516 --> 00:02:16,516 causes kids to go hungry, the sick to 26 00:02:16,516 --> 00:02:19,583 go without healthcare, the stranger, to be unwelcome, the needy to 27 00:02:19,583 --> 00:02:22,699 be called parasites, families to be bombed, and our planet to 28 00:02:22,699 --> 00:02:26,233 be ravaged, oh, while billionaires get richer, we've profoundly misunderstood 29 00:02:26,233 --> 00:02:28,566 the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings. 30 00:02:29,250 --> 00:02:32,300 And, uh, I read that, 31 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:35,716 and I looked at it for a minute, and I thought, in 32 00:02:35,716 --> 00:02:39,683 what world does any form of Christianity cause any of this? 33 00:02:39,733 --> 00:02:41,716 And I responded as such. 34 00:02:41,783 --> 00:02:44,849 And I said, I think perhaps you're starting from an incorrect premise here 35 00:02:44,849 --> 00:02:48,500 because there's nothing, nobody in Christian, 36 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:50,833 any Christian circle causes these things. 37 00:02:51,650 --> 00:02:54,733 And, uh, the closest thing to 38 00:02:54,733 --> 00:02:57,966 an answer he had when I pointed that out was he pointed out the the 39 00:02:57,983 --> 00:03:01,099 parable of the good Samaritan and tried to argue that, 40 00:03:01,099 --> 00:03:04,333 well, obviously their their faith is what caused them to ignore 41 00:03:04,333 --> 00:03:06,966 the man by the side of the road, whereas the Samaritan came along. 42 00:03:06,983 --> 00:03:10,099 And he was basically trying to go with these are 2 43 00:03:10,099 --> 00:03:13,216 separate faiths and 2 separate teachings, the doctrines. 44 00:03:13,283 --> 00:03:16,333 What do he forgets is in the 1st century, the Samaritans and the Jews had the 45 00:03:16,333 --> 00:03:18,666 same Bible and the same teachings and the same doctrines. 46 00:03:18,683 --> 00:03:20,966 And the same synagogues and the same everything. 47 00:03:21,016 --> 00:03:23,716 It's just the Samaritans weren't welcome because they were sinners. 48 00:03:23,783 --> 00:03:26,849 And Jesus' whole point in that 49 00:03:26,849 --> 00:03:30,550 story was that, no, their faith does not encouraged 50 00:03:30,566 --> 00:03:34,583 them to behave the way they did, and they weren't following their faith in the way they behaved. 51 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:38,300 And when I pointed that out, it was funny because you can tell 52 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:41,666 when somebody has not made a valid, um, 53 00:03:41,666 --> 00:03:44,783 actual statement of what they believe, one and 54 00:03:44,783 --> 00:03:47,783 what they are sincerely trying to encourage people or 55 00:03:47,783 --> 00:03:51,683 suggest something to people because they immediately start moving the goalpost. 56 00:03:51,733 --> 00:03:55,566 And sure enough, the very next response was, well, it allowed for them to behave that way. 57 00:03:55,633 --> 00:03:57,016 And I'm like, well, that was the whole point. 58 00:03:57,083 --> 00:03:58,466 They weren't allowed to behave that way. 59 00:03:58,516 --> 00:04:01,699 And I think you might have missed the point of the parable, brother. 60 00:04:01,766 --> 00:04:04,050 They're not supposed to behave that way. 61 00:04:04,099 --> 00:04:07,400 And I said, and at this point, you've got to either, 62 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,466 if you're saying that Christianity acknowledges that 63 00:04:10,466 --> 00:04:13,466 these things happen and that individually we 64 00:04:13,466 --> 00:04:16,766 are called to intervene, then yeah, 65 00:04:16,766 --> 00:04:18,333 that's exactly what it teaches. 66 00:04:18,383 --> 00:04:21,500 If you're saying that we are called to speak out against these, 67 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:24,800 you know, injustice, when we see it and think, yes, it absolutely says it. 68 00:04:24,866 --> 00:04:28,949 But if we're going to make people do something different, that's not what it teaches. 69 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,366 And he's like, well, and immediately, oh, this is tiring. 70 00:04:32,416 --> 00:04:33,916 When did I ever say make? 71 00:04:34,033 --> 00:04:37,399 And I'm like, well, how ex- I said, well, I'm really glad that you explained, 72 00:04:37,399 --> 00:04:39,083 and I apologize for being tiring for you. 73 00:04:39,699 --> 00:04:43,633 I said, you 74 00:04:43,633 --> 00:04:44,949 know, I appreciate you clarifying. 75 00:04:45,016 --> 00:04:48,083 I said, obviously then it's the 2nd thing where we are just simply called 76 00:04:48,083 --> 00:04:50,666 to actually take action on an individual level. 77 00:04:50,716 --> 00:04:53,833 I said, now, having said that, how exactly do you 78 00:04:53,833 --> 00:04:57,666 expect Christians to do anything about billionaires getting richer without 79 00:04:57,683 --> 00:05:01,466 calling for the government to come in with a gun and stop them? 80 00:05:02,449 --> 00:05:04,583 And he never responded to that one? 81 00:05:04,633 --> 00:05:07,633 And I'm like, but that's the problem is so many 82 00:05:07,633 --> 00:05:11,233 of these modern couch Christians at the end of the day. 83 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:13,583 They don't really get into the word. 84 00:05:13,633 --> 00:05:14,899 They don't really spend time at home. 85 00:05:15,016 --> 00:05:18,016 They're not meaning these things when they say them 86 00:05:18,016 --> 00:05:21,383 and they're saying it just to try and and be feel 87 00:05:21,383 --> 00:05:22,466 good about themselves. 88 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:26,066 And it's like, look, yeah, absolutely. 89 00:05:26,116 --> 00:05:29,183 If you know of somebody that is neat in need, send them to 90 00:05:29,183 --> 00:05:32,183 the church, send them to somebody, we are called to help and we do. 91 00:05:32,233 --> 00:05:35,300 And churches, if your church isn't, you need to start 92 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:37,933 encouraging them to help because we're called to do that. 93 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,199 We should be helping the needy. 94 00:05:39,266 --> 00:05:40,233 We should be helping the poor. 95 00:05:40,283 --> 00:05:43,399 We should be helping people that are in need, 96 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:46,516 and that's what we are called to do on an individual level and at our 97 00:05:46,516 --> 00:05:49,516 church level, but we can't really do anything about the rest of the world. 98 00:05:49,583 --> 00:05:52,766 We can simply live out our lives and live out the calling that 99 00:05:52,766 --> 00:05:56,666 God has given us to show them this is what we should be. 100 00:05:56,716 --> 00:05:59,833 And then we go on and the world is either going to go, 101 00:05:59,833 --> 00:06:03,016 hey, that looks good and they're going to follow us or they're going to say, well, you people are dumb and 102 00:06:03,016 --> 00:06:05,783 they're just going to go the other way and there's nothing we can do about that. 103 00:06:05,833 --> 00:06:09,966 And so it was it was really interesting to see that today. 104 00:06:10,033 --> 00:06:13,216 play out in real time because it's been a while since I've 105 00:06:13,216 --> 00:06:16,399 had somebody actually just so clearly go, uh, yeah, no, 106 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:19,883 I said something and realized that I don't actually believe what I just said and oops, 107 00:06:19,883 --> 00:06:21,750 uh, no, no, this is getting tiring. 108 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:22,583 I can't have this conversation. 109 00:06:22,633 --> 00:06:23,533 Oh, okay. 110 00:06:24,699 --> 00:06:28,883 So when you see posts like that, just remember, these people are not there. 111 00:06:28,883 --> 00:06:30,266 And he's being very sincere. 112 00:06:30,316 --> 00:06:32,050 He's, I know the guy fairly well. 113 00:06:32,116 --> 00:06:34,699 He was truly being sincere and speaking from the heart. 114 00:06:34,766 --> 00:06:37,949 It's just, yeah, his heart's not quite in the right place with some of that. 115 00:06:39,016 --> 00:06:42,850 But as we go in here with 116 00:06:42,866 --> 00:06:45,983 Genesis, that's another area where a lot of people will try 117 00:06:45,983 --> 00:06:49,050 to use these verses that we're coming up on here in 118 00:06:49,050 --> 00:06:53,116 a little bit to justify a lot of very odd beliefs. 119 00:06:53,750 --> 00:06:55,466 Um, don't let them. 120 00:06:55,516 --> 00:06:56,899 Take it as written. 121 00:06:57,016 --> 00:06:58,333 Don't try to add anything to it. 122 00:06:58,399 --> 00:07:01,466 Don't try to twist it or change it to fit 123 00:07:01,466 --> 00:07:03,500 some particular narrative you may have. 124 00:07:03,566 --> 00:07:06,733 The answer is it's explained to us exactly the way it's intended to be and 125 00:07:06,733 --> 00:07:09,199 anything that's not clear, it'll be made clear. 126 00:07:09,316 --> 00:07:10,333 When we get home. 127 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:11,183 We've already read the end. 128 00:07:11,233 --> 00:07:11,949 We know it's coming. 129 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:13,816 Yeah. 130 00:07:13,816 --> 00:07:17,000 So in the, we did 131 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 the 1st 5 days, Genesis 123 ends 132 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,116 on the evening in the morning or the 5th day, and that 133 00:07:23,116 --> 00:07:25,333 brings us to 124. 134 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:27,866 It's a big day. 135 00:07:27,916 --> 00:07:29,483 It is a big day, isn't it? 136 00:07:29,533 --> 00:07:30,316 for all of us. 137 00:07:30,383 --> 00:07:30,983 Thank goodness. 138 00:07:31,033 --> 00:07:31,449 Yeah. 139 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:36,683 So, uh, I read 24 and 25. 140 00:07:38,050 --> 00:07:41,183 Therefore shall a man leave his, no, 141 00:07:41,183 --> 00:07:42,916 excuse me, I'm in chapter two. 142 00:07:42,983 --> 00:07:44,366 No, we're in chapter one. 143 00:07:44,416 --> 00:07:45,616 Rock 24. 144 00:07:46,350 --> 00:07:49,516 And God said, let the earth bring forth a living creature 145 00:07:49,516 --> 00:07:52,516 after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and 146 00:07:52,516 --> 00:07:56,716 beast of the earth after his kind, and it was so. 147 00:07:57,050 --> 00:08:00,199 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle 148 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:03,433 after their kind, and everything that creepeth 149 00:08:03,433 --> 00:08:07,816 upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that it was good. 150 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,983 So, you know, here's a question that's been asked before. 151 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,699 If we didn't eat animals back then, then 152 00:08:19,699 --> 00:08:21,133 what was the purpose of animals? 153 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:26,449 I don't know. 154 00:08:27,050 --> 00:08:29,183 There's just a lot of big pets, right? 155 00:08:29,233 --> 00:08:31,933 Yeah, it's again, it's God with no budget. 156 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:32,533 Yeah. 157 00:08:32,533 --> 00:08:33,916 You look at all of it. 158 00:08:34,250 --> 00:08:36,316 You look at all the stuff it created it. 159 00:08:36,383 --> 00:08:39,083 It's just it's mind blowing. 160 00:08:39,133 --> 00:08:40,700 The different creatures he created. 161 00:08:40,766 --> 00:08:44,233 I mean, I could look up my window in my office sometimes in the morning and 162 00:08:44,233 --> 00:08:47,233 see squirrels playing in the art and you just watch these squirrels run up 163 00:08:47,233 --> 00:08:48,916 and down trees, head 1st down a tree. 164 00:08:49,033 --> 00:08:50,766 And they're not little acrobats. 165 00:08:50,833 --> 00:08:51,433 Oh, they are? 166 00:08:51,433 --> 00:08:54,200 I think, God created that little thing, a little tree rat. 167 00:08:55,549 --> 00:08:56,116 Yeah. 168 00:08:56,183 --> 00:08:59,233 Just amazingly and perfectly suited for 169 00:08:59,233 --> 00:09:01,100 going up and down trees and jumping between them. 170 00:09:01,166 --> 00:09:02,066 whatever they needed to do. 171 00:09:02,116 --> 00:09:05,116 And there's 1000000s of those kind of creatures that are just perfectly 172 00:09:05,116 --> 00:09:06,616 created for everything that they do. 173 00:09:06,683 --> 00:09:08,483 It's amazing. 174 00:09:08,533 --> 00:09:11,116 If you just look around... 175 00:09:11,183 --> 00:09:12,200 Well, and think about it. 176 00:09:12,266 --> 00:09:13,950 All of them do a certain thing, right? 177 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,783 The insects, they pollinate the plants, they do all that. 178 00:09:17,833 --> 00:09:20,166 The animals are scratching up the ground. 179 00:09:20,233 --> 00:09:23,350 They're removing the stuff as it decays 180 00:09:23,366 --> 00:09:24,799 and they're keeping things fresh. 181 00:09:24,866 --> 00:09:27,866 And I mean, again, if you look at Earth as being basically a, if 182 00:09:27,866 --> 00:09:30,916 you've ever seen a terrarium, you know, a, you know, 183 00:09:30,916 --> 00:09:32,116 self-sustained, that's what God did. 184 00:09:32,183 --> 00:09:35,783 He created a little terrarium and it was a self-sustaining ecosystem. 185 00:09:35,833 --> 00:09:36,549 Because he wanted to. 186 00:09:36,616 --> 00:09:37,700 Yeah, just because he could. 187 00:09:37,766 --> 00:09:38,666 Yeah. 188 00:09:38,716 --> 00:09:42,016 What's crazy to me is that it created these animals. 189 00:09:42,083 --> 00:09:43,350 You think of like a line. 190 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:44,000 Yeah. 191 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,883 I got the claws, I got the vicious teeth. 192 00:09:46,933 --> 00:09:48,316 They're killers. 193 00:09:48,383 --> 00:09:48,866 Right. 194 00:09:48,866 --> 00:09:50,250 Stalkers and killers. 195 00:09:50,299 --> 00:09:50,833 Yeah. 196 00:09:50,833 --> 00:09:53,166 But back then, they were plants. 197 00:09:53,233 --> 00:09:53,899 They weren't. 198 00:09:53,966 --> 00:09:54,033 yeah 199 00:09:54,133 --> 00:09:54,916 They ate, yeah. 200 00:09:54,916 --> 00:09:56,183 But they were designed. 201 00:09:56,233 --> 00:09:57,200 No one was coming. 202 00:09:57,266 --> 00:09:57,683 That's right 203 00:09:57,799 --> 00:10:00,983 And I love the example that Kent 204 00:10:00,983 --> 00:10:04,399 Hoven always used for that because people would say, well, look at these, this thing with these giant teeth. 205 00:10:04,466 --> 00:10:07,350 Isn't it something that obviously has to tear into animals? 206 00:10:07,466 --> 00:10:09,983 he's like, and he shows the zoom out of it and it's a panda. 207 00:10:10,450 --> 00:10:12,266 Have you seen the teeth on those things? 208 00:10:12,316 --> 00:10:14,049 They're like 4 or 5 inches long. 209 00:10:14,116 --> 00:10:17,000 Those incisors are canines on them. 210 00:10:17,066 --> 00:10:17,549 They're massive. 211 00:10:17,666 --> 00:10:18,500 And don't eat meat. 212 00:10:18,566 --> 00:10:20,183 And they eat bamboo. 213 00:10:20,233 --> 00:10:20,466 Yeah. 214 00:10:21,549 --> 00:10:24,016 I mean, if you're eating bamboo, you got to have some pretty tough teeth. 215 00:10:24,083 --> 00:10:24,450 Better, yeah. 216 00:10:24,733 --> 00:10:24,966 Yeah. 217 00:10:25,033 --> 00:10:25,816 I got beef. 218 00:10:25,883 --> 00:10:29,183 Well, and you know, there's plenty of indication that all the plants back then were pretty big. 219 00:10:30,799 --> 00:10:31,216 Absolutely. 220 00:10:31,283 --> 00:10:32,366 Absolutely 221 00:10:34,149 --> 00:10:34,816 So, yeah. 222 00:10:34,883 --> 00:10:37,166 Anyway, just a little... 223 00:10:37,216 --> 00:10:38,716 A little food for thought there. 224 00:10:38,783 --> 00:10:42,450 But I think I think he made them for us to enjoy. 225 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:44,833 I mean, I think we see that here in just a minute too. 226 00:10:44,899 --> 00:10:48,083 you know, that all this was made for us to enjoy and 227 00:10:48,083 --> 00:10:50,899 he tells us to have dominion over it. 228 00:10:50,966 --> 00:10:52,466 And anyway, I want to get... 229 00:10:52,516 --> 00:10:55,516 And he actually he kind of gets specific 230 00:10:55,516 --> 00:10:58,149 on one of the beasts, you know, stakes. 231 00:10:58,166 --> 00:10:59,250 Yeah, yeah. 232 00:10:59,299 --> 00:11:00,016 Cattle. 233 00:11:00,133 --> 00:11:01,216 Yeah, right. 234 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:03,799 The livestock. 235 00:11:03,866 --> 00:11:04,350 Yeah. 236 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:08,783 They were just going to be aged for a little bit until they got kicked out of the 237 00:11:08,783 --> 00:11:11,116 garden. 238 00:11:11,666 --> 00:11:14,600 They kept the grass trimmed for them. 239 00:11:15,350 --> 00:11:15,866 Absolutely. 240 00:11:18,450 --> 00:11:20,000 Well, and when you think about it, too. 241 00:11:20,066 --> 00:11:23,133 Prior to what what what is coming 242 00:11:23,133 --> 00:11:26,183 a little bit later on, when they were in the garden, there 243 00:11:26,183 --> 00:11:31,000 was no work that Adam and Eve were having to do as far as like actually 244 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,066 toiling in the field and tilling and doing all these things, that came later. 245 00:11:35,116 --> 00:11:38,783 He said, this is, you know, that came where God said, okay, now you're going to have to do all these things. 246 00:11:38,833 --> 00:11:42,250 Whatever tending they were doing prior to that was looked very different. 247 00:11:42,316 --> 00:11:45,549 So I can imagine that a lot of it was the animals literally 248 00:11:45,566 --> 00:11:48,500 doing that work just as part of their nature. 249 00:11:48,566 --> 00:11:51,799 And so Adam and Eve were just kind of kind of hands off, just kind of making sure things, 250 00:11:51,799 --> 00:11:54,616 you know, okay, I got to, hey, we need this done. 251 00:11:54,683 --> 00:11:55,466 animals go there. 252 00:11:55,516 --> 00:11:57,916 Okay, well, we'll chomp that grass down and deal with that. 253 00:11:57,983 --> 00:12:02,116 And they were just kind of directing things, kind of seems to be the image 254 00:12:02,116 --> 00:12:03,383 I've always had in my head of. 255 00:12:03,433 --> 00:12:05,950 They were just kind of going, hey, we need you to go, go, go do this, go do that. 256 00:12:06,016 --> 00:12:06,799 And the end was like, okay. 257 00:12:06,866 --> 00:12:07,466 And they just go do it. 258 00:12:07,583 --> 00:12:07,883 Yeah 259 00:12:09,316 --> 00:12:10,333 They followed commands. 260 00:12:10,766 --> 00:12:12,733 All right, what do you think? 261 00:12:12,733 --> 00:12:13,516 26 and 27. 262 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:14,183 Sure. 263 00:12:14,899 --> 00:12:17,966 Then God said, let us make men in 264 00:12:17,966 --> 00:12:20,066 our image, according to our likeness. 265 00:12:20,116 --> 00:12:23,116 And let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the 266 00:12:23,116 --> 00:12:26,183 birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, 267 00:12:26,183 --> 00:12:28,766 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 268 00:12:28,816 --> 00:12:31,883 God created man in his own image, in the image 269 00:12:31,883 --> 00:12:35,600 of God, he created him, male and female, he created them. 270 00:12:36,899 --> 00:12:38,233 This is where it gets crazy. 