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And here we are back again this week, maybe not live,

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but I found out that I can, I have just enough space right

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before and after the word live in that intro.

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I can it just says every Monday night.

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When I go to edit it, it's kind of nice.

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just enough space there.

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Oh man.

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Well, it is really good to be back this week.

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Goodness.

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I tell you, 2 Sundays in a row of incredible, incredible services

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and uh, uh, that was,

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that was a blessing. had those baptisms Sunday

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and goodness, God just poured

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his grace out on us and it was wonderful.

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God, man.

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Maybe God.

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It's just so refreshing.

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I just can't.

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That's good.

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It was a good start to the week, wasn't it?

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Yeah, yeah, it is.

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I wasn't here, man.

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I miss it.

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I forgot.

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He was doing the Lord's work.

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That's right.

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You're doing the Lord's work elsewhere, but man, it was, it was

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a great start to the week.

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I mean, Brother Jake got up and it was his 1st baptizing,

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and he got to do five.

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yeah

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Breaking men good.

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Yeah, I hated to miss it, man.

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I really did.

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I love those kids.

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I'm so, so proud that they've come to the Lord.

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And just, man, there's one in particular that he's, he's different, man.

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He's different.

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He smiles and stuff now.

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Yeah, you know, he does.

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Oh, you can see the the, it's like a different kid.

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Yeah, and it really is.

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Yeah, I had him teaching my Sunday school class yesterday too.

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put his feet in the fire.

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Hey, there you go.

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That's what you gotta do.

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As a pastor, I've

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told a couple of people this, but just in the last couple of days.

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You sit back and when I'm preaching, I

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really don't, I think people, people think I pay attention to what

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they're doing more than they think I do.

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Like, I really don't.

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Like, I don't know if you're like this, but I just kind of zone out

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and focus on what I'm doing and like babies

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cry, they don't bother me.

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Uh, you know, people getting up.

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I don't want, you know, I mean, it may distract somebody else,

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but it just don't really distract me.

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You know, I mean, people have to get up in the other bathroom sometimes.

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There's things that have to happen and then people come to me like,

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Preacher, I'm so sorry.

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I didn't, you know, I hope I hope my kid wasn't distracting a day or I

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hope I, you know, I went to the bathroom and I'm not, I didn't even know you did.

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You know, I didn't bother you.

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But I yeah, I just don't I just don't notice that stuff, but the last 2 weeks.

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The last 2 weeks, I hadn't, well, I mean, I

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didn't get to preach last week, and then Jake didn't get to

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preach yesterday, and Jake

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got the, got broke in on a couple of things, right?

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You know, do a preacher do a night, you know, type thing and discerning the spirit.

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And, uh, you know, I looked at him.

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He looked at me and I was like, just whatever the Lord's leading you to do, buddy.

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Brian believes in the parenting structure of, I'm going to toss

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you out of the nest and let you fly.

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Well, it was so good.

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You couldn't deny it.

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I thought, you know, either way, it's going to be good if he if he

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feels a strong lead to preach what

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he's Lord fill in his heart and it's going to be good.

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But, uh, but I just got to sit

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back and worship and I'm not going to say

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be quiet because I wasn't quiet.

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but I got the lookout over the crowd and

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I was paying attention to people, not trying to be like

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in a nosy way, but I was watching people respond

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to the Holy Spirit, watching people worship,

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and I was watching people who,

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who a lot of them in the last couple of weeks have visited

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here for the 1st time, and some people who may not have

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been in church for a long time, and I sat there and

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watched them squall.

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I watched the tears fall down their face.

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I watched some of them come to an altar and and,

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it's just, I was in awe.

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I was like, God, you're you're so good.

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I'm going to tell you, brother, if you go back and watch the service, after

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the baptizing, they started singing, and the altar stayed

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full, and they kept having to add songs because people just kept coming

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down and praying, and they'd add another song, and right about the

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time that one would finish, somebody would come down and start praying against it.

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They have to do another one.

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And then somebody come, right as that one's finished, somebody come, and it would just.

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I mean, there was a revolving door down there at the altar and doggone.

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Let me tell you, I want to brag on our youth because

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they were the ones that were down there with them praying.

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And man, that was fan, fantastic to see.

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And they just, I mean, no hesitation.

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They saw somebody head down there, just boom, jump in there.

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And it was people that were there to see them get baptized.

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Some of them were, and were visitors and stuff, and they were just,

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oh, I'm going down, and then the rest of the youth just right with them.

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was so awesome.

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I'm going to tell you, though, it's been a while since

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I've had a service where I was struggling to see what was going on

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because I'm crying so hard back there and y'all kept throwing songs at me.

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Oh, I know.

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I'm like, I can't see to type it in.

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But you done a good job, though.

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You kept up and everybody, man, everybody was saying

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with us, you know, I love, I love to look

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out there and not just because, you know, people,

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I know there's there's controversy about words on the

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screen, but, but sometimes, you know, and if

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it's a, if it's a hymnal, uh, song and and, and you

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want to pick up the book, we still got books in there and we're not

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getting rid of them, we're not planning on doing that.

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Uh, but, but like, but a lot of those, a lot of the songs

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that we're singing, good, good, solid worship songs

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that we're singing.

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Uh, and a lot of people may not know all the words that

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they've heard for you of them, you know?

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And you throw the words up there, and you see them up there, and

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they're just like, they're getting into it, and they're like, oh, that's what that says.

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You know, I mean, that, oh, that's that's biblical right there.

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You know, that, that's, that's, that's the...

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A lot of people are like, oh, you got word on the screen, you know?

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Oh, yeah, you know, so yeah.

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But I mean, words on the screen, words on the book,

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they're still words, you know?

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But anyway, just watching everybody participating

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and being a part of it.

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And, and...

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That's what worship is.

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My favorite statement I heard made on that was several years ago.

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We were there and mom said, you know, I just wish y'all had some books

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out here because they had done away with all their books.

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All they did was the words on the projection.

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And they said, well, everybody that can read music, we're hoping they're going to be up in the choir.

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If you can't read music, the book, the music's kind of useless to you.

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All he needs the words.

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And I was like, huh, that's an interesting way to do it.

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And they did everything from the screen.

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They never put like when they would sing their hymnals and stuff.

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They would open them up for the choir and the song leader

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and the musicians, but then it was just words.

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I mean, and that's another thing too.

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And it's not about numbers, but it's just, it's just,

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it is about the number of people that are participating with what God is doing.

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And our choir was full up there.

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It's not it's not completely full.

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You still got, we still got room.

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We still got some chairs and we'll buy more chairs.

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squeeze another 20 in.

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We can do it.

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We don't sit down and we sing anyway.

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No, and the more people up there is better.

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But I mean, you know, there was about there was probably 40 people in

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the choir yesterday, easy if not more.

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And I've had more people say, hey, you know, we're thinking about, I've

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had several people tell me here lately, we're thinking about joining the choir, you know, I'm

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like, hey, man, just sing to the same one.

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We're singing too, bring it home, you know.

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Hey, y'all keep expanding.

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to take some walls out.

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our uh, youth yesterday that sang uh,

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uh, solo for the 1st time by herself and she knocked it out of the park.

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I mean, it's like, oh.

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She sounds like Carrie Job.

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I think that was only her 3rd time to do that song here, ever.

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I think she'd only practiced it twice.

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I was impressed.

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When they 1st gave it to her, we'll get to

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this other stuff.

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When they 1st gave it to her, uh, uh, Tatum was

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like, uh, okay, I'm going, she's going to bring somebody else

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along with her to sing with her to so she wouldn't

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be so nervous, you know?

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And she said, and I'm going to get you in some of these harmony parts and stuff, you know?

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And the coach said, Titan, I'm

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standing right beside her and I'm pretty sure she could.

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I think she can handle that song.

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And she said, okay.

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So she said, I'm just going to give it all to you.

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And she was like, all right.

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And she's eating it, man.

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She took it and she and well, I mean, she was singing to the Lord too.

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I mean, you can, you can, you can see it.

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yeah.

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I heard her when I guess the last choir practice or week before last,

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she was singing it, man, she was good.

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He knocked it out of the park.

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was awesome.

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It was awesome.

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That was.

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That was a wonderful, wonderful kickoff to the week.

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Man, I love starting week that way.

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So thank you, Lord.

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We needed that.

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And then, and I mean, we had a we had a good service last night.

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with our with our singing service as well.

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You were here for that.

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Yeah, we here for that.

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That was that was wonderful.

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And I am.

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I am really, really, really grateful to

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see God moving in our youth way is.

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Because, man, we need it.

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Well, it's been kind of dried up for the past few years and it's cyclical, right?

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Yeah, you come, you'll have a bunch and you don't have any hardness.

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Yeah, yeah, you had we had a ton graduate at the same time.

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You know, it was like within within probably

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2 years or 3 years for sure.

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We probably had 25 kids that just went,

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boop, you know, I mean, not that they necessarily

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all disappeared from church, but I mean, they're not.

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You think.

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not.

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Yeah, they're not youth.

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They graduated.

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They've either they either did move on, someone moved out of the area,

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but moved up.

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They're having to do adult things now.

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You get to be responsible and, you know, pay for your car in your house.

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You start having to worry about job.

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It's amazing how that kind of, you don't start hanging

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out at the church quite so much, but as long as you come in on

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Sunday and Wednesday night, you know, we're, we're, we're going to be okay with it, but, but we have.

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We've always been good about here at Mountain View having our youth group spend time together

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and come to church and do things.

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And I'm glad to see a youth group starting to do that again.

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So, and like I say, it's that cycle.

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So I'm glad to see it swinging back around.

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I always like it.

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Oh, well, last week, we uh, we

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have made it through uh, Genesis,

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we we finished out chapter one a couple of weeks ago, um,

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and then last week we got into chapter two, and

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we got to reading about uh, where the,

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the garden was located.

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It's over the Tigris Euphrates rivers and

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these other 4 the 4 rivers that all combined and how

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it all lined up.

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And, uh, we get to verse

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15 was, we had ended on with it last week that

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the Lord God took man and he put him into the Garden of Eden

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to dress it and to keep it.

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And, uh, then we start getting into, uh,

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we, we had actually ended last time saying that, you know, this is now

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we get to the 1st command that God gives and he gives it to man here.

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And it turns out to be a little bit more important maybe

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than man had thought it was, but when it's

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the 1st command out of God's mouth, it's probably pretty important.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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So let's jump back in there.

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You want to read 16 and 17 together?

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Yep.

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Yep.

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The Lord God commanded the man saying, from any tree of the

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garden, you may eat freely, but from the tree of

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the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in

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the day that you eat from it, you will surely die.

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pretty plain talk, right?

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That's pretty plain talk.

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And he starts out with a big, big piece of generosity.

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Right?

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We don't know how many trees were there, but I know God don't have a budget.

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So this thing's probably pretty large.

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Yeah, a lot of really good trees to eat.

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orchard, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's freely.

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Just eat freely.

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I don't know.

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That seems like a very confusing set of rules there.

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I mean, eat of every tree, but then there's one that I can't.

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seems like you're going to have a hard time keeping track of that.

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Yeah, just that one tree.

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Could you write that down for me?

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Right.

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Yeah.

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can you write me as soon as draw me a, draw me a map.

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Which one can't I touch the one right over there that has a sign on it?

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And we put some police tape around it.

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Yeah, and blinking lights, don't touch, don't touch.

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Stay away.

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This was a condition that was placed on man.

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It wasn't God's original plan for us to die.

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No.

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It wasn't.

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I mean, that's not what he wanted.

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And, you know, we're kind of on probation right

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now because of this, right?

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Yeah.

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You know?

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But one day, because I

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was acquitted of my sin.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Because Jesus stepped in and he took the

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punishment that I deserved, I will never die again.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I may die once, but I will not die again.

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I will live forever.

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Um, and uh, Here's the thing, guys.

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It was on this day.

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The Adam was spiritually

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separated from God.

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He did die that day.

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He did die that day.

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Yeah, and and make no

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mistake, this is Jesus talking to him, right?

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Yes, yeah.

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Because if he was some just huge, you

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know, crazy vision, top stuff we've seen,

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you know, Adam would be scared to death of him, probably.

354
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Yeah, but he looked like him.

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He did.

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And had a face-to-face relationship with him.

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And he had been walking with him, right?

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I mean, yeah.

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And he tells him this knowing I'm going to

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die on a tree like that one day for you.

361
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Yeah.

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I know where this is headed.

363
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Amen.

364
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Yeah.

365
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Yeah.

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You just got the ball rolling at him.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, that is that from

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the day you eat from it, you will surely die.

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And that sounds like, you know, it sounds like, well, that didn't happen, but it did, didn't it?

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It's a spiritual death.

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It's a separation.

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It was a death and spirit.

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And that's when he began to die, as we'll see later, right?

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that's right.

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It lives a long time.

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Spiritual death is a long, grueling process

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that, uh, gosh, and it

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can last free in eternity.

381
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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, salvation is you're

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saved.

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You're being saved and you'll continue to be saved throughout

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all eternity, right?

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Spiritual death is you die.

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You're dying, and you'll continue to die throughout all eternity.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Verse 18.

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And the Lord God said, it is not good that

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man should be alone.

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I will make him a helpmeet for him.

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Um, So there was a purpose in putting

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man in the garden alone for a time.

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I think I think there was to show him that he

401
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had a need, right?

402
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that he needed someone to be with, someone to

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have a relationship, someone to do

404
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this thing called life together, right?

405
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I mean, God wanted a relationship with him and he did.

406
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He had that relationship.

407
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But but he also deems our other relationships

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around us import it, especially our marriages, right?

409
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Yeah.

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So, so he had to realize that.

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Yeah, he had to take hold of that.

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And you notice everything's good up until this point.

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It's the 1st time it says, it's not good.

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Right.

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It's not good.

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And I believe that, like you said, that

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in God's image, in God's image requires relationship.

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Yeah.

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Because the Trinity has a relationship with each other.

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They had a relationship with Adam.

421
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Yeah, yeah.

422
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Absolutely.

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Just the way he's he's made it.

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Yeah.

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You know, people talk about, well, I don't have to have,

426
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I don't have to have the church to be a Christian.

427
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But buddy, you're not going to make it.

428
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No.

429
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You're not going to grow.

430
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And technically that's true.

431
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I mean, you could be off on a deserted island somewhere and still be a Christian.

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I had a guy tell me the other day, he's like, I

433
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can worship God anywhere I want to on that porch right there, we're here, we're here.

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But yeah, you're right.

435
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And you should.

436
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You are.

437
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You should.

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And that's that's there's truth in that.

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But I

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can't see, I can't see anyone's heart.

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But if you do not feel the need.

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to because there's a void

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there without y'all.

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without my people, right?

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I'm talking about my brothers and sisters from Christ.

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There's a boy there.

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And if I don't feel the need to be around them, to

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fellowship with them, to lift

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them up and be lifted up by them.

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Um, I'm not sure that uh, that there's

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a spirit in me that's telling me that I need that.

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And if that spirit's not there, you're not saved.

453
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Yeah, right.

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So.

455
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Yeah, I mean, and like we've been talking about Sunday, right?

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I mean, what would it be like if you were by yourself?

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Yeah.

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yeah

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You wouldn't it wouldn't happen.

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Right.

461
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It wouldn't happen.

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You wouldn't, you wouldn't have tears flowing watching somebody else get saved or

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somebody else get baptized. somebody testifying or somebody

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else squalling at the altar.

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Whatever it is.

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We need each other.

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We did.

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We're support network.

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We're not alone in this world.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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We rejoice together, right?

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We cry together.

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We mourn together.

