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And welcome back this week.

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It is so good to be back.

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We've had a few weeks off.

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We had uh, Labor Day and then uh,

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everybody went on vacation.

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I don't I don't know.

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It was weird.

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Yeah, last week was rough, wasn't it, brother?

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Yeah it was.

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Oh, God. barely got through it.

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Take one for the team.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, that beach time looked awful.

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Yeah.

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Beach, seafood, tons of it.

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God.

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Yeah.

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It was terrible.

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So are you guys having a good week back?

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's good.

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That's good.

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I can't tell much of a difference, really.

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No beach, but no beach in front of you, but you still got the pool open.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, still there. closed it, yeah.

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Yeah, still, hey, it's still so hot.

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You need to go swimming if you've been outside very long.

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I ain't kidding.

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And how's brother Tanner doing tonight?

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Uh-oh.

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Can y'all hear me?

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Oh, got him.

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Does try that again.

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There it is.

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I thought you broke it over there a minute ago, Jennifer.

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It probably was.

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It probably has stuff.

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We're doing good.

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We're doing good.

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Awesome.

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Well, it is good to have you back with us this time.

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So we've been working our way through.

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We had finished out Revelation, uh, just

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a few months, a few weeks ago and we've started in on Genesis,

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and we were up to chapter three.

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working my way back to the beginning.

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That's right.

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You know, and we we talked about how it, you know, it's kind of good

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to know where everything's leading to, and because

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we've done Revelation.

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So we know where everything's headed.

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And now we go back and we talk about where everything came from.

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And so we've talked about the creation, chapter one and chapter two,

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the events of God creating the heavens, the earth, and putting

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man on it and putting woman on it and the garden and

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this wonderful thing that they had where they were

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given dominion over the earth and the ability to just kind of chill out

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in this lovely little garden that they had to keep, you know,

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by, you know, apparently doing nothing.

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Because there were no weeds.

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There were no thorns, there were no, the animals

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weren't trying to kill each other or them.

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Like, I mean, they had a absolutely apparently horrible time of it.

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one rule.

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they had one rule.

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They had one rule and it was so difficult that

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they just couldn't help themselves, but that rule was, you can eat of anything

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in this garden, just leave this one tree along, the tree of the knowledge of good people.

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And, you know, we talked about how that,

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you know, chapter 3 rolls around and the

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serpent, who is Satan, comes along and starts

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whispering to Eve, hey, you know, did God really

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say that, that

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you don't have to, that you will die the moment

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you, you, you eat this fruit and she goes, oh,

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Yeah, yeah, if we eat it or touch it, we're gonna die.

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And, you know, and Old Satan just kind of tossed her one.

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Hey, what do you think about that?

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Oh, that looks good.

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And off she went taking a bite of it.

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And then we find out later that Adam was apparently

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right there because he just jumped right in with her, eating it.

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He did not hesitate reading the description

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when God comes along and says, hey guys, where'd you go?

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And they're over here hiding in the corner going, oh, we didn't want you to see us naked.

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And he's like, who told you you were naked?

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Yeah.

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And like every little kid?

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Dude, I created you.

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Yeah.

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And like, well, like every little kid ever, right?

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You know, it's like, oh, uh, well, nobody, um, we,

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uh, we did the thing you said not to do.

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And whose fault was it?

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No, it's her fault.

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No, it was his fault.

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No, it's her fault.

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It was all the stakes.

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That woman you gave me.

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Have you ever seen the meat or the TikTok of the kid that

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has like the donut, like the powder, like

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that's in his face.

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And the mom goes, did you eat a donut and the kid's

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like, no, mom, I did not.

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And then the mom was like, go from there and look at yourself.

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kid goes in the mirror looking at himself and then he comes

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back, the mom says, how many donuts did you eat?

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He said, one.

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I was like, huh.

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I kind of feel like it might be more than that.

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Maybe checking the box, yeah.

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And that's what we that's what we had.

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And so we get down through, uh, the

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1st part of chapter 3 is God coming in and

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having a conversation with him about this and and

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he does say, um, that,

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you know, there's, there's, there's, uh, repercussions from this.

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The snake's going to be crawling on his belly, loses his legs.

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woman's going to be experiencing increased pains from labor.

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Um, and the man is going to have to start working the field.

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He's going to have to actually deal the field.

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It will and it says that the the ground will

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um, uh, produce uh,

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thistles and thorns for him, that he has to deal with, that he

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has to take out in order to do and everything.

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He says, by the sweat of your brow, you will eat food until

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you return to the ground, for out of you you were taken, for you

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are dust and to dust, you will return.

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And that is, of course, if you've ever attended a Christian funeral,

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we use that phrase a lot of time, you know, dust to dust.

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And that's what we're talking about.

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We came from the dust of the earth.

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And the bodies are returning to it.

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Their souls go on somewhere else.

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Our souls get to go elsewhere, but the body returns there.

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You're not in that body anymore.

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Yeah, we see these promises through there too, don't we?

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Yeah, we do.

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Promises that the Messiah is going to come and crush that head.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And that thorns and thistles, what was Jesus wearing on the cross?

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He was wearing thorns.

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The ground is cursed.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And he overcomes a curse.

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And another thing that we got to look at, hey, too, that we that we

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see a good, good father here, because he didn't

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have to go to Adam and

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Eve and even say anything to him.

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He could have just let them die in their sink.

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But he didn't, right?

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He didn't.

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And we're going to see more of more of that and more

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of what he did to save them.

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and to give them opportunity, right?

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But, but yeah, he, he could have just left them right where they were, but

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he, he, he saw something, there was, there was nothing in him

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that was really good, but, but he loved him.

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Yeah, and he's got a 2nd chances, isn't he?

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We'll see that coming up.

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He just gives a 2nd chance after such a chance.

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Millions of 2nd chances, it feels like.

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That's right.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Awesome.

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And so here we are.

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We're at Genesis 3.

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Chapter 3, verse 20.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, I'll read that one.

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And Adam called his wife's name, Eve,

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because she was the mother of all living.

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So, um, What does Eve mean?

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Beginning?

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It's a beginning.

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It's a it's a start.

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Yeah, and, and, and, uh, and everything,

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really, I mean, you have 2 created beings,

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you have one, one created completely out of the ground,

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one, uh, that came from that creation,

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uh, and now, now begins the,

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the, the whole birth process, the whole, uh, which,

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which is really, the, the more I think about that, it's,

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it's such a miracle.

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I mean, you know, you're experiencing that right now,

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Tanner, for the 1st time.

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Oh, you're getting to see, hey, all those 1st are coming

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and have, you know, you get, it's just wonderful.

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Yep, she was 23 weeks.

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That's a Friday.

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She'll be 24 weeks this week.

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So just experiencing that for the 1st time is

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so surreal.

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Just week by week until, you know, just us anticipating that.

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Such a blessing.

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Yeah. such a blessing.

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Seeing those those 1st pictures, you

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know, with technology the way it is now, it's so crazy how

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much weather it's along with this when I had kids.

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Just seeing the heartbeat.

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I mean, that's at, you know, 6 to 8 weeks.

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You can see it.

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You might not can hear it.

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You can see it.

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That's when you see life at 6 to 8 weeks.

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It's 6 to 8 weeks.

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It's so surreal how we can just look at the beginning of

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conception and be like, hey, this is living.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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from that moment.

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From that moment.

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It's a it's a living being.

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That didn't just happen, right?

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No, no, you know, no, no, what was it?

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That was one day that he created all the vegetation and stuff and that was when

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he started creating stuff that reproduces itself.

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And then the birds and the and the fish and he blesses

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them and they reproduce and it's...

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Yeah, I'm gonna eat the same thing.

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right.

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Yeah, he made this whole world.

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He made everything to sustain itself.

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But what a what a beautiful thing that it is.

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Um, and we do, we see some uh, we

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see some heartache from it at times.

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You experience that too.

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didn't you?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, with a miscarriage

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and uh, Tanner and his brother,

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uh, and our daughter, they went through,

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uh, they went through that at the same, almost the same time.

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It was probably a month or I think a month and a half apart from each other.

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Yeah.

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But then directly after we can see it again.

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And, you know, now we're here.

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Now him and his brother, and their wives

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are having children at the same time, just...

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Yeah, 3 days apart.

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Three days, 3 days.

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Wow.

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Yeah, is that not 3 days?

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Twinsies.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, here's the funny part.

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Me and Carter are Irish twins.

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So we were born 11 months apart.

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So it's kind of like the same thing.

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They're basically going to be like close to the exact same day.

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It's crazy.

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Wow.

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Praise the Lord for that, though, and praise the Lord for,

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you know, good healthy pregnancies this time so far if

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we're going to continue to pray for that.

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But yeah, it's a beautiful thing.

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And I looked, I just left my granddaughter.

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I come by the house for just a minute and I was running a few minutes late

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because she was crawled up in my lap and she nearly fell asleep

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and they were all like, Miller, don't fall asleep yet, you know, but she's

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just so comfortable on pawpaw, you know?

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And I look at her.

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I was telling I was telling somebody, um, yesterday.

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I think it's just so much different as a granddaddy now.

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Because it's just more patience.

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And, you know, I'm not

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I'm not having to raise them.

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I'm not having to, um, I mean, you worry.

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Of course, you worry about your grandchildren, you know, and this

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world that they live in, those type things.

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But all the responsibility is not on me and

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my wife now to make sure that they, that they

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live for one thing.

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You know, they survive and then that they uh,

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grow into productive citizens and good Christian people,

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you know, that that they hear the gospel and all the things and

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and a lot, you know, that responsibility is on mom and dad.

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And we just get to enjoy and pour into her and watch her.

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And so I pay more attention, I think, than

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some of the things that you pay attention to when you're a dad.

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And I was telling this guy, he's just

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had another baby, that was actually Dylan Cameron.

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And I said, just pay attention to those things that

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sometimes you're too busy to pay attention to.

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Because now I slow down and I like everything I

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see development in her.

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I see, you know, her her talking

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being more and her her speech

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pattern getting more intense,

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I guess, you know, all the things.

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So, but yeah, she went.

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She's good with an amen.

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She has she has learned how to amen.

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Yeah.

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And last night, she was, she was going, 10, 10, 10.

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You can barely understand it.

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He was up there preaching and she was just like, you know.

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Anyway, sorry, I didn't need to get us off on that.

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I don't know if y'all knew I got a grandbaby, okay?

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Did he really?

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Yeah.

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Wait, when?

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Yeah.

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Must be new.

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Yeah, it's just a new thing.

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So.

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All right, verse 21.

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Yes.

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The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

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So there you go.

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There's the 1st sacrifice for sin.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And some animal or two, had to pay for this.

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Yeah. that sin.

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Because he goes on to say later in the Old Testament that

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the life is in the blood.

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That's right.

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And blood is required.

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A life is required for psycho for sin.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Without the shedding of blood.

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There's no remission for sin, right?

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It takes forgiveness.

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And it takes that forgiveness that we might have eternal life.

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Yeah

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And this is the 1st real preview of the cross, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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Because that's what all that stuff pointed toward was all the Old Testament

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sacrificial systems, all that stuff.

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Yeah.

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Man, it's we take

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it way too lightly, don't we?

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We do.

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We do.

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That crimson thread that's just all the way through this thing.

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Yeah, especially on this side of the cross that we're on now.

347
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We don't have to lead our favorite lamb to the altar.

348
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That's right.

349
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slit its throat.

350
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That's right.

351
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Yeah.

352
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Right?

353
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It was ugly.

354
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It was ugly back.

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It really was.

356
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Yeah, you had to you had to take something up and actually put your hands on it and

357
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transfer your sins to that animal and once you bleed to death.

358
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Yeah, yeah.

359
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It was a messy thing, wasn't it?

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Yeah.

361
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And can you imagine who, I, you know, I don't know.

362
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I don't know exactly how I'd have to dive into that to see.

363
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I haven't looked and looked into this, but how

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they cleaned the temple or how

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often they cleaned the temple or what they what they were

366
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required to leave there, but it had to been a messy, stinky thing, you know?

367
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And it was not, it was not pretty.

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No, not pretty.

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Just a bloodbath.

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Yeah, yeah.

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All right, so they got they got something besides fig leaves now, at least.

372
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Yeah, yeah.

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And it's public skin.

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covered their skin, it covered their their skin, right?

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And what they now looked at is sinful.

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And again, going back, we talked about this a little bit last

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time, but because we kind of, we

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kind of went forward just a little bit, but to think

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about, to think about him covering their sins

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and to think about them realizing, uh,

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being naked was not a sinful thing until

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uh, they ate of the fruit and they

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realized all the, it was, it was almost like

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their mind flooded with everything.

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that we see today, you know, the

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pornography of it, the dirtiness of

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what it could be.

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It's not supposed to be that way, especially between a man and a woman and

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in the bondage of marriage, it

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shouldn't be a dirty thing at all.

391
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We done a, we done a marriage conference here one time and,

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and one of the, um, one

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of the, uh, the sayings of, of the, the guy

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that was doing, it was a videos that we watched, uh, was,

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uh, uh, it's a big backyard, uh, talking about the marriage.

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The marriage bed, the bedroom in marriage, you know that, I mean, it's,

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you know, I mean, there's certain things that don't go.

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There's certain things that you have to keep out, but there's

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a lot that God allows there between a man and a woman,

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a man and his wife, you know?

401
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And uh, I could, I, I've

402
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told this before, but um, we were going through this whole marriage

403
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thing and uh, and, and Nicole and I were sitting.

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We had it in the, were you in there?

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was you was you in that point in time in the old fellowship, Paul?

406
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And Lynn and Gerald, and that, you know.

407
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Nicole and I were sitting we were sitting up front.

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And at a table and everybody's around us

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and behind us and everything.

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And we're going through this whole marriage thing, you know,

411
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and and he starts kind of diving

412
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into the to the sexual part just a little bit, you know?