271 00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:41,833 You know, the sea, we see the beasts of the field and the cattle and everything. 272 00:12:41,899 --> 00:12:45,083 And this is the 1st really, I guess you'd 273 00:12:45,083 --> 00:12:46,950 call it sentient life, right? 274 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,516 This is the 1st thinking kind of life. 275 00:12:49,583 --> 00:12:51,566 And then he goes the next step, don't he? 276 00:12:51,616 --> 00:12:52,700 Yeah, he does. 277 00:12:52,766 --> 00:12:54,149 He does, and he makes us. 278 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,133 But I love, I love, and you emphasized it. 279 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,433 You emphasize the our image 280 00:13:00,433 --> 00:13:02,600 and our likeness, right? 281 00:13:02,666 --> 00:13:06,266 Let us make the plural in that. 282 00:13:06,316 --> 00:13:09,500 So, uh, it's it's, it's where our, 283 00:13:09,649 --> 00:13:12,316 uh, it's the 1st representation of the trendy, right? 284 00:13:12,383 --> 00:13:14,116 The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. 285 00:13:14,183 --> 00:13:15,616 When he says our. 286 00:13:15,683 --> 00:13:16,466 Who's he talking about? 287 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:18,683 He's talking about himself, right? 288 00:13:18,733 --> 00:13:20,166 Three and one and one and three. 289 00:13:20,233 --> 00:13:21,250 Absolutely. 290 00:13:21,316 --> 00:13:23,950 It's the same us that shows up at Jesus baptism. 291 00:13:24,016 --> 00:13:24,983 It is, isn't it? 292 00:13:25,033 --> 00:13:26,899 The sun, the sun's in the water. 293 00:13:26,966 --> 00:13:30,033 The spirit descends like a dove and the Father says, this is my beloved son. 294 00:13:30,083 --> 00:13:31,216 That's right, all there together. 295 00:13:31,283 --> 00:13:32,000 Amen. 296 00:13:32,299 --> 00:13:35,899 And we'll see you later in Genesis, that's the Tower of Babel. 297 00:13:35,966 --> 00:13:36,383 Yeah. 298 00:13:36,383 --> 00:13:37,950 Let us go down and confuse their language. 299 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,600 That's I 300 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,600 guess I can see how the Jewish people didn't get that for so long. 301 00:13:44,666 --> 00:13:48,133 They were so tied to the 302 00:13:48,133 --> 00:13:49,216 Lord our God is one. 303 00:13:49,216 --> 00:13:52,216 I don't remember where that's at in the Old 304 00:13:52,216 --> 00:13:55,149 Testament, but they got a name for that verse. 305 00:13:55,283 --> 00:13:56,250 I can remember what it is either. 306 00:13:56,299 --> 00:13:57,733 They're really tied to that. 307 00:13:57,799 --> 00:13:59,533 tied to this one god. 308 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,500 And there are Christians out there that have wild ideas about a Trinity too. 309 00:14:03,566 --> 00:14:06,799 Oh, yeah. that talk about, well, well, there's one 310 00:14:06,799 --> 00:14:09,916 God, but he shows up as Jesus sometimes and his father sometimes 311 00:14:09,916 --> 00:14:11,116 in his spirit other times. 312 00:14:11,233 --> 00:14:12,133 No. 313 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:13,283 He's all in one. 314 00:14:13,333 --> 00:14:15,016 He's all in one and three. 315 00:14:15,083 --> 00:14:16,883 Three persons and one God. 316 00:14:16,933 --> 00:14:17,466 That's right. 317 00:14:17,533 --> 00:14:18,016 That's right. 318 00:14:18,083 --> 00:14:18,983 Yeah. 319 00:14:21,450 --> 00:14:24,799 And and and he, they, 320 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:27,799 the one god in 3 persons, 321 00:14:27,799 --> 00:14:30,983 they create, it's the, it's the bara is 322 00:14:30,983 --> 00:14:34,466 the, is the, uh, Greek or the Hebrew 323 00:14:34,466 --> 00:14:38,299 word here, which means to create something hung out of nothing. 324 00:14:38,366 --> 00:14:40,466 That's what he did, right? 325 00:14:40,516 --> 00:14:42,616 He just made something out of nothing. 326 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:46,883 I remember when my kids were in grade school 327 00:14:46,883 --> 00:14:48,200 and uh, 328 00:14:48,916 --> 00:14:52,333 The 1st time, I think, they used to have this, 329 00:14:52,333 --> 00:14:55,516 I never, I never was real impressed with their, their reading 330 00:14:55,516 --> 00:14:56,783 program in school. 331 00:14:56,833 --> 00:14:59,833 When we were in school, I 332 00:14:59,833 --> 00:15:03,733 really think that we took time to sound 333 00:15:03,733 --> 00:15:06,916 things out, to understand the words that we were reading, 334 00:15:06,916 --> 00:15:09,916 you know, but when my kids were in school, it was like speed reading. 335 00:15:09,983 --> 00:15:13,100 And you had to, you timed them, like we had 336 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:16,216 to time them every night and they had a certain amount of time, 337 00:15:16,216 --> 00:15:19,750 they had to read this, and we would read this story 338 00:15:19,766 --> 00:15:22,883 that they gave them, and then I 339 00:15:22,883 --> 00:15:24,616 would say, okay, what was that story about? 340 00:15:24,683 --> 00:15:25,649 You done good. 341 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:26,533 You finished on time. 342 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,700 This is how long it took you to read it, but what was that story about? 343 00:15:29,549 --> 00:15:30,083 don't know. 344 00:15:30,133 --> 00:15:31,033 Just reading words. 345 00:15:31,166 --> 00:15:34,766 Just reading words, you know, and they never took the time to really 346 00:15:34,766 --> 00:15:37,816 understand and to really read, uh, understand what they 347 00:15:37,816 --> 00:15:39,200 were reading and comprehension. 348 00:15:39,266 --> 00:15:42,316 Reading comprehension just kind of went out the window or at 349 00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:43,399 least it was for a while. 350 00:15:43,466 --> 00:15:47,133 So try to teach them that, you know, pay attention to what you're reading. 351 00:15:47,183 --> 00:15:51,083 It's not so much about how fast you can read this as 352 00:15:51,083 --> 00:15:53,066 it is to understand what you're reading. 353 00:15:53,116 --> 00:15:56,533 You can read over a contract and if 354 00:15:56,533 --> 00:15:59,766 you can make some big mistakes if you don't understand what that contracts say. 355 00:15:59,833 --> 00:16:01,933 But anyway, they kind of get off the subject there. 356 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,983 But I can remember one with Tatum. 357 00:16:05,049 --> 00:16:08,066 Um, as uh, as we were doing some speed reading 358 00:16:08,066 --> 00:16:11,783 one night and the story was about uh, dinosaurs. 359 00:16:11,833 --> 00:16:14,833 And basically said that they were, you know, 360 00:16:14,833 --> 00:16:17,950 they were here 6000000000 years before man or whatever it was, you know, 361 00:16:17,966 --> 00:16:21,983 and I was like, okay, let's stop right there because we're fixing to have a Bible lesson. 362 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:27,200 And we did, you know, and I said, look, I said, let's go to Genesis. 363 00:16:27,266 --> 00:16:28,583 We went to chapter two. 364 00:16:28,633 --> 00:16:31,516 I said, I said, I want you to look at these animals here. 365 00:16:31,583 --> 00:16:34,633 These animals that are listed, these animals that are here, 366 00:16:34,633 --> 00:16:36,200 they were all made at the same time, right? 367 00:16:36,266 --> 00:16:39,333 I mean, you got you got a few things in the sea in the water that 368 00:16:39,333 --> 00:16:42,383 and the birds that were made on, you know, the 5th day, but you get 369 00:16:42,383 --> 00:16:45,916 to the 6th day, these animals were all made at the same day that man was made. 370 00:16:45,983 --> 00:16:48,916 And then man, named all these animals. 371 00:16:48,983 --> 00:16:52,283 So no, they didn't come later. 372 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:54,383 They were there then, you know? 373 00:16:54,433 --> 00:16:55,750 I'm not a 374 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,933 I'm not a, uh, a doubt. 375 00:16:59,000 --> 00:16:59,416 I'm not 376 00:16:59,666 --> 00:17:01,466 I don't doubt that there are dinosaurs. 377 00:17:01,516 --> 00:17:04,516 I don't doubt that they were that they that they roamed the earth and 378 00:17:04,516 --> 00:17:05,716 and they had their place. 379 00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:09,316 Uh, but what I do doubt is, uh, 380 00:17:09,316 --> 00:17:12,849 is that that they were here 1000000000s of years before man was here. 381 00:17:12,916 --> 00:17:16,933 There's a lot of good research on that from answers in Genesis people. 382 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,299 really is how they've misread rock layers and stuff. 383 00:17:20,366 --> 00:17:21,450 Yeah, absolutely. 384 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:24,500 I mean, they can go look at parts of Grand Canyon 385 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:27,916 now and see how fast some of this stuff was laid down, like from a flood. 386 00:17:28,033 --> 00:17:28,633 Yeah. 387 00:17:28,633 --> 00:17:31,933 I mean, you have, you have trees that are literally upright 388 00:17:31,933 --> 00:17:34,933 through the layers and it's like that, you, you 389 00:17:34,933 --> 00:17:38,116 have to believe that that tree somehow survived 390 00:17:38,116 --> 00:17:41,233 for 1000000s of years in order for that to happen and 391 00:17:41,233 --> 00:17:42,549 it's like, what? 392 00:17:42,616 --> 00:17:45,683 And my favorite are the layers where the trees are 393 00:17:45,683 --> 00:17:48,383 not even upright, but they're also not laying down. 394 00:17:48,433 --> 00:17:48,966 crooked. 395 00:17:49,033 --> 00:17:51,916 So they're like, they were clearly suspended. 396 00:17:51,983 --> 00:17:54,016 you know, at an angle. 397 00:17:54,083 --> 00:17:57,200 And it's like that that could not have happened over a 398 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:58,583 slow process of time. 399 00:17:58,633 --> 00:17:59,950 It had to be instantaneous. 400 00:18:00,016 --> 00:18:03,383 Did you ever go on any of the tours when Sequoia Caverns was open? 401 00:18:03,433 --> 00:18:03,733 Yeah 402 00:18:04,283 --> 00:18:06,750 They used to talk about the stalactites and stuff. 403 00:18:06,866 --> 00:18:09,983 And they talked about how the scientists say, oh, it takes 1000000s 404 00:18:09,983 --> 00:18:11,416 of years to form these things. 405 00:18:11,416 --> 00:18:14,533 And they said they point to one that's, you know, 3 feet high 406 00:18:14,533 --> 00:18:17,766 and it's just this thing started when we opened this cave, 407 00:18:17,783 --> 00:18:20,299 you know, years ago, 50 years ago, whatever it was. 408 00:18:20,366 --> 00:18:20,849 Right. 409 00:18:20,849 --> 00:18:23,233 And they drastically missed it, didn't they? 410 00:18:23,299 --> 00:18:24,500 drastically missed it. 411 00:18:24,566 --> 00:18:27,683 Well, I remember by the time it was closing down, they had some that 412 00:18:27,683 --> 00:18:29,483 when I was a kid were real short. 413 00:18:30,099 --> 00:18:33,266 And by the time I'm an adult, they're they're they're up way up here. 414 00:18:33,266 --> 00:18:36,566 And I'm like, that happened, like in a couple of years, you know, just 20 years. 415 00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:40,883 Yeah, they, uh, car, 416 00:18:40,883 --> 00:18:45,316 we talked about this on here before, carbon dating, those type of things is junk. 417 00:18:45,383 --> 00:18:46,349 I mean, it really is. 418 00:18:46,349 --> 00:18:49,450 There's, there's, uh, they've been proven wrong time 419 00:18:49,466 --> 00:18:52,049 and time again with these dating systems that they have. 420 00:18:53,483 --> 00:18:56,599 and just trying to disprove the young earth 421 00:18:56,599 --> 00:18:57,683 theory theory. 422 00:18:57,733 --> 00:19:01,333 But, man, I got to stay with the word of God. 423 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,316 And there's Christians that don't agree with that either. 424 00:19:03,383 --> 00:19:05,849 There's Christians on both sides of that thing. 425 00:19:05,849 --> 00:19:08,950 And, okay, but, I mean, 426 00:19:08,966 --> 00:19:12,083 if we if we believe that it started here and we 427 00:19:12,083 --> 00:19:15,200 and we look at the timeline of the word of God, we're looking at 428 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,200 2000 years, right, up until the flood, 429 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,466 then we're looking at another 2000 years, up until Christ, 430 00:19:22,466 --> 00:19:25,583 and then we're looking at 2000 years since Christ, so, you know, 431 00:19:25,583 --> 00:19:27,150 we're looking around 6000 years. 432 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,766 I mean, we could give or take some there, but that's 433 00:19:31,766 --> 00:19:33,200 the biblical timeline for this thing. 434 00:19:33,266 --> 00:19:36,450 Way, way less, way less than what they think. 435 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:39,500 And what's amazing is even I actually 436 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:43,283 just saw ran across after we talked about it a couple of weeks ago, a 437 00:19:43,283 --> 00:19:46,283 guy on YouTube talking about it, and he was saying like, you know, 438 00:19:46,283 --> 00:19:49,516 at the end of the day, it's it's them forming 439 00:19:49,516 --> 00:19:51,200 their own religion is what it is. 440 00:19:51,266 --> 00:19:54,333 And he said, what's insane is if you actually look at the way the 441 00:19:54,333 --> 00:19:57,433 carbon dating works, in order for the 442 00:19:57,433 --> 00:20:00,549 amount of carbon that we have in the atmosphere and all that, 443 00:20:00,566 --> 00:20:03,616 for it to decay at the rate that it does today, you're 444 00:20:03,616 --> 00:20:05,349 still looking at less than 65,000 years. 445 00:20:05,416 --> 00:20:08,416 And he's like, so even then, even using their 446 00:20:08,416 --> 00:20:10,450 own methods, you can't get back to billions. 447 00:20:10,516 --> 00:20:13,633 You can only get back maybe a few 1000 at the most and 448 00:20:13,633 --> 00:20:15,966 he's like, and he's like, I just don't. 449 00:20:16,033 --> 00:20:18,250 And he's like, you know, that's what he was talking about. 450 00:20:18,316 --> 00:20:21,549 He's like, it's clearly that they are creating a religion to argue 451 00:20:21,566 --> 00:20:23,066 with God. 452 00:20:23,116 --> 00:20:26,116 Well, I mean, there's evidence, and then there's 453 00:20:26,116 --> 00:20:27,316 interpretation of the evidence. 454 00:20:27,383 --> 00:20:27,733 Right. 455 00:20:27,733 --> 00:20:28,033 Right. 456 00:20:28,099 --> 00:20:28,466 Right. 457 00:20:28,516 --> 00:20:31,933 And it differs wildly because the presupposition 458 00:20:31,933 --> 00:20:33,733 with these people is that there is no God. 459 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:34,633 How did this happen? 460 00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:35,233 Right. 461 00:20:35,299 --> 00:20:35,900 Right, right, yeah. 462 00:20:35,966 --> 00:20:36,933 And that's where they have to start. 463 00:20:36,983 --> 00:20:37,700 Yeah. 464 00:20:37,766 --> 00:20:38,183 Yeah. 465 00:20:38,233 --> 00:20:42,133 But they still start from nothing, don't they? 466 00:20:42,266 --> 00:20:43,883 How can, I mean, it doesn't 467 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:44,666 Yeah, they have to. 468 00:20:44,716 --> 00:20:46,633 At some point, they have to start from nothing. 469 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:48,683 So what brought something out of nothing. 470 00:20:48,799 --> 00:20:52,166 Well, my favorite excuse is, well, we just came from what was here before. 471 00:20:52,216 --> 00:20:53,950 It's like, well, where did that come from? 472 00:20:54,016 --> 00:20:55,883 Yeah, we had back pedaling. 473 00:20:55,933 --> 00:20:57,016 Turtles all the way down. 474 00:20:57,083 --> 00:21:00,083 By the way that you believe as 475 00:21:00,083 --> 00:21:03,200 a human, then you believe that there was a 476 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,983 beginning for you, there was a beginning for your mom, for your dad. 477 00:21:07,033 --> 00:21:10,216 And you take them on back, then, I mean, they're 478 00:21:10,216 --> 00:21:12,799 not going to deny that there had to be a beginning for everything, right? 479 00:21:12,866 --> 00:21:14,366 What caused that beginning? 480 00:21:14,416 --> 00:21:16,283 What, what, what? 481 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:17,533 I mean, what exploded? 482 00:21:17,599 --> 00:21:20,233 There's nothing here to explode, right? 483 00:21:20,299 --> 00:21:23,299 Something happened to begin and be here for it 484 00:21:23,299 --> 00:21:24,683 to be able to blow up. 485 00:21:24,733 --> 00:21:27,066 They ultimately try to make the universe God. 486 00:21:27,133 --> 00:21:28,033 Yeah, yeah. 487 00:21:28,099 --> 00:21:29,716 That really is it. 488 00:21:29,783 --> 00:21:33,133 They try to come up with this idea that somehow 489 00:21:33,133 --> 00:21:36,250 there was a universe before this and there 490 00:21:36,266 --> 00:21:39,983 were beings in it and then the death of that universe gave rise to our universe. 491 00:21:40,033 --> 00:21:42,016 It's like, but at some point you have to have a beginning. 492 00:21:42,083 --> 00:21:45,200 And the, and at the end of the day, we as Christians 493 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,066 do have to accept that God has no beginning. 494 00:21:47,233 --> 00:21:50,766 Everything else, there is a beginning, except with him. 495 00:21:50,783 --> 00:21:54,016 And, you know, the truth of the matter is, I don't 496 00:21:54,016 --> 00:21:55,283 know what his beginning looked like. 497 00:21:55,333 --> 00:21:58,700 I mean, maybe maybe it's that it literally just, poof, 498 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:00,433 one day he existed, maybe he brought himself. 499 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:01,033 I don't know. 500 00:22:01,099 --> 00:22:02,900 And I don't know that I'll ever know. 501 00:22:02,966 --> 00:22:05,966 And I don't need to know because I can accept on face that he 502 00:22:05,966 --> 00:22:08,299 had no beginning because he exists outside of time. 503 00:22:08,366 --> 00:22:09,983 He had no beginning and no end. 504 00:22:10,033 --> 00:22:11,599 Uncaused cause. 505 00:22:11,666 --> 00:22:12,433 Yeah. 506 00:22:12,433 --> 00:22:12,666 Yeah. 507 00:22:12,733 --> 00:22:14,233 And we can accept. 508 00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:14,599 that. 509 00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:17,666 And that's that's the problem is we are willing to 510 00:22:17,666 --> 00:22:21,133 say we accept this on faith, but they are completely unwilling 511 00:22:21,133 --> 00:22:24,366 in the sign in most of these scientific communities that want to argue against us. 512 00:22:24,433 --> 00:22:28,033 They're unwilling to say, well, we also have to accept these other things on faith. 513 00:22:28,099 --> 00:22:31,166 And it's like, hey, look, if you're willing to say that, I'm even willing 514 00:22:31,166 --> 00:22:34,166 to say, okay, fine, we just, we 515 00:22:34,166 --> 00:22:37,283 have a fundamental deep seated belief 516 00:22:37,283 --> 00:22:38,716 that is different on the beginning. 