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We have hope together in

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Jesus, you know, that and we have to remind each other.

477
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I mean, I have to have somebody every now and then just go.

478
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Brian, you know, hey, this is

479
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the way it is, you know?

480
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And we need that.

481
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I need that.

482
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Hey, it is it is nice to be able to

483
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come in with people that love you that

484
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have your back and that are willing to go, hey, what are you doing?

485
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Every once in a while, it's really nice to have somebody that you

486
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know cares about, just be like, hey, what's going on?

487
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What exactly are you doing right here?

488
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Because I know what it looks like when I'm staying.

489
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What are you doing?

490
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And to know that they're not saying it out of some way

491
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of a gotcha or I'm trying to, you know, make, you

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know, get you in a corner and embarrass you.

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It's, I love you, and I want you to do well.

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And there's something about that.

495
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And that's something the world doesn't have really and truly does not have.

496
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I mean, you might every once in a while have friends or family or something

497
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that'll care about you, but it's fleeting.

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It's very fleeting.

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Whereas when you when you are a part of the body of Christ, when

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you are part of that family,

501
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Yeah, individual members may come and go, but there's more right behind them.

502
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And he's always got more and he's always got more and he's always got more and it doesn't run out and that's awesome.

503
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We think about activities that we do as a church and having

504
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one person doing some, some, whatever it may be is

505
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different than having the church come together and all work together on it.

506
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I mean, it's like you're egging each other on.

507
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to do more and more good things, right?

508
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Well, last night.

509
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So when, uh, when,

510
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when, uh, Greg got up to do the, um, the

511
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Bible school song, you know, uh, and and

512
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then uh, all of our youth just got up there with him, right?

513
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Zero hesitation.

514
00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:47,099
Zero hesitation.

515
00:21:47,166 --> 00:21:51,416
You know, and and let me let me give a little background information.

516
00:21:51,533 --> 00:21:55,549
here for those that are not in our church that don't

517
00:21:55,549 --> 00:21:58,783
know who Greg is, but Greg, uh, Greg is,

518
00:21:58,799 --> 00:22:00,116
uh, he's, he's 50

519
00:22:00,533 --> 00:22:01,500
I say I'm 52.

520
00:22:01,683 --> 00:22:02,583
So he's 56.

521
00:22:02,816 --> 00:22:03,233
I think.

522
00:22:03,299 --> 00:22:04,433
I think he just turned 56.

523
00:22:04,616 --> 00:22:06,000
He's about 4 years older than me.

524
00:22:06,599 --> 00:22:09,900
Um, and uh, he, he's got Down Syndrome.

525
00:22:10,133 --> 00:22:13,666
And he's the most precious soul that you'll ever meet.

526
00:22:13,733 --> 00:22:15,116
He loves to sing for the Lord.

527
00:22:15,183 --> 00:22:17,216
He loves to praise the Lord.

528
00:22:17,216 --> 00:22:20,516
And so, uh,

529
00:22:20,516 --> 00:22:23,516
we just, you know, we, we let him, we let him

530
00:22:23,516 --> 00:22:26,450
do those things, you know, he loves to take up the offering.

531
00:22:26,883 --> 00:22:28,683
Oh my gosh, he just wants to be a part.

532
00:22:28,733 --> 00:22:32,400
And when he's away from here, he wants to be back here.

533
00:22:32,516 --> 00:22:34,983
He really, he'll get in Jeff's whiskers.

534
00:22:35,033 --> 00:22:36,466
He was like, are we not going to church tonight?

535
00:22:36,533 --> 00:22:38,400
you know, that's his brother.

536
00:22:39,049 --> 00:22:42,049
His parents are both passed and his brother takes care of him,

537
00:22:42,049 --> 00:22:45,583
does an awesome job and loves him and brings him to church.

538
00:22:45,650 --> 00:22:49,133
But he got up last night and wanted

539
00:22:49,133 --> 00:22:50,750
to do one of our Bible school songs.

540
00:22:50,816 --> 00:22:53,816
And it's, it's, uh, pretty fast one.

541
00:22:53,883 --> 00:22:57,849
Yeah, he's got, yeah, he's got the hand motions and stuff with it, you know.

542
00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:00,900
and he got up there, started doing it, and every

543
00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:03,066
one of our youth, you know, got up there with him, man.

544
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:08,033
that up there, you know, and it just, you could see it brightened him.

545
00:23:08,099 --> 00:23:10,866
He just looked around him, you know, and then like, yeah, I got

546
00:23:11,099 --> 00:23:12,833
I mean, you know, I'm my people.

547
00:23:13,083 --> 00:23:13,566
my people.

548
00:23:13,849 --> 00:23:14,633
That's smile.

549
00:23:14,933 --> 00:23:18,299
Just that smile that he had when they all got up there, man, that just, ooh,

550
00:23:18,299 --> 00:23:20,033
that hit me and I was like, yes.

551
00:23:20,099 --> 00:23:23,883
And I meant to catch those kids last night and tell them how

552
00:23:23,883 --> 00:23:26,933
much I appreciated them doing that because I could tell he

553
00:23:26,933 --> 00:23:29,333
enjoyed having them join him up there.

554
00:23:29,933 --> 00:23:32,933
And what, so he had actually asked me about that song

555
00:23:32,933 --> 00:23:35,216
way before anything.

556
00:23:35,283 --> 00:23:37,866
He showed up before drama practice started.

557
00:23:38,633 --> 00:23:41,700
And I was already here doing some stuff and I was going around

558
00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:44,166
working on some things and getting some stuff going.

559
00:23:44,166 --> 00:23:46,666
And he was like, hey.

560
00:23:46,733 --> 00:23:49,250
And he was telling me, do you have that song?

561
00:23:49,316 --> 00:23:51,233
And he couldn't remember the name of it.

562
00:23:51,533 --> 00:23:53,216
So he kept saying that, woo.

563
00:23:53,283 --> 00:23:55,083
And I'm like, what is he talking about?

564
00:23:55,733 --> 00:23:57,650
And it took me probably 20 minutes of him.

565
00:23:57,716 --> 00:24:00,349
I'm like, okay, can you can you give me a little bit more about the song?

566
00:24:00,416 --> 00:24:03,416
And he goes, oh, you know, and he, he'd think about it, and then he'd do a little

567
00:24:03,416 --> 00:24:06,599
bit more of it, and he'd, and he always kept going back to that woo-hoo part.

568
00:24:06,650 --> 00:24:08,516
And I'm like, what do you say?

569
00:24:08,583 --> 00:24:10,200
Oh, I know which one he's talking about.

570
00:24:10,250 --> 00:24:10,966
Richie, yeah.

571
00:24:11,099 --> 00:24:13,133
And when I got it and I played it for him.

572
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:13,983
I said, is this the one?

573
00:24:14,033 --> 00:24:14,700
And he said, yes.

574
00:24:14,750 --> 00:24:16,433
He said, don't tell Jeff.

575
00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:17,033
doing that.

576
00:24:18,483 --> 00:24:20,650
He said or Ashley or Jake.

577
00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:21,599
Don't tell them.

578
00:24:21,650 --> 00:24:22,666
I wanna surprise him.

579
00:24:23,099 --> 00:24:23,700
He did.

580
00:24:23,883 --> 00:24:24,549
He did.

581
00:24:24,783 --> 00:24:25,566
That's funny.

582
00:24:26,033 --> 00:24:26,866
That sofa.

583
00:24:26,933 --> 00:24:29,933
Yeah, I thought he was going to go up there and sing the song, and he's standing there

584
00:24:29,933 --> 00:24:31,366
and standing there and I'm like, what's going on?

585
00:24:31,733 --> 00:24:33,950
And that song came in and went, oh...

586
00:24:33,950 --> 00:24:34,783
Here we go.

587
00:24:35,633 --> 00:24:36,299
Here we go.

588
00:24:37,083 --> 00:24:37,799
Oh, man.

589
00:24:38,333 --> 00:24:39,000
All right.

590
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:39,666
Where we at?

591
00:24:39,783 --> 00:24:41,766
I think. 19, 19, yeah.

592
00:24:41,816 --> 00:24:42,000
yeah.

593
00:24:42,766 --> 00:24:43,433
Is it my turn?

594
00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:44,033
Yes, sir.

595
00:24:44,283 --> 00:24:45,066
Out of the ground.

596
00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:48,183
Oh, well, we'll read 19 and 20 together

597
00:24:48,183 --> 00:24:49,616
or...

598
00:24:49,683 --> 00:24:52,750
Out of the ground, the Lord formed every beast of the field and

599
00:24:52,750 --> 00:24:56,150
every bird of the sky and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.

600
00:24:56,633 --> 00:24:59,633
And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

601
00:25:00,049 --> 00:25:03,283
The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky,

602
00:25:03,299 --> 00:25:06,299
and to every beast of the field, but for Adam, there was not

603
00:25:06,299 --> 00:25:08,766
found a helper suitable for him.

604
00:25:10,916 --> 00:25:12,233
This is his authority, man.

605
00:25:12,783 --> 00:25:14,700
This dude had authority over everything.

606
00:25:15,299 --> 00:25:15,966
to name it.

607
00:25:16,733 --> 00:25:18,616
And you think about this.

608
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,316
Man had to be pretty intelligent to name every

609
00:25:22,316 --> 00:25:23,933
single creature.

610
00:25:24,116 --> 00:25:24,833
stuff, isn't it?

611
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:25,500
I took a lot of stuff.

612
00:25:25,733 --> 00:25:29,099
I mean, he to not only name it, but remember it.

613
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:29,816
Yeah.

614
00:25:29,816 --> 00:25:32,816
Like, oh, that's a Tyrannosaurus race.

615
00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:35,466
Loss of raptor.

616
00:25:35,516 --> 00:25:36,299
Yeah, yeah.

617
00:25:36,950 --> 00:25:40,316
So, yeah, I mean, that's a that's

618
00:25:40,316 --> 00:25:43,383
a huge task to take on and then to remember

619
00:25:43,383 --> 00:25:44,400
those names, you know?

620
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:45,533
It took them a while.

621
00:25:45,533 --> 00:25:46,966
Because I'd been like, what did I call that?

622
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:48,900
Come here, spot.

623
00:25:49,316 --> 00:25:49,966
Back over here.

624
00:25:50,750 --> 00:25:51,533
Hey, you.

625
00:25:51,650 --> 00:25:52,549
Yeah, yeah.

626
00:25:54,049 --> 00:25:55,549
I mean, it'd be tough.

627
00:25:55,983 --> 00:25:56,950
Man, I do good.

628
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,200
Remember my 2 kids names.

629
00:26:00,116 --> 00:26:00,783
I'm telling you.

630
00:26:00,833 --> 00:26:04,916
Oh, I call I'll call Titan Brennan Brennan, Titan, Summer.

631
00:26:05,883 --> 00:26:08,049
I just whatever I can think of, you know, at the time.

632
00:26:08,816 --> 00:26:12,116
They said that, you know, God had already said, I'm going to make a helper, suitable for him.

633
00:26:12,183 --> 00:26:15,233
And then he tells him to name it, and then it says, there was not

634
00:26:15,233 --> 00:26:16,549
found a helper suitable for him.

635
00:26:16,616 --> 00:26:20,283
So that lets me know that a cat or a dog or a pet is not enough for you.

636
00:26:20,333 --> 00:26:20,933
Yeah, yeah.

637
00:26:21,299 --> 00:26:21,666
Exactly.

638
00:26:22,433 --> 00:26:22,966
That's right.

639
00:26:22,983 --> 00:26:24,299
You need human companionship.

640
00:26:24,349 --> 00:26:24,950
That's exactly right

641
00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:25,733
Amen.

642
00:26:25,916 --> 00:26:30,483
Well, and and, you know, this

643
00:26:30,483 --> 00:26:31,750
is such an incredible thing.

644
00:26:31,849 --> 00:26:33,883
And a lot of people misinterpret.

645
00:26:34,983 --> 00:26:37,450
The days of creation, that's already happened.

646
00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:37,983
That's done.

647
00:26:38,150 --> 00:26:40,183
This is after the creation event.

648
00:26:40,250 --> 00:26:44,033
God recreates all of the animals and

649
00:26:44,033 --> 00:26:48,000
has them parade out in front of Adam for him to name them.

650
00:26:48,299 --> 00:26:51,900
And then he goes, well, none of these are suitable to be his to be his helper.

651
00:26:54,299 --> 00:26:57,833
And there were, you know, like you say, there's, you got dinosaurs walking out through there.

652
00:26:57,900 --> 00:26:59,166
Those been pretty good helpers.

653
00:26:59,583 --> 00:27:02,816
You got, you got, I mean, and nope, they're not suitable.

654
00:27:02,883 --> 00:27:06,000
You got big old gorillas and apes and stuff that

655
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,533
have opposable thumbs and can absolutely work with tools and do.

656
00:27:09,599 --> 00:27:11,283
Well, no, sorry, they don't, they're not suitable.

657
00:27:12,650 --> 00:27:15,716
I mean, God was demonstrating to Adam, you

658
00:27:15,716 --> 00:27:18,349
being alone as the only human.

659
00:27:20,150 --> 00:27:20,750
is not good.

660
00:27:21,183 --> 00:27:24,233
No, this, this will,

661
00:27:24,233 --> 00:27:26,450
these animals will not fulfill that purpose.

662
00:27:26,516 --> 00:27:29,633
They have a purpose, but not the purpose that I

663
00:27:29,633 --> 00:27:31,500
have for you in a relationship.

664
00:27:31,733 --> 00:27:32,150
Right.

665
00:27:32,216 --> 00:27:32,516
Yeah.

666
00:27:33,650 --> 00:27:36,283
And I mean, who knows?

667
00:27:36,783 --> 00:27:38,466
I mean, these animals may been come by talking to them.

668
00:27:38,516 --> 00:27:39,000
We don't know.

669
00:27:39,349 --> 00:27:41,266
I mean, there's nothing really to say that.

670
00:27:41,333 --> 00:27:44,333
I've seen some people say that, you know, because of later on the

671
00:27:44,333 --> 00:27:47,450
description, you know, they don't seem too surprised about the serpent having a

672
00:27:47,450 --> 00:27:48,583
conversation.

673
00:27:48,650 --> 00:27:51,650
Apparently it wasn't too unusual, but I mean,

674
00:27:51,650 --> 00:27:54,650
we don't know, but either way, God said,

675
00:27:54,650 --> 00:27:56,516
hey, look, none of these work.

676
00:27:57,483 --> 00:28:00,483
And there doesn't seem to be any indication here that Adam

677
00:28:00,483 --> 00:28:01,750
went, hey, what about that one?

678
00:28:02,216 --> 00:28:04,316
He just named them all and he's just kind of like, eh.

679
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,766
Like, even he realized, this isn't none of these are really going to work, Lord.

680
00:28:10,433 --> 00:28:11,099
Absolutely.

681
00:28:11,450 --> 00:28:12,049
Absolutely.

682
00:28:13,016 --> 00:28:16,916
I mean, man is only half a man until

683
00:28:16,916 --> 00:28:18,116
he finds his helper.

684
00:28:18,716 --> 00:28:19,133
Yes.

685
00:28:19,133 --> 00:28:22,549
I mean, there's there's somebody out there that completes you.

686
00:28:22,683 --> 00:28:23,466
She's a.

687
00:28:25,316 --> 00:28:27,233
I mean, that's the way I feel about Nicole.

688
00:28:27,299 --> 00:28:29,766
I think she's the half that makes me whole, you know?

689
00:28:29,816 --> 00:28:30,599
I really do.