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And I look and and the coats over there.

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She's just making notes like crazy.

415
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just writing stuff.

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man.

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And I'm like, hey, what did you do?

418
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Make notes the whole time and you're going to, anyway.

419
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But it was funny.

420
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I was like...

421
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It's like, it's still making notes, baby.

422
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Okay.

423
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I want you to read this later, sir.

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think that was the Jimmy Evans.

425
00:18:19,716 --> 00:18:20,983
It was Jimmy Evans, yeah.

426
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Yeah, yeah.

427
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It was.

428
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That was a good one.

429
00:18:22,950 --> 00:18:23,366
It was.

430
00:18:24,266 --> 00:18:26,433
We need to do another marriage conference, I think.

431
00:18:26,549 --> 00:18:27,683
Yeah, soon.

432
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But anyway.

433
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Anybody want to read, jump into verse 22, one of y'all?

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We'll do verse 22.

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And the Lord God said, behold, the man is become, as one

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of us, to know good and evil.

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And now lest he put forth his hand and take

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also of the tree of life and eat and live forever.

439
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Yeah.

440
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Us.

441
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Us.

442
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Yes.

443
00:18:54,450 --> 00:18:54,866
Yeah.

444
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Sticks out like a sore thumb, doesn't it?

445
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It does.

446
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It does.

447
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Yeah.

448
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Absolutely.

449
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And who does he mean by that?

450
00:19:03,933 --> 00:19:05,250
Father, son and Holy Spirit.

451
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That's right, that's right.

452
00:19:06,816 --> 00:19:07,533
Yeah, exactly.

453
00:19:07,533 --> 00:19:11,549
A much better picture of that at Jesus baptism, don't we?

454
00:19:11,849 --> 00:19:12,566
Yeah, we do.

455
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It's a lot more clearer.

456
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Just like everything else.

457
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Yeah, we say the workings of the 3 of them there.

458
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But it's mentioned all the way back here in the beginning.

459
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Yeah.

460
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I mean, they let us make men in our own age, an hour.

461
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You see all these plural.

462
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Not a plural god, but you know what I'm saying?

463
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But, but, but one

464
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god and 3 persons, you know, uh, that's

465
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uh, that's, that's father, son, and Holy Spirit.

466
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And again, man.

467
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Well, brother, brother, the word Trinity's not in the Bible.

468
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Yeah.

469
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Yeah, yeah, don't we hear that all the time though?

470
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Other words, Trinity's not in the Bible.

471
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So it can't be life.

472
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And people actually, I mean, they're...

473
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so-called Christians who think

474
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that God just like morphs into one figure or the other.

475
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Yeah, yeah.

476
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But his father sometimes, and he's...

477
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That's called...

478
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And man.

479
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Yeah.

480
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Or you have the opposite and and they own the,

481
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they say, he's just, he's just one completely one, right?

482
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Well, and and without

483
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having the 3 characters, right?

484
00:20:23,216 --> 00:20:24,950
I guess it comes from Judaism, right?

485
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The Lord our God is one.

486
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Yeah.

487
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Yeah.

488
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Right.

489
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The word's a cod, which means either one or a unity.

490
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Yeah, yeah.

491
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Right. and just like how we have like a 3 woven cord,

492
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kind of like what we see in weddings.

493
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That's literally what the word means.

494
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together to make one.

495
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Kind of like metropolitan ice cream.

496
00:20:43,799 --> 00:20:46,383
You know, you have the vanilla, you have the chocolate, you have the strawberry.

497
00:20:46,433 --> 00:20:51,000
but all of them are ice cream, but they all make up metropolitanics ice cream.

498
00:20:51,183 --> 00:20:51,900
Right, right.

499
00:20:51,950 --> 00:20:52,966
Or the apple.

500
00:20:53,033 --> 00:20:56,450
We've heard that, you know, the you got the core, the meat, and the skin,

501
00:20:56,450 --> 00:20:57,883
the apple, and they're all the apple.

502
00:20:58,083 --> 00:21:01,200
But gosh, I hate to even touch it like that too, you

503
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,066
know, because it's so it's so big.

504
00:21:03,116 --> 00:21:07,200
I mean, it's so, we were,

505
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,500
I may get in trouble for saying this, but we were, I was

506
00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:12,416
in, I won't say where I was at.

507
00:21:13,133 --> 00:21:16,433
I was in a...

508
00:21:16,433 --> 00:21:17,916
Where's the drama out?

509
00:21:18,299 --> 00:21:21,066
I was in a recent ordination service.

510
00:21:21,116 --> 00:21:23,583
Uh, uh, someone very close to me.

511
00:21:24,116 --> 00:21:27,416
And and in

512
00:21:27,416 --> 00:21:30,416
that ordination service, I'm sitting here thinking, because

513
00:21:30,416 --> 00:21:33,650
I've already, you know, this person

514
00:21:33,650 --> 00:21:35,750
asked me, he said, you know, what's it like?

515
00:21:35,933 --> 00:21:37,500
What, what, what can I expect?

516
00:21:37,549 --> 00:21:37,916
you know,

517
00:21:37,983 --> 00:21:41,400
And I was like, look, I said, here's the way that I go about an ordination

518
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,099
service if I'm leading Northern Nation service.

519
00:21:44,150 --> 00:21:47,516
You know, you have a Presbytery before the ordination service starts

520
00:21:47,516 --> 00:21:49,616
and you're sitting there with a group of men.

521
00:21:49,733 --> 00:21:52,666
And this is before you even go out and ordination service starts.

522
00:21:52,683 --> 00:21:56,466
And you're basically qualifying this person in a way.

523
00:21:57,616 --> 00:22:01,016
Uh, to to say that this person is is

524
00:22:01,016 --> 00:22:04,016
qualified to meet these standards, to be

525
00:22:04,016 --> 00:22:07,200
in this position of ordination,

526
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,083
to be an ordinary deacon or to be an ordinary pastor or whatever.

527
00:22:10,316 --> 00:22:13,316
But by the time you got, but by the time you got

528
00:22:13,316 --> 00:22:16,549
this person in this group of people, you should have already seen

529
00:22:16,549 --> 00:22:20,266
all the attributes and all the qualities and all the qualifications

530
00:22:20,283 --> 00:22:23,283
for this person to be, uh,

531
00:22:23,283 --> 00:22:26,333
who you're ordaining this person to be, and

532
00:22:26,333 --> 00:22:28,133
it's not an interrogation room.

533
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,500
And I have been in in the past.

534
00:22:31,549 --> 00:22:34,916
I've been in uh, uh, those ordination

535
00:22:34,916 --> 00:22:38,033
services where they have been made in interrogation room.

536
00:22:38,216 --> 00:22:41,400
To me, it's to, to have

537
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,450
an opportunity maybe to give some good advice, to have an opportunity

538
00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:45,466
to,

539
00:22:45,533 --> 00:22:47,099
I think you want to ask some questions.

540
00:22:47,150 --> 00:22:50,150
I think you want to make sure, you know, you want to say, hey, you

541
00:22:50,150 --> 00:22:53,633
know, what, what would, you know, if this situation arises,

542
00:22:53,633 --> 00:22:57,166
you know, maybe this is, how would you handle this or,

543
00:22:57,183 --> 00:22:59,466
you know, would you, would you do this or would you do that?

544
00:23:00,483 --> 00:23:03,483
But not get so deep into it that you

545
00:23:03,483 --> 00:23:06,549
try to trip the person up in front of a bunch

546
00:23:06,549 --> 00:23:09,950
of people on a moment's notice, you know, and we're, so we're,

547
00:23:09,950 --> 00:23:11,216
so I'd already thought about that.

548
00:23:11,333 --> 00:23:15,416
And I'd already thought about the whole, you know, hopefully,

549
00:23:15,416 --> 00:23:18,416
and I told this person, I said, I said, it's more of an

550
00:23:18,416 --> 00:23:19,916
encouraging time, right?

551
00:23:19,983 --> 00:23:22,316
I try to encourage young pastors.

552
00:23:22,383 --> 00:23:25,450
I try to encourage deacons that are coming into this.

553
00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:27,233
Hey, you know, we love you.

554
00:23:27,299 --> 00:23:27,966
We're behind you.

555
00:23:28,016 --> 00:23:29,333
There's going to be some things you don't know.

556
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,466
There's going to be some things you're going to face, that you're going to have to draw

557
00:23:32,466 --> 00:23:35,683
off the wisdom of other men that have been there and they've done that.

558
00:23:35,750 --> 00:23:37,549
And, you know, just some things like that.

559
00:23:37,683 --> 00:23:40,750
And one of the very 1st questions

560
00:23:40,750 --> 00:23:44,933
comes from his pastor and he's like, explain the Trinity.

561
00:23:51,533 --> 00:23:54,716
And he done a good job of, of, you know,

562
00:23:54,716 --> 00:23:57,950
what, what I think he wanted to hear,

563
00:23:57,950 --> 00:24:00,950
of this, but I'm like, I can't believe that you just asked

564
00:24:00,950 --> 00:24:04,316
that because if you were to ask Adrian Rogers

565
00:24:04,316 --> 00:24:07,316
that same question and he was still sitting here, he would

566
00:24:07,316 --> 00:24:08,400
tell you, you know what?

567
00:24:08,583 --> 00:24:11,583
There's not a professor out there that could really explain

568
00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:14,750
to you the intricacy of the trinity

569
00:24:14,750 --> 00:24:17,683
and what it really means and the whole thing.

570
00:24:17,750 --> 00:24:18,583
We just know this.

571
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:20,766
We believe it by faith.

572
00:24:20,883 --> 00:24:22,016
We trust it by faith.

573
00:24:22,133 --> 00:24:25,366
Do I completely understand that he is

574
00:24:25,383 --> 00:24:28,016
one God, but he is also 3 persons.

575
00:24:28,083 --> 00:24:31,200
He is father, son, and Holy Spirit, and that somehow

576
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,799
they all work together, and somehow they all play a

577
00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:36,966
part in this whole thing for us.

578
00:24:37,916 --> 00:24:39,183
You know, I know it.

579
00:24:39,299 --> 00:24:41,400
I believe it, and I trust in it.

580
00:24:41,450 --> 00:24:44,633
But to be able to comprehend it is like

581
00:24:44,633 --> 00:24:47,866
saying, you know, I understand that

582
00:24:47,883 --> 00:24:51,183
God is not bound by time or

583
00:24:51,183 --> 00:24:54,183
space or all the

584
00:24:54,183 --> 00:24:57,233
things, you know, I can't understand that either because

585
00:24:57,233 --> 00:25:00,233
everything that we know is bound by

586
00:25:00,233 --> 00:25:01,500
time and space, you know?

587
00:25:01,683 --> 00:25:04,566
You might as well ask him, what was God doing before he created this?

588
00:25:04,616 --> 00:25:05,150
Yeah, yeah.

589
00:25:05,216 --> 00:25:06,900
Well, yeah, explain that.

590
00:25:06,950 --> 00:25:08,750
I mean, I'm going to be honest.

591
00:25:08,816 --> 00:25:10,016
That's kind of one of those questions.

592
00:25:10,083 --> 00:25:13,799
I would be afraid to ask somebody that in a sitting like that because

593
00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:16,683
I'd be afraid they'd look at me and say, oh, if that's what I've got to do, never mind.

594
00:25:16,733 --> 00:25:18,233
Yeah, yeah.

595
00:25:19,083 --> 00:25:19,683
I'm done.

596
00:25:19,983 --> 00:25:23,049
Yeah, I remember some preacher telling a story about a

597
00:25:23,049 --> 00:25:26,266
professor gave him a test and said, it said, define God

598
00:25:26,283 --> 00:25:27,366
and give 3 examples.

599
00:25:30,783 --> 00:25:31,866
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

600
00:25:31,983 --> 00:25:32,466
Yeah.

601
00:25:32,516 --> 00:25:33,533
I mean, come on.

602
00:25:35,216 --> 00:25:38,333
But anyway, I had a conversation

603
00:25:38,333 --> 00:25:42,166
with a friend of mine years ago we were talking about it.

604
00:25:42,233 --> 00:25:45,716
And we said, you know, one of the oddballest things about Christianity

605
00:25:45,716 --> 00:25:48,650
and one of the hardest things to explain to people is the nature of God.

606
00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:52,016
Because, you know, a lot of people, well, God is love.

607
00:25:52,083 --> 00:25:52,500
God is this.

608
00:25:52,849 --> 00:25:56,683
It's like, well, you've got a very tiny sliver of him with that statement.

609
00:25:57,116 --> 00:25:58,083
Congratulations.

610
00:25:58,916 --> 00:26:01,916
You're still so far away from the nature

611
00:26:01,916 --> 00:26:05,216
of what God is because he is so far beyond us

612
00:26:05,216 --> 00:26:09,233
because he created the entire universe, from a word.

613
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,616
Let there be light, a statement created

614
00:26:13,616 --> 00:26:15,833
the entire universe.

615
00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:19,500
That right there is enough to make you go, okay,

616
00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:20,816
what do we know?

617
00:26:20,883 --> 00:26:22,083
Oh, nothing we know can do that.

618
00:26:22,133 --> 00:26:23,099
That is impossible.

619
00:26:23,150 --> 00:26:24,650
That is something humans can't do.

620
00:26:24,716 --> 00:26:26,750
We have never been able to build a machine to do it.

621
00:26:26,816 --> 00:26:27,650
We've never been able.

622
00:26:27,833 --> 00:26:31,433
We have virtual worlds sitting in computers, and those took

623
00:26:31,433 --> 00:26:34,549
years and years and years of somebody spending time writing

624
00:26:34,549 --> 00:26:37,849
the code to make it work, and God went, let there be light.

625
00:26:37,983 --> 00:26:42,000
And all of the source code of the universe went out and

626
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,866
became and was.