517 00:22:38,783 --> 00:22:39,450 Okay. 518 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,000 I'm not going to teach yours as fact, and you don't want to teach mine as fact. 519 00:22:44,066 --> 00:22:46,650 I can, I'm going to try to convince you. 520 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:49,883 I'm going to witness to you, and you're going to try to convince 521 00:22:49,883 --> 00:22:53,666 me and witness to me that's fine, but we can absolutely accept 522 00:22:53,666 --> 00:22:55,466 that we just have a fundamental disagreement. 523 00:22:55,516 --> 00:22:58,400 They are unwilling to do that because they say, no, no, no, no. 524 00:22:58,466 --> 00:22:59,250 What we have is fact. 525 00:22:59,299 --> 00:23:01,166 And I'm like, but you're starting from faith. 526 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:04,750 And something to keep our eyes on. 527 00:23:04,766 --> 00:23:07,166 to keep your eye on the ball like I couldn't do last night. 528 00:23:07,233 --> 00:23:10,833 But is that there was no death in the world at this point. 529 00:23:10,883 --> 00:23:12,616 Yeah, there is no death. 530 00:23:12,683 --> 00:23:15,866 And in order for evolution to be true, there has to be a cycle 531 00:23:15,866 --> 00:23:19,283 of death for 1000000s and 1000000s of years happening before this point. 532 00:23:19,349 --> 00:23:21,033 That's right. 533 00:23:21,083 --> 00:23:23,849 And we don't see death enter until chapter 2. 534 00:23:24,033 --> 00:23:24,633 That's it. 535 00:23:24,750 --> 00:23:25,049 Right. 536 00:23:25,099 --> 00:23:28,400 And any Christian that is 537 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,816 trying to mingle the earth's idea of evolution and 538 00:23:31,833 --> 00:23:35,549 God's idea of creation or fact of creation, 539 00:23:35,549 --> 00:23:37,049 it's not going to work with fire. 540 00:23:37,099 --> 00:23:38,783 You can't you can't make mix the two. 541 00:23:38,849 --> 00:23:39,516 Yes. 542 00:23:39,516 --> 00:23:40,333 It doesn't work. 543 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:41,366 It does not work. 544 00:23:41,433 --> 00:23:43,299 And here's the thing. 545 00:23:43,349 --> 00:23:46,349 And again, the answers in Genesis, folks, they'll tell you, 546 00:23:46,349 --> 00:23:49,833 what they do is they bring examples of 547 00:23:49,833 --> 00:23:52,883 variations between kinds, microevolution, where 548 00:23:52,883 --> 00:23:54,750 something adapts. 549 00:23:54,750 --> 00:23:57,933 And it gains, you know, you have a bird that changes 550 00:23:57,933 --> 00:24:02,433 the way it flies over time because the particular environment that it's in. 551 00:24:02,483 --> 00:24:04,583 It needs to have a slightly different wing shape. 552 00:24:04,583 --> 00:24:05,900 And you get things like that. 553 00:24:05,966 --> 00:24:10,349 And they say, well, that proves that, you know, you can get an entire ecosystem 554 00:24:10,349 --> 00:24:11,849 of Earth from a single celled organism. 555 00:24:11,849 --> 00:24:15,200 And it's like, you're making a massive leap 556 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,216 there to get to that. 557 00:24:16,283 --> 00:24:17,900 You've already said the word. 558 00:24:17,966 --> 00:24:19,233 adaptation, right? 559 00:24:19,283 --> 00:24:20,549 Yes, it's just adaptation. 560 00:24:20,599 --> 00:24:21,616 That's all that is. 561 00:24:21,683 --> 00:24:23,849 I mean, we adapt to our environment, right? 562 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:27,200 I mean, uh, you know, if you're in a tropical setting for 563 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,200 long enough and enough generations, then your skin's going to 564 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,266 get darker, it's going to, uh, to protect 565 00:24:33,266 --> 00:24:36,266 you from the sun, uh, to to do what it needs to do because 566 00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:38,000 our bodies are amazing, right? 567 00:24:38,066 --> 00:24:41,599 He made us to be able to adapt to different situations. 568 00:24:41,666 --> 00:24:43,883 And sometimes we have to get used to it. 569 00:24:44,250 --> 00:24:47,549 If we were to move to, you know, up north somewhere 570 00:24:47,549 --> 00:24:51,200 right now to Maine or, uh, you 571 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,200 know, uh, Connecticut or somewhere like that where it stay told all 572 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,200 the time, uh, you know, up up in the Northwest 573 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,266 territory or Alaska, uh, if we were 574 00:25:00,266 --> 00:25:03,383 to move to there now, we would be, we'd, we'd 575 00:25:03,383 --> 00:25:04,700 be hurting for a while, right? 576 00:25:04,766 --> 00:25:07,883 And it would take us a while before our bodies got 577 00:25:07,883 --> 00:25:12,450 used to and adapted to temperatures and atmosphere 578 00:25:12,450 --> 00:25:13,950 changes and different things like that. 579 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,533 So, you know, all those things are just... 580 00:25:17,666 --> 00:25:20,250 What is hilarious to me is, you know, we point this out. 581 00:25:20,299 --> 00:25:21,866 We know the adaptation is a thing. 582 00:25:21,933 --> 00:25:23,666 It's observable. 583 00:25:23,733 --> 00:25:26,733 This is not something that happens that you can't see, you can literally see this 584 00:25:26,733 --> 00:25:28,599 happen in less than 20 years. 585 00:25:28,650 --> 00:25:30,266 Dog breeds. 586 00:25:30,333 --> 00:25:31,716 Yeah, take dog breeds, for example. 587 00:25:31,766 --> 00:25:32,549 We can see this happen. 588 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:33,433 We witness it happen. 589 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:34,700 We can witness it happen with people. 590 00:25:34,766 --> 00:25:37,766 You have somebody that moves off from an area, and if they 591 00:25:37,766 --> 00:25:40,766 move further into the northern climates, where there's less sunlight 592 00:25:40,766 --> 00:25:43,766 and it's colder, they have a tendency to put on a little bit more weight. 593 00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:44,549 They have a tendency. 594 00:25:44,599 --> 00:25:47,966 their hair will get thicker, but their skin color will typically lighten 595 00:25:47,966 --> 00:25:50,483 up a lot just because they're not exposed to the sun. 596 00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:54,033 Whereas you got somebody that moves down around the equator, the opposite happens, they get thinner, 597 00:25:54,033 --> 00:25:57,033 they, they, uh, their skin gets 598 00:25:57,033 --> 00:26:00,266 darker, and that just, we watch it. 599 00:26:00,616 --> 00:26:01,950 Darken up a little bit. 600 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,799 Yeah, still got some weight I need to lose. 601 00:26:04,099 --> 00:26:07,333 And the thing is, though, we say that. 602 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,583 And yet scientists will equally will very 603 00:26:10,583 --> 00:26:14,416 quickly tell you that traits that you develop as 604 00:26:14,433 --> 00:26:17,666 after you are born are not passed along genetically. 605 00:26:17,733 --> 00:26:21,216 And it's like, how in the world do you exp- are you crazy? 606 00:26:21,266 --> 00:26:24,266 Of course some of these traits get passed along because your DNA literally 607 00:26:24,266 --> 00:26:27,266 changes over time to adapt to these situations 608 00:26:27,266 --> 00:26:30,866 and it gets passed on to your children so that they don't have as hard a time adapting. 609 00:26:30,933 --> 00:26:34,349 And I mean, we can observe this happening and 610 00:26:34,349 --> 00:26:36,216 they still want to stand back and argue about it. 611 00:26:36,266 --> 00:26:37,166 I'm like, you people are crazy. 612 00:26:37,233 --> 00:26:41,616 You want to say the adaptation doesn't happen, but macro evolution does? 613 00:26:42,866 --> 00:26:46,233 The Ark of the Covenant is so, so cool. 614 00:26:46,233 --> 00:26:48,150 Enough, the Ark of the Covenant, Noah's Ark. 615 00:26:48,266 --> 00:26:48,750 Noah's Ark. 616 00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:49,933 The arc up in Kentucky. 617 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:50,966 You've been there. 618 00:26:51,033 --> 00:26:51,866 I haven't. 619 00:26:51,866 --> 00:26:54,033 I've been wanting to go, but I still haven't. 620 00:26:54,083 --> 00:26:54,566 Fascinating. 621 00:26:54,633 --> 00:26:57,633 They've got, you know, got what they simulated, how 622 00:26:57,633 --> 00:27:00,150 it might have been, you know, stalls and stuff for these different animals. 623 00:27:00,150 --> 00:27:03,383 And they, they, they've kind of, kind of bold it down to 624 00:27:03,383 --> 00:27:05,966 which animals might have been brought onto this arc. 625 00:27:06,033 --> 00:27:09,099 And he said, they didn't have to bring every kind of snake, every kind of 626 00:27:09,099 --> 00:27:12,266 dog, every kind of cat, every, all these things, they bowled 627 00:27:12,266 --> 00:27:16,233 them down to like 3 different types of dog or whatever. 628 00:27:16,283 --> 00:27:19,466 Right. one different type of this and 629 00:27:19,466 --> 00:27:21,450 then it just exploded that. 630 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:22,400 Sure, it did. 631 00:27:22,466 --> 00:27:26,849 And it was the same here, but God created all this stuff just it kind of the opposite, right? 632 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:29,900 He created all these different ones and it got shrunk down 633 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:31,700 by Noah's ark and then exploded again. 634 00:27:31,833 --> 00:27:33,266 It is the way you created it. 635 00:27:33,383 --> 00:27:33,866 He did. 636 00:27:33,933 --> 00:27:37,000 And people ask, okay, so what about the dinosaurs? 637 00:27:37,049 --> 00:27:39,333 How did they get a tyrannosaurus rex on there? 638 00:27:39,383 --> 00:27:40,049 How'd they do this? 639 00:27:40,099 --> 00:27:40,883 How did they do that? 640 00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:41,250 You know? 641 00:27:41,299 --> 00:27:42,733 I don't think he did that. 642 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:45,799 I think he brought a type of dinosaur in 643 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:48,983 there, which we now have lizards 644 00:27:48,983 --> 00:27:51,750 and crocodiles and alligators and things like that. 645 00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:54,866 So they were smaller because I've 646 00:27:54,866 --> 00:27:58,833 read before that most besides like a tyrannosaurus 647 00:27:58,833 --> 00:28:02,066 wrecks or some of those bigger, some of those bigger 648 00:28:02,066 --> 00:28:05,066 dinosaurs, besides those, there were 649 00:28:05,066 --> 00:28:08,183 only a couple of different kinds that were that were huge, 650 00:28:08,183 --> 00:28:09,750 like Most of them were tiny like that. 651 00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:10,633 Most of them were smaller. 652 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:11,066 Yeah. 653 00:28:11,133 --> 00:28:14,200 And so they would they would look more like what we know as 654 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,299 our big lizards and 655 00:28:17,299 --> 00:28:19,033 crocodiles. 656 00:28:19,233 --> 00:28:20,849 Yeah, you're Gila monsters and things like that. 657 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:24,016 Well, and two, you have to remember one other thing. 658 00:28:24,083 --> 00:28:26,416 Noah was like 120 years old. 659 00:28:26,483 --> 00:28:27,150 Yeah. 660 00:28:27,150 --> 00:28:30,200 He probably had a little bit of 661 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,700 life experience and went, huh. 662 00:28:32,216 --> 00:28:33,450 I think I need the small ones. 663 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:34,099 Yeah. 664 00:28:35,716 --> 00:28:38,183 And if and if God wanted him to take the big ones. 665 00:28:38,250 --> 00:28:38,916 You know what he probably did. 666 00:28:38,966 --> 00:28:41,966 He went out and got some of the eggs of the big ones and just put them on there. 667 00:28:42,033 --> 00:28:43,116 And they were fine. 668 00:28:43,166 --> 00:28:44,483 I like that. 669 00:28:44,483 --> 00:28:47,783 I like that saying, fighting like the 3rd monkey getting to Noah Zari. 670 00:28:50,066 --> 00:28:51,933 Wait, wait, don't leave me? 671 00:28:53,166 --> 00:28:54,150 Getting on there. 672 00:28:54,866 --> 00:28:58,833 You know, another thing too, that is very interesting. 673 00:28:58,883 --> 00:29:02,116 If you, uh, if you ever look at any of those, I'm not saying they're, 674 00:29:02,133 --> 00:29:05,133 they're, they're a great thing, but, uh, if you look at some 675 00:29:05,133 --> 00:29:08,200 of those, um, uh, those 676 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,250 DNA sites uh, that you can send in your DNA and 677 00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:14,733 get the, uh, results of your ancestry and that kind of thing. 678 00:29:14,733 --> 00:29:17,733 And a lot of those are, uh, I will warn you that a lot 679 00:29:17,733 --> 00:29:19,466 of those are run by the Mormons. 680 00:29:20,849 --> 00:29:22,416 Yeah, they are. 681 00:29:22,416 --> 00:29:25,216 They're big in the ancestry and geology and stuff, but not all of them. 682 00:29:25,283 --> 00:29:28,349 But not all of them are from that, 683 00:29:28,349 --> 00:29:33,383 but if you look, every genealogy 684 00:29:33,383 --> 00:29:36,799 that you'll put from anybody that 685 00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:40,400 puts their DNA into these things, 686 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,183 everything is traced back to one woman in Africa. 687 00:29:44,816 --> 00:29:45,983 Yes. 688 00:29:46,766 --> 00:29:49,950 or in that on that continent around that continent. 689 00:29:50,066 --> 00:29:52,166 I mean, come on. 690 00:29:52,233 --> 00:29:54,099 Yeah, one woman. 691 00:29:54,150 --> 00:29:55,583 Okay, who do you think that was? 692 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:56,299 Yeah. 693 00:29:56,766 --> 00:29:57,566 So anyway. 694 00:29:57,633 --> 00:30:01,900 Is Sally or what they name the ape that they found that time? 695 00:30:03,116 --> 00:30:06,983 Clearly, clearly, preacher, it was that monkey that they found. 696 00:30:07,049 --> 00:30:09,333 something irritates the stew out of me. 697 00:30:09,383 --> 00:30:12,500 You see these pictures of dinosaurs, these pictures of 698 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:15,016 Neanderthal, man, or something. 699 00:30:15,083 --> 00:30:17,900 These are artists, man, that are making this stuff. 700 00:30:17,966 --> 00:30:20,599 They don't have any evidence that any of these things look this way. 701 00:30:20,966 --> 00:30:22,833 They got bones. 702 00:30:22,883 --> 00:30:26,183 You got to realize they literally are extracting the 703 00:30:26,183 --> 00:30:29,599 look from sometimes something as small 704 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:30,799 as a single finger bomb. 705 00:30:30,866 --> 00:30:32,000 Yeah, and they don't have any hair. 706 00:30:32,066 --> 00:30:33,200 They don't have nothing. 707 00:30:33,266 --> 00:30:34,533 anything to judge this by. 708 00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:37,650 Have you seen the new the new things that people have started talking about with 709 00:30:37,650 --> 00:30:38,966 like the Trannosaurus and stuff. 710 00:30:39,033 --> 00:30:42,033 Everybody, you know, you know, they have all these skeletons they put 711 00:30:42,033 --> 00:30:46,166 together and they say, you know, the interesting thing is, that skeleton doesn't have any fat. 712 00:30:47,016 --> 00:30:50,066 And my favorite drawing that somebody did was they took it and 713 00:30:50,066 --> 00:30:53,066 they just added a few layers of fat onto a 714 00:30:53,066 --> 00:30:55,466 tyrannosaurus and it just looks like a giant chicken. 715 00:30:58,583 --> 00:30:59,250 No way. 716 00:30:59,299 --> 00:31:00,616 And I went, huh. 717 00:31:01,716 --> 00:31:05,000 And it's just as plausible because we don't. 718 00:31:05,066 --> 00:31:07,349 a clue what was on top of that skeleton. 719 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,799 I don't know what looked what the skeleton looked like, right? 720 00:31:09,866 --> 00:31:10,349 No. 721 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,400 Yeah, even the, well, my point is that even the things where 722 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,466 you have complete skeletons and the example they gave was somebody 723 00:31:16,466 --> 00:31:19,533 found a skeleton that they were convinced 724 00:31:19,533 --> 00:31:23,433 was this new breed of hyena 725 00:31:23,433 --> 00:31:25,716 or zebra or something like that out in Africa. 726 00:31:25,766 --> 00:31:26,183 They found it. 727 00:31:26,250 --> 00:31:29,316 And they're like, oh, it's this one special kind of thing and they, 728 00:31:29,316 --> 00:31:32,966 and they get it all put together and they're determined and they're coming up with all these renditions and stuff of it. 729 00:31:33,033 --> 00:31:35,549 And, uh, yeah, it's this thing that's extinct. 730 00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:36,683 We't have a clue what it looked like. 731 00:31:36,750 --> 00:31:39,933 And a couple of months after they found it and had this, 732 00:31:39,933 --> 00:31:41,733 they were getting, they were writing articles on it. 733 00:31:41,783 --> 00:31:43,650 Like, they were getting ready to publish this huge thing. 734 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:47,716 And one of the farmers walked by and went, oh, that's skeleton of a such and such. 735 00:31:47,849 --> 00:31:48,983 And they went, what? 736 00:31:49,049 --> 00:31:50,733 And he goes, yeah, I got like 30 of them out here. 737 00:31:51,516 --> 00:31:52,883 And they, no. 738 00:31:52,950 --> 00:31:54,383 And he went out and showed them. 739 00:31:54,450 --> 00:31:56,966 Yeah, right, here's one that I just killed the other day for me. 740 00:31:56,966 --> 00:32:00,383 And sure enough, there's a skelet looked exactly like the thing they had found. 741 00:32:00,450 --> 00:32:03,750 They were convinced was a whole, and it turns out that that particular animal 742 00:32:03,750 --> 00:32:06,933 just had this weird cartilage spot on 743 00:32:06,933 --> 00:32:09,933 their head that when it, when everything decayed away, that cartilage fell 744 00:32:09,933 --> 00:32:13,233 off, so it made their skull look like it was split in a weird way. 745 00:32:13,283 --> 00:32:14,000 But it's not. 746 00:32:14,066 --> 00:32:14,733 it's joined together. 747 00:32:14,783 --> 00:32:17,116 It's just you couldn't see it because all the joining tissue was gone. 748 00:32:17,183 --> 00:32:18,916 And I was like, you got to be kidding. 749 00:32:18,983 --> 00:32:20,366 And this was not even an ancient animal. 750 00:32:20,433 --> 00:32:21,816 This is something that's still alive today. 751 00:32:21,866 --> 00:32:24,383 Oh, this is all deception from Satan. 752 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:25,033 It is. 753 00:32:25,099 --> 00:32:26,000 Absolutely is. 754 00:32:26,066 --> 00:32:26,783 comes down to that. 755 00:32:26,849 --> 00:32:29,666 I was very grateful that God gave him that one farmer. 756 00:32:30,416 --> 00:32:31,466 Yeah 757 00:32:31,766 --> 00:32:32,599 Yes. 758 00:32:32,666 --> 00:32:34,950 Well, something something really cool. 759 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:41,000 I saw in this verse, uh, brother was, uh, 760 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,116 how he talks about uh, creative man 761 00:32:44,133 --> 00:32:47,966 in his own image and in his likeness, right? 