690
00:28:30,650 --> 00:28:33,766
I mean, she's uh, and we're

691
00:28:33,783 --> 00:28:34,799
we're one together.

692
00:28:35,916 --> 00:28:36,416
So.

693
00:28:41,633 --> 00:28:42,299
Silence.

694
00:28:42,349 --> 00:28:45,766
Verse 20, 20, 20, and the Lord.

695
00:28:45,950 --> 00:28:49,016
God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he

696
00:28:49,016 --> 00:28:52,133
slept and took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh

697
00:28:52,133 --> 00:28:53,150
instead of thereof.

698
00:28:53,150 --> 00:28:56,450
And the rib, which

699
00:28:56,450 --> 00:28:59,566
the man, the Lord God had taken from man, made he

700
00:28:59,583 --> 00:29:02,283
a woman and brought her unto the man.

701
00:29:03,533 --> 00:29:06,950
So taken from his side to

702
00:29:06,950 --> 00:29:08,150
be by his side.

703
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,233
And that's something.

704
00:29:09,299 --> 00:29:09,666
Yeah.

705
00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:11,883
That's beautiful, isn't it?

706
00:29:11,933 --> 00:29:12,533
That's awesome.

707
00:29:12,650 --> 00:29:13,433
That's awesome.

708
00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:14,816
And he had nothing to do with it.

709
00:29:15,533 --> 00:29:17,266
It's just an act of God's grace.

710
00:29:17,333 --> 00:29:18,116
It is, yeah.

711
00:29:18,233 --> 00:29:18,650
Yeah.

712
00:29:18,950 --> 00:29:19,366
Yeah.

713
00:29:19,433 --> 00:29:22,666
And that, you know, he could have he

714
00:29:22,683 --> 00:29:23,883
could have made her out of the dust too.

715
00:29:24,533 --> 00:29:25,433
Sure, sure.

716
00:29:27,950 --> 00:29:29,033
She was part of his essence.

717
00:29:29,099 --> 00:29:29,583
That's right

718
00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:31,383
She's part of him literally.

719
00:29:31,549 --> 00:29:31,916
Yeah.

720
00:29:31,916 --> 00:29:34,250
And that's that's the beauty of marriage.

721
00:29:34,316 --> 00:29:37,683
And that, that, that, that the 2 show become one.

722
00:29:38,216 --> 00:29:40,083
And we already read that.

723
00:29:40,133 --> 00:29:41,150
Not maybe not.

724
00:29:41,583 --> 00:29:44,583
No, we haven't, but and I

725
00:29:44,583 --> 00:29:46,200
love what where Paul goes with that.

726
00:29:46,250 --> 00:29:49,433
I think it's in Ephesians, or it's a mystery and

727
00:29:49,433 --> 00:29:51,466
it's like the Christ in the church.

728
00:29:51,533 --> 00:29:52,316
Yeah, yeah.

729
00:29:52,383 --> 00:29:52,750
Yes.

730
00:29:52,983 --> 00:29:55,866
And there's this union that's happened between believers.

731
00:29:55,916 --> 00:29:58,983
Well, I'm hung up on this lately, but we know that

732
00:29:58,983 --> 00:30:02,099
Holy Spirit has come to live inside of us the moment we're

733
00:30:02,099 --> 00:30:05,283
saved and that he dwells in us and he leads

734
00:30:05,283 --> 00:30:07,316
us and guides us comforts us and teaches us.

735
00:30:07,683 --> 00:30:10,866
And but what I've just totally,

736
00:30:10,866 --> 00:30:14,516
I don't know if I've totally ignored it, but that I'm in him.

737
00:30:14,750 --> 00:30:15,650
Yeah.

738
00:30:15,716 --> 00:30:16,433
I'm in him.

739
00:30:17,150 --> 00:30:20,150
And at the moment I was saved, I was baptized

740
00:30:20,150 --> 00:30:23,216
into his body and I've become one with him and

741
00:30:23,216 --> 00:30:24,483
it's a union just like a marriage.

742
00:30:24,716 --> 00:30:25,016
right

743
00:30:25,799 --> 00:30:26,633
Just like a marriage.

744
00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,316
And it's the same thing I think we see here.

745
00:30:28,383 --> 00:30:30,000
This is almost prophetic of the church.

746
00:30:30,116 --> 00:30:30,483
Yeah.

747
00:30:30,483 --> 00:30:34,683
Where Eve is taken from Adam and their one essence.

748
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:35,333
Amen.

749
00:30:35,516 --> 00:30:36,049
Amen.

750
00:30:36,116 --> 00:30:37,549
Yeah, one and the same.

751
00:30:37,549 --> 00:30:37,849
Yeah.

752
00:30:38,283 --> 00:30:38,950
part of him.

753
00:30:39,416 --> 00:30:39,783
Yeah.

754
00:30:40,083 --> 00:30:40,549
Mm.

755
00:30:40,549 --> 00:30:40,866
Mm.

756
00:30:41,883 --> 00:30:44,099
It just, man, it just all work together, don't it?

757
00:30:44,516 --> 00:30:47,583
So, I, I don't want to get too far

758
00:30:47,583 --> 00:30:50,700
ahead because, I mean, I was going to talk about this a little bit when

759
00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:53,883
we talked about, uh, Kang and Abel

760
00:30:53,883 --> 00:30:56,883
and, and, uh, and them

761
00:30:56,883 --> 00:30:59,883
going out, you know, getting wives and having children and

762
00:30:59,883 --> 00:31:00,966
all this, all these things.

763
00:31:01,016 --> 00:31:04,683
But, um, I've

764
00:31:04,683 --> 00:31:08,750
heard a lot of people say, um, that,

765
00:31:08,750 --> 00:31:12,650
well, how did they, you know, there had to been other creations

766
00:31:12,650 --> 00:31:15,950
that, you know, he, they may, he may have created

767
00:31:15,950 --> 00:31:19,066
Adam and Eve, but he come along beside, they, they,

768
00:31:19,083 --> 00:31:22,200
they were the ones brought in the story, but they're, you know, he,

769
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,316
he may have created another couple of people over here and

770
00:31:25,316 --> 00:31:27,483
a couple of people over here and a couple of people over here.

771
00:31:28,549 --> 00:31:31,066
Well, that there's no way.

772
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:33,666
There is no way that that can be true.

773
00:31:33,716 --> 00:31:34,433
And I'll tell you why.

774
00:31:37,133 --> 00:31:39,766
We are all lost in Adam.

775
00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:40,916
Yeah.

776
00:31:41,366 --> 00:31:44,933
Adam sinned, he

777
00:31:44,933 --> 00:31:46,616
done what God told him not to do.

778
00:31:46,733 --> 00:31:49,016
And I know I'm getting a little bit of ahead, but you all know the story.

779
00:31:51,183 --> 00:31:54,483
And when he's seeing, uh, it brought death upon all of us.

780
00:31:55,316 --> 00:31:58,316
If there had been another creation over here, another

781
00:31:58,316 --> 00:32:01,316
creation over here, another creation over here, they would

782
00:32:01,316 --> 00:32:05,400
have, and they didn't sin, then it'd still be pure.

783
00:32:05,816 --> 00:32:07,849
And God would only have to save.

784
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Uh, us, right, who came from Adam.

785
00:32:12,299 --> 00:32:16,266
And we know that we all came from Adam.

786
00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:17,216
Right?

787
00:32:17,816 --> 00:32:19,083
The Bible tells us that.

788
00:32:19,316 --> 00:32:22,316
In fact, all these genetic studies, we talked about this

789
00:32:22,316 --> 00:32:24,783
before, takes it back to one woman, right?

790
00:32:25,383 --> 00:32:28,500
And so if we can all go back to one woman and we're

791
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:31,616
all kin to each other, then there can't be a

792
00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:35,516
separate creation of DNA over here, you know, over here.

793
00:32:36,416 --> 00:32:40,250
It's, it's, it's, these were literally the

794
00:32:40,250 --> 00:32:43,250
1st 2 people and everybody came from

795
00:32:43,250 --> 00:32:46,366
them and all were lost from

796
00:32:46,383 --> 00:32:50,099
them and to this and we all must be saved.

797
00:32:50,516 --> 00:32:51,599
Yep, bingo.

798
00:32:51,716 --> 00:32:52,200
Amen.

799
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,266
And that's that's the interesting thing

800
00:32:55,266 --> 00:32:58,733
is in order to believe that there were these other groups.

801
00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:02,283
I mean, you could, you could argue that somehow,

802
00:33:02,283 --> 00:33:05,583
Adam's Lyme just happened to spread and get everywhere

803
00:33:05,583 --> 00:33:08,583
and the other groups just slowly died out

804
00:33:08,583 --> 00:33:11,700
and didn't or whatever, but you would have to believe that, one, God allowed

805
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:15,000
his perfect creations to start dying out, even though there was no indication

806
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,883
that he was going to do that, or he created a bunch of lost ones.

807
00:33:18,533 --> 00:33:21,533
that were already lost, that were already sinners that were already

808
00:33:21,533 --> 00:33:22,666
separated from him.

809
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,616
Again, there's no evidence.

810
00:33:25,683 --> 00:33:29,166
There's nothing to suggest that God created things that were broken.

811
00:33:29,450 --> 00:33:32,083
He created things that were completed, that were ready.

812
00:33:32,150 --> 00:33:35,383
The brokenness comes from the choices that Adam and Eve made.

813
00:33:36,833 --> 00:33:40,016
Yeah, and there's a, there's a lot, a lot in

814
00:33:40,016 --> 00:33:43,200
this little section here too, about, about the created order.

815
00:33:43,666 --> 00:33:46,683
And, uh, I don't know, open this can

816
00:33:46,683 --> 00:33:49,566
of worms again, but God created Adam.

817
00:33:49,616 --> 00:33:50,583
Eve came from Adam.

818
00:33:50,883 --> 00:33:51,483
That's right.

819
00:33:51,483 --> 00:33:53,516
And it gives a created order of things.

820
00:33:53,883 --> 00:33:57,049
And Paul tells us about this in 2nd 1st

821
00:33:57,049 --> 00:34:00,049
Timothy 2, 12 and 13, he says, but I do

822
00:34:00,049 --> 00:34:03,116
not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but

823
00:34:03,116 --> 00:34:06,833
to remain quiet, for it was Adam, who's 1st created, and then Eve.

824
00:34:07,316 --> 00:34:11,400
And it's not because he looks down on women, it's because it's the created order.

825
00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:12,833
he says.

826
00:34:13,466 --> 00:34:16,550
And that's I don't

827
00:34:16,550 --> 00:34:18,716
know how to, you know, smooth that over.

828
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:20,283
I don't think you can.

829
00:34:20,449 --> 00:34:21,416
just the way it is.

830
00:34:22,849 --> 00:34:26,150
And it's not that man is so much greater than woman.

831
00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:29,033
It's just the created order, Paul says.

832
00:34:29,583 --> 00:34:31,800
He also has something in 1st Corinthians.

833
00:34:32,816 --> 00:34:33,949
Let me see if I can find it.

834
00:34:34,083 --> 00:34:35,400
1st Corinthians 11.

835
00:34:36,949 --> 00:34:38,033
Uh, 8 through 12.

836
00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:41,516
I don't read the whole thing, but he says, for man

837
00:34:41,516 --> 00:34:44,516
does not originate from woman, but woman from man, for indeed

838
00:34:44,516 --> 00:34:47,750
man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.

839
00:34:48,183 --> 00:34:48,550
Sure.

840
00:34:48,550 --> 00:34:51,533
So, uh, he uses that as created

841
00:34:51,533 --> 00:34:55,433
order as to have order in the church and the way that God intended.

842
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:56,283
I agree.

843
00:34:56,449 --> 00:34:57,650
I agree 100%.

844
00:34:58,616 --> 00:35:02,583
And I love what, I think it's Cliff,

845
00:35:02,583 --> 00:35:05,766
I can't think of his name, the guy that has a tendency

846
00:35:05,766 --> 00:35:09,766
to preach to colleges and he always has the debates with Muslims.

847
00:35:10,133 --> 00:35:12,050
Somebody asked him that question at one point.

848
00:35:12,116 --> 00:35:15,949
They asked him about, well, why are you telling us you don't allow women to teach in church?

849
00:35:16,016 --> 00:35:19,500
He said, look, there's an order, there's a way it's supposed to work.

850
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,633
He said, if, for some reason,

851
00:35:23,633 --> 00:35:25,066
the man can't be here.

852
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,400
Yes, one of our wives can take over for a little bit

853
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,500
until we get back if they need to.

854
00:35:31,616 --> 00:35:33,483
But all the men got to be gone.

855
00:35:34,733 --> 00:35:35,516
For some reason.

856
00:35:35,583 --> 00:35:39,783
He's like, it's, he said, I'm not saying that they don't have their, that there's not a reason.

857
00:35:39,833 --> 00:35:42,949
He said, and when you're talking about a new Christian, he said, hey, sometimes

858
00:35:42,949 --> 00:35:45,949
you're going to have a woman come along and be the one to lead

859
00:35:45,949 --> 00:35:49,066
them and be the one to kind of kind of get them stepped in, but

860
00:35:49,083 --> 00:35:51,966
once they're in, there's an order, there's a way to do it.

861
00:35:52,016 --> 00:35:54,716
And he said, it is in absence of the men.

862
00:35:55,433 --> 00:35:58,316
Yes, these experienced older women need to be stepping up.

863
00:35:58,733 --> 00:36:01,849
But once the men and the leaders of the church are

864
00:36:01,849 --> 00:36:04,183
back, that is our calling, that's what we're supposed to do.

865
00:36:04,383 --> 00:36:07,199
And he's like, and he said, I'm sorry, you just can't get around it.

866
00:36:07,250 --> 00:36:08,516
And I think he's right.

867
00:36:08,633 --> 00:36:12,050
It's a, when it happens, it is a very exceptional

868
00:36:12,050 --> 00:36:15,533
thing that is for a very brief period, making

869
00:36:15,533 --> 00:36:18,416
room for, okay, well, now it's time to get back to the normal order.

870
00:36:18,483 --> 00:36:21,599
No, we've got too many men that just abdicate the responsibility too, that

871
00:36:21,599 --> 00:36:24,000
they just don't have no, they don't have a backbone.

872
00:36:24,050 --> 00:36:24,416
That's right.

873
00:36:24,416 --> 00:36:25,383
I stand up and do it.

874
00:36:25,616 --> 00:36:28,133
I think that may be what's led to the problem that we have today.

875
00:36:29,449 --> 00:36:32,449
Or they misrepresent Christ in their home and their wives

876
00:36:32,449 --> 00:36:36,166
don't listen to them because they're, they're,

877
00:36:36,183 --> 00:36:39,183
they're not showing, they, they try to

878
00:36:39,183 --> 00:36:41,650
show Christ, but then they also want to dominate.

879
00:36:41,699 --> 00:36:44,766
They also want to rule over.

880
00:36:44,816 --> 00:36:48,233
They also want to, you know, just just

881
00:36:48,233 --> 00:36:49,616
push, right?

882
00:36:49,683 --> 00:36:51,116
You know, and so...

883
00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:52,683
They completely ignore being Christ-like.

884
00:36:52,849 --> 00:36:53,516
Yeah, yeah.

885
00:36:54,050 --> 00:36:57,116
Or if she's not where she needs to be, then she's not going to fall under

886
00:36:57,116 --> 00:36:58,616
his, you know.

887
00:36:58,683 --> 00:36:59,949
Well, that's part of the curse, too.

888
00:37:00,183 --> 00:37:00,966
Yeah, yeah.