627
00:26:44,150 --> 00:26:45,883
And it's such a difficult.

628
00:26:45,950 --> 00:26:47,083
How do you describe that?

629
00:26:47,150 --> 00:26:48,533
How do you put that into words?

630
00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:51,349
And the answer is you can't.

631
00:26:51,716 --> 00:26:55,616
So ultimately, God is this indefinable indescribable

632
00:26:55,616 --> 00:26:59,333
being that is so far beyond,

633
00:26:59,333 --> 00:27:02,400
but is ultimately the creator of all of

634
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,833
us that we are made in his image.

635
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,000
But we know it.

636
00:27:06,049 --> 00:27:08,266
Because Jesus said, if you've seen me, you've seen the phone.

637
00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:09,066
Exactly.

638
00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:12,183
He is the he is the exact representation.

639
00:27:12,233 --> 00:27:13,733
All the godhead dwelt fully in him.

640
00:27:13,849 --> 00:27:14,450
Amen.

641
00:27:14,516 --> 00:27:15,000
Amen.

642
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:15,833
Amen.

643
00:27:16,083 --> 00:27:17,166
Jesus is it, right?

644
00:27:17,883 --> 00:27:20,950
And I see people on Facebook and every now and

645
00:27:20,950 --> 00:27:24,000
then these ridiculous conversations come

646
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,183
up pop up in my feet about predestination versus free

647
00:27:27,183 --> 00:27:29,950
will, the Calvinism versus Armenian thing.

648
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,066
Oh, these comets go on and on and on and of, all these people have got

649
00:27:33,066 --> 00:27:36,116
all this stuff figured out, and I just want to ask everyone of them, what are

650
00:27:36,116 --> 00:27:39,233
you doing in your daily life for the Lord instead of

651
00:27:39,233 --> 00:27:43,549
sitting around, you know, trying to figure out something you will never figure out.

652
00:27:43,799 --> 00:27:44,166
Right.

653
00:27:44,166 --> 00:27:45,650
And Trinity's the same way.

654
00:27:45,716 --> 00:27:46,983
You ain't gonna figure it out.

655
00:27:47,033 --> 00:27:48,416
You just come to peace with something.

656
00:27:49,016 --> 00:27:49,683
and run with it.

657
00:27:49,983 --> 00:27:53,099
We know that there's a father, there's a son, there's a Holy Spirit, they all showed

658
00:27:53,099 --> 00:27:54,183
up at Jesus baptism.

659
00:27:54,416 --> 00:27:55,849
They're all right here in Genesis.

660
00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:59,933
That was that was the 2nd difficult question that

661
00:27:59,933 --> 00:28:01,666
he was asked at the same ordination.

662
00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,733
You know, what do you, what, what do you think about Calvinism versus Armenianism?

663
00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:10,266
Now I'm like, you know, you can explain that.

664
00:28:10,316 --> 00:28:13,549
I mean, to a point, you can explain that this

665
00:28:13,549 --> 00:28:16,783
is why I don't believe that we

666
00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:19,799
are predestined in the way that a

667
00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:21,000
Calvinist would believe that.

668
00:28:21,233 --> 00:28:24,416
And we can understand, we can we can go through those points of

669
00:28:24,416 --> 00:28:27,650
each one, the tulip and say, this is why this is wrong.

670
00:28:27,716 --> 00:28:28,916
This is the scripture prinzer.

671
00:28:28,983 --> 00:28:32,099
But come on, you can't sit there and explain that number one in just

672
00:28:32,099 --> 00:28:35,516
a short period of time that we're sitting in this little room right here.

673
00:28:35,750 --> 00:28:38,816
And number two, again, like you said, when it gets down

674
00:28:38,816 --> 00:28:41,099
to the meat of it, is God's sovereign.

675
00:28:41,150 --> 00:28:41,450
Yes.

676
00:28:42,716 --> 00:28:46,200
You know, does he know every decision that we're going to make?

677
00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:47,099
Of course he does.

678
00:28:47,516 --> 00:28:48,716
Do we have a choice?

679
00:28:48,783 --> 00:28:49,566
Yes, we do.

680
00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:53,400
And do we have responsibility for our own sin and our choices?

681
00:28:53,450 --> 00:28:54,233
Yes, we do.

682
00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:55,066
Yes, we do.

683
00:28:55,133 --> 00:28:55,966
So explain that.

684
00:28:57,049 --> 00:28:57,583
It is.

685
00:28:57,650 --> 00:28:58,183
It's both.

686
00:28:58,250 --> 00:28:59,266
How it works together?

687
00:29:00,533 --> 00:29:01,250
Leave it alone.

688
00:29:01,316 --> 00:29:05,216
Stop arguing about it on social media and go do something.

689
00:29:05,450 --> 00:29:05,983
somebody else.

690
00:29:06,049 --> 00:29:07,250
Stop the churches about it over it.

691
00:29:07,316 --> 00:29:07,500
Yeah.

692
00:29:08,033 --> 00:29:09,833
I mean, go love one another.

693
00:29:10,316 --> 00:29:13,316
And I love when we were talking about it because, you know, again, I always go back

694
00:29:13,316 --> 00:29:15,349
to, I look at the New Testament.

695
00:29:15,416 --> 00:29:18,483
I look at when Paul mentions the predestination of

696
00:29:18,483 --> 00:29:22,316
someone for something because the handful of times he does it.

697
00:29:22,616 --> 00:29:24,299
It's kind of exceptions to the rule.

698
00:29:24,349 --> 00:29:26,383
Everybody else, he's like, you need to make a choice.

699
00:29:26,450 --> 00:29:27,116
You need to make a choice.

700
00:29:27,233 --> 00:29:28,066
you need to make a choice.

701
00:29:28,133 --> 00:29:29,266
But then he mentions Pharaoh.

702
00:29:29,333 --> 00:29:29,633
Yeah.

703
00:29:29,633 --> 00:29:31,200
He was predestined too.

704
00:29:31,383 --> 00:29:34,750
And God set his heart against and God made,

705
00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:38,099
you know, God made his mind a certain way or changed his mind a certain way.

706
00:29:38,333 --> 00:29:41,450
And it's very interesting to note that Paul does that in

707
00:29:41,450 --> 00:29:44,633
very, or the New Testament, because I'm sorry, that is Hebrews.

708
00:29:44,816 --> 00:29:48,599
We're not 100% sure, but the writer was very specific.

709
00:29:48,650 --> 00:29:51,883
It's a really niche set where

710
00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:53,933
God goes, you're going to do this.

711
00:29:54,349 --> 00:29:57,416
And it is already after when you look at the full story,

712
00:29:57,533 --> 00:30:00,650
They've made decisions that's like, oh, they put themselves

713
00:30:00,650 --> 00:30:03,283
in the position that God went, okay, you're here now?

714
00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:04,733
Boom, now we're doing this.

715
00:30:05,099 --> 00:30:08,166
Well, I can buy it on a, on a, you know, huge macro scale because

716
00:30:08,166 --> 00:30:11,266
I didn't have to be born in this

717
00:30:11,283 --> 00:30:12,599
country at this time.

718
00:30:13,433 --> 00:30:13,799
Right.

719
00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:16,866
Seoul could have been existing in Africa a 1000 years ago.

720
00:30:17,099 --> 00:30:18,416
I've never heard about Jesus, right?

721
00:30:18,483 --> 00:30:19,083
Right, right.

722
00:30:19,616 --> 00:30:21,950
I don't know how this all works and I really don't care.

723
00:30:22,733 --> 00:30:23,099
Exactly.

724
00:30:23,099 --> 00:30:26,450
He tells us that our, that our, our

725
00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:29,683
place of birth and our, our area that

726
00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:32,283
we're in, uh, planned.

727
00:30:32,333 --> 00:30:34,366
Yeah, he planned that.

728
00:30:34,433 --> 00:30:35,216
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

729
00:30:36,049 --> 00:30:36,716
And he does.

730
00:30:36,783 --> 00:30:38,216
And that's the thing.

731
00:30:38,283 --> 00:30:41,883
It's like you say, God is all sovereign and yet he gives us a choice.

732
00:30:42,116 --> 00:30:42,599
Up here.

733
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:43,316
Yeah.

734
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:45,066
And people arguing about it on social media.

735
00:30:45,116 --> 00:30:46,200
There's no point.

736
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:47,700
The bounds of our habitation.

737
00:30:47,750 --> 00:30:48,716
That's the version.

738
00:30:48,833 --> 00:30:50,450
Yeah, the bones of our habitation.

739
00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:51,000
Yeah, yeah.

740
00:30:51,049 --> 00:30:51,583
But anyway.

741
00:30:52,466 --> 00:30:53,099
I had to think.

742
00:30:53,150 --> 00:30:55,733
You know, it's interesting in 322 there.

743
00:30:58,133 --> 00:31:01,133
And the Lord God said, behold, the

744
00:31:01,133 --> 00:31:05,266
man has become as one of us to no good and evil.

745
00:31:06,650 --> 00:31:10,250
It's very interesting that

746
00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:13,366
he says it that way because the whole point was,

747
00:31:13,383 --> 00:31:16,500
I don't want man is not supposed to know good and evil.

748
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,183
And there is nothing that makes me think that they were not eating from the tree of life before this.

749
00:31:24,233 --> 00:31:28,549
I see nothing to suggest they weren't, but he says now,

750
00:31:28,549 --> 00:31:32,566
least he put forth his hand and take also the tree of life.

751
00:31:32,750 --> 00:31:36,583
I'm wondering if it was the change after sin entered into their nature.

752
00:31:36,650 --> 00:31:37,133
Now.

753
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,250
Okay, whoop, they had the tree of life before, sends in or

754
00:31:40,250 --> 00:31:41,383
now they can't do it again.

755
00:31:41,450 --> 00:31:42,716
They can't take of it again.

756
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,983
Or if it was something where the tree of life had to be eaten from continuously

757
00:31:46,983 --> 00:31:50,283
in order for them to continue on forever because

758
00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:52,150
he locks them out of it in the next verse.

759
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,500
But that, that, this is a really fascinating thing where

760
00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:58,683
God uses that, that terminology in that phrase they're

761
00:31:58,683 --> 00:32:02,349
saying, they're, they're become as one of us to know good and evil.

762
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,599
And don't confuse.

763
00:32:03,650 --> 00:32:04,549
He's not saying they're gods.

764
00:32:04,983 --> 00:32:05,816
It's hard.

765
00:32:05,883 --> 00:32:08,883
It's really hard to not speculate some when you read some of

766
00:32:08,883 --> 00:32:11,883
this stuff because you just want to see how the workings of it, you know.

767
00:32:12,116 --> 00:32:13,683
Yeah, but it could be.

768
00:32:13,733 --> 00:32:14,816
It could very well could be.

769
00:32:14,883 --> 00:32:17,883
And the big things, he didn't want to lock them into evil.

770
00:32:18,183 --> 00:32:18,549
Right.

771
00:32:19,316 --> 00:32:19,849
locked in.

772
00:32:20,216 --> 00:32:21,716
Right, because there's 2 things here.

773
00:32:21,783 --> 00:32:25,266
Like he was he was keeping them by the tree of life, but

774
00:32:25,266 --> 00:32:29,216
stay away from this tree, but now that you know what is evil.

775
00:32:29,283 --> 00:32:31,866
I don't want you to exist in evil for the rest of your life.

776
00:32:32,150 --> 00:32:33,766
That's my death came, right?

777
00:32:34,683 --> 00:32:37,799
Death came to us because he did not want us to continue

778
00:32:37,799 --> 00:32:39,416
to exist in evil.

779
00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:43,200
That's why salvation and rebirth has to take place, right?

780
00:32:43,616 --> 00:32:45,650
Because he doesn't leave us in our sin.

781
00:32:45,716 --> 00:32:47,816
He doesn't leave us in that place of evil.

782
00:32:47,816 --> 00:32:51,000
And he saves us to take us out of that.

783
00:32:51,049 --> 00:32:54,049
And that's why we're being sanctified and that's why

784
00:32:54,049 --> 00:32:57,716
we're one day going to be glorified because that

785
00:32:57,716 --> 00:33:01,733
sin nature will be completely gone in a glorified body.

786
00:33:02,099 --> 00:33:05,150
But I mean, what do you what do

787
00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:07,250
you if he saved us just to leave us in it?

788
00:33:08,150 --> 00:33:09,283
I think terrible, right?

789
00:33:09,349 --> 00:33:11,033
I mean, to live in this.

790
00:33:11,633 --> 00:33:14,700
you know, you live forever, but you're still going to be

791
00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:17,166
sick because sin makes us sick, right?

792
00:33:17,883 --> 00:33:20,816
You're still going to have cancers and think about it.

793
00:33:20,883 --> 00:33:24,233
I mean, it would be like existing in a in a in

794
00:33:24,233 --> 00:33:27,466
a horror movie where you just continue to live.

795
00:33:27,950 --> 00:33:31,066
But your body was decrepit and

796
00:33:31,083 --> 00:33:34,200
your bones were hurting and you were crippled and you

797
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,383
were just this pile of mess that

798
00:33:37,383 --> 00:33:40,200
you existed in forever enabled.

799
00:33:40,250 --> 00:33:43,316
And God said, look, now that you've done this and

800
00:33:43,316 --> 00:33:46,616
you know what's evil and you know what's sin is,

801
00:33:46,966 --> 00:33:48,349
I can't leave you in this state.

802
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:49,866
But I've got a plan.

803
00:33:49,916 --> 00:33:50,816
I got a plan for this.

804
00:33:51,650 --> 00:33:52,733
I've got a plan.

805
00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:52,983
Yeah.

806
00:33:53,216 --> 00:33:53,583
Yeah.