762 00:32:48,033 --> 00:32:49,950 Yeah. image and likeness. 763 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:50,416 Yeah. 764 00:32:50,433 --> 00:32:51,700 And it's 2 different Hebrew words. 765 00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:54,516 And, uh, am I in the right verse? 766 00:32:54,566 --> 00:32:55,166 I'm hanging on. 767 00:32:55,233 --> 00:32:55,716 Let me read that. 768 00:32:55,766 --> 00:32:56,366 Yeah, 126. 769 00:32:56,549 --> 00:32:56,783 Yeah. 770 00:32:58,166 --> 00:33:00,266 It is only, it was, God, it created. 771 00:33:00,333 --> 00:33:02,433 I'm probably looking at a different one. 772 00:33:02,483 --> 00:33:03,150 Oh, 126. 773 00:33:03,333 --> 00:33:05,849 And God said, let us make man in our image after our life. 774 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:07,466 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 775 00:33:07,533 --> 00:33:07,900 Yeah. 776 00:33:07,950 --> 00:33:11,016 So the Hebrew word for image is a word called Salem 777 00:33:11,016 --> 00:33:14,066 or Salem, and it 778 00:33:14,066 --> 00:33:16,049 typically means in other parts of the Bible. 779 00:33:16,099 --> 00:33:21,500 It typically it's God reflecting, it's dignity, it's high worth, responsibility. 780 00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:24,633 It's kind of more character traits 781 00:33:24,633 --> 00:33:25,650 of God, right? 782 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:27,083 And those kind of things. 783 00:33:27,150 --> 00:33:29,133 Maybe even an eternal soul kind of thing. 784 00:33:29,183 --> 00:33:29,483 Yeah. 785 00:33:29,483 --> 00:33:32,483 And, but the, the, the word likeness is 786 00:33:32,483 --> 00:33:36,016 translated from a, a Hebrew word called Dumuth, 787 00:33:36,016 --> 00:33:39,150 which we find in Daniel 10, 16, that 788 00:33:39,150 --> 00:33:40,283 says one like a son of man. 789 00:33:40,349 --> 00:33:41,250 Yeah, yeah. 790 00:33:41,299 --> 00:33:43,583 The one they seen in the fire. 791 00:33:43,650 --> 00:33:44,183 Yeah. 792 00:33:44,183 --> 00:33:44,716 Yeah. 793 00:33:44,783 --> 00:33:45,500 Yeah, yeah. 794 00:33:45,566 --> 00:33:48,683 And also in Ezekiel 15, it's in the middle of 795 00:33:48,683 --> 00:33:51,750 this chariot thing that he sees, you know, that these 796 00:33:51,750 --> 00:33:54,033 these creatures had a human form. 797 00:33:54,083 --> 00:33:55,400 They're like a son of man. 798 00:33:55,466 --> 00:33:56,666 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 799 00:33:56,733 --> 00:33:59,849 And I just, I just, I saw that and I'm like, man, you know, 800 00:33:59,849 --> 00:34:01,583 we're made in God's image. 801 00:34:01,583 --> 00:34:04,950 And I believe, 802 00:34:04,950 --> 00:34:08,433 I believe that Jesus has always looked like one of us for eternity past. 803 00:34:08,483 --> 00:34:08,849 I agree. 804 00:34:08,849 --> 00:34:09,333 Yes. 805 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,266 That he's always had a what we'd consider a human form. 806 00:34:12,333 --> 00:34:13,599 Humanistic form, yeah. 807 00:34:13,650 --> 00:34:16,116 He's not like this cloud floating around. 808 00:34:16,166 --> 00:34:16,949 Right, right. 809 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000 He has a human form and we're created to look like him, too. 810 00:34:20,066 --> 00:34:23,066 Not just not just to be like him, but we actually look like 811 00:34:23,066 --> 00:34:24,333 him in form. 812 00:34:24,383 --> 00:34:24,800 Yeah. 813 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,716 And just, I don't know. 814 00:34:26,783 --> 00:34:27,500 Just something about that. 815 00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:28,900 I agree. 816 00:34:28,949 --> 00:34:29,316 I agree. 817 00:34:29,433 --> 00:34:29,800 awesome. 818 00:34:29,849 --> 00:34:33,266 And, you know, that's another thing that's so interesting, again, 819 00:34:33,266 --> 00:34:34,650 looking at the idea of evolution. 820 00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:37,766 The human shape, the way 821 00:34:37,766 --> 00:34:41,133 we are formed is inefficient 822 00:34:41,133 --> 00:34:42,566 from an evolutionary standpoint. 823 00:34:43,466 --> 00:34:44,250 Right? 824 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,833 The 2 legs, the 2 arms, it restricts 825 00:34:47,849 --> 00:34:50,966 motion in movement and motion in very odd ways 826 00:34:50,966 --> 00:34:55,349 that are not particularly good for long-term survivability. 827 00:34:56,016 --> 00:34:58,583 But we have a mind that helps us to overcome that. 828 00:34:58,650 --> 00:35:01,833 And that's something very unique because, again, you look at like monkeys 829 00:35:01,833 --> 00:35:04,833 and stuff and they have the longer arms to compensate for the fact 830 00:35:04,833 --> 00:35:07,050 that they have the legs that they can stand up on. 831 00:35:07,099 --> 00:35:09,733 Most animals that are like that, that's what they have. 832 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,000 But we don't. 833 00:35:11,066 --> 00:35:14,133 We're made very very oddly, we're very unique, 834 00:35:14,133 --> 00:35:16,599 and there's really no, if you go through evolution, 835 00:35:16,650 --> 00:35:19,949 There's no way to explain how the human form came about because 836 00:35:19,949 --> 00:35:21,150 of how inefficient it is. 837 00:35:21,199 --> 00:35:24,816 And it's like, oh, well, you know, for me like him, 838 00:35:24,816 --> 00:35:27,933 existing outside of this atmosphere and outside of this planet 839 00:35:27,933 --> 00:35:30,983 where the efficiencies that are problematic to us no longer 840 00:35:30,983 --> 00:35:33,383 exist, it doesn't really matter what for me takes. 841 00:35:33,449 --> 00:35:36,983 And for some reason, this is the form that I would assume he chose. 842 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,800 We look like him. 843 00:35:39,866 --> 00:35:41,000 And he made us look like him. 844 00:35:41,066 --> 00:35:41,966 Isn't that awesome? 845 00:35:42,033 --> 00:35:45,933 The Bible says, we don't yet know what we're going to be like, by the way, no, we're going to be like him. 846 00:35:45,983 --> 00:35:46,400 Right? 847 00:35:46,533 --> 00:35:48,449 With a really cool body. 848 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:50,066 Yeah, absolutely. 849 00:35:50,133 --> 00:35:51,866 Pop into locked rooms and stuff. 850 00:35:55,316 --> 00:35:56,666 I'm gonna go visit Jupiter. 851 00:35:56,733 --> 00:35:57,099 Yeah. 852 00:35:57,099 --> 00:35:57,449 Yeah. 853 00:35:57,500 --> 00:35:59,783 just flash to the tree alive, grab a leaf. 854 00:35:59,849 --> 00:36:01,349 Back to your patient, right? 855 00:36:01,766 --> 00:36:04,533 Give them some healing leave. 856 00:36:05,516 --> 00:36:05,849 Yeah. 857 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:06,500 Yeah. 858 00:36:06,566 --> 00:36:09,866 So, and he also, he, he, he sets out here, right? 859 00:36:09,933 --> 00:36:12,400 He's going to rule over the world. 860 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:13,633 Yeah, yeah. 861 00:36:15,316 --> 00:36:20,000 That's, I hear people say, uh, uh, 862 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,066 when man, like we're swimming in the ocean, for an 863 00:36:23,066 --> 00:36:26,066 example, I love Shark Week, you know, uh, I may have told y'all that 864 00:36:26,066 --> 00:36:27,199 before, but it's short week right now. 865 00:36:27,266 --> 00:36:29,783 I haven't got to see much of it the last couple weeks. 866 00:36:29,849 --> 00:36:33,266 But anyway, um, I 867 00:36:33,266 --> 00:36:36,333 hear people say all the time when you hear somebody about somebody getting sharp bit, 868 00:36:36,333 --> 00:36:39,633 you know, hey, that was in their territory, you know, it was, 869 00:36:39,633 --> 00:36:43,300 it was not the shark's fault, you know, it was, but really it's all our territory. 870 00:36:43,349 --> 00:36:44,316 Yeah. 871 00:36:44,316 --> 00:36:46,466 God gave us dominion overall. 872 00:36:46,533 --> 00:36:47,250 You know? 873 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:50,416 And so if the ocean, he made for us, the 874 00:36:50,433 --> 00:36:53,666 grass he made for us, the ponds 875 00:36:53,666 --> 00:36:56,666 he made for us, the trees he made for us, all those 876 00:36:56,666 --> 00:36:59,599 things, he gave us dominion over. 877 00:36:59,666 --> 00:37:02,366 And animals kind of have a natural fear of us too, right? 878 00:37:02,433 --> 00:37:05,366 Yeah, because of that, I think, because they know that we're dominant. 879 00:37:05,433 --> 00:37:07,116 And in many ways, you know. 880 00:37:07,166 --> 00:37:07,883 Yeah. 881 00:37:08,466 --> 00:37:11,733 Maybe maybe not to maybe not without a weapon 882 00:37:11,733 --> 00:37:14,849 in our hands sometimes, but It depends on how 883 00:37:14,849 --> 00:37:16,466 hungry the animal. 884 00:37:16,583 --> 00:37:20,783 And again, I'm not going to go out swimming halfway across the ocean to try to get shark bead. 885 00:37:20,849 --> 00:37:23,966 I don't care anything about that, but I am intrigued about sharks. 886 00:37:24,033 --> 00:37:26,133 Well, and do you think it's interesting too? 887 00:37:26,183 --> 00:37:29,550 You notice he names over what man has dominion over. 888 00:37:29,916 --> 00:37:32,666 And he names over him in the order of creation. 889 00:37:33,266 --> 00:37:36,500 And he says they may rule over the fish of the sea, and the birds 890 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:39,683 of the air, and over the cattle, and over all 891 00:37:39,683 --> 00:37:42,750 the earth and every other creeping thing 892 00:37:42,750 --> 00:37:44,433 that creepeth upon the earth. 893 00:37:44,483 --> 00:37:46,949 Yeah, let's just don't leave anything out. 894 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,683 Moses said, hey, I got to cover this. 895 00:37:48,750 --> 00:37:50,016 So, Lord, you want me to cover this. 896 00:37:50,066 --> 00:37:52,283 Okay, this is how, okay, I'm going to write it like this. 897 00:37:52,349 --> 00:37:52,533 Yeah. 898 00:37:52,533 --> 00:37:52,949 Yeah. 899 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:53,599 Yeah. 900 00:37:53,666 --> 00:37:57,083 I mean, it's very clear that it was literally everything. 901 00:37:57,150 --> 00:37:58,116 The entire earth. 902 00:37:58,166 --> 00:38:00,866 He gave man dominion over the earth that he created. 903 00:38:00,933 --> 00:38:03,933 which you ever wondered our 904 00:38:03,933 --> 00:38:05,016 purpose right there. 905 00:38:05,183 --> 00:38:08,300 Well, there's there's something else 906 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:11,233 here, too, that he gave him responsibility. 907 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:12,199 Yes. 908 00:38:12,816 --> 00:38:16,583 responsibility and he's he's about to mess that up. 909 00:38:16,650 --> 00:38:17,666 He is. 910 00:38:17,733 --> 00:38:18,099 Yeah. 911 00:38:18,150 --> 00:38:19,233 absolutely is. 912 00:38:19,349 --> 00:38:19,949 Real bad. 913 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,683 Well, actually, she did it. 914 00:38:26,716 --> 00:38:27,633 We're going to blame her. 915 00:38:27,683 --> 00:38:29,550 But he has responsibility. 916 00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:32,599 And he has responsibility and we're going to say over this woman. 917 00:38:32,666 --> 00:38:34,466 Yes, he does. 918 00:38:34,533 --> 00:38:36,400 And that's part of the order of things. 919 00:38:36,449 --> 00:38:38,483 that Paul lays out. 920 00:38:38,550 --> 00:38:41,016 Well, I can't remember where it's 1st Corinthians, 2nd Corinthians. 921 00:38:41,366 --> 00:38:44,366 where man was made 1st and 922 00:38:44,366 --> 00:38:45,933 given responsibility for the stuff. 923 00:38:45,983 --> 00:38:48,866 And we'll see that coming up to chapter two, how, you know, more details of it. 924 00:38:48,983 --> 00:38:49,516 Yeah, yes. 925 00:38:49,583 --> 00:38:52,349 And then in Ephesians, again, you know, he tells us that too. 926 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,966 So, yeah, got the order of things. 927 00:38:54,033 --> 00:38:54,699 Yeah. 928 00:38:56,366 --> 00:38:58,400 Do I want to read the rest of it? 929 00:38:59,066 --> 00:39:00,500 And then go into chapter two? 930 00:39:00,566 --> 00:39:01,533 Oh, yeah, you won't. 931 00:39:01,583 --> 00:39:02,000 Yeah. 932 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:02,416 Okay. 933 00:39:03,383 --> 00:39:05,000 128.? 934 00:39:05,316 --> 00:39:05,900 Yeah. 935 00:39:05,966 --> 00:39:09,150 God, and God bless them, and God said 936 00:39:09,150 --> 00:39:12,216 unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and 937 00:39:12,216 --> 00:39:15,433 replenish the earth and subdue it, and 938 00:39:15,449 --> 00:39:18,566 have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the family air, 939 00:39:18,566 --> 00:39:21,266 and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 940 00:39:21,333 --> 00:39:24,866 It kind of, you know, reiterates that to us there. 941 00:39:25,866 --> 00:39:29,783 He wanted, he wanted to be fruitful and multiply. 942 00:39:30,683 --> 00:39:33,750 I said I was going to keep reading, but let's start right there 943 00:39:33,750 --> 00:39:36,983 for just a 2nd because he gave charge to 944 00:39:36,983 --> 00:39:39,316 us is what he done over everything. 945 00:39:39,333 --> 00:39:40,599 We're to manage it, right? 946 00:39:40,650 --> 00:39:44,866 You know, the people who, who, uh, 947 00:39:44,866 --> 00:39:48,150 the, these people who are like green earth people and, 948 00:39:48,150 --> 00:39:51,033 you know, tree huggers and things, they do have part of it, right? 949 00:39:51,083 --> 00:39:53,783 We are to take care of our planet, right? 950 00:39:53,849 --> 00:39:56,783 I think if you're a Christian, you understand that. 951 00:39:56,849 --> 00:39:59,133 You know, we try not to be wasteful about things. 952 00:39:59,183 --> 00:40:00,800 They just get a little bit ridiculous about it. 953 00:40:01,166 --> 00:40:04,283 But, yeah, we should we 954 00:40:04,283 --> 00:40:08,116 should absolutely be against like like just destroying forests for no reason. 955 00:40:08,250 --> 00:40:08,733 Yeah. 956 00:40:08,733 --> 00:40:09,699 Like, we should. 957 00:40:09,750 --> 00:40:10,466 We should be against that. 958 00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:13,583 I heard the question the other day, and this is it's kind 959 00:40:13,583 --> 00:40:16,216 of, but looking at verse 28. 960 00:40:16,766 --> 00:40:19,766 Um, I can't remember what I was watching, but it was something that 961 00:40:19,766 --> 00:40:23,483 they were asking the question about when did, 962 00:40:23,483 --> 00:40:26,666 um, when did they consummate their marriage? 963 00:40:26,733 --> 00:40:27,699 When did they procreate? 964 00:40:27,750 --> 00:40:31,616 When was the 1st time they, and a lot of people are, 965 00:40:31,616 --> 00:40:36,033 are not bringing that in until the next chapter, you know, after this? 966 00:40:36,083 --> 00:40:39,316 But I believe right here in verse 28 967 00:40:39,333 --> 00:40:40,650 is where it started. 968 00:40:40,699 --> 00:40:41,000 Right? 969 00:40:41,066 --> 00:40:42,683 You got to wonder, don't you? 970 00:40:42,750 --> 00:40:43,349 It doesn't say. 971 00:40:44,250 --> 00:40:46,949 It doesn't say specifically, but he says be fruitful and multiply. 972 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:47,966 What does that mean? 973 00:40:48,033 --> 00:40:51,083 I mean, I think it means that you are, you 974 00:40:51,083 --> 00:40:52,583 know, hey, start having babies. 975 00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:55,416 Is it possible that Cain and Abel were born before the fall? 976 00:40:55,533 --> 00:40:57,449 Yeah, absolutely. 977 00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:58,883 I think they could have. 978 00:40:58,949 --> 00:41:02,433 I think they could have came in, you know, somewhere because, 979 00:41:02,433 --> 00:41:05,666 you know, when we get into when we get into the next chapter, 980 00:41:05,666 --> 00:41:08,666 some of it seems like it's a little bit repetitive, but he's just really 981 00:41:08,666 --> 00:41:12,150 just kind of reiterating some things and making sure we don't lose sight of the story. 982 00:41:12,199 --> 00:41:14,366 It's not it's not 2 different things there. 983 00:41:14,433 --> 00:41:17,599 But I think that, 984 00:41:17,599 --> 00:41:20,666 you know, this is this is what he said. 985 00:41:20,733 --> 00:41:22,466 He said, be fruitful and multiplying. 986 00:41:22,533 --> 00:41:25,533 And so I think when woman came along, 987 00:41:25,533 --> 00:41:26,916 that's what they started doing. 988 00:41:26,966 --> 00:41:30,083 One of the curses on the woman was that she'd have pain in my 989 00:41:30,083 --> 00:41:32,849 childbirth as if she already knew that she didn't before. 990 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:35,233 Kind of, it's kind of what it implies. 991 00:41:35,366 --> 00:41:36,566 Yeah, I think so. 992 00:41:36,750 --> 00:41:38,916 Yeah, we'll know. 993 00:41:38,966 --> 00:41:40,050 We'll know. 994 00:41:40,050 --> 00:41:40,833 Farther along. 995 00:41:40,883 --> 00:41:41,900 Farther along, oh, Lord. 996 00:41:42,566 --> 00:41:44,433 Yeah, I'd have to go back and look. 997 00:41:44,483 --> 00:41:47,666 I can't remember if later on when it gives the generations if 998 00:41:47,666 --> 00:41:51,150 it actually tells how old Adam was when Kane or Abel was born. 999 00:41:51,199 --> 00:41:55,166 I know it does specifically with Seth, but I can't remember if it mentions Abel. 1000 00:41:55,233 --> 00:41:56,500 Yeah, I don't think it does. 1001 00:41:56,550 --> 00:41:58,883 I think it just starts with Seth. 1002 00:41:58,949 --> 00:41:59,250 Yeah. 1003 00:41:59,300 --> 00:41:59,900 Yeah. 1004 00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:00,316 Yeah. 1005 00:42:00,449 --> 00:42:03,566 And what we got to know, what we got to realize too 1006 00:42:03,566 --> 00:42:04,949 is they had more children than that. 1007 00:42:05,066 --> 00:42:07,583 And everything was perfect back then. 1008 00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:09,933 It's like we've already said, there was no death back then. 1009 00:42:09,983 --> 00:42:13,349 And so there was nothing to hold us back from, 1010 00:42:13,349 --> 00:42:17,733 you know, children being born and just 1011 00:42:17,733 --> 00:42:18,750 to kind of make a note of it. 1012 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,683 Adam was 130 when he got Seth. 1013 00:42:21,750 --> 00:42:24,866 And it doesn't tell us how old he was when Cain and Abel were born. 1014 00:42:24,933 --> 00:42:25,400 Right. 1015 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:25,633 Yeah. 1016 00:42:25,699 --> 00:42:27,433 So we only know his age at the time. 1017 00:42:27,500 --> 00:42:28,333 Seth was born. 1018 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,516 And I have heard theories that that was, it was that 1019 00:42:31,533 --> 00:42:34,233 far from the time they left the garden until Seth was born. 1020 00:42:34,283 --> 00:42:37,283 And so they were only in the garden for a fairly relatively short time. 1021 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,166 I mean, maybe long enough for Kane and Abel to become adults. 1022 00:42:40,233 --> 00:42:43,566 I might have lasted a couple of days, but... 1023 00:42:43,916 --> 00:42:45,033 Yeah I'm not sure. 1024 00:42:45,966 --> 00:42:48,083 I'm going to criticize Adam there, man. 1025 00:42:48,150 --> 00:42:49,349 Yeah, oh no, absolutely not. 1026 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:50,116 Absolutely not. 1027 00:42:51,633 --> 00:42:54,033 Anyway, I'm sorry I stopped there. 