889
00:37:02,816 --> 00:37:05,816
And that while we're still talking about this, go ahead

890
00:37:05,816 --> 00:37:09,716
and read verse 23, because I, you know, our 23,

891
00:37:09,716 --> 00:37:11,449
however far you want to go, 23, 24.

892
00:37:11,750 --> 00:37:12,166
Yeah.

893
00:37:13,266 --> 00:37:16,383
Because that what you're saying all goes in this right here.

894
00:37:16,916 --> 00:37:20,750
The man said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

895
00:37:20,816 --> 00:37:24,599
She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

896
00:37:24,650 --> 00:37:27,833
For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined

897
00:37:27,833 --> 00:37:30,349
to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

898
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:30,966
Yeah.

899
00:37:30,966 --> 00:37:34,133
So, so God created

900
00:37:34,133 --> 00:37:35,633
man to lead.

901
00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:40,016
God leads man, man leads woman.

902
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,000
And so what does that mean?

903
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,900
It means man is now responsible for his wife, right?

904
00:37:47,099 --> 00:37:49,683
We're responsible for our spouses.

905
00:37:49,733 --> 00:37:51,300
We're responsible for our wives.

906
00:37:51,533 --> 00:37:54,716
Um, and and not subject to

907
00:37:54,716 --> 00:37:56,583
parents anymore, right?

908
00:37:57,116 --> 00:37:59,699
This is the order of things now.

909
00:37:59,750 --> 00:38:02,816
Man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto

910
00:38:02,816 --> 00:38:04,316
his wife and they shall be one flesh.

911
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:07,666
Listen, we sometimes...

912
00:38:08,416 --> 00:38:11,583
It's hard as a

913
00:38:11,583 --> 00:38:14,216
parent, especially a parent of girls.

914
00:38:15,116 --> 00:38:15,833
to let go.

915
00:38:17,516 --> 00:38:21,483
And so my, our prayer has always been, uh,

916
00:38:21,483 --> 00:38:24,550
Lord, send them godly men, send them men who

917
00:38:24,550 --> 00:38:27,949
love you, send them men who will worship you and lead

918
00:38:27,949 --> 00:38:28,966
them spiritually.

919
00:38:28,983 --> 00:38:33,183
And, uh, and, uh, it's,

920
00:38:33,183 --> 00:38:36,300
it's hard to, uh, as a father to

921
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:39,349
not to, to not want to steal lead

922
00:38:39,349 --> 00:38:41,333
spiritually for them, you know?

923
00:38:41,816 --> 00:38:43,916
And, and, and I'm not.

924
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,966
I'm not Tatums.

925
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:50,466
I'm not Brennan's and I'm not Summers spiritual leader anymore.

926
00:38:50,750 --> 00:38:52,016
Not the spiritual leader.

927
00:38:52,083 --> 00:38:55,733
I mean, I'm, you know, I am as a pastor and

928
00:38:55,733 --> 00:38:59,266
still as a father in some ways, but those

929
00:38:59,283 --> 00:39:02,400
young men are now, they

930
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,699
now have the responsibility of leading my daughters.

931
00:39:07,316 --> 00:39:10,316
And I've got to sometimes look, you

932
00:39:10,316 --> 00:39:13,383
know, they may not be doing it just exactly like I think they

933
00:39:13,383 --> 00:39:16,433
should or the way that I think and I'm not saying

934
00:39:16,433 --> 00:39:17,516
that they're doing it wrong.

935
00:39:17,583 --> 00:39:20,750
I'm just saying, you know, I've got to learn,

936
00:39:20,750 --> 00:39:22,066
hey, I got to step back.

937
00:39:22,133 --> 00:39:25,316
I got to, uh, you know, unless it's

938
00:39:25,316 --> 00:39:29,033
something that's going to hurt them spiritually or I see something, you know, that

939
00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:32,699
would hurt their their children, but otherwise they're,

940
00:39:32,699 --> 00:39:35,699
they, they have a responsibility now to leave

941
00:39:35,699 --> 00:39:36,716
my daughters.

942
00:39:36,716 --> 00:39:39,716
And, and, uh, and so we, as parents have

943
00:39:39,716 --> 00:39:42,833
to learn how to just sometimes just back off a

944
00:39:42,833 --> 00:39:44,033
little bit, you know, stuff.

945
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,583
Take that step back and let it let it let it go as it goes.

946
00:39:47,933 --> 00:39:51,166
Yeah, that's what that's what Godfather does to us too, sometimes.

947
00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:53,583
We got to we got to touch the hot stoves.

948
00:39:53,633 --> 00:39:54,466
Oh, yeah.

949
00:39:54,483 --> 00:39:57,533
You know, she was joking the

950
00:39:57,533 --> 00:39:58,733
other night during Bible study.

951
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,916
I don't know if you heard her, but I said, I said, we were talking about

952
00:40:01,916 --> 00:40:03,416
having a choice about going to church.

953
00:40:03,483 --> 00:40:06,066
I said, Tatum, did y'all ever have a choice growing up going to church?

954
00:40:06,483 --> 00:40:09,066
And she looked at Blake and she said, Blake, do we have a choice now?

955
00:40:13,250 --> 00:40:14,033
Oh, that's funny.

956
00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:18,650
Well, you know, and and that's one of the things that I always find

957
00:40:18,650 --> 00:40:21,650
interesting, that people get so down on these

958
00:40:21,650 --> 00:40:24,466
verse, this verse right here, verse 24,

959
00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:28,500
Um, or, well, yeah, you

960
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,566
know, talking about the the man and the wife

961
00:40:31,566 --> 00:40:34,849
and and how he's supposed to lead and how this leads to that and how,

962
00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:37,133
well, are you ignoring the last part?

963
00:40:37,133 --> 00:40:40,066
is what I always ask people when they start saying it's a bad thing?

964
00:40:40,133 --> 00:40:42,300
And I'm like, they are one flesh.

965
00:40:42,349 --> 00:40:43,433
Would you cut off your own arm?

966
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,750
Are you going to mangle your own hand in the in the dish drainer

967
00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:48,949
just because you're upset with it?

968
00:40:49,016 --> 00:40:49,800
No, of course not.

969
00:40:49,849 --> 00:40:50,516
You're gonna...

970
00:40:50,516 --> 00:40:51,349
It's a dependency.

971
00:40:52,133 --> 00:40:52,733
Yeah, right.

972
00:40:53,583 --> 00:40:54,599
And we're wired different.

973
00:40:54,716 --> 00:40:55,800
Yeah, exactly.

974
00:40:55,916 --> 00:40:56,816
Men are different than women.

975
00:40:56,883 --> 00:40:58,449
Don't let anybody tell you any different.

976
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:01,566
And women were never an afterthought that God just

977
00:41:01,566 --> 00:41:05,449
said, well, you know, it makes it kind of sound that way a little bit.

978
00:41:05,933 --> 00:41:10,016
Like it wasn't a plan all along, maybe, but he,

979
00:41:10,016 --> 00:41:14,033
like I said, earlier, he already knew he was going to die on a tree at that point.

980
00:41:15,349 --> 00:41:18,416
And it's like one of you said earlier, he had to prove to Adam

981
00:41:18,416 --> 00:41:20,150
that he needed her.

982
00:41:20,516 --> 00:41:20,933
Right.

983
00:41:21,716 --> 00:41:24,900
He had to prove to Adam that, and that

984
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:25,916
was his plan the whole time.

985
00:41:25,983 --> 00:41:27,716
Okay, Adam, now let me just show you this.

986
00:41:27,783 --> 00:41:29,650
These are these are animals.

987
00:41:29,883 --> 00:41:31,316
I want to get you to name them.

988
00:41:31,616 --> 00:41:35,400
Which one of them do you think would be the one you want to hang out with all the time?

989
00:41:35,449 --> 00:41:38,449
And he's like, you know, they kind of get on my nerds

990
00:41:38,449 --> 00:41:40,366
or all the time licking stuff.

991
00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:41,766
That one just peed on my leg.

992
00:41:45,483 --> 00:41:48,550
They're eating grass and licking the dirt, man,

993
00:41:48,550 --> 00:41:51,833
you know, and he's like, that's right, Adam, you need somebody that

994
00:41:52,416 --> 00:41:54,000
will keep you from doing that.

995
00:41:55,316 --> 00:41:55,733
Yeah.

996
00:41:59,283 --> 00:42:02,400
If you hang out with him long enough, Adam, you're going to be drooling in the corner.

997
00:42:02,449 --> 00:42:03,949
You need somebody to keep you from doing that.

998
00:42:04,316 --> 00:42:07,683
I don't want, man, I

999
00:42:07,683 --> 00:42:10,916
don't want to, I don't want to portray it as, uh,

1000
00:42:10,916 --> 00:42:13,733
they, them women, they need us, but we don't need them.

1001
00:42:14,816 --> 00:42:15,300
my wife.

1002
00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:16,916
I needed her.

1003
00:42:16,983 --> 00:42:20,166
I need her to tell me sometimes things that

1004
00:42:20,166 --> 00:42:24,166
other people wouldn't tell me that they may not say to me, but she would.

1005
00:42:24,416 --> 00:42:25,250
Even if it hurts.

1006
00:42:25,316 --> 00:42:26,933
Yeah, even if it hurts a little bit.

1007
00:42:27,483 --> 00:42:29,099
sometimes you just need her to tell her that you need her.

1008
00:42:29,449 --> 00:42:30,116
That's it.

1009
00:42:30,116 --> 00:42:31,250
Yeah, yeah.

1010
00:42:31,316 --> 00:42:32,033
Absolutely.

1011
00:42:32,099 --> 00:42:32,699
Absolutely.

1012
00:42:34,683 --> 00:42:40,150
But I think about this take, uh, God made women.

1013
00:42:42,533 --> 00:42:44,333
In a way that we would be attracted to.

1014
00:42:44,633 --> 00:42:45,533
Oh yeah, yeah.

1015
00:42:45,949 --> 00:42:49,016
I was thinking, I was thinking when Adam said that, the translation

1016
00:42:53,416 --> 00:42:54,533
was...

1017
00:42:54,650 --> 00:42:55,483
was good.

1018
00:42:56,283 --> 00:42:57,250
Love you, God.

1019
00:42:58,550 --> 00:42:59,266
Thank you.

1020
00:42:59,333 --> 00:42:59,933
Thank you.

1021
00:43:04,916 --> 00:43:06,000
Oh my goodness.

1022
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,150
And she comes to laptop.

1023
00:43:08,150 --> 00:43:09,349
I fixed 24, 36.

1024
00:43:10,983 --> 00:43:11,583
Oh, no.

1025
00:43:12,483 --> 00:43:13,750
I'm stuck with him.

1026
00:43:13,849 --> 00:43:15,466
Lord, you stuck me with him the rest of them.

1027
00:43:15,599 --> 00:43:16,383
Can I be a rib again?

1028
00:43:17,099 --> 00:43:18,233
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1029
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:20,883
Why is he why is he always stitching me?

1030
00:43:23,750 --> 00:43:26,333
Why y'all always got to be Desam, you know?

1031
00:43:31,383 --> 00:43:31,683
man

1032
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,283
But here's a here's a good thing for for the women to hear too.

1033
00:43:35,333 --> 00:43:38,566
But, you know, since God gave Adam the authority and the dominion

1034
00:43:38,583 --> 00:43:41,883
over all this stuff, our sin nature's passed down through the mail.

1035
00:43:42,233 --> 00:43:43,433
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

1036
00:43:43,733 --> 00:43:45,300
Because think about the virgin birth.

1037
00:43:45,949 --> 00:43:47,150
Jesus had no sin nature.

1038
00:43:47,933 --> 00:43:49,316
Because his father was the Holy Spirit.

1039
00:43:49,716 --> 00:43:50,133
That's right

1040
00:43:50,316 --> 00:43:50,849
Amen.

1041
00:43:51,216 --> 00:43:52,000
So, yeah.

1042
00:43:52,116 --> 00:43:54,283
Women got it on us on that one.

1043
00:43:54,333 --> 00:43:54,750
They do.

1044
00:43:54,816 --> 00:43:55,183
They do.

1045
00:43:55,233 --> 00:43:55,650
Absolutely.

1046
00:43:55,716 --> 00:43:56,316
They have one.

1047
00:43:56,383 --> 00:43:57,099
Don't get me wrong.

1048
00:43:57,150 --> 00:43:59,133
They got to send nature some Texas.

1049
00:43:59,733 --> 00:44:01,349
It comes from the failure of man.

1050
00:44:01,416 --> 00:44:03,033
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1051
00:44:03,333 --> 00:44:03,933
It did.

1052
00:44:04,116 --> 00:44:04,783
absolutely.

1053
00:44:06,283 --> 00:44:06,949
Oh, boy.

1054
00:44:08,683 --> 00:44:09,516
We hit that next one.

1055
00:44:09,699 --> 00:44:10,966
Oh, wait, oh, wait.

1056
00:44:11,849 --> 00:44:13,883
And that brings us to birth 25.

1057
00:44:14,199 --> 00:44:15,216
Oh, woohoo.

1058
00:44:18,766 --> 00:44:20,983
That's not exactly a standalone version.

1059
00:44:21,099 --> 00:44:22,366
No, it's not.

1060
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,016
I was wondering why y'all stopped earlier.

1061
00:44:26,083 --> 00:44:27,816
I was like, ah, shit, that'll be all right.

1062
00:44:27,883 --> 00:44:29,866
I should say something, but it's gonna be funnier if I don't.

1063
00:44:30,033 --> 00:44:31,416
Let's say if we can bring this around.

1064
00:44:31,533 --> 00:44:34,000
Okay, and they were both naked.

1065
00:44:34,349 --> 00:44:37,466
And man, the man and his wife, and

1066
00:44:37,483 --> 00:44:38,500
we're not ashamed.

1067
00:44:38,849 --> 00:44:39,683
So.

1068
00:44:39,699 --> 00:44:41,133
It's innocence.

1069
00:44:41,383 --> 00:44:42,583
It is, it is.

1070
00:44:44,199 --> 00:44:47,016
This was definitely the age of innocence at this point in time.

1071
00:44:47,616 --> 00:44:48,516
It was so pure.

1072
00:44:49,183 --> 00:44:52,483
They weren't, they didn't have, because when we

1073
00:44:52,483 --> 00:44:54,283
look at that from a human standpoint,

1074
00:44:54,333 --> 00:44:58,000
We think of all the things that have tarnished our mind, especially

1075
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,983
as men, the way that we look at women.

1076
00:45:00,033 --> 00:45:02,066
We've talked about that on here before, right?

1077
00:45:02,083 --> 00:45:05,199
If you've ever looked at any kind or

1078
00:45:05,199 --> 00:45:08,266
seen any kind of pornography, if you, you

1079
00:45:08,266 --> 00:45:11,550
know, or just a sports illustrated magazine

1080
00:45:11,550 --> 00:45:14,849
or just all these things where they portrayed them in a certain way,

1081
00:45:14,849 --> 00:45:18,383
in a sexual way, that was not what he meant for that to be.

1082
00:45:18,633 --> 00:45:20,916
He seen her as beautiful, right?

1083
00:45:21,283 --> 00:45:24,699
And she's seen him as whatever, but, but,

1084
00:45:24,699 --> 00:45:28,833
but, but, it was, they, they both were next.

1085
00:45:28,833 --> 00:45:30,516
She might have been paying about a fig leaf.

1086
00:45:30,583 --> 00:45:32,666
He may have been yelling, Lord, when you...

1087
00:45:33,449 --> 00:45:34,650
Could you get a fig leaf?

1088
00:45:34,650 --> 00:45:36,866
and he's like, not yet, but this kind of...