807
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,049
And notice that in verse 21 where he said that they

808
00:33:57,049 --> 00:34:00,049
sacrifice and then verse 22 is whenever they left

809
00:34:00,049 --> 00:34:01,549
and then they never return.

810
00:34:01,799 --> 00:34:02,883
They sacrificed the lamb.

811
00:34:03,116 --> 00:34:06,116
Yeah, they put they use the lamb or whatever animal they use

812
00:34:06,116 --> 00:34:09,233
as clothing to remind them, hey, this animal

813
00:34:09,233 --> 00:34:10,916
died for you for you.

814
00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:13,199
And then this is a reminder.

815
00:34:13,250 --> 00:34:13,783
That's right

816
00:34:14,283 --> 00:34:14,883
Amen.

817
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,966
Yeah, they never forgot that moment, I'm sure.

818
00:34:19,383 --> 00:34:20,166
No, no.

819
00:34:20,666 --> 00:34:21,183
No, no.

820
00:34:21,233 --> 00:34:22,366
And we shouldn't forget it either.

821
00:34:23,516 --> 00:34:27,183
And so I'm glad you said that because that's

822
00:34:27,183 --> 00:34:28,683
why we do communion, isn't it?

823
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:29,166
It is.

824
00:34:29,166 --> 00:34:32,383
To know and remember that,

825
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,016
that, to set a time and say that, the lamb of God.

826
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,283
The lamb of God came and yeah, he sacrificed

827
00:34:41,283 --> 00:34:44,349
himself and he covered us so that so

828
00:34:44,349 --> 00:34:47,866
that we could live forever and

829
00:34:47,883 --> 00:34:51,183
that we could remember what we done, right?

830
00:34:51,233 --> 00:34:52,016
We were sinful.

831
00:34:52,083 --> 00:34:53,216
We had a sinful nature.

832
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,033
But he didn't leave us in our sin.

833
00:34:56,099 --> 00:34:57,116
That lamb was perfect.

834
00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:58,266
Yes, yes.

835
00:34:58,616 --> 00:34:59,699
Fresh off the assembly.

836
00:34:59,883 --> 00:35:00,783
It was, wasn't it?

837
00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:03,116
And we got to put on his righteousness.

838
00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:03,966
That right.

839
00:35:04,016 --> 00:35:04,500
Yeah, that's right.

840
00:35:04,550 --> 00:35:04,916
right.

841
00:35:05,150 --> 00:35:05,633
Amen.

842
00:35:05,816 --> 00:35:06,416
Amen.

843
00:35:06,483 --> 00:35:07,266
Clothed in.

844
00:35:07,316 --> 00:35:09,349
And I love the Lord's supper, man, communion.

845
00:35:09,416 --> 00:35:13,316
Because that is that is one time what we have got to just focus in.

846
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,433
Forget about predestination.

847
00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:18,833
Forget about all this stuff.

848
00:35:18,833 --> 00:35:19,916
Yeah.

849
00:35:19,916 --> 00:35:21,233
The body was broken for me.

850
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:23,033
My blood was poured out for me.

851
00:35:23,216 --> 00:35:23,750
Amen.

852
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:24,483
Amen.

853
00:35:24,650 --> 00:35:25,616
It's a powerful time.

854
00:35:25,733 --> 00:35:26,566
It really is.

855
00:35:26,699 --> 00:35:27,300
It really is.

856
00:35:27,533 --> 00:35:28,066
Amen.

857
00:35:30,166 --> 00:35:31,250
So we sit...

858
00:35:31,250 --> 00:35:31,783
What's up next?

859
00:35:31,849 --> 00:35:33,716
We're 2023.

860
00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:38,333
Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from

861
00:35:38,333 --> 00:35:42,166
the garden of Eden to till the garden from whence he was taken.

862
00:35:45,233 --> 00:35:46,016
So...

863
00:35:47,866 --> 00:35:50,633
Here we got work coming in, right?

864
00:35:51,183 --> 00:35:51,599
Yeah.

865
00:35:51,650 --> 00:35:53,033
Now you got to work.

866
00:35:53,099 --> 00:35:56,166
Now you got to, now you got to make your own way.

867
00:35:56,216 --> 00:36:00,949
Now you got, you've got to take care of.

868
00:36:03,050 --> 00:36:06,166
He gave he gave Adam the job of

869
00:36:06,183 --> 00:36:10,133
taking care of everything as far as naming it as far as,

870
00:36:10,133 --> 00:36:13,916
you know, making sure that everything went like it was supposed to.

871
00:36:14,449 --> 00:36:18,116
I think part of Adam's job was to keep himself

872
00:36:18,116 --> 00:36:22,199
and his wife away from that one tree and he failed at that.

873
00:36:22,849 --> 00:36:26,633
But now he's about to, he's about to know what the sweat of his brow is.

874
00:36:27,116 --> 00:36:27,783
Yeah, yeah.

875
00:36:28,133 --> 00:36:28,500
Yeah.

876
00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:31,500
Do you find the,

877
00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:35,466
I find it ironic that he says that God says it the way he does here.

878
00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:39,366
Send him forth from the garden, sent him forth from the garden of

879
00:36:39,366 --> 00:36:43,550
Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken.

880
00:36:44,099 --> 00:36:44,516
Yeah.

881
00:36:44,866 --> 00:36:45,233
Yeah.

882
00:36:46,216 --> 00:36:48,949
God's like, okay, yep.

883
00:36:49,016 --> 00:36:50,283
Now you get to go.

884
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:51,233
created you out of this.

885
00:36:51,416 --> 00:36:51,833
Yeah.

886
00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:55,016
Now you get to go start learning how to do things out of it.

887
00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:56,400
You're going to create things.

888
00:36:56,583 --> 00:36:57,483
You're going to create thing.

889
00:36:57,533 --> 00:36:58,133
You going to.

890
00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:01,916
Well, you're going to you're going to prepare it for things that I've

891
00:37:01,916 --> 00:37:04,133
prepared that I've got created already.

892
00:37:04,849 --> 00:37:06,050
Because we don't create anything out.

893
00:37:06,116 --> 00:37:07,616
We plant seeds that are already created.

894
00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:08,650
We didn't create the seed.

895
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:12,066
Yeah, that's the that's the amazing thing.

896
00:37:12,116 --> 00:37:13,849
And by the way, I want to point that out.

897
00:37:14,633 --> 00:37:16,199
The incredible part of all this.

898
00:37:17,816 --> 00:37:20,699
From the very beginning, man creates nothing.

899
00:37:21,116 --> 00:37:21,533
Yeah.

900
00:37:22,766 --> 00:37:25,983
We just take and repurpose stuff that we're just recycling everything.

901
00:37:26,816 --> 00:37:28,500
God gave it to us and we just recycle it.

902
00:37:28,550 --> 00:37:29,333
No matter what it is.

903
00:37:29,333 --> 00:37:31,016
That house you built with a tree.

904
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,383
You're just recycling the wood that God already grew for you.

905
00:37:36,016 --> 00:37:38,933
Yeah, we call we call things like we call it.

906
00:37:39,349 --> 00:37:41,216
certain things, you know, we call artificial.

907
00:37:41,516 --> 00:37:44,933
you know, this is this is artificial, this is artificial,

908
00:37:44,933 --> 00:37:47,933
this is artificial, but it all came from something natural that got

909
00:37:47,933 --> 00:37:49,199
created at that point time.

910
00:37:49,250 --> 00:37:50,216
It had to, right?

911
00:37:50,449 --> 00:37:51,650
genuine or official.

912
00:37:51,716 --> 00:37:52,316
Yeah, yeah.

913
00:37:53,150 --> 00:37:53,683
It is.

914
00:37:53,750 --> 00:37:54,050
Yeah.

915
00:37:55,433 --> 00:37:59,333
Because Mr. Haney on Green Acres.

916
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,500
Genuine artificial.

917
00:38:02,283 --> 00:38:03,900
Green Lake is a place to be.

918
00:38:04,133 --> 00:38:05,216
I love 24, man.

919
00:38:05,816 --> 00:38:06,833
So we drove the man out.

920
00:38:07,199 --> 00:38:08,933
And at the east of the Garden of Eden.

921
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,183
He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turned every

922
00:38:12,183 --> 00:38:15,183
direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

923
00:38:15,233 --> 00:38:18,650
And this, man, this to me is the heartbreaking

924
00:38:18,650 --> 00:38:21,650
part of this because I think Adam and Eve left that place

925
00:38:21,650 --> 00:38:24,583
knowing they're never going to see God face to face again.

926
00:38:24,949 --> 00:38:25,616
Yeah, yeah.

927
00:38:26,216 --> 00:38:26,699
Ever.

928
00:38:26,699 --> 00:38:28,800
Until they, you know, go home.

929
00:38:28,983 --> 00:38:29,583
That's right.

930
00:38:29,633 --> 00:38:29,816
Yeah.

931
00:38:30,050 --> 00:38:33,416
They would still have a relationship with him, but it would never be like it was before.

932
00:38:33,833 --> 00:38:35,633
because sin broke that, right?

933
00:38:35,699 --> 00:38:37,316
Because God can't be a part of sin.

934
00:38:37,733 --> 00:38:39,116
And here's the thing too.

935
00:38:40,983 --> 00:38:43,750
Every every person born after that.

936
00:38:43,849 --> 00:38:47,033
And so all of Adam and Eve's children were born

937
00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:48,833
into sin from that point on.

938
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,000
They had that sin nature in them.

939
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:54,416
So not only was God saying, I can't

940
00:38:54,416 --> 00:38:57,650
let you, I can't let you and Eve back in this place, but

941
00:38:57,650 --> 00:39:01,916
I can't let your children back in this place either, lest they live forever in their sin.

942
00:39:02,216 --> 00:39:04,083
And we'll see in a little while one of them tries to go back.

943
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:05,216
Yeah, yeah.

944
00:39:05,333 --> 00:39:05,866
That's right

945
00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:06,716
Yeah.

946
00:39:06,783 --> 00:39:07,316
Oh, yeah.

947
00:39:07,916 --> 00:39:08,333
Yeah.

948
00:39:09,650 --> 00:39:10,433
Let's keep going.

949
00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:11,766
That gets us into 4-one.

950
00:39:11,816 --> 00:39:15,000
So we finish out 3 there and chapter

951
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
3 ends with

952
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,349
such an interesting ending because it is God saying,

953
00:39:21,349 --> 00:39:24,583
okay, you've done this thing that I told you not to do,

954
00:39:24,599 --> 00:39:28,433
and now we can't allow you to live in your sin forever.

955
00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:30,000
So you can't have the tree of life.

956
00:39:30,050 --> 00:39:34,066
You can't have access to the tree of life anymore because you can't go on forever at this point.

957
00:39:34,133 --> 00:39:35,566
You're now living in sin.

958
00:39:36,483 --> 00:39:39,716
And we're going to remove you from the garden.

959
00:39:39,783 --> 00:39:42,416
You're going to go out and you're going to till the ground.

960
00:39:42,483 --> 00:39:43,449
You're going to work.

961
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:46,983
You're gonna, you're gonna have to do all the things I prepared a place for you.

962
00:39:47,033 --> 00:39:47,866
You've rejected it.

963
00:39:47,933 --> 00:39:51,166
Now you have to go deal with the rest of the world that

964
00:39:51,183 --> 00:39:52,266
I didn't make as nice.

965
00:39:53,449 --> 00:39:56,449
And that now your sin is going to start infecting the world because

966
00:39:56,449 --> 00:39:59,633
it says, it says when it talks about the ground, it says, it's

967
00:39:59,633 --> 00:40:02,816
going to be a curse, it's causing a curse in the ground.

968
00:40:02,816 --> 00:40:06,533
And it's creating that, that curse is spreading out from this point.

969
00:40:07,550 --> 00:40:10,849
And so Adam and Eve go outside the garden and God

970
00:40:10,849 --> 00:40:14,033
places a an angel with a flaming sword to

971
00:40:14,033 --> 00:40:16,616
ensure that no one else gets back to the tree of life.

972
00:40:16,916 --> 00:40:20,883
And then with chapter 4, we pick up with kind of the what's

973
00:40:20,883 --> 00:40:22,266
going on with Adam and Eve afterwards.

974
00:40:22,683 --> 00:40:26,216
At some point afterward, they're out here and this is what happens.

975
00:40:26,283 --> 00:40:29,449
Now, it may have been, you know, a few weeks could have been a year or so,

976
00:40:29,449 --> 00:40:32,333
but it wasn't an extended period of time because they're aging now.

977
00:40:32,816 --> 00:40:36,116
They've had all this ageless time where they were perfect and they weren't,

978
00:40:36,116 --> 00:40:39,050
they weren't being corrupted by sin, so their bodies weren't falling apart.

979
00:40:39,116 --> 00:40:41,216
And now well, they're getting older.

980
00:40:43,916 --> 00:40:48,900
I just want to hit the tree alive real quick because I think speculation again.

981
00:40:49,016 --> 00:40:51,533
Yeah. which is this is ripe for it, man.

982
00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:52,133
It really is.

983
00:40:53,449 --> 00:40:56,633
Tree of Life, I think, is around until the flood.

984
00:40:57,050 --> 00:40:57,416
Yeah.

985
00:40:57,416 --> 00:40:59,516
And this cherubim garden is thing.

986
00:40:59,750 --> 00:41:00,766
I don't think it goes away.

987
00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:02,583
And it goes away in the flood.

988
00:41:02,816 --> 00:41:04,083
I could be dead wrong about that.

989
00:41:05,633 --> 00:41:06,349
It shows up again.

990
00:41:06,483 --> 00:41:06,900
Yeah.

991
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:07,683
It shows up again.

992
00:41:08,150 --> 00:41:08,933
In a revelation.

993
00:41:09,116 --> 00:41:09,483
right.

994
00:41:09,716 --> 00:41:11,699
There is no tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

995
00:41:11,750 --> 00:41:13,316
And there's this tree still around.