1028 00:42:54,150 --> 00:42:54,516 Oh, no. 1029 00:42:54,566 --> 00:42:57,500 Oh, and another thing we should point out in verse 28. 1030 00:42:57,683 --> 00:43:00,916 So the King James here says be fruitful and multiply 1031 00:43:00,933 --> 00:43:03,099 and replenish the earth. 1032 00:43:03,150 --> 00:43:06,266 The word replenish there does not mean fill again. 1033 00:43:06,333 --> 00:43:08,849 It means to simply feel. 1034 00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:10,216 Yeah, mine does says feel. 1035 00:43:10,283 --> 00:43:13,650 And the modern translations do say fill the earth and subdue it. 1036 00:43:13,699 --> 00:43:16,816 It's just the word that they used there in the 1037 00:43:16,833 --> 00:43:19,883 old English language that was kind of, yeah, 1038 00:43:19,883 --> 00:43:21,199 that kind of missed it there, really. 1039 00:43:21,266 --> 00:43:21,866 Yeah. 1040 00:43:21,866 --> 00:43:24,866 There's several things that you'll every once in 1041 00:43:24,866 --> 00:43:27,933 a while you'll run across one of these words that's a little unclear, and it is the 1042 00:43:27,933 --> 00:43:31,233 difference between the King's English or the Queen's English, 1043 00:43:31,233 --> 00:43:34,300 that Victorian era English that they spoke at the 1044 00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:37,466 time the King James Bible is translated. 1045 00:43:37,533 --> 00:43:40,599 And they were translating, they were coming 1046 00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:43,949 directly from the Hebrew, and the words for 1047 00:43:43,949 --> 00:43:47,250 filling and replenishing and making a new versus 1048 00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:50,316 making again, and a lot of these words had, they 1049 00:43:50,316 --> 00:43:54,383 were the same word, and it was context that told you what the word meant. 1050 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:57,866 It's one of the hard things if you ever study Hebrew, 1051 00:43:57,866 --> 00:44:01,050 especially ancient Hebrew, that the original 1st 1052 00:44:01,050 --> 00:44:04,349 5 books are written in, that, you know, there were no vowels. 1053 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:05,533 It was originally written. 1054 00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:06,433 It was just consonants. 1055 00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:09,866 So trying to figure out, it was a lot of study and 1056 00:44:09,866 --> 00:44:12,933 hard work went into creating the 1st translations of 1057 00:44:12,933 --> 00:44:14,316 the scripture out of Hebrew. 1058 00:44:14,666 --> 00:44:18,500 And so words like that, you'll see that every once in a while. 1059 00:44:18,566 --> 00:44:19,833 It is not all over the place. 1060 00:44:19,883 --> 00:44:20,716 It's not constantly. 1061 00:44:20,783 --> 00:44:24,083 There's only a handful of things that are that are hard to understand. 1062 00:44:24,150 --> 00:44:25,233 And they do. 1063 00:44:25,283 --> 00:44:29,066 I get why people get confused by some of that, but don't don't get too caught up in it. 1064 00:44:29,133 --> 00:44:30,516 It means what it means. 1065 00:44:30,566 --> 00:44:31,400 Take it in context. 1066 00:44:31,466 --> 00:44:35,783 Check out, check out verse 28 and from the literal interlinear 1067 00:44:35,783 --> 00:44:37,216 from the Hebrew to English. 1068 00:44:37,283 --> 00:44:40,349 It says, and bless them God, and said to 1069 00:44:40,349 --> 00:44:43,533 them, God, be fruitful and multiply and fill 1070 00:44:43,533 --> 00:44:46,533 the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish 1071 00:44:46,533 --> 00:44:50,666 of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. 1072 00:44:50,733 --> 00:44:51,866 That one wasn't bad. 1073 00:44:51,983 --> 00:44:52,466 Yeah. 1074 00:44:52,466 --> 00:44:54,983 But sometimes the sentence is they're so jumbled up. 1075 00:44:55,099 --> 00:44:56,066 They are, yeah. 1076 00:44:56,066 --> 00:44:58,466 Try to make Yahweh say Yahweh. 1077 00:44:58,533 --> 00:44:59,666 Like, try to sound that out. 1078 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,366 It's hard. 1079 00:45:02,433 --> 00:45:02,916 Yeah. 1080 00:45:03,066 --> 00:45:04,283 You can't really make it. 1081 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,050 I've heard somebody say that it's almost like uh, uh, 1082 00:45:08,050 --> 00:45:09,183 inhale, in exhale. 1083 00:45:09,250 --> 00:45:09,916 Yes. 1084 00:45:10,699 --> 00:45:11,483 Yeah. 1085 00:45:11,483 --> 00:45:11,849 Yep. 1086 00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:14,000 It's the very breath that we breathe. 1087 00:45:14,050 --> 00:45:16,216 And I love I love that description of it. 1088 00:45:16,283 --> 00:45:17,599 I'm like, oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. 1089 00:45:18,566 --> 00:45:18,916 Yeah. 1090 00:45:21,066 --> 00:45:24,316 All right, verse 29, I'll redress from that, maybe. 1091 00:45:24,383 --> 00:45:27,449 And God said, behold, I have given you every 1092 00:45:27,449 --> 00:45:30,550 herb, bearing seed, which is on 1093 00:45:30,550 --> 00:45:33,616 the face of all the earth and every tree, in which is the fruit of the 1094 00:45:33,616 --> 00:45:36,983 tree, yielding seed, to you, it shall be for meat, 1095 00:45:36,983 --> 00:45:39,983 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl, 1096 00:45:39,983 --> 00:45:43,166 the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein 1097 00:45:43,166 --> 00:45:46,449 there is life, I have given every green herb for meat, 1098 00:45:46,449 --> 00:45:47,533 and it was so. 1099 00:45:47,599 --> 00:45:48,433 So that was her meat. 1100 00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:51,083 That was their vegetarians and the animals were vegetarians. 1101 00:45:51,133 --> 00:45:53,900 And God saw everything that he had made. 1102 00:45:53,949 --> 00:45:56,949 And behold, it was very good, and 1103 00:45:56,949 --> 00:46:00,483 the evening and the morning were the 6th day. 1104 00:46:00,616 --> 00:46:01,583 Very good. 1105 00:46:01,633 --> 00:46:02,533 Very good. 1106 00:46:02,599 --> 00:46:03,199 Very good. 1107 00:46:03,250 --> 00:46:05,349 So he gave them something to eat. 1108 00:46:05,416 --> 00:46:08,650 He gave them something to sustain them. 1109 00:46:08,716 --> 00:46:11,716 And he created all these things 1110 00:46:11,716 --> 00:46:15,316 and he created man and he was pleased with it. 1111 00:46:15,383 --> 00:46:17,116 He said it is very good. 1112 00:46:17,233 --> 00:46:20,233 And again, that translation there 1113 00:46:20,233 --> 00:46:22,750 was not just the word good. 1114 00:46:22,816 --> 00:46:26,183 It is a word meaning it was good above good. 1115 00:46:26,233 --> 00:46:27,800 It was good plus. 1116 00:46:27,849 --> 00:46:31,033 It was, you know, as, as, uh, what was it? 1117 00:46:31,099 --> 00:46:32,483 1984 would have put it. 1118 00:46:32,533 --> 00:46:33,500 It's double plus good. 1119 00:46:33,550 --> 00:46:35,766 You know, it's extremely. 1120 00:46:35,833 --> 00:46:36,366 it's very good 1121 00:46:36,550 --> 00:46:38,883 And by the way... 1122 00:46:38,949 --> 00:46:40,333 is very good. 1123 00:46:40,449 --> 00:46:41,116 Exactly. 1124 00:46:41,183 --> 00:46:44,949 And you know how we know there was no sin at this point that Lucifer 1125 00:46:44,949 --> 00:46:46,033 had not failed at this point? 1126 00:46:46,099 --> 00:46:50,116 That everything was perfect because he said he looked at everything and 1127 00:46:50,116 --> 00:46:51,199 it was very good. 1128 00:46:51,250 --> 00:46:54,433 He looked at all of creation and said, it is very good. 1129 00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:56,966 That's how we know that at this point, everything was still perfect. 1130 00:46:57,016 --> 00:46:58,400 It was pristine. 1131 00:46:58,449 --> 00:47:00,483 It was exactly as God had designed it. 1132 00:47:00,550 --> 00:47:04,333 And all that comes next happens 1133 00:47:04,333 --> 00:47:07,333 after the 1st sin, 1134 00:47:07,333 --> 00:47:10,566 which was everybody thinks of the 1st sin being Adam and Eve. 1135 00:47:10,633 --> 00:47:11,900 The 1st sin was Lucifer. 1136 00:47:11,949 --> 00:47:15,066 The 1st sin was Satan in his fall, and that led to 1137 00:47:15,083 --> 00:47:18,083 the temptation of Adam and Eve, which led to the 1st sin of man. 1138 00:47:18,133 --> 00:47:20,166 But we weren't the 1st ones to sin. 1139 00:47:20,233 --> 00:47:23,233 We just kind of followed in the footsteps of somebody that convinced us it was a good idea. 1140 00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:24,983 Yeah, we were talking about that way. 1141 00:47:25,099 --> 00:47:28,400 last night and in between games. 1142 00:47:30,516 --> 00:47:33,616 Somebody had asked me about, you know, what about, 1143 00:47:33,616 --> 00:47:36,250 you know, Adam didn't send first. 1144 00:47:36,316 --> 00:47:37,883 Didn't Satan sin first? 1145 00:47:37,933 --> 00:47:40,099 And I said, well, yeah, he disobeyed God, right? 1146 00:47:40,150 --> 00:47:43,983 I mean, and then and then caused Adam to sin because of that. 1147 00:47:44,050 --> 00:47:47,233 So, uh, but, uh, but yeah, he, 1148 00:47:47,233 --> 00:47:50,599 he, he was disobedient uh, to his maker and 1149 00:47:50,599 --> 00:47:53,716 uh, and he went, anyway, we can get into that later, but. 1150 00:47:53,783 --> 00:47:54,683 Yeah, we'll get into it. 1151 00:47:54,733 --> 00:47:57,966 But I had I had to point that out because it's just so amazing that that chapter 1152 00:47:57,983 --> 00:48:00,500 ends with it was very good. 1153 00:48:00,550 --> 00:48:01,216 very good. 1154 00:48:01,283 --> 00:48:05,000 And at this point, Adam has all authority. 1155 00:48:05,050 --> 00:48:06,016 He does. 1156 00:48:06,083 --> 00:48:06,800 on earth. 1157 00:48:06,849 --> 00:48:07,816 Yeah, absolutely. 1158 00:48:07,883 --> 00:48:11,116 And he's got the keys and he's going to hand them over. 1159 00:48:11,183 --> 00:48:11,849 Yeah. 1160 00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:13,166 He's going to hand them over. 1161 00:48:13,216 --> 00:48:13,933 He has to. 1162 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:14,366 Yeah. 1163 00:48:14,416 --> 00:48:14,716 Yeah. 1164 00:48:14,716 --> 00:48:15,250 Yeah. 1165 00:48:15,316 --> 00:48:18,433 And that's something that's really interesting too, to me is 1166 00:48:19,666 --> 00:48:21,500 the sin nature that we have. 1167 00:48:23,416 --> 00:48:25,883 And I'm judging this by Jesus. 1168 00:48:25,933 --> 00:48:27,133 Yeah. 1169 00:48:27,133 --> 00:48:28,933 The sin nature comes through the mail. 1170 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,616 It comes through the fathers. 1171 00:48:30,683 --> 00:48:33,916 It comes from Adam because he had responsibility for Eve. 1172 00:48:33,983 --> 00:48:37,033 He had responsibility for the world, and it's passed down 1173 00:48:37,033 --> 00:48:40,033 to Cain and Abel and Seth, and so on and so 1174 00:48:40,033 --> 00:48:42,616 on, and it's passed down through us to our children as men. 1175 00:48:42,683 --> 00:48:44,483 It doesn't come through the woman. 1176 00:48:44,533 --> 00:48:45,916 Isn't that interesting? 1177 00:48:45,983 --> 00:48:46,166 Yeah 1178 00:48:46,333 --> 00:48:49,150 Jesus was born of a woman that he didn't have a sin nature. 1179 00:48:49,216 --> 00:48:50,233 Yeah, that's right. 1180 00:48:50,233 --> 00:48:51,616 Because his father was the Holy Spirit. 1181 00:48:51,683 --> 00:48:52,216 That's right 1182 00:48:52,699 --> 00:48:55,883 So the responsibility, and we 1183 00:48:55,883 --> 00:48:59,650 get into these debates and discussions about feminism 1184 00:48:59,650 --> 00:49:02,766 and, you know, how women ought to be in charge of 1185 00:49:02,783 --> 00:49:04,099 things and all this kind of stuff. 1186 00:49:04,150 --> 00:49:07,150 And it's because it's the order that God created. 1187 00:49:07,216 --> 00:49:09,550 And it's not it's not bad. 1188 00:49:09,616 --> 00:49:11,483 Yeah, it's not bad. 1189 00:49:11,533 --> 00:49:12,966 No, it's what he wanted it. 1190 00:49:13,033 --> 00:49:14,349 And women can still teach. 1191 00:49:14,416 --> 00:49:17,599 Women can still evangelize it, all these things, 1192 00:49:17,599 --> 00:49:20,599 and all we're really talking about is being the head of 1193 00:49:20,599 --> 00:49:24,683 a church, being a pastor, being spiritually responsible. 1194 00:49:24,733 --> 00:49:28,099 and spiritually having spiritual authority over the man. 1195 00:49:28,150 --> 00:49:28,933 Yeah. 1196 00:49:28,933 --> 00:49:32,166 It's that it's that spiritual responsibility that is always on 1197 00:49:32,183 --> 00:49:33,566 us as men. 1198 00:49:33,616 --> 00:49:36,733 It's our responsibility and to, for us 1199 00:49:36,733 --> 00:49:40,699 to relinquish that authority is is sin. 1200 00:49:40,750 --> 00:49:44,466 And understand this, a stricter judgment is on the man. 1201 00:49:44,533 --> 00:49:45,250 Yes. 1202 00:49:45,316 --> 00:49:46,283 Right. 1203 00:49:46,333 --> 00:49:46,750 Yeah. 1204 00:49:46,750 --> 00:49:47,833 We are. 1205 00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:51,383 You know, and that's that is one thing that it 1206 00:49:51,383 --> 00:49:52,949 bothers me when I hear people. 1207 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,516 and I think I may have mentioned this at some point to y'all. 1208 00:49:56,166 --> 00:49:59,183 I saw somebody made a post about the purity culture stuff and 1209 00:49:59,183 --> 00:50:03,016 they were talking about how bad it is and how awful it is that we put all these responsibility on the women. 1210 00:50:03,083 --> 00:50:06,083 I'm like, apparently y'all have never actually heard anybody 1211 00:50:06,083 --> 00:50:09,500 have these discussions because if you understood the conversations 1212 00:50:09,500 --> 00:50:12,500 that took place with young men about their level of 1213 00:50:12,500 --> 00:50:15,616 responsibility and their level of what they 1214 00:50:15,616 --> 00:50:19,099 are responsible for and how it is 100% 1215 00:50:19,099 --> 00:50:22,449 in every single circumstance on them, 1216 00:50:22,449 --> 00:50:24,066 no matter what she does. 1217 00:50:24,916 --> 00:50:28,283 You would understand, it's not placing blame on her to 1218 00:50:28,283 --> 00:50:30,083 say, hey, look, dress modestly. 1219 00:50:30,133 --> 00:50:31,633 That's not placing blame. 1220 00:50:31,699 --> 00:50:35,366 That's not placing some kind of responsibility there that is not something 1221 00:50:35,366 --> 00:50:39,016 that shouldn't be there because the responsibility is behave 1222 00:50:39,016 --> 00:50:42,016 in a way that God would have you behave, present yourself in 1223 00:50:42,016 --> 00:50:43,633 a way that God would have you present yourself. 1224 00:50:43,699 --> 00:50:46,699 We're responsible for it too, as men, but it 1225 00:50:46,699 --> 00:50:50,233 is 100% on us when we make, when we, 1226 00:50:50,233 --> 00:50:53,416 when we allow ourselves to fall into that temptation. 1227 00:50:53,483 --> 00:50:54,383 It's on us. 1228 00:50:54,433 --> 00:50:56,716 Men are supposed to be protecting women. 1229 00:50:56,783 --> 00:50:58,699 Exactly them, right? 1230 00:50:58,750 --> 00:51:01,633 Not using them for their own selfish pleasure and gain. 1231 00:51:01,699 --> 00:51:02,233 Yes. 1232 00:51:02,233 --> 00:51:04,266 And that's that's on the man. 1233 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,066 is. 1234 00:51:05,116 --> 00:51:07,400 And too much of that gets lost. 1235 00:51:07,449 --> 00:51:08,883 And don't get me wrong. 1236 00:51:08,949 --> 00:51:12,250 I understand that there's a lot of those conversations that we have amongst 1237 00:51:12,250 --> 00:51:14,116 ourselves, we don't have out in public. 1238 00:51:14,233 --> 00:51:17,300 And I think people sometimes think 1239 00:51:17,300 --> 00:51:19,816 that we're not having these kind of conversations with young. 1240 00:51:19,883 --> 00:51:20,550 I promise you we are. 1241 00:51:20,650 --> 00:51:23,650 I grew up in churches that have had these kind of conversations. 1242 00:51:23,716 --> 00:51:25,516 I grew up in these young boys groups. 1243 00:51:25,583 --> 00:51:28,583 The boys always got pulled off and the conversations were 1244 00:51:28,583 --> 00:51:32,483 have always been very blunt, very straightforward, 1245 00:51:32,483 --> 00:51:35,599 and very honest about, look, here's your responsibility. 1246 00:51:35,650 --> 00:51:37,516 Here's what you are expected to do. 1247 00:51:37,583 --> 00:51:41,300 And anything outside of that, you are sinning, 1248 00:51:41,300 --> 00:51:44,300 you are giving yourself over to sin that God has called you out of, and 1249 00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:46,766 freed you from, and giving you the ability to overcome. 1250 00:51:46,816 --> 00:51:48,800 You don't have to fall into it. 1251 00:51:48,849 --> 00:51:50,166 You don't have to do these things. 1252 00:51:50,233 --> 00:51:52,400 And there's there's no excuse. 1253 00:51:52,449 --> 00:51:54,483 And it does. 1254 00:51:54,550 --> 00:51:58,266 It really concerns me that a lot of young men, 1255 00:51:58,266 --> 00:52:01,283 today they seem to think they have an excuse and they 1256 00:52:01,283 --> 00:52:03,316 have a way out and it's like, no, sorry, there's no excuse. 1257 00:52:03,383 --> 00:52:04,699 We don't have an excuse. 1258 00:52:04,750 --> 00:52:07,866 No, ultimately, that responsibility lies on 1259 00:52:07,883 --> 00:52:09,449 you to control yourself. 1260 00:52:09,500 --> 00:52:12,733 Uh, man, that's why, you know, that's why those, 1261 00:52:12,733 --> 00:52:15,916 um, those qualities 1262 00:52:15,916 --> 00:52:19,033 are passed on to people who are in church leadership too, 1263 00:52:19,033 --> 00:52:22,266 that you should be able to, you got to control your anger. 1264 00:52:22,333 --> 00:52:26,416 You got to control your emotions and your feelings and all those things. 1265 00:52:26,483 --> 00:52:29,650 You can't be irrational and and just 1266 00:52:29,650 --> 00:52:32,716 let yourself do what yourself wants to do because you'll get 1267 00:52:32,716 --> 00:52:34,816 yourself in trouble every single time. 1268 00:52:34,883 --> 00:52:38,533 We've seen that with a pastor, 1269 00:52:38,533 --> 00:52:41,766 uh, that, uh, very popular pastor, 1270 00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:45,383 uh, just last week, um, that was caught in 1271 00:52:45,383 --> 00:52:48,616 the act of, um, of sending um, 1272 00:52:48,616 --> 00:52:52,750 inappropriate photos to a, uh, to a young man, to a teenage boy. 1273 00:52:52,883 --> 00:52:56,250 And this guy was probably one of the most dynamic 1274 00:52:56,250 --> 00:52:59,900 preachers that I've heard. 1275 00:52:59,949 --> 00:53:04,083 I mean, man, when he and he preached against the things that he done. 1276 00:53:04,150 --> 00:53:06,133 I mean, and was dynamic with it. 1277 00:53:06,199 --> 00:53:08,599 Nobody saw this coming. 1278 00:53:08,650 --> 00:53:10,866 Nobody thought he'd ever do anything like this. 1279 00:53:10,933 --> 00:53:14,766 Nobody seen any type of character flaw 1280 00:53:14,783 --> 00:53:16,466 in this man whatsoever. 1281 00:53:16,516 --> 00:53:19,516 I mean, you know, they knew it was human, but nobody 1282 00:53:19,516 --> 00:53:22,033 seen this coming and then it come out of nowhere. 1283 00:53:22,099 --> 00:53:25,283 And what happened, what took place, 1284 00:53:25,283 --> 00:53:27,199 he lost self-control. 