1089
00:45:36,933 --> 00:45:37,716
Okay, just hang on.

1090
00:45:37,783 --> 00:45:38,383
Hang on a minute.

1091
00:45:41,133 --> 00:45:42,333
It's happening, okay?

1092
00:45:42,516 --> 00:45:45,633
Yeah, a little prophetic, eh, right there, but yeah,

1093
00:45:45,633 --> 00:45:47,966
we'll take care of that later.

1094
00:45:48,933 --> 00:45:53,316
But, you know, they, they, it wasn't dirty.

1095
00:45:53,383 --> 00:45:55,483
It hadn't been it hadn't been defiled.

1096
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,533
It was just it was just a beautiful thing.

1097
00:45:59,616 --> 00:46:02,983
And if Adam hadn't have screwed it up, we'd all been walking around naked, I guess.

1098
00:46:03,099 --> 00:46:03,633
Oh, man.

1099
00:46:04,050 --> 00:46:04,466
Yep.

1100
00:46:04,483 --> 00:46:07,250
Am I supposed to thank Adam at this point?

1101
00:46:08,983 --> 00:46:12,349
Yes, yes, because Lord.

1102
00:46:13,599 --> 00:46:14,433
Thank him then.

1103
00:46:14,433 --> 00:46:17,433
I'm not walking around naked and thinking that there's a lot of people that

1104
00:46:17,433 --> 00:46:18,566
don't need to be walking.

1105
00:46:23,849 --> 00:46:28,466
You know, and that's the amazing thing, though, is we,

1106
00:46:28,483 --> 00:46:31,716
you know, we joke about that a lot is that not only,

1107
00:46:31,716 --> 00:46:33,033
you know, they didn't realize they were naked.

1108
00:46:33,216 --> 00:46:34,349
they weren't ashamed of it.

1109
00:46:34,416 --> 00:46:35,433
They never crossed their mind.

1110
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:36,883
Like I said, there was nothing sexual about it.

1111
00:46:36,933 --> 00:46:38,016
They were just people.

1112
00:46:38,733 --> 00:46:39,400
They were just here.

1113
00:46:39,933 --> 00:46:41,199
They were as naked as the animals.

1114
00:46:42,016 --> 00:46:45,283
I mean, it was, to them, it just, it literally never registered

1115
00:46:45,283 --> 00:46:46,716
as being anything abnormal.

1116
00:46:46,716 --> 00:46:49,833
Because there was no sin nature because there was

1117
00:46:49,833 --> 00:46:53,016
none of that desire for anything negative.

1118
00:46:53,550 --> 00:46:54,983
And I guess it could have been...

1119
00:46:55,966 --> 00:46:59,083
It could have been, and I said that too, but it could have been sexual

1120
00:46:59,083 --> 00:47:01,849
in a way, but not in a dirty way.

1121
00:47:01,949 --> 00:47:02,666
Not the way it is to die.

1122
00:47:02,733 --> 00:47:04,599
Right, husband and wife.

1123
00:47:04,650 --> 00:47:08,066
He was attracted to her and it did feel it was a natural thing, right?

1124
00:47:08,133 --> 00:47:08,733
Right, exactly.

1125
00:47:08,733 --> 00:47:09,566
It was a natural thing.

1126
00:47:09,750 --> 00:47:13,283
And we're not supposed to go around imagining,

1127
00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:17,133
you know, you may you may see a

1128
00:47:17,133 --> 00:47:19,949
woman and you think, okay, she's she's a pretty lady.

1129
00:47:21,066 --> 00:47:22,000
Stop right there.

1130
00:47:22,233 --> 00:47:22,650
Stop.

1131
00:47:22,650 --> 00:47:23,666
Because if you go...

1132
00:47:23,683 --> 00:47:24,650
There's no reason going any further.

1133
00:47:24,883 --> 00:47:25,599
That's yeah.

1134
00:47:25,650 --> 00:47:28,716
If you go any further, then you're...

1135
00:47:29,016 --> 00:47:29,433
Right.

1136
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:30,583
It's always the 2nd look.

1137
00:47:30,633 --> 00:47:33,816
And I was going to say, you know, there was a time and everybody

1138
00:47:33,816 --> 00:47:37,716
immediately jumps to sexualizing everything nowadays.

1139
00:47:37,833 --> 00:47:39,033
like everything.

1140
00:47:39,099 --> 00:47:40,300
It doesn't matter what you say.

1141
00:47:40,349 --> 00:47:43,166
If you're a man and you compliment a woman on the dress she's wearing,

1142
00:47:43,233 --> 00:47:44,500
Oh, you're sexualizing her.

1143
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,566
It's like, or I just thought she looks particularly pretty in that dress.

1144
00:47:47,616 --> 00:47:48,150
What's the problem?

1145
00:47:49,183 --> 00:47:52,250
I'm letting her know, hey, you you went the extra

1146
00:47:52,250 --> 00:47:55,533
mile, you took some extra steps and you look beautiful.

1147
00:47:56,133 --> 00:47:58,166
And I don't mean it necessarily mean anything.

1148
00:47:58,650 --> 00:47:59,966
That's how it was with them.

1149
00:48:00,449 --> 00:48:03,033
Adam could look at her and say, wow, you look beautiful today.

1150
00:48:03,283 --> 00:48:06,349
You know, and it wasn't necessarily anything more than that.

1151
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,583
And it definitely wasn't anything negative because the negative didn't exist yet.

1152
00:48:10,116 --> 00:48:11,199
It hadn't been exposed yet.

1153
00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:13,716
She didn't have to say calm you jet, bro.

1154
00:48:13,783 --> 00:48:14,150
Yeah.

1155
00:48:14,733 --> 00:48:15,150
Yeah.

1156
00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:16,599
Cool it, cool it.

1157
00:48:17,066 --> 00:48:20,500
And I mean, you know, that's the thing that we, we

1158
00:48:20,500 --> 00:48:23,916
have gotten away from it because of the fall and

1159
00:48:23,916 --> 00:48:28,716
it has become, that is one sin that has become so...

1160
00:48:28,716 --> 00:48:31,783
inundated into our lives that everybody

1161
00:48:31,783 --> 00:48:33,150
just assumes.

1162
00:48:33,150 --> 00:48:33,816
Yeah.

1163
00:48:33,816 --> 00:48:37,233
They just immediately assume any

1164
00:48:37,233 --> 00:48:38,733
culture into everything in the Bible.

1165
00:48:39,099 --> 00:48:39,516
Exactly.

1166
00:48:39,933 --> 00:48:42,150
And it's like, no, that didn't exist back then.

1167
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:43,533
I'm not even saying back then.

1168
00:48:43,716 --> 00:48:45,516
I'm saying like or reading the Bible.

1169
00:48:45,583 --> 00:48:48,650
I'm saying even in today's society, it is to the point

1170
00:48:48,650 --> 00:48:52,300
that you have to be very careful about when

1171
00:48:52,300 --> 00:48:56,266
you, as a man, complimenting a woman, you got to be careful.

1172
00:48:57,216 --> 00:49:00,333
Because you may, honestly, it never crossed your mind.

1173
00:49:01,483 --> 00:49:05,016
And people just go, whoa, what are you what are you doing telling her she's pretty?

1174
00:49:05,083 --> 00:49:08,383
Unless you're a single guy, telling a single girl, then, yeah.

1175
00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:10,416
Yeah, and it's just like, don't do it.

1176
00:49:10,716 --> 00:49:13,650
Otherwise, you just can't because people immediately jump to.

1177
00:49:13,716 --> 00:49:16,716
You're trying to, and it's like, good Lord, people, you know, there used

1178
00:49:16,716 --> 00:49:20,250
to be a time when everybody understood that that doesn't necessarily mean anything bad.

1179
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,983
But it is so just mired

1180
00:49:23,983 --> 00:49:26,150
and steeped in everything now.

1181
00:49:26,199 --> 00:49:29,800
It's we've just been swimming in it for, you know, 6000 years.

1182
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,116
I mean, we're just swimming in it constantly and it's just soaked into

1183
00:49:34,116 --> 00:49:37,000
every part of our lives and it's so, so horrible.

1184
00:49:37,783 --> 00:49:40,783
And I bring that up, though, to say that, yeah, I mean, back

1185
00:49:40,783 --> 00:49:42,216
then, you know, he would.

1186
00:49:42,333 --> 00:49:45,449
They'd wake up in the morning and just okay, time to get to work.

1187
00:49:45,516 --> 00:49:47,083
They didn't even have morning breath, man.

1188
00:49:47,849 --> 00:49:48,983
They had the perfect marriage.

1189
00:49:49,349 --> 00:49:49,766
They did.

1190
00:49:49,783 --> 00:49:50,916
No morning breath?

1191
00:49:51,033 --> 00:49:52,416
Deal perfect marriage, yeah.

1192
00:49:52,483 --> 00:49:54,766
Didn't need to go get a shower before they got working.

1193
00:49:55,183 --> 00:49:56,500
That tells you something about the earth, right?

1194
00:49:56,983 --> 00:49:58,849
God created them naked and they didn't eat clothes.

1195
00:49:59,433 --> 00:50:00,400
They didn't get cold.

1196
00:50:01,183 --> 00:50:01,483
Yeah

1197
00:50:01,599 --> 00:50:03,699
There weren't there weren't any briars, thank goodness.

1198
00:50:03,750 --> 00:50:04,050
Yeah.

1199
00:50:04,050 --> 00:50:05,250
There were no thorns?

1200
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:06,633
No mosquitoes?

1201
00:50:07,416 --> 00:50:08,199
Yeah, yeah.

1202
00:50:08,516 --> 00:50:12,150
Yeah, that's why the Lord said that fig leaf ain't going to work either.

1203
00:50:12,216 --> 00:50:13,483
I'm going to have to get you something.

1204
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:15,933
Y'all don't know what's coming.

1205
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,633
We're going to have to get something a little bit more sturdy.

1206
00:50:19,416 --> 00:50:19,833
Yeah.

1207
00:50:23,849 --> 00:50:27,033
So, well, I mean, we're at the end of chapter two,

1208
00:50:27,033 --> 00:50:30,933
we don't have just a whole lot longer left tonight, but do I want to...

1209
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,166
We can touch first, a little bit of chapter 3 if y'all want to.

1210
00:50:33,333 --> 00:50:33,866
get into it?

1211
00:50:34,416 --> 00:50:34,900
Yeah.

1212
00:50:35,016 --> 00:50:38,083
Because it's kind of an important one and I want to make sure we do get

1213
00:50:38,083 --> 00:50:40,183
that 1st part right behind chapter two.

1214
00:50:41,133 --> 00:50:43,833
to compare the statement that's made in verse three.

1215
00:50:44,433 --> 00:50:46,000
All right, verse one.

1216
00:50:46,949 --> 00:50:50,066
Now, the serpent was more crafty than any beast of

1217
00:50:50,083 --> 00:50:51,883
the field, which the Lord God had made.

1218
00:50:52,533 --> 00:50:56,016
And he said to the woman, indeed, has God said,

1219
00:50:56,016 --> 00:50:58,533
you shall not eat from any tree of the garden?

1220
00:50:59,383 --> 00:51:00,466
My 1st problem with this.

1221
00:51:02,083 --> 00:51:03,766
What is a snake doing talking?

1222
00:51:04,716 --> 00:51:05,133
Yeah.

1223
00:51:05,433 --> 00:51:05,849
Yeah.

1224
00:51:05,849 --> 00:51:07,166
Did everything talk?

1225
00:51:07,349 --> 00:51:08,066
That's what, yeah.

1226
00:51:08,133 --> 00:51:09,750
That's what I was talking about earlier.

1227
00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:11,566
Nobody seems surprised.

1228
00:51:11,733 --> 00:51:12,333
He's talking.

1229
00:51:13,050 --> 00:51:14,133
and he's got legs, man.

1230
00:51:14,433 --> 00:51:15,449
We'll go find out later.

1231
00:51:15,516 --> 00:51:16,000
got legs.

1232
00:51:16,050 --> 00:51:17,433
And we don't know that he, yeah.

1233
00:51:17,849 --> 00:51:20,916
I don't know if he was a snake or if he was a, yeah,

1234
00:51:20,916 --> 00:51:23,500
he's got legs, so was he more lizard like or what?

1235
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:24,166
I'm going to be honest.

1236
00:51:25,300 --> 00:51:27,633
Considering that later on, he's referred to as a dragon.

1237
00:51:28,599 --> 00:51:31,716
Well, Revelation 12, 20, and Roman 16, I'll

1238
00:51:31,716 --> 00:51:32,800
call serpent Satan.

1239
00:51:33,333 --> 00:51:35,616
Yeah, that's who we assume this is right here.

1240
00:51:35,983 --> 00:51:37,366
I'm kind of, but I do.

1241
00:51:37,416 --> 00:51:40,416
I've always wondered if this, the creature they were seeing isn't

1242
00:51:40,416 --> 00:51:42,400
what later got described as dragons.

1243
00:51:43,050 --> 00:51:43,833
I'm kind of curious.

1244
00:51:43,949 --> 00:51:45,633
I don't think it was a little tiny snake.

1245
00:51:46,116 --> 00:51:48,150
He ends up his his punishment's going to end up.

1246
00:51:48,216 --> 00:51:49,000
crawling on a bail.

1247
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,500
Yeah, he crawls on his belly.

1248
00:51:50,500 --> 00:51:51,400
He's not yet crawling.

1249
00:51:51,449 --> 00:51:51,633
Yeah.

1250
00:51:52,416 --> 00:51:54,750
Well, but my point being that he's not at this point.

1251
00:51:55,050 --> 00:51:58,166
And if you look at the descriptions historically of dragons,

1252
00:51:58,183 --> 00:52:00,516
you have some with legs, and then you have others that don't have legs.

1253
00:52:01,116 --> 00:52:02,800
And it's like, it's kind of weird.

1254
00:52:03,033 --> 00:52:06,266
It's always kind of made me wonder why that

1255
00:52:06,283 --> 00:52:09,216
particular imagery is used at the end in Revelation.

1256
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,183
And I'm like, I wonder if it was, if this serpent isn't

1257
00:52:13,183 --> 00:52:14,500
where we get the legends of dragons.

1258
00:52:15,633 --> 00:52:18,699
something that just occurred to me, you know, maybe all these animals could talk, and

1259
00:52:18,699 --> 00:52:21,699
that's one reason Adam couldn't find a suitable helper because the dogs

1260
00:52:21,699 --> 00:52:23,016
were going around going, hey.

1261
00:52:25,233 --> 00:52:26,433
That's all he knew how to say.

1262
00:52:27,283 --> 00:52:28,000
You smell that?

1263
00:52:28,116 --> 00:52:28,599
Yeah.

1264
00:52:29,616 --> 00:52:31,183
Yeah, that's exactly right.

1265
00:52:31,233 --> 00:52:35,066
But man, the key part of this verse to me is a

1266
00:52:35,083 --> 00:52:38,083
tactic that Satan used on Eve that he still

1267
00:52:38,083 --> 00:52:39,699
uses to this day.

1268
00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:43,716
Has God really said, is that really what the word of God says?

1269
00:52:44,500 --> 00:52:47,566
And people just tie themselves in knots to excuse every

1270
00:52:47,566 --> 00:52:50,783
sin under the sun, especially homosexuality, but

1271
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,800
twisting, twisting Hebrew and twisting Greek and saying,

1272
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,116
well, that's not really what he said.

1273
00:52:55,183 --> 00:52:55,966
Yeah.

1274
00:52:55,966 --> 00:52:57,033
Yes, it is.