996
00:41:13,983 --> 00:41:14,583
That's right.

997
00:41:15,183 --> 00:41:17,050
And the leaves are for the healing of the nations.

998
00:41:17,333 --> 00:41:18,166
Yeah, yeah.

999
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:21,599
Yeah, I think you're exactly right

1000
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:24,533
because during the flood, everything just got lost, right?

1001
00:41:24,599 --> 00:41:28,016
I mean, everything got merged together and mangled

1002
00:41:28,016 --> 00:41:31,133
into a way that we couldn't tell where and

1003
00:41:31,133 --> 00:41:32,750
I think God meant for it to be that way too.

1004
00:41:32,816 --> 00:41:36,349
I mean, you know, to keep us away from going

1005
00:41:36,349 --> 00:41:38,816
back and saying, oh, this is exactly where this was.

1006
00:41:38,883 --> 00:41:40,199
This is exactly where this was.

1007
00:41:40,250 --> 00:41:43,733
We got some ideas of where, you

1008
00:41:43,733 --> 00:41:46,800
know, maybe Ethiopia, maybe we

1009
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,166
don't know, you know, there's someplace in Africa, whatever.

1010
00:41:50,816 --> 00:41:54,416
Yeah, but there's mountains now that exists that didn't exist before.

1011
00:41:55,116 --> 00:41:56,983
Yeah, the flood just messed it all up.

1012
00:41:57,150 --> 00:41:57,750
Yeah, yeah.

1013
00:41:58,116 --> 00:42:01,949
Topographical, topographically, it's

1014
00:42:01,949 --> 00:42:05,550
just not nothing, no terrain is the same, so it's hard to pinpoint

1015
00:42:05,550 --> 00:42:06,866
something and say that's what you're saying.

1016
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,300
But do you wonder, you wonder, oh, maybe I'll save this for later, but I can't.

1017
00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:14,116
That people in, you know, next generations and

1018
00:42:14,116 --> 00:42:17,616
seven, eight, 9 generations down could go to a mountaintops

1019
00:42:17,616 --> 00:42:19,416
somewhere and say that's where the Garden of Eden was.

1020
00:42:19,483 --> 00:42:19,849
Yeah.

1021
00:42:19,849 --> 00:42:20,250
Yeah.

1022
00:42:20,316 --> 00:42:21,150
There's the cherubim.

1023
00:42:21,216 --> 00:42:21,516
Yeah.

1024
00:42:21,516 --> 00:42:23,250
I'm speculating big.

1025
00:42:23,316 --> 00:42:24,033
Sure, sure.

1026
00:42:24,099 --> 00:42:25,300
But, but, yeah.

1027
00:42:25,650 --> 00:42:29,916
But and then and then also going back to the to the tree alive.

1028
00:42:30,333 --> 00:42:33,566
Um, we see, we see

1029
00:42:33,583 --> 00:42:36,949
in in these, we're going to read in some generations

1030
00:42:36,949 --> 00:42:40,833
here, uh, not too far from here.

1031
00:42:41,083 --> 00:42:44,250
Uh, this one begat that one, this one we get that one and we say,

1032
00:42:44,250 --> 00:42:45,750
at least big numbers, right?

1033
00:42:45,816 --> 00:42:46,349
Oh, man, yeah.

1034
00:42:46,349 --> 00:42:50,316
We see all these big numbers of, you know, Adam,

1035
00:42:50,316 --> 00:42:52,650
900 years, you know, Methuselah.

1036
00:42:52,716 --> 00:42:53,083
There you go.

1037
00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:55,066
Nine generations alive at the same time.

1038
00:42:55,349 --> 00:42:56,666
Yeah, yeah, is that not crazy?

1039
00:42:57,283 --> 00:42:59,449
That's, that's, that is, that is wild.

1040
00:42:59,849 --> 00:43:00,866
Nine centuries of people.

1041
00:43:02,383 --> 00:43:04,000
He's living at the same time.

1042
00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:06,216
You know, how, why?

1043
00:43:06,699 --> 00:43:09,216
Well, it all goes back to the tree of life, right?

1044
00:43:09,283 --> 00:43:12,583
I think this thing, I think, I think this thing continually

1045
00:43:12,583 --> 00:43:15,883
was trickling out of them through their DNA,

1046
00:43:15,883 --> 00:43:20,266
but it, but it was, it was fully in the DNA of Adam and Eve.

1047
00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:23,199
And so from for generations.

1048
00:43:23,250 --> 00:43:26,666
This tree of life was giving them life longer

1049
00:43:26,683 --> 00:43:30,166
than what we can imagine right now in our minds.

1050
00:43:30,166 --> 00:43:33,750
And from that time forward, we are we

1051
00:43:33,750 --> 00:43:34,883
are degenerating.

1052
00:43:35,250 --> 00:43:36,816
We're not getting better.

1053
00:43:37,483 --> 00:43:38,016
Way worse.

1054
00:43:38,133 --> 00:43:39,033
Do we have?

1055
00:43:39,333 --> 00:43:42,516
Yeah, we have medicines that help us more than

1056
00:43:42,516 --> 00:43:45,633
they had in the 1800s to keep us, you know, alive a

1057
00:43:45,633 --> 00:43:46,949
little bit longer, whatever.

1058
00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:50,316
But, but, but, the natural

1059
00:43:50,316 --> 00:43:54,216
age limit of, of, of a human being has

1060
00:43:54,216 --> 00:43:56,550
significantly dropped from that point until now.

1061
00:43:58,183 --> 00:44:00,883
Now, I will point out, and I had to go back.

1062
00:44:00,933 --> 00:44:04,116
I was, I was having to find out where it mentioned seeing the tree of

1063
00:44:04,116 --> 00:44:07,783
life in, uh, Revelation,

1064
00:44:07,783 --> 00:44:10,066
and it's Revelation 22 is where we see that.

1065
00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:13,116
And if I am.

1066
00:44:13,183 --> 00:44:14,683
Yes, I had to make sure.

1067
00:44:15,883 --> 00:44:19,666
Interestingly enough, it does not show up until the new heavens and the new earth.

1068
00:44:21,883 --> 00:44:24,650
It's not necessarily the same tree.

1069
00:44:25,349 --> 00:44:27,566
It could be that when he made everything new.

1070
00:44:27,633 --> 00:44:30,633
He just left out the one that was he

1071
00:44:30,633 --> 00:44:31,900
intended to destroy to begin with.

1072
00:44:32,316 --> 00:44:32,800
Could have.

1073
00:44:32,916 --> 00:44:33,216
Yeah.

1074
00:44:34,816 --> 00:44:37,833
But he remade the new one and it's permanent

1075
00:44:37,833 --> 00:44:40,949
because it's sitting, uh, it's sitting uh,

1076
00:44:40,949 --> 00:44:44,066
where either side of the river of life where everybody

1077
00:44:44,083 --> 00:44:45,166
can take of it freely.

1078
00:44:45,699 --> 00:44:49,183
But now, now let's think of, let's just hang on there.

1079
00:44:49,233 --> 00:44:52,233
So cool. because because I don't I don't

1080
00:44:52,233 --> 00:44:55,349
think that that tree of life is for everyone.

1081
00:44:59,133 --> 00:45:00,699
Let's think about this for just a minute.

1082
00:45:01,050 --> 00:45:03,033
Because we've got new bodies.

1083
00:45:03,099 --> 00:45:03,400
Okay?

1084
00:45:03,449 --> 00:45:05,849
We are sustained by Christ himself.

1085
00:45:06,150 --> 00:45:07,349
We have been saved.

1086
00:45:07,416 --> 00:45:09,333
We have been, uh, changed.

1087
00:45:10,050 --> 00:45:11,550
We have new bodies now.

1088
00:45:11,683 --> 00:45:15,216
And so I think that's what keeps us alive forever,

1089
00:45:15,216 --> 00:45:17,683
not necessarily those the tree of life.

1090
00:45:17,916 --> 00:45:20,983
But we do have a whole group of people that came through

1091
00:45:20,983 --> 00:45:24,166
tribulation and through the 1000 year millennial

1092
00:45:24,166 --> 00:45:27,933
rain and that are on earth living on earth.

1093
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,050
Now, I, you know, people, I've been asked the question,

1094
00:45:31,050 --> 00:45:32,250
well, when did they get a new body?

1095
00:45:32,250 --> 00:45:34,650
When, I don't know.

1096
00:45:34,783 --> 00:45:38,199
I mean, it doesn't say that, but we also, we know

1097
00:45:38,199 --> 00:45:41,433
that part of our job, as Revelation tells us,

1098
00:45:41,433 --> 00:45:44,500
is to take the leaves of the tree

1099
00:45:44,500 --> 00:45:46,300
is for the healing of the nation.

1100
00:45:47,133 --> 00:45:50,366
So there's, there's some, you know, there,

1101
00:45:50,383 --> 00:45:54,050
there's some issues going on there with, with, uh, not with sin.

1102
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,583
Uh, but, but, but with the sustaining of

1103
00:45:57,583 --> 00:46:00,633
those people uh, to, to continue to

1104
00:46:00,633 --> 00:46:01,833
live out through eternity.

1105
00:46:02,733 --> 00:46:03,400
I don't know.

1106
00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:07,949
Yeah, and it's a really interesting thing because the universe

1107
00:46:07,949 --> 00:46:09,516
at that point is so different.

1108
00:46:10,483 --> 00:46:13,250
It's just hard to wrap your head around what exactly is going on there.

1109
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:16,900
But I do think that that's interesting that because, yeah, we

1110
00:46:16,900 --> 00:46:18,333
know that the Tree of Life was here.

1111
00:46:19,183 --> 00:46:21,699
there's no mention of of the garden being destroyed.

1112
00:46:21,750 --> 00:46:25,466
And like you say, we see that others try to get into it and then you have the flood.

1113
00:46:25,650 --> 00:46:26,250
Yeah.

1114
00:46:26,250 --> 00:46:29,666
And then the next time we see it is new heavens and new earth.

1115
00:46:29,733 --> 00:46:32,733
So it's clear that God very intentionally, whatever

1116
00:46:32,733 --> 00:46:36,150
he did with it, whether it was completely destroyed or whether it was just intermingled

1117
00:46:36,150 --> 00:46:39,150
or whether it was buried somewhere, it was intended

1118
00:46:39,150 --> 00:46:41,066
to be out of reach for us.

1119
00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:43,233
But then it was needed again for some reason.

1120
00:46:43,716 --> 00:46:44,133
Right.

1121
00:46:44,199 --> 00:46:45,766
Who is the tree of life?

1122
00:46:46,483 --> 00:46:47,199
Yeah, yeah.

1123
00:46:47,849 --> 00:46:48,750
Could it be a who?

1124
00:46:49,183 --> 00:46:49,650
Jesus.

1125
00:46:49,650 --> 00:46:50,066
Yeah.

1126
00:46:50,250 --> 00:46:50,616
yeah.

1127
00:46:50,683 --> 00:46:51,699
He's our tree of life.

1128
00:46:51,750 --> 00:46:52,949
He is our tree of life.

1129
00:46:53,016 --> 00:46:53,383
absolutely.

1130
00:46:53,849 --> 00:46:54,449
Amen.

1131
00:46:54,633 --> 00:46:55,166
Definitely.

1132
00:46:56,316 --> 00:46:57,750
And he's definitely our living water.

1133
00:46:58,300 --> 00:46:59,316
Yeah, he is.

1134
00:46:59,683 --> 00:47:00,216
He is.

1135
00:47:01,216 --> 00:47:04,300
All right, Genesis 41, if we want to go

1136
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:05,316
on a little bit into that.

1137
00:47:05,616 --> 00:47:06,333
Whose turn is it?

1138
00:47:06,583 --> 00:47:07,183
Whoever?

1139
00:47:07,183 --> 00:47:08,983
I think I was last time.

1140
00:47:09,099 --> 00:47:10,233
Or no, you can go again.

1141
00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:10,900
I'll go again.

1142
00:47:10,949 --> 00:47:11,433
I don't care.

1143
00:47:12,449 --> 00:47:15,816
And Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived,

1144
00:47:15,816 --> 00:47:19,783
and Bear Kane and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

1145
00:47:22,483 --> 00:47:25,550
And she, again, bear his brother, Abel,

1146
00:47:25,550 --> 00:47:29,016
and Abel was a keeper of the sheep, but Cain was

1147
00:47:29,016 --> 00:47:30,400
a tiller of the ground.

1148
00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:34,233
Yeah, wow, different personalities, isn't it?

1149
00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:34,666
Yeah.

1150
00:47:34,833 --> 00:47:35,250
Yeah.

1151
00:47:35,250 --> 00:47:36,266
Different jobs.

1152
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:37,666
Do you think their jobs?

1153
00:47:40,183 --> 00:47:41,616
Do you think their careers?

1154
00:47:42,933 --> 00:47:45,516
Well, I think, let me say this.

1155
00:47:45,583 --> 00:47:48,650
I think their careers shaped who they were, uh, for

1156
00:47:48,650 --> 00:47:52,616
sure, is their, they're, you know,

1157
00:47:52,616 --> 00:47:55,900
who, and who everybody else perceived them to be,

1158
00:47:55,900 --> 00:47:58,900
but I think it's very interesting, interesting that, uh,

1159
00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:02,416
uh, 11 was a tiller of the ground,

1160
00:48:02,416 --> 00:48:05,849
which was the job that was

1161
00:48:05,849 --> 00:48:08,966
part of the punishment that, um, that

1162
00:48:08,983 --> 00:48:11,683
God gave to Adam, right?

1163
00:48:11,733 --> 00:48:14,666
Now you're going to go have to heal this ground that you came out of.

1164
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,466
And then and then here you got Abel,

1165
00:48:18,466 --> 00:48:22,166
who was a keeper of the sheep, and

1166
00:48:22,183 --> 00:48:25,666
we know that through the generations, I mean, so he was, what was he?