1285 00:53:27,250 --> 00:53:30,550 And honestly, what he done is, 1286 00:53:30,550 --> 00:53:33,783 I know, I know everybody says, well, you know, 1287 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,866 sin, sin, and blah, blah, blah, but what he 1288 00:53:36,866 --> 00:53:40,383 done, the sin he done has a lot more consequences is demonic. 1289 00:53:40,449 --> 00:53:41,533 It is demonic. 1290 00:53:41,599 --> 00:53:45,616 When you will attack a young person, 1291 00:53:45,616 --> 00:53:49,333 a person that's underage and manipulate 1292 00:53:49,333 --> 00:53:51,916 them and that's exactly what he was doing. 1293 00:53:51,983 --> 00:53:55,666 It was, um, in fact, it said that he was, 1294 00:53:55,666 --> 00:53:59,116 he, uh, he had, I don't know if he texted him, Snapchat, 1295 00:53:59,116 --> 00:54:02,183 what he was using, but he would, he would make sure the 1296 00:54:02,183 --> 00:54:05,183 coast is clear before he would, uh, um, 1297 00:54:05,183 --> 00:54:06,983 you know, trying to cover himself. 1298 00:54:07,033 --> 00:54:09,199 And I'm going send in these messages and pictures. 1299 00:54:09,466 --> 00:54:12,500 And again, I've 1300 00:54:12,500 --> 00:54:15,849 listened to this guy preach and just in the last couple of years and 1301 00:54:15,849 --> 00:54:19,150 my goodness, some of the sermons he had are 1302 00:54:19,150 --> 00:54:20,766 just unbelievably awesome. 1303 00:54:21,616 --> 00:54:23,416 And I was talking to a preacher. 1304 00:54:23,483 --> 00:54:26,783 I know I'm getting off on something here, but I mean, it's just, 1305 00:54:26,783 --> 00:54:28,099 again, it's our responsibility. 1306 00:54:28,216 --> 00:54:29,000 Yes. 1307 00:54:31,416 --> 00:54:34,633 When you see these things happen, when you see these men 1308 00:54:34,633 --> 00:54:37,750 fall, that we sometimes hold in 1309 00:54:37,750 --> 00:54:39,066 high regard. 1310 00:54:39,133 --> 00:54:42,133 Number one, all of us can 1311 00:54:42,133 --> 00:54:43,633 make mistakes. 1312 00:54:43,699 --> 00:54:44,783 All of us can mess up. 1313 00:54:44,833 --> 00:54:46,816 All of us can be pulled into temptation. 1314 00:54:46,883 --> 00:54:48,199 So don't get me wrong when I say that. 1315 00:54:48,566 --> 00:54:51,849 But something that's heinous, something this over the top, 1316 00:54:51,849 --> 00:54:54,916 something that involves a child, when 1317 00:54:54,916 --> 00:54:58,883 you know the word of God, and you know that, 1318 00:54:58,883 --> 00:55:02,183 uh, that, uh, what 1319 00:55:02,183 --> 00:55:05,349 the word of God teaches you and you preach it and you are very 1320 00:55:05,349 --> 00:55:06,433 well versed in it. 1321 00:55:06,816 --> 00:55:08,783 You have a higher responsibility. 1322 00:55:08,900 --> 00:55:11,783 Before God, you have a high responsibility. 1323 00:55:11,833 --> 00:55:14,900 You carry that responsibility with you to do what's right 1324 00:55:14,900 --> 00:55:16,166 and to be what's right. 1325 00:55:16,283 --> 00:55:19,349 And I think I think a lot of times what happens to 1326 00:55:19,349 --> 00:55:22,750 these guys is they get lifted up to a place 1327 00:55:22,750 --> 00:55:26,833 of of, uh, uh, just almost worshiped by people. 1328 00:55:26,833 --> 00:55:29,000 Like, man, you know, even preachers. 1329 00:55:29,050 --> 00:55:33,066 you know, they're like, other preachers are looking, I wish I could preach like him. 1330 00:55:33,133 --> 00:55:35,900 I wish I could articulate the word like him, you know? 1331 00:55:35,949 --> 00:55:38,833 Well, now you see that his whole ministry is torn down. 1332 00:55:38,900 --> 00:55:42,199 And now you see that all these young men, uh, 1333 00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:45,316 and ladies who he's been a youth pastor, he's been all 1334 00:55:45,316 --> 00:55:48,550 these things through the years, uh, and and these people, uh, 1335 00:55:48,550 --> 00:55:51,616 have, uh, that were saved 1336 00:55:51,616 --> 00:55:53,716 while he was preaching, right? 1337 00:55:53,783 --> 00:55:54,916 Now he didn't save them. 1338 00:55:54,983 --> 00:55:56,550 That's not what I'm saying. 1339 00:55:56,599 --> 00:55:58,516 But he brought the gospel to them. 1340 00:55:58,583 --> 00:56:01,583 They accepted Christ, Jesus dear, in his ministry. 1341 00:56:01,633 --> 00:56:04,566 Now you got a bunch of people that's questioning things, right? 1342 00:56:04,633 --> 00:56:06,849 I mean, that, oh, was I really saved? 1343 00:56:06,849 --> 00:56:09,733 Because I mean, this guy was he wasn't real? 1344 00:56:10,166 --> 00:56:13,283 And I look at these guys and I think, man, you 1345 00:56:13,283 --> 00:56:17,666 know, where and how could that possibly possibly happen? 1346 00:56:17,716 --> 00:56:20,949 How could you be that sick and messed up? 1347 00:56:21,666 --> 00:56:25,283 You've got a responsibility, a great responsibility 1348 00:56:25,283 --> 00:56:26,783 to carry this thing. 1349 00:56:26,833 --> 00:56:30,250 And again, all of us are going to mess up in some ways, 1350 00:56:30,250 --> 00:56:31,750 but man, what a grave mistake. 1351 00:56:32,566 --> 00:56:35,599 Robbie Zachariah, you know, I mean, man, 1352 00:56:35,599 --> 00:56:39,616 one of the most disappointing things that I've ever heard 1353 00:56:39,616 --> 00:56:41,949 after he dies. 1354 00:56:42,016 --> 00:56:45,016 He ends up being tied to a bunch of 1355 00:56:45,016 --> 00:56:48,616 prostitution rings and these massage pollers. 1356 00:56:48,683 --> 00:56:51,750 Yeah, I mean, like, that, I mean, this 1357 00:56:51,750 --> 00:56:54,800 dude, this dude could debate and 1358 00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,216 and tear anybody apart that 1359 00:56:58,216 --> 00:57:01,400 wanted to come against him with scripture and with word and 1360 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,750 theology and all of it, just, man, he was the, 1361 00:57:04,750 --> 00:57:07,933 he seemed like the total package, you know, and and 1362 00:57:07,933 --> 00:57:09,500 somewhere down the line. 1363 00:57:09,550 --> 00:57:12,550 Somewhere down the line, these people get arrogant and 1364 00:57:12,550 --> 00:57:13,683 they think, I can get away with that. 1365 00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:16,866 And I think this is exactly what Paul's talking about and he says, 1366 00:57:16,883 --> 00:57:18,866 work out your salvation with fear and trimming. 1367 00:57:18,916 --> 00:57:20,116 Yes, absolutely. 1368 00:57:20,116 --> 00:57:23,599 Got to stay in it every day and keep your mind clean every day. 1369 00:57:23,650 --> 00:57:24,316 Don't you? 1370 00:57:24,383 --> 00:57:26,416 Because that had to be brewing for a while. 1371 00:57:26,483 --> 00:57:27,616 You know, just something. 1372 00:57:27,683 --> 00:57:28,949 Oh, it is simmering inside of it. 1373 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:29,900 Yeah. 1374 00:57:29,949 --> 00:57:30,433 Yeah. 1375 00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:33,566 Well, it's something that it sits there in the back of your head and 1376 00:57:33,566 --> 00:57:36,783 it goes and it goes and it goes and you're exposed and 1377 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,016 the truth of the matter is, he was exposing himself to it. 1378 00:57:39,083 --> 00:57:42,083 I can promise you, these guys were exposing themselves 1379 00:57:42,083 --> 00:57:45,199 to it over and over and over and over without 1380 00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:48,199 and it was just sitting there in the back of their heads, constantly 1381 00:57:48,199 --> 00:57:49,516 going, constantly going. 1382 00:57:49,583 --> 00:57:52,650 They're exposing themselves to it and they're not turning away from it. 1383 00:57:52,699 --> 00:57:53,716 They're not walking away from it. 1384 00:57:53,783 --> 00:57:55,400 And more than likely. 1385 00:57:56,066 --> 00:57:59,349 And what I, what I, usually ends 1386 00:57:59,349 --> 00:58:02,533 up coming out, is they may have had some people that were their accountability 1387 00:58:02,533 --> 00:58:05,833 partners and things like that, that weren't actually watching them 1388 00:58:05,833 --> 00:58:08,900 very closely and weren't the more authority 1389 00:58:08,900 --> 00:58:12,316 and the more put up on these pedestals that somebody becomes, 1390 00:58:12,316 --> 00:58:15,383 the people that are holding you accountable have to 1391 00:58:15,383 --> 00:58:18,500 be watching closer and closer just because 1392 00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:21,916 you have more opportunity for bad things to happen, 1393 00:58:21,916 --> 00:58:25,033 and that's where we as men have to kind of come, come 1394 00:58:25,033 --> 00:58:26,050 to together and 1395 00:58:26,183 --> 00:58:29,233 keep each other humble and keep each other remembering, hey, we 1396 00:58:29,233 --> 00:58:30,500 are masters at hiding stuff. 1397 00:58:30,550 --> 00:58:31,866 Oh, yeah, absolutely. 1398 00:58:31,933 --> 00:58:33,016 absolutely. 1399 00:58:33,083 --> 00:58:34,650 especially with young people. 1400 00:58:34,699 --> 00:58:36,566 You know, especially with young people. 1401 00:58:36,616 --> 00:58:39,916 Yeah, I will never put myself. 1402 00:58:39,983 --> 00:58:42,983 If I think I'm going to be in a situation where I'm going to be with 1403 00:58:42,983 --> 00:58:46,150 a young person alone, that they want to talk to me about salvation, 1404 00:58:46,150 --> 00:58:49,266 about something that's going on in their life or their home, I'll be glad 1405 00:58:49,283 --> 00:58:51,449 to talk with them, but I'm not going to talk with them alone. 1406 00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:54,616 And I would look, I like for 1407 00:58:54,616 --> 00:58:57,849 there to be a young, especially if it's a young lady, 1408 00:58:57,849 --> 00:58:59,050 I want another young lady in there. 1409 00:58:59,050 --> 00:59:02,533 You know, if it's a if it's a boy, 1410 00:59:02,533 --> 00:59:05,716 then at least another man, but I mean, it's good to have a mixed 1411 00:59:05,716 --> 00:59:08,833 group in there, you know, so that so that there's 1412 00:59:08,833 --> 00:59:11,650 plenty of accountability there going on. 1413 00:59:11,716 --> 00:59:12,316 For everybody. 1414 00:59:12,383 --> 00:59:13,516 It's for everybody. 1415 00:59:13,583 --> 00:59:15,266 So you don't get accused of something, right? 1416 00:59:15,316 --> 00:59:16,816 I mean, that you didn't do. 1417 00:59:17,599 --> 00:59:18,566 to avoid the appearance. 1418 00:59:18,616 --> 00:59:21,683 It's to avoid the accusations and it's to also prevent 1419 00:59:21,683 --> 00:59:23,416 yourself from ever even being tempted. 1420 00:59:23,483 --> 00:59:26,483 And and then and then, you 1421 00:59:26,483 --> 00:59:29,650 know, when if there's been, there's ladies that come up to me and say, 1422 00:59:29,650 --> 00:59:30,966 hey, brother Brian, can I talk to you? 1423 00:59:31,033 --> 00:59:31,699 Can I talk to you? 1424 00:59:31,750 --> 00:59:34,033 I'd like to talk to you about this or that? 1425 00:59:34,099 --> 00:59:35,533 I got some questions I want to ask you. 1426 00:59:35,599 --> 00:59:36,133 Can I sit? 1427 00:59:36,199 --> 00:59:36,800 Can we sit down? 1428 00:59:37,216 --> 00:59:37,750 Sure. 1429 00:59:37,816 --> 00:59:38,183 Yeah. 1430 00:59:38,233 --> 00:59:39,133 Hey, Nicole. 1431 00:59:39,199 --> 00:59:40,283 Come on, babe. 1432 00:59:40,333 --> 00:59:42,500 You know, we're going to go in here and we're going to talk with her. 1433 00:59:42,550 --> 00:59:43,983 And Nicole may sit there. 1434 00:59:44,050 --> 00:59:47,050 She might, you know, if she's, if she asked her 1435 00:59:47,050 --> 00:59:50,166 anything, she'll interject if she needs to or she may just 1436 00:59:50,183 --> 00:59:53,300 sit in there, you know, just so there's a presence there of 1437 00:59:53,300 --> 00:59:56,666 somebody else that, uh, that, that there's accountability there. 1438 00:59:56,716 --> 00:59:58,883 And that falls on me. 1439 00:59:58,933 --> 00:59:59,949 Yeah. 1440 00:59:59,949 --> 01:00:03,666 Because I'm going to tell you, I could probably go off in 1441 01:00:03,683 --> 01:00:07,099 a room of the church with a young, 1442 01:00:07,099 --> 01:00:10,449 not a young person, but a woman or whatever and 1443 01:00:10,449 --> 01:00:13,449 talk to them and absolutely nothing happened, but I 1444 01:00:13,449 --> 01:00:16,516 know my responsibility in that and I've got to 1445 01:00:16,516 --> 01:00:17,949 adhere to that responsibility. 1446 01:00:18,016 --> 01:00:19,150 It's up to me. 1447 01:00:19,216 --> 01:00:22,333 It's not up to that woman because she's in a vulnerable spot where 1448 01:00:22,333 --> 01:00:23,949 she's asking me questions, right? 1449 01:00:24,016 --> 01:00:26,716 She's she's she's putting herself at my mercy. 1450 01:00:26,833 --> 01:00:30,199 Give me some questions or answer some questions about life or 1451 01:00:30,199 --> 01:00:32,833 about my marriage or about whatever's going on with me. 1452 01:00:32,900 --> 01:00:36,550 There's there's some vulnerability there that 1453 01:00:36,550 --> 01:00:39,133 can easily be taken advantage of. 1454 01:00:39,199 --> 01:00:40,699 And that's what happens with these guys. 1455 01:00:40,883 --> 01:00:43,883 They take advantage 1456 01:00:43,883 --> 01:00:46,933 of people who are respecting 1457 01:00:46,933 --> 01:00:49,933 them and listening to them and trusting 1458 01:00:49,933 --> 01:00:52,400 them to do the right thing until they don't. 1459 01:00:52,449 --> 01:00:55,683 You know, and I always, after I learned 1460 01:00:55,699 --> 01:00:58,816 about it, always go back to the story of Rich Mullins and how he 1461 01:00:58,816 --> 01:01:02,183 had his best friend that went everywhere 1462 01:01:02,183 --> 01:01:03,266 with him. 1463 01:01:03,316 --> 01:01:06,983 If he ever, anything he did, 1464 01:01:06,983 --> 01:01:10,150 he had his friend, this guy with him that just his 1465 01:01:10,150 --> 01:01:13,216 entire thing was, and he would. 1466 01:01:13,283 --> 01:01:16,099 They would get off and be alone and stuff and he would talk about it. 1467 01:01:16,150 --> 01:01:19,683 He'd say, yeah, he bust my chops all the time when I'm off air alone because he's keeping him humble. 1468 01:01:19,750 --> 01:01:22,816 Reminding me that I'm just a man because he was 1469 01:01:22,816 --> 01:01:26,349 and it had to do with his upbringing, that Quaker 1470 01:01:26,349 --> 01:01:30,616 shaker type upbringing where he was terrified that 1471 01:01:30,616 --> 01:01:33,133 I'm going to slip because I'm going to let myself get too full of myself. 1472 01:01:33,199 --> 01:01:36,616 And he kept somebody near him that just constantly 1473 01:01:36,616 --> 01:01:38,599 kept reminding him, you're just a man. 1474 01:01:38,650 --> 01:01:39,733 You're just a per 1475 01:01:40,150 --> 01:01:41,416 You're just human, dude. 1476 01:01:41,483 --> 01:01:43,699 And I mean, the dude was worth 1000000s when he died. 1477 01:01:43,750 --> 01:01:46,750 And I mean, and never touched hardly a dime of it because he 1478 01:01:46,750 --> 01:01:48,316 was terrified of what it would do to him. 1479 01:01:48,383 --> 01:01:51,150 He said, hey, church, y'all take this and give me whatever you think I'm worth. 1480 01:01:52,266 --> 01:01:54,133 That is insane to me. 1481 01:01:54,250 --> 01:01:57,666 And that's exactly why a lot of these people, 1482 01:01:57,683 --> 01:01:59,366 you become these superstars. 1483 01:01:59,416 --> 01:02:03,016 And you just, there's who people 1484 01:02:03,016 --> 01:02:05,300 are afraid to come up and be like, hey, what was that about? 1485 01:02:05,349 --> 01:02:06,849 And you come right down to it. 1486 01:02:06,916 --> 01:02:08,116 You're nothing but a messenger boy. 1487 01:02:08,183 --> 01:02:08,900 Exactly. 1488 01:02:08,949 --> 01:02:10,150 Exactly. 1489 01:02:10,216 --> 01:02:11,183 Oh, you are. 1490 01:02:11,233 --> 01:02:12,966 You're nothing but a messenger boy. 1491 01:02:13,033 --> 01:02:16,033 You're taking what God said and you're bringing it out 1492 01:02:16,033 --> 01:02:19,266 to somebody else and helping them to understand it in a better way 1493 01:02:19,283 --> 01:02:22,883 so that they can make their life better by being closer to God. 1494 01:02:22,933 --> 01:02:24,849 That's all we are. 1495 01:02:24,916 --> 01:02:26,783 And of course, God humbles me all the time. 1496 01:02:26,833 --> 01:02:28,566 I got people around me that humble me all the time. 1497 01:02:28,633 --> 01:02:29,466 My wife humbles me. 1498 01:02:30,966 --> 01:02:32,050 It's your job. 1499 01:02:32,116 --> 01:02:33,083 That's what you're for. 1500 01:02:33,133 --> 01:02:34,150 That's what they're there for. 1501 01:02:34,516 --> 01:02:37,583 Like I said, and I'm not, guys, 1502 01:02:37,583 --> 01:02:41,183 I don't want to sit here and talk about somebody and then eat my words. 1503 01:02:41,233 --> 01:02:43,566 I want I want to stay humble. 1504 01:02:43,633 --> 01:02:44,466 Yeah. 1505 01:02:44,483 --> 01:02:47,716 I want to stay, um, uh, accountable, 1506 01:02:47,716 --> 01:02:50,949 uh, whether it's you guys or whoever it is. 1507 01:02:51,016 --> 01:02:54,083 I want people to hold me accountable in my life so that 1508 01:02:54,083 --> 01:02:57,083 I never get too full of myself, that I never get too big for 1509 01:02:57,083 --> 01:03:00,316 my britches where I think that I can't be touched because 1510 01:03:00,316 --> 01:03:02,416 I think most of these guys that fall. 1511 01:03:02,533 --> 01:03:06,666 Now, this situation, again, this is a sick, perverse situation. 1512 01:03:06,733 --> 01:03:09,849 A lot of these guys fall into temptation, 1513 01:03:09,849 --> 01:03:12,966 this, you know, and I don't want to say normal 1514 01:03:12,983 --> 01:03:16,449 temptation, but, you know, the things that were that 1515 01:03:16,449 --> 01:03:17,716 everybody's tempted by. 1516 01:03:17,783 --> 01:03:19,166 They'll fall to that kind of temptation. 1517 01:03:19,216 --> 01:03:20,783 relatively normal. 1518 01:03:20,833 --> 01:03:22,033 And relatively yeah. 1519 01:03:22,099 --> 01:03:25,150 But this, of course, 1520 01:03:25,150 --> 01:03:26,833 this was not normal in his case. 1521 01:03:28,966 --> 01:03:32,050 Those are the things that we get on 1522 01:03:32,050 --> 01:03:35,283 our high horse and we say, oh, that's not a problem for me. 1523 01:03:36,266 --> 01:03:38,533 You know, I don't I don't have that problem. 1524 01:03:38,599 --> 01:03:40,166 I would never cheat on my wife. 1525 01:03:40,216 --> 01:03:40,883 I would never do this. 1526 01:03:40,933 --> 01:03:41,716 I would never do that. 1527 01:03:41,783 --> 01:03:42,983 I would never do this thing. 1528 01:03:43,033 --> 01:03:44,900 You know, we start saying, never, never, never, never, never. 1529 01:03:44,949 --> 01:03:45,183 Yeah. 1530 01:03:45,199 --> 01:03:47,666 And then Satan goes, hmm, we'll sit back. 1531 01:03:47,716 --> 01:03:50,716 Let me let me get you in the right situation in 1532 01:03:50,716 --> 01:03:53,949 the right place at the right time and you think nobody else 1533 01:03:53,949 --> 01:03:56,949 is looking and you think nobody else is going to find out and 1534 01:03:56,949 --> 01:03:58,266 let's see what you do then. 1535 01:03:58,333 --> 01:04:02,349 And so, you know, that's where we've got to be humble. 1536 01:04:02,416 --> 01:04:04,449 That's where we got to have the fear of the Lord, right? 1537 01:04:04,516 --> 01:04:06,316 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 1538 01:04:06,383 --> 01:04:09,433 And that's when we get stupid when we don't fear 1539 01:04:09,433 --> 01:04:10,449 God anymore, right? 1540 01:04:10,583 --> 01:04:11,599 Absolutely. 1541 01:04:11,599 --> 01:04:12,266 Yeah, yeah. 1542 01:04:12,316 --> 01:04:13,283 I get stupid quick. 