1275
00:52:57,150 --> 00:52:57,816
Yes, it is.

1276
00:52:58,300 --> 00:52:58,966
Yes, it is.

1277
00:52:59,083 --> 00:52:59,616
Amen.

1278
00:53:00,150 --> 00:53:01,050
It's sickening.

1279
00:53:01,116 --> 00:53:04,483
It's sickening to see the links that people will go to to try to twist scripture

1280
00:53:04,483 --> 00:53:05,500
to...

1281
00:53:05,550 --> 00:53:06,933
I mean, here we go again.

1282
00:53:07,116 --> 00:53:10,416
man, I'm just going to be like this anti-woman guy,

1283
00:53:10,416 --> 00:53:14,016
I guess, but to say that women can preach or have

1284
00:53:14,016 --> 00:53:16,783
authority over men when it's plainly spelled out.

1285
00:53:16,833 --> 00:53:17,433
That's right.

1286
00:53:17,500 --> 00:53:17,916
That's right.

1287
00:53:20,199 --> 00:53:23,266
He uses this over and over and over and it still works, man.

1288
00:53:23,616 --> 00:53:24,150
It does.

1289
00:53:24,216 --> 00:53:24,516
Yeah.

1290
00:53:24,933 --> 00:53:28,533
He he pulled, he figured out the playbook all

1291
00:53:28,533 --> 00:53:29,616
the way back then.

1292
00:53:29,683 --> 00:53:30,099
Huh.

1293
00:53:30,150 --> 00:53:31,833
This is what humans are dumb enough to believe.

1294
00:53:33,699 --> 00:53:34,666
And it hadn't changed.

1295
00:53:35,316 --> 00:53:36,400
They don't need to.

1296
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:37,966
The play is the same.

1297
00:53:38,083 --> 00:53:40,000
We're all still just that dumb.

1298
00:53:40,183 --> 00:53:42,583
Yeah.

1299
00:53:42,583 --> 00:53:43,183
That's the truth.

1300
00:53:44,683 --> 00:53:45,699
Figured it out, didn't he?

1301
00:53:47,616 --> 00:53:49,349
Yeah, you can tell he tried real hard here too.

1302
00:53:50,199 --> 00:53:53,433
Yeah, so, yeah, 1st 2 and 3,

1303
00:53:53,433 --> 00:53:54,866
I guess, really go together, don't they?

1304
00:53:55,183 --> 00:53:58,300
And the woman said under the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of

1305
00:53:58,300 --> 00:54:01,300
the trees, the garden, but of the fruit of the tree, the midst, the garden,

1306
00:54:01,300 --> 00:54:04,300
God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither

1307
00:54:04,300 --> 00:54:05,616
shall you touch it, lest you die.

1308
00:54:07,116 --> 00:54:10,183
And the serpent said unto the woman, you shall not surely die.

1309
00:54:10,949 --> 00:54:12,083
This is what God said.

1310
00:54:12,150 --> 00:54:13,533
This is what circum said, right?

1311
00:54:13,599 --> 00:54:14,316
They're opposite.

1312
00:54:14,433 --> 00:54:15,266
They're opposite.

1313
00:54:15,516 --> 00:54:19,349
And, and, and, and what he, what he, what he tries to do.

1314
00:54:19,650 --> 00:54:21,266
is he tries to twist it around.

1315
00:54:22,300 --> 00:54:23,683
Twisting God's words up.

1316
00:54:24,150 --> 00:54:26,433
I mean, what a false prophets do today.

1317
00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:27,400
They learned it from him.

1318
00:54:27,449 --> 00:54:27,866
Right.

1319
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:29,199
They twist God's word up.

1320
00:54:30,283 --> 00:54:33,466
To make it soup, you know, that we like to make a god in our image.

1321
00:54:33,699 --> 00:54:34,533
Yeah, yeah.

1322
00:54:34,833 --> 00:54:36,816
You know, whatever we're okay with, he's okay with.

1323
00:54:37,050 --> 00:54:37,416
Yeah.

1324
00:54:37,416 --> 00:54:40,000
And look what Eve did there.

1325
00:54:40,483 --> 00:54:40,849
Yeah.

1326
00:54:41,733 --> 00:54:45,266
I mean, he made he made a generalization here of

1327
00:54:45,283 --> 00:54:48,633
every, you know, that God said, you

1328
00:54:48,633 --> 00:54:51,750
shall not eat of every tree, like that there's some trees

1329
00:54:51,750 --> 00:54:52,766
that you can't eat of.

1330
00:54:52,833 --> 00:54:56,016
And she's like, well, no, he said one

1331
00:54:56,016 --> 00:54:57,033
tree, right?

1332
00:54:57,099 --> 00:55:00,166
And and, and then the servant's

1333
00:55:00,166 --> 00:55:03,866
like, no, no, no, no, no, no, and it just the lies just begins from there.

1334
00:55:03,933 --> 00:55:04,466
Yeah, yeah.

1335
00:55:04,533 --> 00:55:06,216
And God was so generous in this thing too.

1336
00:55:06,283 --> 00:55:09,466
And what does she say from the truth of the garden we may eat.

1337
00:55:09,516 --> 00:55:10,533
What did God say before that?

1338
00:55:10,833 --> 00:55:11,666
Freely eat.

1339
00:55:12,099 --> 00:55:13,533
Really, it's wide open to you.

1340
00:55:13,599 --> 00:55:13,966
Yeah.

1341
00:55:13,966 --> 00:55:17,183
His generosity and it's all of a sudden it's gone.

1342
00:55:17,433 --> 00:55:21,449
And they start backing up on what God said and they start changing on what God said.

1343
00:55:22,050 --> 00:55:25,949
And guys, this is one of those things too that shows us that.

1344
00:55:27,633 --> 00:55:30,699
Um, what's about to happen is sinful.

1345
00:55:31,483 --> 00:55:35,800
And what God had prepared for them was wonderful.

1346
00:55:36,150 --> 00:55:36,566
right?

1347
00:55:36,699 --> 00:55:37,116
Right.

1348
00:55:37,116 --> 00:55:41,016
And people get so caught up in how good sin is.

1349
00:55:41,083 --> 00:55:44,916
And the Bible says there's pleasure in seeing for a season, but we find out that it also destroys us.

1350
00:55:45,883 --> 00:55:49,000
And I

1351
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,000
think about there's a lot of people who don't want to come to church because they think

1352
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,016
church people are boring.

1353
00:55:53,083 --> 00:55:54,216
They think church is boring.

1354
00:55:54,283 --> 00:55:55,366
They think God's boring.

1355
00:55:55,949 --> 00:55:58,583
And it's a lie of the devil just like this right here.

1356
00:55:58,949 --> 00:56:02,316
And, you know, because he goes on to tell her, well, we'll

1357
00:56:02,316 --> 00:56:05,316
get that just a second, but, you know,

1358
00:56:05,316 --> 00:56:08,133
I'm going to tell you something, if you'd been here Sunday, you wouldn't have thought it was boring.

1359
00:56:08,199 --> 00:56:08,616
No.

1360
00:56:08,616 --> 00:56:09,333
You know?

1361
00:56:09,816 --> 00:56:13,000
I told him, I said, I said, I said, some of y'all

1362
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,500
are saying hallelujah.

1363
00:56:14,550 --> 00:56:17,550
And some of y'all are looking back out there trying to find the sign

1364
00:56:17,550 --> 00:56:18,816
that says Baptist on it.

1365
00:56:19,900 --> 00:56:20,316
Yeah.

1366
00:56:20,916 --> 00:56:22,783
Is this a Baptist church?

1367
00:56:22,833 --> 00:56:23,916
I thought we go to Baptist Church.

1368
00:56:26,616 --> 00:56:27,816
She adds to this thing.

1369
00:56:27,883 --> 00:56:31,183
And that's I was actually preaching about this a

1370
00:56:31,183 --> 00:56:33,766
little bit on Sunday when I wasn't here.

1371
00:56:35,199 --> 00:56:36,933
But that's what the Pharisees were doing.

1372
00:56:37,599 --> 00:56:39,466
This is exactly what the Pharisees were doing.

1373
00:56:39,516 --> 00:56:42,699
The Pharisees had the entire law and profits.

1374
00:56:42,750 --> 00:56:43,883
They weren't like the sad, you see.

1375
00:56:43,949 --> 00:56:45,516
You only looked at the 1st 5 books.

1376
00:56:45,883 --> 00:56:48,883
The Pharisees were more the common man kind of guy, but

1377
00:56:48,883 --> 00:56:51,699
these guys had the law god and they were serious about it.

1378
00:56:51,750 --> 00:56:52,766
They were strict, man.

1379
00:56:53,016 --> 00:56:55,716
I mean, they knew it inside out, backwards and forwards.

1380
00:56:55,783 --> 00:56:58,783
But what they did is they took what Jesus called the traditions of men.

1381
00:56:58,833 --> 00:57:01,833
They took the oral traditions, built an onion around God's

1382
00:57:01,833 --> 00:57:02,966
law and nobody could get in.

1383
00:57:03,449 --> 00:57:05,066
And that's why Jesus clashed with them.

1384
00:57:05,133 --> 00:57:05,616
That's right.

1385
00:57:05,616 --> 00:57:08,983
You add to God's word and keep people out of his kingdom, buddy.

1386
00:57:09,033 --> 00:57:09,816
You better walk in.

1387
00:57:09,883 --> 00:57:10,250
Amen.

1388
00:57:10,250 --> 00:57:10,650
Amen.

1389
00:57:10,833 --> 00:57:11,616
That's what she did.

1390
00:57:11,683 --> 00:57:13,066
That's the 1st instance of it right there.

1391
00:57:13,183 --> 00:57:15,650
Yeah, and that's what Paul was fighting against the whole time, right?

1392
00:57:15,699 --> 00:57:19,416
And I mean, when he was talking to the churches, he was like, stop,

1393
00:57:19,416 --> 00:57:20,800
man, it's Jesus plus nothing.

1394
00:57:21,150 --> 00:57:22,833
You know, stop adding this stuff in there.

1395
00:57:22,949 --> 00:57:23,916
You're exactly right.

1396
00:57:24,333 --> 00:57:27,699
And to make it clear, verse 17 of chapter two, God said,

1397
00:57:27,699 --> 00:57:30,400
just the one tree, do not eat of it.

1398
00:57:31,716 --> 00:57:32,683
Because in the day you will.

1399
00:57:33,516 --> 00:57:37,116
Everything else, but that one tree, don't eat of it, for in the day you do, you will surely die.

1400
00:57:37,233 --> 00:57:40,300
And in verse 3 of chapter 3, she says, you

1401
00:57:40,300 --> 00:57:42,283
shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it.

1402
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:43,900
least you will not.

1403
00:57:44,433 --> 00:57:47,500
Now, and the question is, did Eve add that or do

1404
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:48,516
you think Adam told her that?

1405
00:57:48,883 --> 00:57:49,550
He might have.

1406
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:53,133
I mean, I, because with it being laid so

1407
00:57:53,133 --> 00:57:56,133
hard, with him being

1408
00:57:56,133 --> 00:57:59,800
the one in charge, and with the results really

1409
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,316
being focused on, hey, this is passed down from you.

1410
00:58:03,216 --> 00:58:06,400
It kind of makes me think he's the one that said, hey, don't eat it and don't touch it.

1411
00:58:06,633 --> 00:58:07,466
He opened the door.

1412
00:58:08,500 --> 00:58:11,500
that Satan used to slither right on in there because it became

1413
00:58:11,500 --> 00:58:14,500
so much easier because what what at that point is

1414
00:58:14,500 --> 00:58:17,616
easier than just walking over and going, why don't you pick that one up?

1415
00:58:18,616 --> 00:58:19,900
Oh, you're you're fine.

1416
00:58:20,550 --> 00:58:21,449
Nothing happened.

1417
00:58:22,650 --> 00:58:23,666
Just take a bite of it.

1418
00:58:24,216 --> 00:58:27,633
Well, now you've already, well, nothing happened when I picked it up.

1419
00:58:27,699 --> 00:58:28,183
I touched it.

1420
00:58:29,199 --> 00:58:30,099
Well, here you go.

1421
00:58:30,633 --> 00:58:34,000
And I mean, that is so again, that's just so like us.

1422
00:58:34,050 --> 00:58:35,433
We just fall right into that.

1423
00:58:35,500 --> 00:58:38,683
And like you say, we build up all these layers and extra rules and

1424
00:58:38,683 --> 00:58:42,933
extra requirements and extra laws and extra explanations

1425
00:58:42,933 --> 00:58:46,050
to make ourselves feel better and to decide this is what we got to do.

1426
00:58:46,050 --> 00:58:47,966
And it's like, or you can just do what he said.

1427
00:58:48,150 --> 00:58:48,750
It does.

1428
00:58:48,750 --> 00:58:49,349
It sounds good.

1429
00:58:49,650 --> 00:58:51,150
It keeps me from breaking laws.

1430
00:58:51,283 --> 00:58:54,466
That why Paul could say in Philippians three, he said, according to the law, I was blameless.

1431
00:58:54,633 --> 00:58:55,000
Yeah.

1432
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:58,416
Because he's raised up in this system where he couldn't

1433
00:58:58,416 --> 00:58:59,849
violate his traditions of men.

1434
00:58:59,916 --> 00:59:01,783
If he didn't violate those, he didn't violate the law.

1435
00:59:01,949 --> 00:59:05,666
That's right, because he couldn't even get to the law because it was so...

1436
00:59:06,150 --> 00:59:07,050
isolated from it.

1437
00:59:07,349 --> 00:59:10,166
And but what he was missing was his heart.

1438
00:59:10,349 --> 00:59:11,016
Yeah, exactly.

1439
00:59:11,016 --> 00:59:11,916
He was missing the heart.

1440
00:59:11,983 --> 00:59:14,449
He started the motive. counting on all these rules.

1441
00:59:14,500 --> 00:59:15,816
And it's about him.

1442
00:59:15,883 --> 00:59:16,416
Yeah, yeah.

1443
00:59:16,533 --> 00:59:17,733
It's self-righteous.

1444
00:59:18,150 --> 00:59:21,266
It's like the parable that Jesus told about 2 men it went down to pray.

1445
00:59:21,883 --> 00:59:22,300
right?

1446
00:59:22,416 --> 00:59:25,349
The ones like, oh, thank you, God, I'm not a sinner like this man over here.

1447
00:59:25,533 --> 00:59:26,250
I tithe.

1448
00:59:26,316 --> 00:59:26,800
I do this.

1449
00:59:26,849 --> 00:59:27,333
I do that.

1450
00:59:27,750 --> 00:59:30,933
And then the other guys over there beating his chest saying, forgive me, God, I'm a sinner.

1451
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:31,416
That's it.

1452
00:59:31,716 --> 00:59:33,750
So which one of these 2 guys came away justified.

1453
00:59:33,883 --> 00:59:34,300
Amen.

1454
00:59:34,300 --> 00:59:35,199
Right.

1455
00:59:35,316 --> 00:59:36,150
Yeah, absolutely.

1456
00:59:36,333 --> 00:59:39,333
And these guys, they have no humility

1457
00:59:39,333 --> 00:59:41,133
that do that kind of stuff.

1458
00:59:41,199 --> 00:59:42,466
And we see people like that today.

1459
00:59:42,633 --> 00:59:45,699
Oh, yeah. just self-righteous that look down their nose that somebody

1460
00:59:45,699 --> 00:59:46,783
sends different than they do.

1461
00:59:47,983 --> 00:59:51,283
And you know, the whole thing is,

1462
00:59:51,283 --> 00:59:53,683
it's not, it wasn't even about the fruit.