1167
00:48:25,716 --> 00:48:26,983
He was a shepherd, right?

1168
00:48:28,116 --> 00:48:31,183
And, uh, and then who was David?

1169
00:48:31,233 --> 00:48:34,233
David was a shepherd, who's Jesus.

1170
00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:36,099
He is the great shepherd.

1171
00:48:36,283 --> 00:48:39,400
So there's a lion right there, you know, that that,

1172
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,283
uh, even though it dies out right here.

1173
00:48:42,816 --> 00:48:45,816
Um, but there, there's a, there's an offspring there that

1174
00:48:45,816 --> 00:48:48,816
that his job was to to, to keep the sheep.

1175
00:48:49,116 --> 00:48:50,083
And here's the question.

1176
00:48:50,250 --> 00:48:51,983
Is it that there are jobs?

1177
00:48:53,433 --> 00:48:56,800
fed into their personality or their personality let

1178
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,599
them to be what they did.

1179
00:48:59,316 --> 00:49:02,733
Do you think it was just a this maybe their mindset as they grew up?

1180
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,133
They gravitated in this one direction.

1181
00:49:05,616 --> 00:49:08,199
And here's a really weird thing.

1182
00:49:11,516 --> 00:49:14,433
Where was the command about these offerings?

1183
00:49:15,150 --> 00:49:15,566
Yeah.

1184
00:49:18,750 --> 00:49:20,433
Oh yeah, we hadn't hit that yet, right?

1185
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:20,866
No.

1186
00:49:20,866 --> 00:49:23,016
There was no command made at this point.

1187
00:49:23,199 --> 00:49:23,916
No, no.

1188
00:49:23,983 --> 00:49:24,466
I don't know.

1189
00:49:24,883 --> 00:49:29,083
I think I think it was an understood thing.

1190
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:29,983
yeah.

1191
00:49:30,033 --> 00:49:33,633
Yeah, for them to bring those the best that they had to the Lord.

1192
00:49:33,699 --> 00:49:34,366
Yeah, yeah.

1193
00:49:34,833 --> 00:49:36,566
Yes, that's that's something too.

1194
00:49:36,633 --> 00:49:40,833
I mean, this is like a really, really like a compact.

1195
00:49:41,083 --> 00:49:42,033
It is.

1196
00:49:42,033 --> 00:49:42,566
It is really compact.

1197
00:49:42,633 --> 00:49:44,849
Yeah, because Moses is trying to get all this stuff.

1198
00:49:44,849 --> 00:49:45,566
Moses.

1199
00:49:45,633 --> 00:49:47,733
And it's obvious because he keeps saying, Lord.

1200
00:49:48,150 --> 00:49:48,516
Yeah.

1201
00:49:48,516 --> 00:49:51,033
And he didn't know that name until the burning bush.

1202
00:49:51,099 --> 00:49:51,516
That's right.

1203
00:49:51,583 --> 00:49:51,766
Yeah.

1204
00:49:52,216 --> 00:49:52,233
Yeah.

1205
00:49:52,233 --> 00:49:55,650
So, so when they're, I don't know what they call God.

1206
00:49:55,716 --> 00:49:59,016
I guess God, whatever the language they had at the time, who knows?

1207
00:49:59,500 --> 00:49:59,916
Right.

1208
00:49:59,916 --> 00:50:01,716
But Moses always uses Lord.

1209
00:50:01,900 --> 00:50:02,316
Yeah.

1210
00:50:02,316 --> 00:50:05,616
I, I actually always, I, I've always assumed

1211
00:50:05,616 --> 00:50:08,916
that up until around the time of Moses,

1212
00:50:08,916 --> 00:50:12,883
it was, they were either referring to him as L or um, Yahweh.

1213
00:50:13,183 --> 00:50:15,150
Or at night.

1214
00:50:15,150 --> 00:50:16,349
Yahweh came from the burning Booch.

1215
00:50:16,483 --> 00:50:18,050
Or at Nai Elohim.

1216
00:50:18,099 --> 00:50:19,300
That's what they're Jewish.

1217
00:50:19,349 --> 00:50:19,949
Yeah, yeah.

1218
00:50:20,016 --> 00:50:21,933
That's what the Jewish people were.

1219
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,900
She always got translated as Lord, which goes into...

1220
00:50:26,416 --> 00:50:26,733
Yeah.

1221
00:50:27,516 --> 00:50:29,199
Well, but well, that's what I mean, though.

1222
00:50:29,250 --> 00:50:30,933
We don't actually know if they knew.

1223
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,733
I mean, with the relationship they had.

1224
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:33,633
They probably knew his name.

1225
00:50:34,116 --> 00:50:34,900
They knew something.

1226
00:50:35,316 --> 00:50:38,433
And at some point between then and

1227
00:50:38,433 --> 00:50:41,666
the time of Moses, before the 1st commandment

1228
00:50:41,683 --> 00:50:45,583
was even given, they had,

1229
00:50:45,583 --> 00:50:48,050
they had, it was just, Lord.

1230
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,766
It was just, they stopped referring to him, apparently, because you don't see.

1231
00:50:51,883 --> 00:50:54,883
However, you do have in the writings that Moses is using

1232
00:50:54,883 --> 00:50:58,116
every time he refers to him in these verses, Yahweh God, Yahweh

1233
00:50:58,116 --> 00:50:59,199
God, Yahweh God.

1234
00:50:59,250 --> 00:51:01,583
which is over and over and over, which is Lord and all cap.

1235
00:51:01,650 --> 00:51:02,133
Right, right.

1236
00:51:03,466 --> 00:51:06,816
And I mean, so was the Jewish language,

1237
00:51:06,816 --> 00:51:08,849
the language that God gave them?

1238
00:51:10,116 --> 00:51:12,583
from the very beginning, the Hebrew language, yeah.

1239
00:51:13,533 --> 00:51:15,750
I mean, we don't know that, but it had to come from somewhere.

1240
00:51:16,783 --> 00:51:18,283
Yes, it all got fused later, didn't it?

1241
00:51:18,333 --> 00:51:19,466
Yeah, yeah, it did.

1242
00:51:19,599 --> 00:51:20,016
It did.

1243
00:51:20,733 --> 00:51:21,699
So much we don't know.

1244
00:51:21,816 --> 00:51:25,300
That's, you know, it's just ripe for speculation, but it's fun.

1245
00:51:26,916 --> 00:51:29,983
It is amazing how much of the Hebrew language

1246
00:51:29,983 --> 00:51:33,283
comes out when you read the creation and

1247
00:51:33,283 --> 00:51:36,650
you read what went on here, you know, their word for man.

1248
00:51:36,883 --> 00:51:37,300
Yeah.

1249
00:51:37,300 --> 00:51:38,016
Adong.

1250
00:51:38,199 --> 00:51:38,616
Yeah.

1251
00:51:38,616 --> 00:51:40,416
That was their word for man.

1252
00:51:40,483 --> 00:51:41,566
It was just Adam.

1253
00:51:41,616 --> 00:51:43,599
The 1st man, and that was their word for man.

1254
00:51:43,716 --> 00:51:45,150
The word they use for Eve.

1255
00:51:45,216 --> 00:51:47,383
I don't remember it, but it basically meant bringer of life.

1256
00:51:47,983 --> 00:51:50,683
And it was, yeah, the source of life.

1257
00:51:50,733 --> 00:51:53,916
Yeah, and it was this, it was this interesting.

1258
00:51:53,983 --> 00:51:57,099
And so we have no idea what it sounded like or looked like prior to

1259
00:51:57,099 --> 00:51:58,900
Babel.

1260
00:51:59,016 --> 00:52:02,383
Yeah, you know, and then you have that confusion of languages.

1261
00:52:02,433 --> 00:52:06,216
So we, there's no telling what was lost at the point that that happened.

1262
00:52:06,449 --> 00:52:06,983
Oh, yeah.

1263
00:52:07,866 --> 00:52:11,199
And I've always assumed that whatever language they spoke here

1264
00:52:11,199 --> 00:52:14,733
was complex enough that

1265
00:52:14,733 --> 00:52:18,216
because Hebrew, when you actually look at it, is a very simplistic

1266
00:52:18,216 --> 00:52:19,599
language in its ancient form.

1267
00:52:19,783 --> 00:52:22,966
It's really hard for us to understand it because it's lacking

1268
00:52:22,966 --> 00:52:26,250
a lot of the things that we use so commonly in modern language.

1269
00:52:26,683 --> 00:52:29,733
I mean, I, if you, if you think about it, the English language is

1270
00:52:29,733 --> 00:52:30,933
the most complicated language.

1271
00:52:30,933 --> 00:52:34,116
It's insanely, it's like, who come up with this?

1272
00:52:34,599 --> 00:52:37,116
Because it's like 15 different languages shoved together.

1273
00:52:37,533 --> 00:52:38,066
T together.

1274
00:52:38,133 --> 00:52:41,366
I mean, you know, when you go back to the Latin form of all these words

1275
00:52:41,383 --> 00:52:44,449
that we have today and and you look, I

1276
00:52:44,449 --> 00:52:47,733
mean, just like when we talk about Agape and

1277
00:52:47,733 --> 00:52:50,800
Filio and all these

1278
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,866
different words for love, they had a certain word

1279
00:52:55,016 --> 00:52:56,383
for everything.

1280
00:52:56,383 --> 00:53:00,050
And that, and that, you knew what failure meant.

1281
00:53:00,099 --> 00:53:01,233
You knew what it got they meant.

1282
00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:05,083
You knew what this word only pertained to this one thing.

1283
00:53:05,383 --> 00:53:08,616
And now we've got all these words that mean

1284
00:53:08,616 --> 00:53:09,750
15 different things.

1285
00:53:10,483 --> 00:53:10,900
You know?

1286
00:53:10,949 --> 00:53:12,633
I mean, like the word bear.

1287
00:53:12,699 --> 00:53:13,416
It's an animal.

1288
00:53:13,716 --> 00:53:16,416
And it also means that...

1289
00:53:16,533 --> 00:53:16,949
Right.

1290
00:53:17,016 --> 00:53:17,250
Yeah.

1291
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:19,183
It also means naked.

1292
00:53:20,383 --> 00:53:22,483
And it also means carrying something, right?

1293
00:53:22,833 --> 00:53:23,733
You bear something.

1294
00:53:23,916 --> 00:53:26,916
I mean, so there's 3 just for that one word

1295
00:53:26,916 --> 00:53:29,133
that just popped in my mind, my feet.

1296
00:53:29,250 --> 00:53:31,233
There's 3 different meanings to it.

1297
00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:34,483
I don't know if y'all ever seen the guy on TikTok that, that,

1298
00:53:34,483 --> 00:53:35,916
that, uh, he does the,

1299
00:53:35,983 --> 00:53:39,050
he'll do the little word, things like that, you know, and he's like

1300
00:53:39,050 --> 00:53:42,099
he's talking to another guy and he says, he'll use

1301
00:53:42,099 --> 00:53:45,933
a word like bear, you know, and then it's got 14 different spellings.

1302
00:53:46,116 --> 00:53:46,650
Oh, yeah.

1303
00:53:46,650 --> 00:53:49,349
Not bare, but...

1304
00:53:49,416 --> 00:53:49,833
Oh, Tom.

1305
00:53:50,016 --> 00:53:50,683
No, Tom.

1306
00:53:50,733 --> 00:53:51,516
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1307
00:53:52,416 --> 00:53:55,533
Yeah, he never pronounces it right and it's just, yeah,

1308
00:53:55,533 --> 00:53:58,650
it's like, oh, okay, but okay, now it now spelled

1309
00:53:58,650 --> 00:54:02,433
this word and it should it should sound just exactly like that word, but it's different.

1310
00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:02,983
Yeah, yeah.

1311
00:54:03,333 --> 00:54:04,349
have the right to bear arms.

1312
00:54:04,416 --> 00:54:05,250
Yeah you're right.

1313
00:54:06,933 --> 00:54:07,833
Tang tubs.

1314
00:54:08,199 --> 00:54:08,983
Peters for everyone.

1315
00:54:09,033 --> 00:54:09,699
What is harming?

1316
00:54:09,750 --> 00:54:13,166
It means you're, do you have a weapon or you have the, or

1317
00:54:13,183 --> 00:54:14,750
you have a appendage or...

1318
00:54:16,216 --> 00:54:17,616
Favorite skin I've ever seen.

1319
00:54:17,983 --> 00:54:19,900
you know, pull somebody over for another country.

1320
00:54:19,949 --> 00:54:20,433
Are you armed?

1321
00:54:20,616 --> 00:54:21,283
Yes, I am.

1322
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:22,783
How many do you have?

1323
00:54:22,833 --> 00:54:23,016
Two?

1324
00:54:23,683 --> 00:54:24,516
I need to see them.

1325
00:54:26,733 --> 00:54:27,750
waving them at you.

1326
00:54:27,816 --> 00:54:30,816
Yeah, I mean, so yeah, just this

1327
00:54:30,816 --> 00:54:34,116
English language, we've made it so complicated.

1328
00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:37,183
And it is, but and it's not the only modern language.

1329
00:54:37,233 --> 00:54:40,233
I mean, you look at pretty much any modern language compared to the ancient languages

1330
00:54:40,233 --> 00:54:43,716
are very complex because we have...

1331
00:54:43,716 --> 00:54:44,550
Right.

1332
00:54:45,099 --> 00:54:48,333
We condensed ideas into fewer words,

1333
00:54:48,333 --> 00:54:52,116
but you go back to the ancient Hebrew, even it.

1334
00:54:53,199 --> 00:54:55,783
Like it is, they don't have joining words.

1335
00:54:55,900 --> 00:54:58,000
They don't have, you know, contractions.