1543 01:04:13,333 --> 01:04:14,533 And that's the thing. 1544 01:04:14,650 --> 01:04:15,849 This is not just about pastors. 1545 01:04:15,916 --> 01:04:17,349 This is for every Christian man. 1546 01:04:17,416 --> 01:04:18,133 It is. 1547 01:04:18,133 --> 01:04:19,333 Every walk alive. 1548 01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:20,599 We need to be wise. 1549 01:04:20,650 --> 01:04:22,633 Wise as serpents and humble as duh. 1550 01:04:22,699 --> 01:04:23,183 Amen. 1551 01:04:23,183 --> 01:04:24,500 Gentle as dub. 1552 01:04:24,550 --> 01:04:25,216 Gentle as dove. 1553 01:04:25,283 --> 01:04:25,466 Yes. 1554 01:04:25,516 --> 01:04:26,783 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 1555 01:04:26,833 --> 01:04:30,666 Better be staying in the word and we better work out our salvation with fear and trembling. 1556 01:04:30,733 --> 01:04:31,633 Yes. 1557 01:04:31,633 --> 01:04:32,766 Amen. can happen to you. 1558 01:04:32,833 --> 01:04:33,800 That's right. 1559 01:04:33,849 --> 01:04:34,816 Absolutely. 1560 01:04:34,883 --> 01:04:35,900 Yeah, it absolutely can. 1561 01:04:35,949 --> 01:04:37,516 In a moment. 1562 01:04:37,583 --> 01:04:38,783 It can it can happen. 1563 01:04:38,833 --> 01:04:39,616 You can slip up. 1564 01:04:39,683 --> 01:04:42,983 I mean, you know, that that TV show that comes on. 1565 01:04:43,033 --> 01:04:45,966 You know, nobody else is there. 1566 01:04:46,033 --> 01:04:46,816 It's just you. 1567 01:04:48,116 --> 01:04:51,383 You start it and it starts out, like a lot of TV shows 1568 01:04:51,383 --> 01:04:53,550 today starts out, you know, good. 1569 01:04:53,599 --> 01:04:57,383 There's not that much bad stuff in it, and then all of a sudden, here's here's a bunch of sex scenes in it. 1570 01:04:57,433 --> 01:04:59,949 And you sit there and you sit through it and you watch it. 1571 01:05:00,016 --> 01:05:03,616 You know, again, man, account be accountable. 1572 01:05:03,683 --> 01:05:04,883 Be accountable to each other. 1573 01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,900 Don't let yourself become desensitized to 1574 01:05:08,900 --> 01:05:12,133 things that you think are not a temptation for you. 1575 01:05:12,199 --> 01:05:15,199 Because that is the quickest way for 1576 01:05:15,199 --> 01:05:18,133 those things that are not a temptation to become a temptation. 1577 01:05:18,199 --> 01:05:21,199 And as 1578 01:05:21,199 --> 01:05:24,199 Christian men, that's something that we have to be 1579 01:05:24,199 --> 01:05:27,316 so careful about because it 1580 01:05:27,316 --> 01:05:31,033 is, It is not something that happens overnight. 1581 01:05:31,099 --> 01:05:34,333 And this is one thing I think that we 1582 01:05:34,333 --> 01:05:37,333 have to constantly remind each other of, it doesn't happen overnight. 1583 01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:40,400 It doesn't happen because just one day you wake 1584 01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:44,233 up and these sick perverse things are the desires of your heart. 1585 01:05:44,300 --> 01:05:45,316 Just one day out of the blue. 1586 01:05:45,383 --> 01:05:48,683 You took every single small 1587 01:05:48,683 --> 01:05:50,416 step to reach that point. 1588 01:05:50,483 --> 01:05:51,616 I promise. 1589 01:05:51,683 --> 01:05:52,349 I promise. 1590 01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:53,366 Look, I've been there. 1591 01:05:53,416 --> 01:05:56,533 I have I have been in in 1592 01:05:56,533 --> 01:05:58,633 situations that I shouldn't have put myself in. 1593 01:05:58,699 --> 01:06:00,266 I've been in places I shouldn't have put myself in. 1594 01:06:00,316 --> 01:06:04,150 I've done things that I shouldn't have done because I took the small steps to get there. 1595 01:06:04,216 --> 01:06:07,150 And these really perverse things are no different. 1596 01:06:07,216 --> 01:06:10,283 It's small baby steps along the way. 1597 01:06:10,333 --> 01:06:13,516 And if Satan can ever catch you with something, I promise there's 1598 01:06:13,516 --> 01:06:15,199 something that you desire. 1599 01:06:15,250 --> 01:06:17,116 There's something that you are attracted to. 1600 01:06:17,183 --> 01:06:20,066 There's something that, oh, I never cheat on my wife. 1601 01:06:20,116 --> 01:06:20,949 Well, guess what? 1602 01:06:21,016 --> 01:06:24,383 If you love your wife and you're attracted to your wife physically, 1603 01:06:24,383 --> 01:06:25,583 you have a type. 1604 01:06:25,916 --> 01:06:29,000 And Satan is going to figure out what that, he knows what that type 1605 01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,816 is because he can look at your wife and go, well, that's his type. 1606 01:06:31,883 --> 01:06:33,449 I just need to find another woman like her. 1607 01:06:33,500 --> 01:06:36,500 Well, you better be guarding your eyes and your ears because 1608 01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:37,699 that's a gateway to yourself. 1609 01:06:37,750 --> 01:06:38,233 Exactly. 1610 01:06:38,300 --> 01:06:41,483 That's exactly what Paul's talking about in Romans 122. 1611 01:06:41,650 --> 01:06:45,250 Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 1612 01:06:45,316 --> 01:06:47,900 Good stuff in here and good stuff comes out. 1613 01:06:47,949 --> 01:06:48,783 Exactly. 1614 01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:49,166 Exactly. 1615 01:06:49,216 --> 01:06:50,300 Bad stuff in here. 1616 01:06:50,349 --> 01:06:52,033 You're gonna act it out sooner or later. 1617 01:06:52,099 --> 01:06:53,116 Yeah, it is. 1618 01:06:53,116 --> 01:06:56,416 That's why it's so heinous that this pornography addiction that people have. 1619 01:06:56,483 --> 01:06:56,966 Yes. 1620 01:06:57,333 --> 01:06:57,816 Awful. 1621 01:06:57,816 --> 01:06:58,599 It's awful. 1622 01:06:58,650 --> 01:07:01,533 are the very women that we've been called to protect. 1623 01:07:01,599 --> 01:07:02,083 Yes. 1624 01:07:02,083 --> 01:07:02,550 Yes. 1625 01:07:02,616 --> 01:07:05,733 Yes, and you're looking at somebody, 1626 01:07:05,733 --> 01:07:08,616 somebody else's daughter, somebody else's child. 1627 01:07:08,666 --> 01:07:09,750 somebody your daughter's age. 1628 01:07:09,816 --> 01:07:10,783 Yeah, yeah. 1629 01:07:10,833 --> 01:07:12,633 Most of the time they probably are, you know? 1630 01:07:12,750 --> 01:07:15,266 And here's another thing too. 1631 01:07:15,333 --> 01:07:19,233 I've had people tell me, well, you know, I've 1632 01:07:19,233 --> 01:07:20,733 had people, Christian people. 1633 01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:24,266 No, not in our church, but I've had people tell me this, 1634 01:07:24,266 --> 01:07:27,500 that they think it's okay just to watch that kind of stuff with their wife. 1635 01:07:28,116 --> 01:07:29,383 This is just something they do in the bedroom. 1636 01:07:29,433 --> 01:07:32,500 Dude, you're bringing somebody 1637 01:07:32,500 --> 01:07:34,366 else into the bedroom. 1638 01:07:34,416 --> 01:07:36,933 Would you bring another woman or another? 1639 01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:40,050 Would you let another man come in to your bedroom and have sex 1640 01:07:40,050 --> 01:07:42,449 with your wife and you have sex with another woman? 1641 01:07:42,516 --> 01:07:43,900 Well, no. 1642 01:07:43,949 --> 01:07:45,083 Well, that's what you're doing. 1643 01:07:45,150 --> 01:07:47,133 You're fantasizing about these things. 1644 01:07:47,199 --> 01:07:48,516 You're letting these things come in. 1645 01:07:48,566 --> 01:07:51,449 And that's that slow fate that you're talking about. 1646 01:07:51,516 --> 01:07:53,550 That's that that step, right? 1647 01:07:53,616 --> 01:07:56,733 Okay, well, 1st we just, we just, 1648 01:07:56,733 --> 01:08:00,400 it came on a couple of shows we were watching and we just kind of, 1649 01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,683 you know, kind of felt a little guilty about it. 1650 01:08:02,733 --> 01:08:06,699 Then after a while, you know, it's like, oh, well, you know, let's watch out a little bit more. 1651 01:08:06,750 --> 01:08:10,050 And then it got to fool out, you know, 1652 01:08:10,050 --> 01:08:13,116 pornographic material and you say, 1653 01:08:13,116 --> 01:08:14,383 ah, it's no big deal. 1654 01:08:14,433 --> 01:08:17,500 It's just, it's just me and my wife, you know, this is just something and 1655 01:08:17,500 --> 01:08:19,600 we're taking, we're keeping in a bedroom. 1656 01:08:19,649 --> 01:08:22,583 No, no, you're bringing somebody else into your bedroom. 1657 01:08:22,716 --> 01:08:24,750 Buddy, Jesus don't treat his bride that way. 1658 01:08:24,816 --> 01:08:25,350 Absolutely 1659 01:08:25,533 --> 01:08:26,966 Exactly. her spotless. 1660 01:08:27,033 --> 01:08:27,449 That's right 1661 01:08:27,633 --> 01:08:31,233 That's our job to present our wife's spotless and responsible for our wife. 1662 01:08:31,350 --> 01:08:32,616 What are you putting in her mind? 1663 01:08:32,666 --> 01:08:33,333 right. 1664 01:08:33,399 --> 01:08:34,000 Yeah, exactly. 1665 01:08:34,050 --> 01:08:34,833 Wrecking her. 1666 01:08:34,899 --> 01:08:36,166 Chain wrecking her life. 1667 01:08:36,216 --> 01:08:39,816 And then when she cheats on you, Surprise. 1668 01:08:39,866 --> 01:08:41,966 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1669 01:08:42,033 --> 01:08:44,366 Yeah, I'm so shocked. 1670 01:08:44,433 --> 01:08:45,333 I can't believe it happened. 1671 01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:46,116 Guess what? 1672 01:08:46,116 --> 01:08:46,716 What did you say? 1673 01:08:46,766 --> 01:08:48,149 She don't measure up to your ideals. 1674 01:08:48,266 --> 01:08:50,550 I've known people you don't measure up to hers either. 1675 01:08:50,616 --> 01:08:51,033 Exactly. 1676 01:08:51,216 --> 01:08:52,716 I've known Exactly. 1677 01:08:52,766 --> 01:08:56,133 I've known people that would that would that would brag on their wife. 1678 01:08:56,199 --> 01:08:59,316 They were proud of their wife because she was an attractive lady and would 1679 01:08:59,316 --> 01:09:00,399 show people pictures. 1680 01:09:00,449 --> 01:09:01,050 Oh, good. 1681 01:09:01,050 --> 01:09:04,949 Like, you know, like, yeah, just, you know, just like other 1682 01:09:04,949 --> 01:09:08,016 guys and, and, and like, how, you know, look at, my wife was 1683 01:09:08,016 --> 01:09:11,133 in her underwear last night or this side or the other, you know, like, dude, you're 1684 01:09:11,133 --> 01:09:12,333 headed for destruction. 1685 01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:14,266 That's insane. 1686 01:09:14,366 --> 01:09:17,850 I told the guy, I said, you are headed for destruction. 1687 01:09:17,916 --> 01:09:19,716 I said number one, I don't want to say that. 1688 01:09:19,766 --> 01:09:21,683 And number two, that's your wife. 1689 01:09:21,750 --> 01:09:24,033 You're never going to see my wife do that. 1690 01:09:24,100 --> 01:09:27,583 I'm not, you know, and so you have brought her down. 1691 01:09:27,633 --> 01:09:28,233 And guess what? 1692 01:09:28,300 --> 01:09:31,766 I mean, eventually, it ended up being, it 1693 01:09:31,766 --> 01:09:34,166 ended in, in adultery. 1694 01:09:34,233 --> 01:09:35,550 Oh, yeah. 1695 01:09:35,616 --> 01:09:36,449 Exactly. 1696 01:09:36,516 --> 01:09:39,216 Everything you take today ends up somewhere, doesn't it? 1697 01:09:39,266 --> 01:09:42,033 It's on a cloud somewhere and it's on a cloud. 1698 01:09:42,100 --> 01:09:43,483 A cloud is just somebody else's computer. 1699 01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,816 Oh, this stuff wasn't around when I was young. 1700 01:09:45,866 --> 01:09:46,583 You know what I mean? 1701 01:09:46,649 --> 01:09:47,433 Oh, yeah. 1702 01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:48,566 Exactly. 1703 01:09:49,833 --> 01:09:53,550 Anyway, I know we probably we need to wind up. 1704 01:09:53,616 --> 01:09:55,416 I'm sure we didn't get the chapter. 1705 01:09:55,466 --> 01:09:58,833 We got a little far afield, but not too much because it is. 1706 01:09:58,899 --> 01:09:59,683 It's responsibility. 1707 01:09:59,733 --> 01:10:00,566 It is. 1708 01:10:00,633 --> 01:10:02,550 It's what I was gonna bring it around to. 1709 01:10:02,616 --> 01:10:05,083 We're about to see when we go into chapter two. 1710 01:10:05,133 --> 01:10:07,116 We're about to see the fall of man in just a minute. 1711 01:10:07,166 --> 01:10:10,949 And when we see the fall of man, we're going to see that slow fade that Adam took. 1712 01:10:11,016 --> 01:10:13,233 Maybe you didn't see step by step. 1713 01:10:13,300 --> 01:10:16,350 But I can promise you, I can promise you, it wasn't 1714 01:10:16,350 --> 01:10:17,666 just a boom one time thing. 1715 01:10:17,966 --> 01:10:19,883 I guarantee you. 1716 01:10:19,949 --> 01:10:21,516 They walked by that tree every day. 1717 01:10:21,566 --> 01:10:23,066 That serpent was sly. 1718 01:10:23,133 --> 01:10:25,050 He'd been talking to Eve for a while. 1719 01:10:25,116 --> 01:10:27,449 She'd probably been saying, hey, why don't we? 1720 01:10:27,516 --> 01:10:30,699 Or you think this is okay, or you reckon that serpent's 1721 01:10:30,699 --> 01:10:34,116 telling the truth, or you, you know, that's, that's, 1722 01:10:34,116 --> 01:10:35,500 that's where we're about to get to. 1723 01:10:35,550 --> 01:10:38,066 And Adam had a responsibility. 1724 01:10:38,133 --> 01:10:40,166 This dude walked with God. 1725 01:10:40,233 --> 01:10:42,816 He was walking in the cool of the day with him. 1726 01:10:42,866 --> 01:10:46,649 He was, he was, man, they were they were just, 1727 01:10:46,649 --> 01:10:47,850 I won't say buddies. 1728 01:10:47,916 --> 01:10:51,149 I don't want to, uh, I don't want to bring down the holiness 1729 01:10:51,149 --> 01:10:55,883 of God and who he is, but he was a friend that sticketh closer to than a brother. 1730 01:10:55,949 --> 01:11:00,083 They had a relationship and God 1731 01:11:00,100 --> 01:11:02,083 enjoying his creation at him. 1732 01:11:02,133 --> 01:11:04,899 And, right, you know, that's what he that's what he made us for. 1733 01:11:04,949 --> 01:11:07,350 And Adam knew the character of God. 1734 01:11:07,416 --> 01:11:10,833 In fact, he he shined the character of God. 1735 01:11:10,899 --> 01:11:14,250 And so he made him, like you've already said, 1736 01:11:14,250 --> 01:11:16,649 he made him in our image, in our likeness. 1737 01:11:16,716 --> 01:11:20,683 So this guy, he knew 1738 01:11:20,683 --> 01:11:24,266 what he was supposed to do and what he wasn't supposed to do and he messed up. 1739 01:11:24,333 --> 01:11:27,266 He gave in, he should have said, he should have took authority. 1740 01:11:27,333 --> 01:11:29,800 And again, I'm like you. 1741 01:11:29,916 --> 01:11:31,300 How long would it have took me? 1742 01:11:31,350 --> 01:11:33,383 You know, I don't know. 1743 01:11:33,449 --> 01:11:33,866 you know? 1744 01:11:33,933 --> 01:11:35,666 Maybe half the time it did, Adam. 1745 01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:36,216 don't know. 1746 01:11:36,266 --> 01:11:36,633 Yeah. 1747 01:11:36,633 --> 01:11:39,816 But at some point he should have said, he 1748 01:11:39,816 --> 01:11:42,283 should have said, hey, we can't do this. 1749 01:11:42,333 --> 01:11:43,300 This is going to destroy us. 1750 01:11:43,350 --> 01:11:45,633 And maybe he started out saying that, you know, I don't know. 1751 01:11:45,699 --> 01:11:48,699 Well, but he should have took authority and said this 1752 01:11:48,699 --> 01:11:49,966 will not happen. 1753 01:11:50,016 --> 01:11:50,616 We can't do this. 1754 01:11:50,666 --> 01:11:53,133 And we'll get to it when we get to chapter three. 1755 01:11:53,199 --> 01:11:56,500 But if you look at the command that God gives Adam in chapter two, 1756 01:11:56,500 --> 01:11:59,566 and what Satan quotes to Eve, or 1757 01:11:59,566 --> 01:12:02,616 what Eve quotes back to Satan, it's not the same command. 1758 01:12:02,666 --> 01:12:04,050 I believe Adam added to it. 1759 01:12:04,116 --> 01:12:05,316 Adam added to it. 1760 01:12:05,366 --> 01:12:08,483 And there's a reason that God tells us not to add, too, 1761 01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:10,066 because it seemed like a good idea. 1762 01:12:10,116 --> 01:12:12,516 He was like, hey, we can't do that and you can't do that. 1763 01:12:12,566 --> 01:12:15,033 And he added a lip or touch it. 1764 01:12:15,100 --> 01:12:18,333 But there was no command not to touch it because the 1765 01:12:18,333 --> 01:12:20,066 assumption would be that sometimes it would fall off. 1766 01:12:20,133 --> 01:12:21,100 You have to pick it up and toss it out. 1767 01:12:21,149 --> 01:12:22,050 And we do that, right? 1768 01:12:22,116 --> 01:12:25,483 We add to it a little bit and just keep a guardrail up, right? 1769 01:12:25,533 --> 01:12:26,800 So Eve, don't touch it either. 1770 01:12:26,850 --> 01:12:28,466 And then what does Satan do? 1771 01:12:28,533 --> 01:12:29,250 He goes, hey, touch it. 1772 01:12:29,316 --> 01:12:30,583 And how does he get her? 1773 01:12:30,633 --> 01:12:31,899 Look, nothing happened. 1774 01:12:31,949 --> 01:12:35,666 And nothing did happen because there was no prohibition on touching it. 1775 01:12:35,733 --> 01:12:36,866 It was when she took the bite. 1776 01:12:36,933 --> 01:12:38,066 And that was the thing. 1777 01:12:40,033 --> 01:12:42,449 Again, it's that slow little walk. 1778 01:12:42,516 --> 01:12:44,800 You do these little things thinking it's a good thing. 1779 01:12:44,850 --> 01:12:47,966 And in your mind, you're like, oh, this is going to help me out so much. 1780 01:12:48,033 --> 01:12:49,949 This is going to keep my family protected. 1781 01:12:50,016 --> 01:12:51,100 It's going to keep me protected. 1782 01:12:51,833 --> 01:12:54,100 Don't add to what God's already given you. 1783 01:12:54,149 --> 01:12:56,666 And if you wonder what the relevance is here, 1784 01:12:56,733 --> 01:13:00,750 This is exactly what Jesus quoted when he spoke about marriage. 1785 01:13:00,816 --> 01:13:01,483 Yeah. 1786 01:13:01,483 --> 01:13:03,449 He quoted directly out of this. 1787 01:13:03,516 --> 01:13:06,399 And God created a man in his own image and the image of God. 1788 01:13:06,399 --> 01:13:07,716 He created male and female. 1789 01:13:07,716 --> 01:13:08,800 That's right. 1790 01:13:08,850 --> 01:13:09,216 Amen. 1791 01:13:09,266 --> 01:13:12,933 And he never, he never, people throw this up, man. 1792 01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,583 Well, he never condemned homosexuality. 1793 01:13:15,633 --> 01:13:18,399 Oh, yeah, he did when he quoted out of this. 1794 01:13:18,516 --> 01:13:19,416 Absolutely did. 1795 01:13:19,466 --> 01:13:20,300 Yeah, yeah. 1796 01:13:20,366 --> 01:13:23,550 He, he, he set a, um, he set 1797 01:13:23,550 --> 01:13:25,416 a standard. 1798 01:13:25,416 --> 01:13:26,250 He did. 1799 01:13:26,550 --> 01:13:29,483 didn't specifically say don't speed on the freeway either, right? 1800 01:13:29,550 --> 01:13:31,766 A 1000000 things he didn't specifically say. 1801 01:13:31,899 --> 01:13:34,416 But he gives us all the tools we need. 1802 01:13:34,466 --> 01:13:38,000 Well, and it's interesting because why quote it that way? 1803 01:13:38,983 --> 01:13:41,850 Why did he specifically quote the entire version? 1804 01:13:41,916 --> 01:13:42,516 He didn't have to. 1805 01:13:42,566 --> 01:13:44,899 And there are other places where he does partial quotes. 1806 01:13:44,966 --> 01:13:48,033 But for some reason with this one, he quoted 1807 01:13:48,033 --> 01:13:51,266 the exact statement, he created him, 1808 01:13:51,266 --> 01:13:52,766 male and female. 1809 01:13:52,833 --> 01:13:54,399 He's the one that told it to Moses. 1810 01:13:54,449 --> 01:13:55,533 Exactly. 