1463
00:59:54,150 --> 00:59:55,283
It was about obedience.

1464
00:59:55,349 --> 00:59:56,366
Yeah, you know?

1465
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:57,633
It's about love.

1466
00:59:57,699 --> 00:59:58,366
How do you love God?

1467
00:59:59,133 --> 01:00:00,033
His commandments, right?

1468
01:00:00,449 --> 01:00:02,316
God said, don't do that, so don't do that.

1469
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,616
And when you do that, it brings destruction.

1470
01:00:05,683 --> 01:00:06,466
It brings death.

1471
01:00:06,516 --> 01:00:07,599
It brings hopelessness.

1472
01:00:07,650 --> 01:00:08,483
It brings hurt.

1473
01:00:08,550 --> 01:00:09,566
brings all these things.

1474
01:00:10,050 --> 01:00:13,166
And so, I mean, was there really

1475
01:00:13,183 --> 01:00:17,083
anything special about the fruit other than God said, you know?

1476
01:00:17,849 --> 01:00:18,449
Probably not.

1477
01:00:18,583 --> 01:00:21,816
Maybe not, you know, but I honestly don't think it was special at all.

1478
01:00:22,233 --> 01:00:25,349
When they disobeyed God, they realized, oh.

1479
01:00:25,833 --> 01:00:27,400
Actually, I'm going to take that back.

1480
01:00:27,449 --> 01:00:29,016
I think that fruit was slightly special.

1481
01:00:30,166 --> 01:00:31,716
I don't think it actually tasted that good.

1482
01:00:32,316 --> 01:00:33,333
It's probably bland.

1483
01:00:33,583 --> 01:00:33,949
Yeah.

1484
01:00:34,533 --> 01:00:37,300
I think it was it was an okay fruit.

1485
01:00:37,416 --> 01:00:40,416
It was just middling, and God just made it to be just,

1486
01:00:40,416 --> 01:00:42,333
eh, real pretty to look at.

1487
01:00:43,233 --> 01:00:45,099
But, yeah, it wasn't not that impressive.

1488
01:00:45,333 --> 01:00:46,416
She liked it in verse six.

1489
01:00:46,599 --> 01:00:48,466
It says now, it does say it was good to eat.

1490
01:00:48,633 --> 01:00:49,533
Yeah, yeah.

1491
01:00:50,250 --> 01:00:50,616
Yeah.

1492
01:00:50,616 --> 01:00:53,616
But I always, I always figured that maybe it,

1493
01:00:53,616 --> 01:00:56,616
maybe it was something that, but I just, I've always thought, it

1494
01:00:56,616 --> 01:00:58,183
probably wasn't that much more.

1495
01:00:58,300 --> 01:01:00,033
I don't think it was any, it was all that impressive.

1496
01:01:00,150 --> 01:01:02,066
Well, again, it's like pleasure in seeing for a season.

1497
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,783
I mean, to start with, it may have tasted good.

1498
01:01:04,833 --> 01:01:05,916
It probably got more bitter.

1499
01:01:06,033 --> 01:01:09,633
Hey, and you know, there are actually fruits that

1500
01:01:09,633 --> 01:01:10,833
will mess with your taste buds.

1501
01:01:11,383 --> 01:01:14,500
Um, there's a, it's a, a form of a grape

1502
01:01:14,500 --> 01:01:17,683
kind of fruit that you can get out of South America, I think it is, and

1503
01:01:17,683 --> 01:01:21,033
it like confuses your taste buds and like makes sweet things way,

1504
01:01:21,033 --> 01:01:22,416
way sweeter and stuff.

1505
01:01:22,483 --> 01:01:23,616
It's really really neat stuff.

1506
01:01:24,033 --> 01:01:27,150
And it kind of makes me wonder if it wasn't something like that, like in the skin of

1507
01:01:27,150 --> 01:01:28,650
it, made it taste real, real strong.

1508
01:01:28,650 --> 01:01:31,533
And then after a couple of bites, it just starts wearing off and it's like, wow.

1509
01:01:31,533 --> 01:01:32,066
Oh, the book.

1510
01:01:32,083 --> 01:01:34,783
John 8 and Revelation, you know, his mouth bitter and his stuff.

1511
01:01:34,833 --> 01:01:36,566
Yes, they're getting bitter as you're right.

1512
01:01:36,699 --> 01:01:38,199
This whole thing is about love.

1513
01:01:38,983 --> 01:01:41,983
This is about that they have no other way to show love to God

1514
01:01:41,983 --> 01:01:43,483
than to obey him and trust him.

1515
01:01:44,016 --> 01:01:45,333
We are exactly the same way.

1516
01:01:45,633 --> 01:01:46,116
Amen.

1517
01:01:46,116 --> 01:01:49,650
The only way we have to show love to God is to trust his word.

1518
01:01:50,316 --> 01:01:51,033
do what he said.

1519
01:01:51,933 --> 01:01:54,449
And if we don't do it, we're not loving him and we got a problem.

1520
01:01:56,199 --> 01:01:57,633
He wants a relationship with us.

1521
01:01:57,699 --> 01:01:58,116
He does.

1522
01:01:58,116 --> 01:01:59,383
Just like a father to a child.

1523
01:01:59,550 --> 01:02:00,150
That's right.

1524
01:02:00,150 --> 01:02:03,266
And he had that with them and they had that, man.

1525
01:02:03,333 --> 01:02:06,099
They could, he walked through the garden in the cool of the day kind of stuff.

1526
01:02:06,150 --> 01:02:09,216
And I mean, all the, this is the

1527
01:02:09,216 --> 01:02:10,416
way Christianity is.

1528
01:02:10,650 --> 01:02:12,566
And this is not the way people look at it.

1529
01:02:12,699 --> 01:02:15,699
Everybody looks at what they can't do, but they have no

1530
01:02:15,699 --> 01:02:17,916
idea of what all they can do.

1531
01:02:18,633 --> 01:02:19,416
What?

1532
01:02:19,949 --> 01:02:23,433
what they could eat of was so much more than what they couldn't eat.

1533
01:02:23,500 --> 01:02:24,466
Absolutely, you know?

1534
01:02:25,116 --> 01:02:27,400
Hey, the tree of life was in the garden.

1535
01:02:27,583 --> 01:02:29,266
But yeah, there, yeah.

1536
01:02:29,316 --> 01:02:29,800
Oh, yeah.

1537
01:02:29,849 --> 01:02:33,150
But there's something in our human nature and

1538
01:02:33,150 --> 01:02:36,150
our sinful nature that just makes us want to

1539
01:02:36,150 --> 01:02:38,550
do what we can't do or what we're told not to do.

1540
01:02:39,150 --> 01:02:40,116
We just want to go do it.

1541
01:02:40,416 --> 01:02:42,750
And this was before they had a sinful nature.

1542
01:02:42,933 --> 01:02:43,766
It was, yeah.

1543
01:02:44,133 --> 01:02:45,699
Yeah, but they had free will, didn't they?

1544
01:02:45,883 --> 01:02:46,366
They did.

1545
01:02:46,483 --> 01:02:47,500
Yeah, they did.

1546
01:02:48,333 --> 01:02:51,400
And now I will say, there doesn't seem to be any indication that

1547
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,733
they were even tempted until it was pointed out to them.

1548
01:02:54,283 --> 01:02:54,699
Yeah.

1549
01:02:55,166 --> 01:02:56,316
Yeah.

1550
01:02:58,116 --> 01:03:01,300
I mean, they we do not know how

1551
01:03:01,300 --> 01:03:04,300
much time passed between the end of chapter 2 in this verse.

1552
01:03:04,483 --> 01:03:06,349
We can assume it was at least a week or two.

1553
01:03:06,583 --> 01:03:07,000
Yeah.

1554
01:03:08,066 --> 01:03:10,183
Is a is a couple of,

1555
01:03:10,416 --> 01:03:12,033
I always figure it was probably a couple of days.

1556
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:14,199
You know, they've had time to actually sleep.

1557
01:03:14,250 --> 01:03:17,366
They've had time to be together a little bit, and then the serpent comes in.

1558
01:03:17,550 --> 01:03:18,383
It could have been wild.

1559
01:03:18,449 --> 01:03:19,166
They could have been bored.

1560
01:03:19,599 --> 01:03:20,016
Yeah.

1561
01:03:20,316 --> 01:03:23,800
Well, we'll see next week how he presents it to her and

1562
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:27,466
what he says that entices her.

1563
01:03:28,483 --> 01:03:31,483
He knew he knew what he, man, how

1564
01:03:31,483 --> 01:03:32,500
sly was that?

1565
01:03:32,983 --> 01:03:34,900
Nobody has ever been fooled before.

1566
01:03:35,016 --> 01:03:38,500
Well, I won't say nobody because he fooled a bunch of angels.

1567
01:03:38,616 --> 01:03:39,449
Angels wouldn't, yeah.

1568
01:03:39,516 --> 01:03:39,883
Yeah, yeah.

1569
01:03:39,933 --> 01:03:40,650
Old himself.

1570
01:03:40,716 --> 01:03:42,633
But yeah, and he fooled himself.

1571
01:03:42,699 --> 01:03:43,783
So he knows all about it.

1572
01:03:43,833 --> 01:03:44,199
right?

1573
01:03:44,683 --> 01:03:48,033
You know, I heard I heard somebody, uh, was

1574
01:03:48,033 --> 01:03:51,150
talking about some of the people you hear talking about

1575
01:03:51,150 --> 01:03:54,216
stuff today and they'll, they say some just the craziest

1576
01:03:54,216 --> 01:03:55,533
things you've ever heard.

1577
01:03:55,599 --> 01:03:58,116
And the question was asked, do you think they know they're lying?

1578
01:03:58,766 --> 01:04:00,400
Or do they really believe what they're saying?

1579
01:04:00,449 --> 01:04:04,116
And I kind of think that, you know, that's kind of the way it is with Satan.

1580
01:04:04,183 --> 01:04:07,783
I think that was at one point he convinced himself, I'm right about this.

1581
01:04:08,316 --> 01:04:09,216
I can do this.

1582
01:04:09,516 --> 01:04:11,133
And then later he went, uh-oh.

1583
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:12,516
I can't do this.

1584
01:04:12,750 --> 01:04:14,016
can't wait to find out what he was thinking.

1585
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:15,216
Yeah.

1586
01:04:15,283 --> 01:04:16,066
What happened?

1587
01:04:16,066 --> 01:04:17,666
How did he think he was going to put it?

1588
01:04:17,983 --> 01:04:20,983
I really think he started out believing his

1589
01:04:20,983 --> 01:04:22,416
own lies.

1590
01:04:22,483 --> 01:04:25,599
And that's what they were saying, that sometimes you can lie to yourself to

1591
01:04:25,599 --> 01:04:27,583
the point that you start believing your own your own bull.

1592
01:04:28,116 --> 01:04:31,416
And I think that's what he had done at least at some point at now,

1593
01:04:31,416 --> 01:04:32,550
whether or not that continued.

1594
01:04:32,616 --> 01:04:35,433
I also think that once he got cast out, he went, uh, that was dumb.

1595
01:04:35,616 --> 01:04:37,349
I'm really curious what he knew here too.

1596
01:04:37,833 --> 01:04:39,516
He said, you surely will not die.

1597
01:04:40,300 --> 01:04:43,716
Did he, did he know what was going to happen or not?

1598
01:04:43,783 --> 01:04:45,466
Or was he just flat outline?

1599
01:04:45,633 --> 01:04:47,966
Oh, I think I think he is flat out lying to her.

1600
01:04:48,033 --> 01:04:51,150
I think he, I think he knew that he, well,

1601
01:04:51,150 --> 01:04:54,216
he already knew from what had happened to him, that disobedience

1602
01:04:54,216 --> 01:04:55,650
to God has concentration.

1603
01:04:56,083 --> 01:04:58,783
He knew at least there was going to be a spiritual death, at least.

1604
01:04:58,949 --> 01:05:01,233
I've always assumed that he was hoping God would kill him.

1605
01:05:02,500 --> 01:05:03,333
And it could, well,

1606
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:06,449
Well, I mean, his whole point here is to chase down the sea because here's

1607
01:05:06,449 --> 01:05:07,650
what he here's what he did know.

1608
01:05:08,733 --> 01:05:10,599
This is how close Satan was to God.

1609
01:05:11,083 --> 01:05:12,583
I mean, we don't even think about this.

1610
01:05:14,016 --> 01:05:17,016
From from this very point right here, Satan

1611
01:05:17,016 --> 01:05:18,449
is chasing a seed.

1612
01:05:19,783 --> 01:05:21,283
He's chasing the seed of man.

1613
01:05:21,333 --> 01:05:25,116
He's chasing the seed of Jesus Christ, the coming of Jesus Christ.

1614
01:05:25,416 --> 01:05:26,916
And in Satan's mind.

1615
01:05:26,983 --> 01:05:30,099
He's thinking, if I can kill them, if I can stop them, then I can stop

1616
01:05:30,099 --> 01:05:32,133
Jesus coming, he won't die on the cross.

1617
01:05:32,199 --> 01:05:33,033
He won't rise again.

1618
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:34,300
All these things.

1619
01:05:34,783 --> 01:05:38,916
I mean, he's, you know, he's, he's, he's, evidently

1620
01:05:38,916 --> 01:05:41,800
God's plan, or at least part of it was known.

1621
01:05:42,099 --> 01:05:44,116
Like, you know, this, hey, this is what we're going to do.

1622
01:05:44,433 --> 01:05:47,199
And Satan is like, uh, I gotta stop that.

1623
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:50,916
If I can stop Jesus from coming, then I

1624
01:05:50,916 --> 01:05:52,349
can just take everybody else down with me.

1625
01:05:52,766 --> 01:05:55,833
Yeah, my, my, my assumption for this, this section has always

1626
01:05:55,833 --> 01:05:59,066
been that he was, in his mind, he thought, all right, God

1627
01:05:59,066 --> 01:06:00,750
said then that day you're going to surely die.

1628
01:06:00,816 --> 01:06:02,550
He's going to strike them down as soon as they do this.

1629
01:06:03,150 --> 01:06:04,833
All right, I'm going to talk him into it.

1630
01:06:04,900 --> 01:06:07,966
And he was just hoping that God was just going to come in and boom, blow him away.

1631
01:06:08,016 --> 01:06:09,933
And then guy goes, okay, now I'm going to provide a way out.

1632
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:10,716
And he goes, what?

1633
01:06:11,966 --> 01:06:13,283
I think it took him off guard.

1634
01:06:13,349 --> 01:06:13,833
What comes next?

1635
01:06:14,616 --> 01:06:17,199
And there, yes, there's a redemptive story right here.

1636
01:06:17,250 --> 01:06:18,933
Oh, yeah, yeah.

1637
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:19,183
yeah.

1638
01:06:19,599 --> 01:06:21,216
I got a crazy, crazy theory.

1639
01:06:21,266 --> 01:06:21,933
just hit my head.

1640
01:06:22,533 --> 01:06:25,416
about what Satan thought he could get away with here.

1641
01:06:25,533 --> 01:06:28,050
I just want, and this is just crazy talk, okay?

1642
01:06:28,900 --> 01:06:29,616
edit this out.

1643
01:06:29,666 --> 01:06:30,083
I don't know.

1644
01:06:30,150 --> 01:06:30,983
Crazy talks okay.

1645
01:06:31,116 --> 01:06:34,650
But if I do heresy or something, throw something at me.

1646
01:06:34,766 --> 01:06:36,199
throw a shoe at me, hit me in the head.