1336
00:54:58,050 --> 00:55:00,383
They don't have they didn't even have consonants.

1337
00:55:00,750 --> 00:55:02,550
Compound words are not. or bowels.

1338
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,599
Yeah, it was nothing but consonants originally.

1339
00:55:04,650 --> 00:55:06,683
I mean, it was like, what in the world is?

1340
00:55:06,699 --> 00:55:07,716
Then it's backwards.

1341
00:55:08,083 --> 00:55:09,216
Yeah, and it...

1342
00:55:09,216 --> 00:55:09,883
Right to left.

1343
00:55:09,933 --> 00:55:10,349
Yeah.

1344
00:55:10,416 --> 00:55:11,316
You go right to left.

1345
00:55:11,316 --> 00:55:14,433
But a lot of the language, a

1346
00:55:14,433 --> 00:55:17,433
lot of the language, even the words that you don't think

1347
00:55:17,433 --> 00:55:20,800
about were male and female words, you know, I mean, they had

1348
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,066
that connotation to them.

1349
00:55:22,116 --> 00:55:25,483
And so we know that, that, that God was a,

1350
00:55:25,483 --> 00:55:27,050
uh, was not a feminine word.

1351
00:55:27,933 --> 00:55:29,433
Yeah, it's it's...

1352
00:55:29,433 --> 00:55:29,916
So anyway.

1353
00:55:29,916 --> 00:55:31,483
That's why we got to be careful.

1354
00:55:31,533 --> 00:55:34,599
You know, everybody loves to do these word studies of the New Testament and

1355
00:55:34,599 --> 00:55:35,916
go, let's go back to the Greek.

1356
00:55:36,099 --> 00:55:36,516
Yeah.

1357
00:55:36,516 --> 00:55:39,883
But, you know, you're doubting Greek scholars

1358
00:55:39,883 --> 00:55:42,516
that have been putting this stuff together for 2000 years.

1359
00:55:43,533 --> 00:55:46,233
Oh, well, no, that's not where really what it means, right?

1360
00:55:46,483 --> 00:55:49,116
I'm just looking at a silly little thing on my phone.

1361
00:55:49,716 --> 00:55:51,449
I mean, it's kind of the same thing with Yahweh.

1362
00:55:51,516 --> 00:55:54,816
I mean, Yahweh is, as we say, it's one, but Yahweh is plural.

1363
00:55:54,883 --> 00:55:56,016
When you look up the Greek.

1364
00:55:56,083 --> 00:55:56,683
Right.

1365
00:55:56,683 --> 00:55:57,349
Yeah, it is.

1366
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:57,699
Yeah.

1367
00:55:57,883 --> 00:55:59,750
It's plural and masculine.

1368
00:56:00,333 --> 00:56:01,533
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1369
00:56:02,733 --> 00:56:03,449
It's incredible.

1370
00:56:04,599 --> 00:56:06,099
Yeah, it is.

1371
00:56:07,050 --> 00:56:07,650
Where are we?

1372
00:56:10,233 --> 00:56:11,133
For three.

1373
00:56:11,133 --> 00:56:11,550
Yeah.

1374
00:56:11,616 --> 00:56:13,050
43 number three.

1375
00:56:13,116 --> 00:56:14,016
Whose turn is it?

1376
00:56:15,333 --> 00:56:15,866
All right.

1377
00:56:15,933 --> 00:56:19,000
So it came about in the course of time that Kane brought an

1378
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:20,866
offering to the lord of the fruit of the ground.

1379
00:56:21,699 --> 00:56:24,766
Abel, on his part, also brought the first wings of

1380
00:56:24,766 --> 00:56:27,983
his flock and of their fat portions, and the Lord had

1381
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,000
regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain, and for

1382
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:32,500
his offering, he had no regard.

1383
00:56:33,099 --> 00:56:36,466
So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

1384
00:56:37,833 --> 00:56:40,650
So the 1st sacrifice, the 1st sacrifices.

1385
00:56:40,783 --> 00:56:43,966
And you got to think, here's a speculation again.

1386
00:56:44,550 --> 00:56:47,733
But you got to think that that they understood this through

1387
00:56:47,733 --> 00:56:49,050
some oral thing from Adam.

1388
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:51,166
Sure. that God had passed down.

1389
00:56:51,216 --> 00:56:52,183
Here's what I want you to do.

1390
00:56:52,949 --> 00:56:56,433
Or maybe directly from God himself because, I mean, they end up talking to him anyway.

1391
00:56:56,983 --> 00:56:59,449
But they understood that a sacrifice needed to be made.

1392
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,849
Yeah, it says in the very next verse and

1393
00:57:02,849 --> 00:57:04,050
the Lord says to Cain.

1394
00:57:04,116 --> 00:57:06,150
Like, I mean, he's he's having a conversation with him.

1395
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,316
I mean, it's different than what he had with Adam.

1396
00:57:08,383 --> 00:57:11,449
I don't think he sees him, but he's hearing him in some way.

1397
00:57:11,500 --> 00:57:14,500
Or for all we know, it could have been literally one of the angel, it

1398
00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:17,849
could have been the angel of the Lord coming down and having the conversation because you

1399
00:57:17,849 --> 00:57:21,150
get into these old into, especially Genesis, it's

1400
00:57:21,150 --> 00:57:24,383
really hard to differentiate, is this God talking or is this the angel of the Lord?

1401
00:57:24,449 --> 00:57:25,533
That's Jesus, by the way, for those.

1402
00:57:25,599 --> 00:57:26,133
You don't know.

1403
00:57:26,383 --> 00:57:29,016
you know, which one is this talking?

1404
00:57:29,083 --> 00:57:32,083
And it's a lot of times it's that Jesus was standing there

1405
00:57:32,083 --> 00:57:35,866
in his pre-incarnate form having a conversation with somebody.

1406
00:57:35,916 --> 00:57:39,583
So we don't we don't know how this conversation was happening, but

1407
00:57:39,583 --> 00:57:42,699
and and apparently the instruction, that's

1408
00:57:42,699 --> 00:57:44,016
why I brought this up a minute ago.

1409
00:57:44,083 --> 00:57:48,216
Apparently the instruction of how to do the sacrifice was given off screen.

1410
00:57:48,933 --> 00:57:50,500
Like, we're not sure.

1411
00:57:51,216 --> 00:57:52,833
Truncated...

1412
00:57:52,833 --> 00:57:53,500
Yeah.

1413
00:57:53,550 --> 00:57:54,566
Yeah, we are.

1414
00:57:54,583 --> 00:57:57,699
But and we got the understanding here that what what

1415
00:57:57,699 --> 00:58:01,599
he did get across from them or to them is bring me your best.

1416
00:58:02,683 --> 00:58:04,000
That's what a sacrifice is, right?

1417
00:58:04,050 --> 00:58:04,283
Right.

1418
00:58:04,300 --> 00:58:04,599
Yeah.

1419
00:58:04,833 --> 00:58:08,250
Bring me not, not, not this part that you don't want.

1420
00:58:08,733 --> 00:58:09,150
Yeah.

1421
00:58:09,150 --> 00:58:12,333
And you got to think that's what happened with

1422
00:58:12,333 --> 00:58:13,416
with Kane.

1423
00:58:13,483 --> 00:58:13,666
Right.

1424
00:58:13,783 --> 00:58:14,500
Yeah, absolutely.

1425
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:19,000
That he brought he brought something that just wasn't dear to him.

1426
00:58:19,183 --> 00:58:20,150
Yeah, no, no.

1427
00:58:20,150 --> 00:58:21,216
And it didn't honor God.

1428
00:58:21,516 --> 00:58:22,050
That's right.

1429
00:58:22,050 --> 00:58:25,116
And Abel evidently brought something that

1430
00:58:25,116 --> 00:58:28,650
he really wanted to honor and glorify God and his thing really tried hard.

1431
00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:29,316
Right.

1432
00:58:29,316 --> 00:58:31,050
He brought his firstlings.

1433
00:58:31,483 --> 00:58:34,250
Uh, and and and Kane...

1434
00:58:35,416 --> 00:58:36,750
Evidently he didn't.

1435
00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:37,966
You know what?

1436
00:58:38,016 --> 00:58:41,733
I mean, maybe it was the smaller tomatoes, you know, the ones

1437
00:58:41,733 --> 00:58:44,500
that hadn't grown well and he's like, okay, this is good enough.

1438
00:58:45,099 --> 00:58:49,050
We can assume that it wasn't his best simply

1439
00:58:49,050 --> 00:58:52,466
because, and this is one of those fun, just,

1440
00:58:52,483 --> 00:58:55,833
if you understand how to read stories, because, again, this is oral

1441
00:58:55,833 --> 00:58:56,916
tradition being passed down.

1442
00:58:56,983 --> 00:58:59,800
It is, it's true, but it is also a story being told.

1443
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,583
He wouldn't have mentioned specifically Abel

1444
00:59:03,583 --> 00:59:06,516
brought the first, you know, the 1st line.

1445
00:59:06,633 --> 00:59:09,150
He brought the fatted, you know, the fat 1st link.

1446
00:59:09,150 --> 00:59:09,750
He brought the best.

1447
00:59:10,483 --> 00:59:14,199
He would not have called that out if Kane had also been bringing the best.

1448
00:59:14,500 --> 00:59:15,099
That's right.

1449
00:59:15,150 --> 00:59:18,566
And Kane knew what he was doing, and that was part of the reason he was so angry, right?

1450
00:59:18,883 --> 00:59:22,000
We got jealous about it because God respected

1451
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,666
Kane's over his, but he

1452
00:59:25,666 --> 00:59:29,916
or Abel's over his, but he,

1453
00:59:29,916 --> 00:59:33,216
yeah, we see it here, that he had to have brought something that

1454
00:59:33,216 --> 00:59:37,349
was better, that was, that was, that would have probably brought him more.

1455
00:59:38,133 --> 00:59:41,500
you know, gave him more and he's like, this is yours, God.

1456
00:59:41,550 --> 00:59:42,633
I bring this to you.

1457
00:59:43,183 --> 00:59:47,066
You know, Greg, Graham's always said,

1458
00:59:47,066 --> 00:59:50,083
I've heard him say this before that, you know, people

1459
00:59:50,083 --> 00:59:53,133
have asked him about tithing and, and he, and he's told

1460
00:59:53,133 --> 00:59:55,166
him, you know, you know, what should I give?

1461
00:59:55,233 --> 00:59:57,333
Should I give before taxes or after taxes?

1462
00:59:57,516 --> 00:59:59,550
And I'm going to say some things after this.

1463
00:59:59,616 --> 01:00:02,983
But he said, you know, it depends on what kind of blessing you want.

1464
01:00:03,033 --> 01:00:06,699
You know, you know, do you give your your,

1465
01:00:06,699 --> 01:00:09,699
you know, your paycheck before

1466
01:00:09,699 --> 01:00:10,783
they take it out of it?

1467
01:00:10,833 --> 01:00:13,116
Well, this is what you made or after you take it out of it?

1468
01:00:13,300 --> 01:00:16,366
And, you know, people look at giving in

1469
01:00:16,366 --> 01:00:20,916
in a New Testament way, right?

1470
01:00:20,983 --> 01:00:23,983
I mean, some people say, well, it's not, it's

1471
01:00:23,983 --> 01:00:27,816
not exactly the same tithing, it's not as expected

1472
01:00:27,816 --> 01:00:32,550
as it was in, you know, as

1473
01:00:32,550 --> 01:00:34,716
the New Testament doesn't explain it the same way.

1474
01:00:35,550 --> 01:00:38,550
But we still know that no matter what it

1475
01:00:38,550 --> 01:00:41,783
is, if it's our, if it's our money, if it's our time,

1476
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,916
if it's our resources, we give

1477
01:00:44,916 --> 01:00:46,483
the best to him, right?

1478
01:00:46,533 --> 01:00:48,216
We give the best to him.

1479
01:00:48,283 --> 01:00:51,516
And, you know, if the best is the 1st and the 1st is

1480
01:00:51,516 --> 01:00:52,650
what goes to God, right?

1481
01:00:52,783 --> 01:00:53,199
Right.

1482
01:00:53,199 --> 01:00:56,383
Um, And I can tell you this, that,

1483
01:00:56,383 --> 01:00:59,500
that, you know, they, there's, I've

1484
01:00:59,500 --> 01:01:03,033
said this before as far as, as far as tithing goes.

1485
01:01:03,099 --> 01:01:06,150
Um, Nicole and I, man, when we were 1st married, I

1486
01:01:06,150 --> 01:01:09,150
mean, we were 2 broke kids and we were trying to figure this

1487
01:01:09,150 --> 01:01:12,333
whole thing out, you know, and I knew when we got back in church, we needed

1488
01:01:12,333 --> 01:01:15,699
to tithe and I've said this in here before,

1489
01:01:15,699 --> 01:01:18,766
you know, it was a 20 in the offering plate one week or a

1490
01:01:18,766 --> 01:01:21,816
10 and offering plate if I had that next, whatever kind of cash I had

1491
01:01:21,816 --> 01:01:25,000
around or whatever, you know, whatever I thought I could spare,

1492
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:26,316
that's what I was giving to God.

1493
01:01:26,383 --> 01:01:27,099
I was given.

1494
01:01:28,483 --> 01:01:30,283
I was giving a cane offering.

1495
01:01:30,933 --> 01:01:34,116
And God really dealt with me about that.

1496
01:01:34,183 --> 01:01:37,666
And Nicole and I talked about it on several occasions like,

1497
01:01:37,666 --> 01:01:41,666
okay, you know, we need to start tithing, right?

1498
01:01:41,733 --> 01:01:44,733
We need to start tithing the way the way that we, you know, that

1499
01:01:44,733 --> 01:01:47,366
we feel like, you know, God's calling us too.

1500
01:01:47,916 --> 01:01:51,099
Uh, and, you know, the Lord was really dealing with us on that.