1811 01:13:56,850 --> 01:13:59,133 And he felt it was important enough. 1812 01:13:59,199 --> 01:14:02,666 He felt it was important enough to specify because 1813 01:14:02,666 --> 01:14:06,083 he knew already, you think God didn't know back then what was coming. 1814 01:14:06,149 --> 01:14:06,683 Yeah. 1815 01:14:06,699 --> 01:14:07,716 I mean, he did. 1816 01:14:07,766 --> 01:14:08,183 He knew. 1817 01:14:08,250 --> 01:14:11,850 And he felt it was important enough to say it and it's like, huh, well, he didn't. 1818 01:14:11,916 --> 01:14:12,883 Yeah, he does. 1819 01:14:13,833 --> 01:14:16,833 So man, any men listening, 1820 01:14:17,433 --> 01:14:19,050 protect your wife, man. 1821 01:14:19,116 --> 01:14:21,033 Feed her good stuff. 1822 01:14:21,100 --> 01:14:22,366 That was a word of God. 1823 01:14:22,416 --> 01:14:25,649 and protect her and love her like Christ loves the church. 1824 01:14:25,716 --> 01:14:26,250 Amen. 1825 01:14:26,316 --> 01:14:28,833 And when you when you have kids, same thing. 1826 01:14:28,899 --> 01:14:29,733 Protect them. 1827 01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:31,949 Protect build that hedge around them. 1828 01:14:31,949 --> 01:14:33,566 Protect other people's daughters. 1829 01:14:33,633 --> 01:14:34,116 Yes. 1830 01:14:34,233 --> 01:14:34,899 Yes, absolutely. 1831 01:14:34,949 --> 01:14:35,916 And protect other people. 1832 01:14:35,966 --> 01:14:36,633 watch them. 1833 01:14:36,699 --> 01:14:37,116 Yes. 1834 01:14:37,166 --> 01:14:37,833 for them. 1835 01:14:37,899 --> 01:14:38,266 Amen. 1836 01:14:39,333 --> 01:14:42,516 Nicole has started doing the scripture 1837 01:14:42,516 --> 01:14:45,583 writing thing where she writes every day 1838 01:14:45,583 --> 01:14:49,350 certain scriptures they have, you know, she's got, I don't know. 1839 01:14:49,416 --> 01:14:52,833 It's a different thing every month, I think, and they 1840 01:14:52,833 --> 01:14:55,649 have so many scripture that they write every day. 1841 01:14:55,716 --> 01:14:58,050 Just write them down and they'll write their thoughts out about them. 1842 01:14:58,116 --> 01:15:01,233 And every now and then I'll say, you're still doing that, ain't you? 1843 01:15:01,300 --> 01:15:02,616 You're still doing it, NT, you know? 1844 01:15:02,666 --> 01:15:04,533 And she's like, do you not think I'm going to do it? 1845 01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:07,483 I was like, no, I just, but I was excited about her doing it. 1846 01:15:07,533 --> 01:15:08,016 That's awesome. 1847 01:15:08,066 --> 01:15:09,149 I think it's awesome. 1848 01:15:09,216 --> 01:15:11,316 I think, you know, I mean, I'm proud of her. 1849 01:15:11,366 --> 01:15:12,333 I'm proud of her for doing it. 1850 01:15:12,399 --> 01:15:13,183 proud of her for her. 1851 01:15:13,300 --> 01:15:16,716 And then like I said, she'll, she's got, she, 1852 01:15:16,716 --> 01:15:19,949 you do it with, uh, she started out with just like one page and 1853 01:15:19,949 --> 01:15:21,750 then she decides she's going to do 3 notebooks. 1854 01:15:21,816 --> 01:15:24,283 So she's doing 3 different 3 different ones. 1855 01:15:24,333 --> 01:15:26,199 They got different ones that you can do at different times. 1856 01:15:26,250 --> 01:15:29,183 So she's got 3 notebooks and she'll do 3 at a time. 1857 01:15:29,250 --> 01:15:30,566 Yeah, yeah. 1858 01:15:30,633 --> 01:15:32,916 So, you know, I mean, she's hold her accountable, right? 1859 01:15:32,966 --> 01:15:33,750 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1860 01:15:33,816 --> 01:15:36,333 That reminds me about 10 years ago, I guess it was. 1861 01:15:36,399 --> 01:15:40,899 Me and Diane got up one Sunday morning and she's like, I'm not going to go to church today. 1862 01:15:40,949 --> 01:15:43,883 I'm like, yes, you are. 1863 01:15:43,949 --> 01:15:45,750 God holds me responsible for that. 1864 01:15:46,883 --> 01:15:49,600 Yeah. gives me this look. 1865 01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:50,866 Why you say that? 1866 01:15:50,916 --> 01:15:51,333 Come on. 1867 01:15:51,399 --> 01:15:51,933 Yeah. 1868 01:15:52,183 --> 01:15:53,850 But it's true, but it's true, you know? 1869 01:15:53,916 --> 01:15:58,133 And that's why I tried to pass along to my son-in-laws, you know, hey, 1870 01:15:58,133 --> 01:16:01,466 look, you have a responsibility. 1871 01:16:02,533 --> 01:16:05,550 for you to be the one that says, hey, it's Sunday morning. 1872 01:16:05,616 --> 01:16:06,516 Let's get up. 1873 01:16:06,566 --> 01:16:07,649 It's Sunday morning. 1874 01:16:07,716 --> 01:16:08,316 lets go to church. 1875 01:16:08,366 --> 01:16:10,533 No, make your wife drag you, right? 1876 01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:13,966 Don't yeah, yeah, don't yeah, yeah, don't be the last one out there. 1877 01:16:14,016 --> 01:16:17,250 So, but we had that responsibility, you know, and 1878 01:16:17,250 --> 01:16:20,250 it was, I'm not saying to pat myself on 1879 01:16:20,250 --> 01:16:23,550 the back, but when God got a hold of me and I rededicated my life, 1880 01:16:23,550 --> 01:16:26,616 it was never a question of if, right? 1881 01:16:26,666 --> 01:16:29,733 It was, we're going, unless there's something barring 1882 01:16:29,733 --> 01:16:32,550 some type of sickness or vacation never now and then or something like that. 1883 01:16:33,083 --> 01:16:35,850 We're going to be in church and there's not a question. 1884 01:16:35,850 --> 01:16:39,566 My kids have never questioned it and they still, they still don't question it. 1885 01:16:39,633 --> 01:16:42,633 Today, I think because of that, you know, 1886 01:16:42,633 --> 01:16:44,433 and not that we've done everything, right? 1887 01:16:44,500 --> 01:16:45,166 You know? 1888 01:16:45,216 --> 01:16:48,566 But I think when you, when you, when 1889 01:16:48,566 --> 01:16:50,733 you, when you instill that in them. 1890 01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,866 But men, those young men, you young men 1891 01:16:53,866 --> 01:16:57,816 that are just newly married, maybe 1892 01:16:57,816 --> 01:17:00,283 your wife knows more scripture than you do right now. 1893 01:17:00,333 --> 01:17:01,050 Okay, that's fine. 1894 01:17:01,116 --> 01:17:02,916 You still be the spiritual leader. 1895 01:17:02,966 --> 01:17:04,466 You still be the encourager. 1896 01:17:04,533 --> 01:17:08,016 You, you, you dig into the word and you learn and you grow, 1897 01:17:08,016 --> 01:17:11,850 but you, it is your responsibility to make sure that 1898 01:17:11,850 --> 01:17:14,916 you're in your family's in church and that you're in a place 1899 01:17:14,916 --> 01:17:16,300 where you can worship together. 1900 01:17:16,350 --> 01:17:17,016 Amen. 1901 01:17:17,016 --> 01:17:18,333 And enjoy church together. 1902 01:17:18,399 --> 01:17:22,050 I know, I told her that too, and she 1903 01:17:22,050 --> 01:17:24,083 ended up having just an awesome service. 1904 01:17:24,149 --> 01:17:25,116 Yeah, yeah. 1905 01:17:25,166 --> 01:17:27,333 She got the biggest blessing that Sunday. 1906 01:17:27,399 --> 01:17:28,183 I remember that. 1907 01:17:28,233 --> 01:17:30,566 And it's been times she's done that to me too. 1908 01:17:30,633 --> 01:17:32,066 Yeah, sure, to be sure. 1909 01:17:32,133 --> 01:17:33,516 You know, oh, I agree. 1910 01:17:33,566 --> 01:17:33,933 I agree. 1911 01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:37,000 The best advice that you 1912 01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:41,083 can give any young man, especially newly married, because I've been there. 1913 01:17:41,199 --> 01:17:42,166 I've been there. 1914 01:17:42,216 --> 01:17:44,800 I've been the one who didn't insist. 1915 01:17:45,583 --> 01:17:47,966 And you know, I'm not married anymore. 1916 01:17:48,033 --> 01:17:51,216 And that, that, right there is a big reason. 1917 01:17:51,266 --> 01:17:52,233 Why? 1918 01:17:52,300 --> 01:17:56,199 Because by the time I did start insisting, it was too late. 1919 01:17:56,250 --> 01:18:00,149 And the thing is, guys, like 1920 01:18:00,149 --> 01:18:03,333 Brother Ryan said, you may not know as much 1921 01:18:03,333 --> 01:18:04,833 scripture as she does. 1922 01:18:04,899 --> 01:18:07,949 You may not know because maybe she grew up in church and she grew up 1923 01:18:07,949 --> 01:18:09,449 going every Sunday and she knows it. 1924 01:18:10,033 --> 01:18:11,316 Okay, study with her. 1925 01:18:11,366 --> 01:18:13,166 Get in and study. 1926 01:18:13,233 --> 01:18:16,233 And you know what a great blessing is to study 1927 01:18:16,233 --> 01:18:17,616 the scripture with your wife. 1928 01:18:17,666 --> 01:18:21,033 That is a wonderful blessing and study it with your kids and 1929 01:18:21,033 --> 01:18:24,516 teach them and work through your salvation 1930 01:18:24,516 --> 01:18:27,516 with fear and trembling, and you do that by studying the word to 1931 01:18:27,516 --> 01:18:29,983 have something to compare what you're doing against. 1932 01:18:30,033 --> 01:18:33,566 Because the word is the is our example. 1933 01:18:33,633 --> 01:18:35,250 That is what we're holding up. 1934 01:18:35,316 --> 01:18:38,916 That is what we're supposed to be aspiring to. 1935 01:18:38,966 --> 01:18:39,983 That's what I'm looking for. 1936 01:18:40,050 --> 01:18:41,550 supposed to be aspiring to that. 1937 01:18:41,616 --> 01:18:44,800 And yeah, it's 1938 01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:48,766 going to be hard and there's going to be Sundays where you wake up and you go, I just don't feel like getting up. 1939 01:18:49,133 --> 01:18:49,949 But you know what? 1940 01:18:50,016 --> 01:18:53,683 It really doesn't take that much more to just throw on your clothes real quick and go. 1941 01:18:53,733 --> 01:18:56,733 And if you're going to a church that's going to get bent out of shape because you show 1942 01:18:56,733 --> 01:18:59,850 up in jeans in a, in a, you know, a non-holy, 1943 01:18:59,850 --> 01:19:02,916 but a nice t-shirt or something, you know, maybe, maybe find a 1944 01:19:02,916 --> 01:19:05,133 church that doesn't mind you not coming in a 3 piece suit. 1945 01:19:05,199 --> 01:19:07,833 You know, long as they preach the word. 1946 01:19:07,899 --> 01:19:08,500 Yeah, yeah. 1947 01:19:08,550 --> 01:19:10,649 I'm one that doctrines say... 1948 01:19:10,716 --> 01:19:14,016 Find one that has sound doctrine, they get in the word, they stay in the word. 1949 01:19:14,066 --> 01:19:17,433 And that, and Brother Brian, I don't know if I've said it before, 1950 01:19:17,433 --> 01:19:20,433 but one of the things that I appreciate so much about Mountain 1951 01:19:20,433 --> 01:19:23,850 View is that when you get up on Sunday morning, it's 1952 01:19:23,850 --> 01:19:27,333 straight from the scripture, you read scripture to us, and you're 1953 01:19:27,333 --> 01:19:30,566 in the word on Sunday morning, you're not just out here giving 1954 01:19:30,566 --> 01:19:33,266 us a half of a verse, and then your opinion for the rest of the time. 1955 01:19:33,333 --> 01:19:36,399 You give us, you know, six, eight, 10, 12, 20 verses every once 1956 01:19:36,399 --> 01:19:39,449 in a while that the guy running the projection 1957 01:19:39,449 --> 01:19:42,083 is sitting back here going, I'm not keeping up with him. 1958 01:19:42,783 --> 01:19:43,649 But I love it. 1959 01:19:43,716 --> 01:19:45,883 I love it because that's what we need. 1960 01:19:45,933 --> 01:19:48,100 Oh, it shows how it all ties together too. 1961 01:19:48,149 --> 01:19:48,683 Exactly. 1962 01:19:48,750 --> 01:19:49,949 Exactly. 1963 01:19:50,016 --> 01:19:53,199 And and so don't don't don't don't be afraid. 1964 01:19:53,250 --> 01:19:56,250 Don't be afraid of going to a church and maybe not knowing as 1965 01:19:56,250 --> 01:19:58,416 much because I promise we ain't going to judge you. 1966 01:19:58,466 --> 01:20:02,066 No Christian that is that is truly a Christian. 1967 01:20:02,133 --> 01:20:05,066 If you go to church and they're judging you for not knowing the scripture. 1968 01:20:05,133 --> 01:20:06,333 Go ahead and find another church. 1969 01:20:06,399 --> 01:20:07,183 All right? 1970 01:20:07,233 --> 01:20:08,250 Because that ain't a Christian church. 1971 01:20:08,316 --> 01:20:09,750 I don't know what they are, but they're not Christian. 1972 01:20:09,750 --> 01:20:11,733 Because the Christian churches, 1973 01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:15,333 We are not gonna judge you or look down on you for not knowing because guess what? 1974 01:20:15,399 --> 01:20:17,983 All of us had a time in our life where we didn't know either. 1975 01:20:18,033 --> 01:20:18,816 Yeah. 1976 01:20:18,816 --> 01:20:19,949 It's fine. 1977 01:20:20,016 --> 01:20:20,433 I promise. 1978 01:20:21,183 --> 01:20:21,633 Amen. 1979 01:20:22,233 --> 01:20:25,716 So next week, Genesis 21. 1980 01:20:25,899 --> 01:20:29,366 And we'll start with, uh, we'll start with going into the 1981 01:20:29,366 --> 01:20:32,000 actual description of of Eve. 1982 01:20:32,066 --> 01:20:35,666 You know, it kind of gave us a... day 7 won't we? 1983 01:20:35,733 --> 01:20:36,816 Yeah, we start with day seven. 1984 01:20:36,866 --> 01:20:39,866 Uh, and and we'll actually go into that 1985 01:20:39,866 --> 01:20:43,050 description of of the day of rest and 1986 01:20:43,050 --> 01:20:46,116 why it's a day of rest and then into the description of and 1987 01:20:46,116 --> 01:20:49,116 and, you know, and don't get too caught up on the 7th 1988 01:20:49,116 --> 01:20:50,199 day is the day of rest. 1989 01:20:50,250 --> 01:20:52,050 I know some people would get really caught up on that. 1990 01:20:52,116 --> 01:20:55,166 That was the day that God chose, and he gave us a day of rest, but as 1991 01:20:55,166 --> 01:20:57,750 Christ explained, it was made for us, not us for it. 1992 01:20:57,816 --> 01:21:01,600 So it is a day of rest and it doesn't really matter what day we do it. 1993 01:21:01,649 --> 01:21:04,883 I'll just make sure you're taking time to spend time with the believers and reflect 1994 01:21:04,899 --> 01:21:06,883 on who God is and spend time with God. 1995 01:21:06,933 --> 01:21:07,899 That was the whole point of it. 1996 01:21:08,583 --> 01:21:11,800 Uh, but he get, you know, starting in chapter 2, 1997 01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:14,983 it gets, it gets into, you know, uh, and it does. 1998 01:21:15,033 --> 01:21:19,466 It gives us a rehashing of the creation of the 1st days of creation. 1999 01:21:19,533 --> 01:21:22,649 It kind of gives a quick rehash of it after the day of rest 2000 01:21:22,649 --> 01:21:25,949 and it gives us another showing of God recreating 2001 01:21:25,949 --> 01:21:28,283 the animals again for Adam for him to name them. 2002 01:21:29,066 --> 01:21:32,133 And then we'll be moving into the one big 2003 01:21:32,133 --> 01:21:35,133 command that he gives Adam is right there in 2004 01:21:35,133 --> 01:21:38,133 chapter 2 and then in chapter 3 is where we get into the 2005 01:21:38,133 --> 01:21:39,266 fall and some of that stuff. 2006 01:21:39,333 --> 01:21:41,133 It's all good stuff. 2007 01:21:41,199 --> 01:21:42,816 Gosh, I could... 2008 01:21:42,816 --> 01:21:45,866 Well, we could make, I know y'all don't want us too, but 3 hours I 2009 01:21:45,866 --> 01:21:48,149 could spend on any chapter. 2010 01:21:48,399 --> 01:21:51,516 The opening of the opening of the scripture. 2011 01:21:51,566 --> 01:21:54,566 the 1st this 1st book in Genesis, especially these 1st 5 2012 01:21:54,566 --> 01:21:57,683 chapters or so are just it's dense. 2013 01:21:57,750 --> 01:22:00,750 And it's, it is the foundation of our faith 2014 01:22:00,750 --> 01:22:03,383 because without this, our faith is nothing. 2015 01:22:03,449 --> 01:22:04,883 because it means God doesn't exist. 2016 01:22:04,949 --> 01:22:08,316 So if God exists and Genesis is true, that 2017 01:22:08,316 --> 01:22:11,383 leads to all the things that we find in the New Testament for 2018 01:22:11,383 --> 01:22:15,199 Christ being true and for Christ being our salvation and our hope, 2019 01:22:15,216 --> 01:22:16,899 all of this ties together. 2020 01:22:17,016 --> 01:22:21,566 And as we've said every time, it's that Christ's 2021 01:22:21,566 --> 01:22:23,600 thread that runs from Genesis to Revelation. 2022 01:22:23,666 --> 01:22:25,533 And so it is. 2023 01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:27,766 It's the foundation of our faith, and we need to know it. 2024 01:22:27,816 --> 01:22:29,199 know it, know it, know it. 2025 01:22:29,250 --> 01:22:32,366 Learn it, read it, study it, write it down. 2026 01:22:32,433 --> 01:22:36,216 Hey, you know, and I love that idea of writing scripture and writing your thoughts out of it. 2027 01:22:36,266 --> 01:22:36,750 Just write it. 2028 01:22:36,816 --> 01:22:40,600 Even if you don't, even if you're not sure you want to take time to write thoughts, just grab your notebook and just copy it. 2029 01:22:40,649 --> 01:22:43,350 King James looks, it's real flowy. 2030 01:22:43,416 --> 01:22:44,433 It's real nice to copy down. 2031 01:22:46,833 --> 01:22:47,433 All right. 2032 01:22:47,500 --> 01:22:48,633 Yeah, most fairly. 2033 01:22:48,699 --> 01:22:49,366 That's right. 2034 01:22:49,416 --> 01:22:50,133 That's right. 2035 01:22:50,199 --> 01:22:54,033 Verily, he's Seth unto. 2036 01:22:55,233 --> 01:22:57,699 But hey, that look, that does. 2037 01:22:57,750 --> 01:22:59,366 It looks kind of cool when you write it out in cursive. 2038 01:22:59,433 --> 01:23:02,500 you know, you get a little get a few little loops in there, make it look real 2039 01:23:02,500 --> 01:23:03,766 flowy and flowery. 2040 01:23:08,733 --> 01:23:11,066 Brother Dennis, why don't you pray us out tonight? 2041 01:23:11,133 --> 01:23:15,033 Father in heaven, thank you so much for this hour. and I 2042 01:23:15,033 --> 01:23:17,133 earned some chains who I've spent with my brothers here. 2043 01:23:17,199 --> 01:23:19,716 Father, thank you for everyone that might be listed. 2044 01:23:19,766 --> 01:23:23,183 I pray your blessings on them that they might come to know you in a deeper, 2045 01:23:24,133 --> 01:23:26,966 a deeper relationship in a more intimate way. 2046 01:23:27,583 --> 01:23:29,066 Father, you are so awesome. 2047 01:23:29,199 --> 01:23:32,433 God, as we study about your creation, 2048 01:23:32,433 --> 01:23:37,133 we can only imagine how beautiful it must have been at the beginning 2049 01:23:37,133 --> 01:23:40,600 as it's still beautiful today, but we know it's corrupted. 2050 01:23:41,183 --> 01:23:44,366 Father, help us as we, as we try to learn this stuff and 2051 01:23:44,366 --> 01:23:47,366 to be focused not just on facts, 2052 01:23:47,366 --> 01:23:50,850 but on who you are and your goodness to us and 2053 01:23:50,850 --> 01:23:54,449 your kindness to us in Christ Jesus and to 2054 01:23:54,449 --> 01:23:57,516 see your beauty, to see your beauty and how much, how 2055 01:23:57,516 --> 01:24:01,483 humble you are and how all powerful you are at the same time. 2056 01:24:02,133 --> 01:24:05,199 Father, thank you for this time together, and I pray that 2057 01:24:05,199 --> 01:24:08,433 you'll bless everyone listening, Father, fill them with your peace, 2058 01:24:08,433 --> 01:24:11,733 the peace that passes all, understanding, fill them with your joy. 2059 01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:13,966 Father, just wrap these folks at your arms. 2060 01:24:14,283 --> 01:24:17,733 and protect us until we meet here again next week in Jesus' name. 2061 01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:18,399 Amen. 2062 01:24:18,449 --> 01:24:18,933 Amen. 2063 01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:19,300 Amen.