1647
01:06:36,266 --> 01:06:39,633
But, you know, Satan was Lucifer, right?

1648
01:06:39,866 --> 01:06:40,650
Light bearer.

1649
01:06:40,716 --> 01:06:43,716
He was like this glorious angel worship leader kind of guy,

1650
01:06:43,716 --> 01:06:45,283
just glorious looking thing.

1651
01:06:45,816 --> 01:06:48,933
And I wonder if he didn't see one like a son of

1652
01:06:48,933 --> 01:06:52,349
man, and he knew that was the son of God and thought, man, I'm better than him.

1653
01:06:53,016 --> 01:06:53,983
I can take this from him.

1654
01:06:54,933 --> 01:06:55,349
Yeah.

1655
01:06:56,133 --> 01:06:56,550
Yeah.

1656
01:06:56,966 --> 01:06:59,433
I couldn't be God, but that might be Jesus.

1657
01:07:01,349 --> 01:07:03,150
Hey, that's entirely possible.

1658
01:07:03,333 --> 01:07:04,533
Yeah, we don't know.

1659
01:07:04,599 --> 01:07:05,983
Well, we know it was pride.

1660
01:07:06,216 --> 01:07:07,416
That's what I was fixing to say.

1661
01:07:07,466 --> 01:07:09,383
That was a exact word that was supposed to come out of my mouth.

1662
01:07:09,516 --> 01:07:11,550
Pride has to be the most awful scene.

1663
01:07:12,266 --> 01:07:15,566
because that's exactly what took him out.

1664
01:07:16,116 --> 01:07:17,133
That's what made him think.

1665
01:07:17,133 --> 01:07:19,166
That's what made him stupid, right?

1666
01:07:19,233 --> 01:07:20,316
Probably make you stupid.

1667
01:07:20,433 --> 01:07:21,266
Absolutely.

1668
01:07:21,266 --> 01:07:21,983
Absolutely.

1669
01:07:22,116 --> 01:07:25,650
I mean, you get real dumb when you get prideful.

1670
01:07:26,066 --> 01:07:28,233
That's how a lot of affairs and things take place.

1671
01:07:28,300 --> 01:07:30,816
You know, people get prideful and they think, oh, I'll never get called.

1672
01:07:30,866 --> 01:07:33,866
I never, you know, I'm not, she's attracted to me and I like

1673
01:07:33,866 --> 01:07:37,166
it and I'm going, or, you know, he's attracted to whatever,

1674
01:07:37,166 --> 01:07:40,349
and they, they just get steeped in pride and they, and then poop

1675
01:07:40,349 --> 01:07:42,866
before pride comes before the fall, buddy.

1676
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,166
That's why God loves a broken and contrite heart.

1677
01:07:45,216 --> 01:07:45,883
Yes, he does.

1678
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:46,666
Humility.

1679
01:07:46,766 --> 01:07:47,250
That's right

1680
01:07:47,366 --> 01:07:48,633
Look at the humility he had.

1681
01:07:49,166 --> 01:07:50,183
Step down out of his glory.

1682
01:07:50,616 --> 01:07:51,283
Oh gosh.

1683
01:07:52,349 --> 01:07:52,949
Goodness.

1684
01:07:53,500 --> 01:07:56,866
That became saying that new news.

1685
01:07:57,216 --> 01:08:00,283
If that doesn't put you under conviction right there to realize that Jesus

1686
01:08:00,283 --> 01:08:03,333
Christ, the one who formed the entire

1687
01:08:03,333 --> 01:08:06,400
universe, the word

1688
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:10,116
of God, that when God spoke, that was Jesus,

1689
01:08:10,116 --> 01:08:13,416
that was moving, that was making things happen as

1690
01:08:13,416 --> 01:08:15,816
God was speaking the world into existence.

1691
01:08:15,866 --> 01:08:16,699
Let there be life.

1692
01:08:16,766 --> 01:08:18,500
That was Jesus said, okay, here's the lot.

1693
01:08:18,566 --> 01:08:20,850
When he said, let's make this and let's do that.

1694
01:08:20,850 --> 01:08:24,750
And let's, that was 100% Christ moving, moving right there, all of that.

1695
01:08:25,416 --> 01:08:27,100
And he turned him, he became a baby.

1696
01:08:28,416 --> 01:08:31,600
Naked, defenseless, helpless baby that

1697
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:33,166
had to have a diaper changed.

1698
01:08:33,750 --> 01:08:36,149
And then that's the god of the universe, man.

1699
01:08:37,300 --> 01:08:38,083
That's humble.

1700
01:08:38,666 --> 01:08:42,866
And then, and then, 33 years later.

1701
01:08:45,216 --> 01:08:46,833
He let him nail him to a cross.

1702
01:08:48,216 --> 01:08:48,883
Naked again.

1703
01:08:48,933 --> 01:08:49,716
Didn't have to.

1704
01:08:50,550 --> 01:08:54,266
Had the power to wipe this planet from

1705
01:08:54,266 --> 01:08:56,183
existence.

1706
01:08:56,250 --> 01:08:57,683
All he had to say was no.

1707
01:08:57,699 --> 01:08:59,316
Bring legions of angels.

1708
01:09:00,033 --> 01:09:01,116
Yeah, didn't do it.

1709
01:09:01,416 --> 01:09:04,833
And he allowed himself to be beaten, to be stripped,

1710
01:09:04,833 --> 01:09:08,433
to be tortured, to be hung on a cross, to die.

1711
01:09:10,466 --> 01:09:11,300
And what did he say?

1712
01:09:11,433 --> 01:09:12,699
And forgive them.

1713
01:09:12,699 --> 01:09:14,266
Because they know not what they do.

1714
01:09:14,500 --> 01:09:18,583
And, and, and, and to take on the very sin

1715
01:09:18,583 --> 01:09:21,699
that, that he was, that he hates.

1716
01:09:22,300 --> 01:09:25,350
I mean, to take on all the, I mean,

1717
01:09:25,350 --> 01:09:26,966
he took on pride.

1718
01:09:27,333 --> 01:09:27,750
Yeah.

1719
01:09:28,766 --> 01:09:29,250
Right?

1720
01:09:29,316 --> 01:09:32,250
He took on every sin that we could imagine.

1721
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:33,699
He felt that.

1722
01:09:34,166 --> 01:09:36,383
He felt the guilt of that, the pain of that.

1723
01:09:37,116 --> 01:09:38,199
became a curse for us.

1724
01:09:38,433 --> 01:09:41,550
And that's the 1st place where he says he doesn't use the word father.

1725
01:09:42,033 --> 01:09:42,399
Yeah.

1726
01:09:43,033 --> 01:09:45,449
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

1727
01:09:46,899 --> 01:09:47,316
Yeah.

1728
01:09:47,316 --> 01:09:49,350
He's got my junk on him.

1729
01:09:49,766 --> 01:09:51,683
God separating himself from himself.

1730
01:09:51,933 --> 01:09:52,350
Yeah.

1731
01:09:53,733 --> 01:09:56,250
Cutting your, remember what I said about cutting your own arm off?

1732
01:09:56,316 --> 01:09:57,100
Yeah, yeah.

1733
01:09:57,149 --> 01:09:57,866
That's what he did.

1734
01:10:01,300 --> 01:10:04,416
to realize that God, for a

1735
01:10:04,416 --> 01:10:08,016
time, basically mutilating himself for

1736
01:10:08,016 --> 01:10:10,183
us, because he loves us.

1737
01:10:16,350 --> 01:10:17,850
If that doesn't help you to be humble.

1738
01:10:20,916 --> 01:10:21,750
You're missing the point.

1739
01:10:22,466 --> 01:10:23,550
We can't do it, man.

1740
01:10:23,616 --> 01:10:24,333
We can't do it.

1741
01:10:24,399 --> 01:10:27,449
We got 100% completely,

1742
01:10:27,449 --> 01:10:28,533
totally dependent on him.

1743
01:10:29,016 --> 01:10:29,433
Yes.

1744
01:10:29,666 --> 01:10:31,350
It's where we got to live our lives too.

1745
01:10:32,850 --> 01:10:34,233
Don't let the pride creep in.

1746
01:10:34,300 --> 01:10:35,016
I got this, man.

1747
01:10:35,066 --> 01:10:36,199
I'm going to do great at this.

1748
01:10:36,266 --> 01:10:36,983
I'm good at this.

1749
01:10:37,050 --> 01:10:37,833
I'm great at that.

1750
01:10:38,850 --> 01:10:39,566
Just shut up.

1751
01:10:39,750 --> 01:10:40,233
Amen.

1752
01:10:40,233 --> 01:10:41,550
You know, just shut up.

1753
01:10:41,733 --> 01:10:43,300
You're going to get smack down sooner or later.

1754
01:10:43,949 --> 01:10:44,783
I got nothing.

1755
01:10:46,483 --> 01:10:47,616
I ain't got this.

1756
01:10:47,666 --> 01:10:48,333
I know.

1757
01:10:48,449 --> 01:10:50,133
I mean, that's the attitude we have to have.

1758
01:10:51,149 --> 01:10:52,283
Lord, I don't have this.

1759
01:10:55,050 --> 01:10:55,583
Whew.

1760
01:10:55,649 --> 01:10:59,066
Well, next week we'll pick back up with Genesis chapter

1761
01:10:59,066 --> 01:11:02,899
3 versus 4 or 5 around there and

1762
01:11:02,916 --> 01:11:04,533
we'll get it.

1763
01:11:04,649 --> 01:11:07,416
We get into the real the real meat of the fall.

1764
01:11:08,016 --> 01:11:10,783
Everything up until this point has been a precursor.

1765
01:11:10,833 --> 01:11:11,616
Tell us who God is.

1766
01:11:12,750 --> 01:11:15,866
Tell us who our creator is and how much he loves us and how much he cared for.

1767
01:11:15,933 --> 01:11:18,699
I mean, he made us from the dust and he breathed life into us.

1768
01:11:19,233 --> 01:11:22,300
And now coming up, we get to see how we thanked him for that.

1769
01:11:22,949 --> 01:11:26,016
And it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't, uh,

1770
01:11:26,016 --> 01:11:27,333
oh, I'm going to do what you want, Lord.

1771
01:11:27,399 --> 01:11:29,266
It was, I'm gonna thumb my nose at you.

1772
01:11:30,266 --> 01:11:33,633
And then what comes next?

1773
01:11:33,633 --> 01:11:37,466
Because, you know, we keep saying that the plan was there from the beginning.

1774
01:11:37,649 --> 01:11:41,616
The way we know is what's coming up in chapter 3 because he tells us what's going to happen.

1775
01:11:42,516 --> 01:11:46,533
And by the way, this was written way before Jesus was ever born.

1776
01:11:47,366 --> 01:11:50,966
Genesis was written, and we know it was, and we have the scrolls.

1777
01:11:51,100 --> 01:11:54,100
We know what it said when it was

1778
01:11:54,100 --> 01:11:57,216
1st put down on paper because we've got the scrolls going pretty

1779
01:11:57,216 --> 01:11:59,683
much way all the way back.

1780
01:11:59,733 --> 01:12:01,416
I mean, they go pretty far back.

1781
01:12:02,016 --> 01:12:05,316
Um, technically not to the 1st retelling because the 1st retelling

1782
01:12:05,316 --> 01:12:08,199
was pre-flood and all that stuff's gone.

1783
01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:10,066
But we have it.

1784
01:12:10,350 --> 01:12:13,649
And we know that back then God started telling his

1785
01:12:13,649 --> 01:12:17,616
plan, he told them what was coming, and he warned Satan.

1786
01:12:18,566 --> 01:12:19,399
He warned him.

1787
01:12:19,949 --> 01:12:23,783
Hey, the, you know, the, the, the child is,

1788
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:27,933
you know, this, this son of woman is going to bruise your head and you're going to bruise his heel.

1789
01:12:28,300 --> 01:12:30,583
I mean, he's telling him what's coming.

1790
01:12:30,633 --> 01:12:31,466
He's warning him.

1791
01:12:31,899 --> 01:12:35,566
And the plan was there from day one.

1792
01:12:36,216 --> 01:12:37,649
So when we think about that,

1793
01:12:37,716 --> 01:12:40,766
Remember that God, who created the universe who

1794
01:12:40,766 --> 01:12:42,633
exists without time, he knew it all.

1795
01:12:42,750 --> 01:12:46,166
He knew that he knew the end from the beginning, and

1796
01:12:46,166 --> 01:12:47,183
he had his plan in motion.

1797
01:12:47,550 --> 01:12:48,333
No plan B.

1798
01:12:48,633 --> 01:12:50,066
Yeah, there's no plan B.

1799
01:12:50,433 --> 01:12:54,333
But he took this thing from 2 people to 1000000s like exactly.

1800
01:12:55,166 --> 01:12:55,949
And 0 man.

1801
01:12:56,550 --> 01:12:58,466
And what we've already seen how it ends.

1802
01:12:59,016 --> 01:13:00,399
We've already seen the ending.

1803
01:13:00,449 --> 01:13:02,133
So just remember, we know what's coming.

1804
01:13:02,616 --> 01:13:04,350
And it's going to be beautiful and wonderful.

1805
01:13:05,016 --> 01:13:08,016
So next time join us, we will start back with

1806
01:13:08,016 --> 01:13:11,066
Genesis chapter three, and starting around

1807
01:13:11,066 --> 01:13:13,833
verse 4 and 5 there and continuing on.

1808
01:13:14,433 --> 01:13:16,300
Man, I love this.

1809
01:13:16,350 --> 01:13:19,350
You know, I said it's the foundation of our faith all the way back here

1810
01:13:19,350 --> 01:13:21,149
because without God, none of it matters.

1811
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:23,383
And I am so excited.

1812
01:13:23,916 --> 01:13:26,983
So excited that we're getting close to going home.

1813
01:13:27,399 --> 01:13:27,933
Amen.

1814
01:13:27,933 --> 01:13:29,550
And I'm getting ready for it.

1815
01:13:30,533 --> 01:13:33,699
I'm getting to I'm getting to start aching for it a little bit.

1816
01:13:35,666 --> 01:13:38,000
Brother Dennis, pray us out.

1817
01:13:38,433 --> 01:13:40,350
Father in heaven, thank you so much.

1818
01:13:40,416 --> 01:13:43,533
Thank you for thank you for loving us, the way you do,

1819
01:13:43,533 --> 01:13:46,350
that you are our father, and we are your kids.

1820
01:13:47,733 --> 01:13:51,033
Oh, Lord, thank you for all the mercy you've shown us in Christ Jesus.

1821
01:13:51,100 --> 01:13:54,100
Thank you for the patience that you show us every day

1822
01:13:54,100 --> 01:13:57,216
of our lives and that you just want us to grow up,

1823
01:13:57,216 --> 01:13:59,800
to be like Jesus, and Lord, help us, help us.

1824
01:14:00,399 --> 01:14:03,766
Father, thank you for all the things you've done in each of our lives.

1825
01:14:03,816 --> 01:14:06,866
And thank you for my brothers here, and thank you for our, thank

1826
01:14:06,866 --> 01:14:08,066
you, thank you, thank you.

1827
01:14:08,133 --> 01:14:12,100
It's all I can say, Lord, because you are everything.

1828
01:14:12,149 --> 01:14:15,566
You're our all in all, and Father, I pray for your protection

1829
01:14:15,566 --> 01:14:17,600
until we meet here again in Jesus' name.

1830
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:18,333
Amen.

1831
01:14:18,566 --> 01:14:19,050
Amen.

1832
01:14:19,166 --> 01:14:19,699
Amen.