1501
01:01:51,583 --> 01:01:54,166
And but was like, how are we going to play our Beatles?

1502
01:01:54,516 --> 01:01:56,916
Now, listen, let me say this.

1503
01:01:57,699 --> 01:02:01,300
The Bible also tells us to render under Caesar is what is Caesar's, right?

1504
01:02:01,599 --> 01:02:03,333
And those are taxes.

1505
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:04,599
Those are things we have to pay.

1506
01:02:04,650 --> 01:02:07,233
Those are also taking care of our responsibility.

1507
01:02:07,300 --> 01:02:11,016
So I would never tell somebody, neglect your responsibilities

1508
01:02:11,016 --> 01:02:12,933
to to pay your ties.

1509
01:02:13,233 --> 01:02:14,916
I would never tell somebody to do that.

1510
01:02:15,283 --> 01:02:16,550
But I will say this.

1511
01:02:18,283 --> 01:02:21,583
The Lord, it was one Saturday night and

1512
01:02:21,583 --> 01:02:24,633
Nicole and I had specifically been talking about our ties and,

1513
01:02:24,633 --> 01:02:25,650
you know, we need to do better.

1514
01:02:26,733 --> 01:02:29,066
And how we going to take care of things.

1515
01:02:29,133 --> 01:02:30,933
Where's the bunny going to come from, that kind of thing.

1516
01:02:31,533 --> 01:02:34,766
And the next morning in Sunday school, our whole

1517
01:02:34,783 --> 01:02:36,283
Sunday school lesson.

1518
01:02:36,333 --> 01:02:39,400
This is way before I announced my calling to preach, our whole Sunday school

1519
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,266
lesson was untidy.

1520
01:02:41,316 --> 01:02:45,216
And it was just like, God was just going, just hit me out in the face, you know.

1521
01:02:45,333 --> 01:02:46,466
I looked at Nicole.

1522
01:02:46,533 --> 01:02:49,716
We already knew what, you know, our number that we that

1523
01:02:49,716 --> 01:02:53,316
we felt like we needed to be riding as a check for.

1524
01:02:53,316 --> 01:02:56,316
And I looked at Nicole and I said, right, the dad

1525
01:02:56,316 --> 01:02:57,750
gum check, you know?

1526
01:02:57,750 --> 01:03:01,050
And from that moment on.

1527
01:03:01,833 --> 01:03:02,849
Uh, you know, I'm not

1528
01:03:03,150 --> 01:03:04,883
saying we haven't had some hard times.

1529
01:03:04,949 --> 01:03:08,133
I'm not saying there hadn't been difficult times, but every time we

1530
01:03:08,133 --> 01:03:11,133
worried about where's this going to come from or how we're going to get this,

1531
01:03:11,199 --> 01:03:13,666
God has provided every single time.

1532
01:03:13,900 --> 01:03:16,949
Sometimes it's been a check that we didn't even know that

1533
01:03:16,949 --> 01:03:18,150
we was going to get in the mail.

1534
01:03:18,216 --> 01:03:21,333
Like, you know, we paid too much here or, you know, we got something

1535
01:03:21,333 --> 01:03:23,250
from the insurance car or something.

1536
01:03:23,383 --> 01:03:27,216
But somehow, some way, God has never let us down.

1537
01:03:27,283 --> 01:03:28,849
He's never, he's never,

1538
01:03:28,900 --> 01:03:31,666
held back on us and so I don't want to hold back on him.

1539
01:03:32,616 --> 01:03:34,650
You know, I want to give him the best that I've got.

1540
01:03:35,199 --> 01:03:38,433
Now, I will say throwing it out there that I

1541
01:03:38,433 --> 01:03:41,433
love how you pointed out at that, you know, you're not advising people

1542
01:03:41,433 --> 01:03:42,699
to neglect things.

1543
01:03:42,750 --> 01:03:44,783
They need to, pray about it.

1544
01:03:44,849 --> 01:03:45,383
Pray about it.

1545
01:03:45,449 --> 01:03:47,483
If God puts it on your heart, you need to be giving more.

1546
01:03:47,550 --> 01:03:48,083
listen to it.

1547
01:03:48,283 --> 01:03:49,166
Because he's gonna...

1548
01:03:49,183 --> 01:03:52,550
He's going to provide what based on what he's putting it on your heart to give.

1549
01:03:53,616 --> 01:03:56,916
But if you feel pressured into it and you don't feel that

1550
01:03:56,916 --> 01:04:00,516
that leading from God, if

1551
01:04:00,516 --> 01:04:03,750
you go in expecting that he's going to take care of it for you and you're

1552
01:04:03,766 --> 01:04:06,883
just, but you don't feel any leading from him to do it and you

1553
01:04:06,883 --> 01:04:09,883
start giving more than you really can afford, you might end

1554
01:04:09,883 --> 01:04:10,966
up being missing some stuff.

1555
01:04:11,083 --> 01:04:14,616
And there have been people there have been people that have gotten in serious trouble for that.

1556
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:16,900
So be just be prayerful about it.

1557
01:04:16,966 --> 01:04:18,949
And that's what I always tell people, pray, pray, pray.

1558
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,633
And if God starts putting it on your heart, he's going to make it clear.

1559
01:04:22,250 --> 01:04:25,250
I mean, it's not going to be something, like you say, it's going to, at some point, it'll

1560
01:04:25,250 --> 01:04:28,133
start smacking you in the face and it's like, oh, this is what God expects of me.

1561
01:04:28,416 --> 01:04:29,083
I need to do this.

1562
01:04:30,050 --> 01:04:30,766
Here's the thing.

1563
01:04:30,816 --> 01:04:32,550
It's an act of obedience, guy.

1564
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,633
This is this is what this is where Cain was missing the boat.

1565
01:04:36,766 --> 01:04:39,166
He was not being obedient to God.

1566
01:04:39,216 --> 01:04:40,599
He was not giving of his heart.

1567
01:04:41,316 --> 01:04:43,050
And God tells us this too.

1568
01:04:43,116 --> 01:04:46,300
If you're giving begrudgingly, don't do it, right?

1569
01:04:46,366 --> 01:04:49,000
Don't put that money in it.

1570
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:50,983
Listen, God doesn't need your money.

1571
01:04:51,349 --> 01:04:51,766
Okay?

1572
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,383
He does not need your money.

1573
01:04:53,449 --> 01:04:54,949
His church doesn't need your money.

1574
01:04:55,300 --> 01:04:56,566
He needs your obedience.

1575
01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:00,099
He owns it all and he'll provide and he'll make a way.

1576
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:04,000
He needs your obedience and in every aspect of your life.

1577
01:05:04,066 --> 01:05:07,116
He needs you to understand that that money that you make was his

1578
01:05:07,116 --> 01:05:08,250
to start with, right?

1579
01:05:08,316 --> 01:05:10,300
And you just got to be a good steward of it.

1580
01:05:10,366 --> 01:05:13,599
So be a good steward of the money that God has given you of

1581
01:05:13,599 --> 01:05:15,333
the resources of your time.

1582
01:05:15,650 --> 01:05:18,766
And sometimes, man, we are a lot more guilty of

1583
01:05:18,766 --> 01:05:20,683
being selfish with our time than we are our money.

1584
01:05:21,099 --> 01:05:21,933
Amen.

1585
01:05:21,949 --> 01:05:22,666
Absolutely right.

1586
01:05:22,716 --> 01:05:23,550
Yeah, absolutely right.

1587
01:05:23,616 --> 01:05:26,849
And what this is, in essence, is a

1588
01:05:26,866 --> 01:05:28,183
physical way to say thank you.

1589
01:05:28,849 --> 01:05:29,216
Exactly.

1590
01:05:29,266 --> 01:05:29,800
That's right.

1591
01:05:30,166 --> 01:05:32,750
It's showing gratitude to God for what he's given to you.

1592
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,916
Knowing that we're not sponges, right?

1593
01:05:35,983 --> 01:05:37,116
We don't just collect everything.

1594
01:05:37,183 --> 01:05:37,900
We're a funnel.

1595
01:05:38,616 --> 01:05:39,283
Pour it through.

1596
01:05:39,349 --> 01:05:40,250
Pour it through.

1597
01:05:40,366 --> 01:05:43,433
And I was thinking something that just went right out of my head.

1598
01:05:44,383 --> 01:05:45,216
Did you get it?

1599
01:05:46,966 --> 01:05:47,933
sucked it out.

1600
01:05:48,466 --> 01:05:49,433
I don't know what that is.

1601
01:05:49,483 --> 01:05:50,383
I'm on bad.

1602
01:05:51,349 --> 01:05:52,183
No, no, no.

1603
01:05:52,550 --> 01:05:53,216
The tithe.

1604
01:05:53,266 --> 01:05:56,266
You know, you'll hear people say, wow, that's just that's not a new testament thing.

1605
01:05:56,316 --> 01:05:57,449
That's that's an Old Testament.

1606
01:05:57,516 --> 01:05:58,833
Yeah, that's from Moses.

1607
01:05:58,849 --> 01:05:59,449
New Testament.

1608
01:05:59,500 --> 01:06:01,066
So it is absolutely not from the law.

1609
01:06:01,116 --> 01:06:01,900
It's Abraham.

1610
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:05,016
Abraham was 400 years before the law.

1611
01:06:05,383 --> 01:06:06,650
Yes, absolutely.

1612
01:06:06,650 --> 01:06:09,583
Tied to Melchizedek, which is a preincarnate Jesus Christ.

1613
01:06:10,066 --> 01:06:10,666
That's right.

1614
01:06:10,716 --> 01:06:10,949
Yeah.

1615
01:06:11,083 --> 01:06:13,366
So don't give me that garbage.

1616
01:06:13,416 --> 01:06:13,900
Amen.

1617
01:06:13,900 --> 01:06:17,866
We need to we need to honor God just like Cain and Abel or Abel did.

1618
01:06:18,883 --> 01:06:19,250
Yes.

1619
01:06:19,483 --> 01:06:20,683
made a little bit of an effort.

1620
01:06:21,166 --> 01:06:24,283
But in our daily lives, like you were saying, we've

1621
01:06:24,283 --> 01:06:27,099
got to make an effort to do this, to honor and glorify God.

1622
01:06:27,283 --> 01:06:28,116
Tell him, thank you.

1623
01:06:28,849 --> 01:06:29,383
Amen.

1624
01:06:29,566 --> 01:06:30,099
Amen.

1625
01:06:30,216 --> 01:06:33,699
Well, I mean, just like what Brian was talking about as far as they're,

1626
01:06:33,699 --> 01:06:35,983
you know, you can do something without having the heart.

1627
01:06:36,349 --> 01:06:38,333
Just like while I was preaching on yesterday.

1628
01:06:38,750 --> 01:06:40,016
You know, the church of Sardis.

1629
01:06:40,066 --> 01:06:42,349
You know, they had works, but they weren't perfect.

1630
01:06:43,066 --> 01:06:44,083
But works wasn't perfect.

1631
01:06:44,683 --> 01:06:46,116
Jesus was wanting their hearts.

1632
01:06:46,183 --> 01:06:47,916
It would not just sacrifice they were making.

1633
01:06:48,050 --> 01:06:48,466
Right.

1634
01:06:48,466 --> 01:06:51,650
So just like what, you know, they,

1635
01:06:51,650 --> 01:06:54,650
as far as giving up your 1st fruit or, you know, 1st

1636
01:06:54,650 --> 01:06:57,716
fruits, not just the fruits that you put on the side, it's your 1st fruits.

1637
01:06:57,766 --> 01:06:58,183
That's right.

1638
01:06:58,183 --> 01:06:59,750
It's the heart.

1639
01:06:59,983 --> 01:07:00,816
The thing about it, right?

1640
01:07:01,066 --> 01:07:04,300
And that's why Paul writes Galatians and all of his writings, he,

1641
01:07:04,300 --> 01:07:06,516
I mean, this is a guy that came from a Pharisee life.

1642
01:07:06,583 --> 01:07:07,300
Yeah, right?

1643
01:07:07,483 --> 01:07:09,883
Everything was perfect on the outside, but his heart was garbage.

1644
01:07:10,300 --> 01:07:10,833
That's right.

1645
01:07:10,900 --> 01:07:11,316
It was horrible.

1646
01:07:11,383 --> 01:07:11,683
Rotten.

1647
01:07:11,983 --> 01:07:15,099
Yeah, and God takes his feather with that

1648
01:07:15,099 --> 01:07:18,816
really, you know, into the New Testament because it

1649
01:07:18,816 --> 01:07:20,800
comes from such a thing in our heart, right?

1650
01:07:21,166 --> 01:07:24,283
When he starts saying, look, you know, don't give begrudgingly.

1651
01:07:24,349 --> 01:07:28,183
He's like, he's not saying, he's not really giving you a way out.

1652
01:07:28,250 --> 01:07:30,883
He's saying, hmm, you're not where you need to be.

1653
01:07:31,066 --> 01:07:34,116
You need to get where you need to be so that you can give and

1654
01:07:34,116 --> 01:07:37,000
have a giving heart in all aspects.

1655
01:07:37,900 --> 01:07:40,716
And there's a difference between ties and offerings, right?

1656
01:07:40,966 --> 01:07:41,383
Yeah.

1657
01:07:41,383 --> 01:07:41,866
Yeah.

1658
01:07:41,916 --> 01:07:45,150
I mean, a tithe is what he expects out of you.

1659
01:07:45,216 --> 01:07:46,949
An offering is above and beyond that.

1660
01:07:46,966 --> 01:07:47,449
Yeah.

1661
01:07:47,566 --> 01:07:48,883
Like you said, offering can be time.

1662
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:49,599
Yeah, yeah.

1663
01:07:49,783 --> 01:07:53,150
Buddy, I'm stingy with my time sometimes and I catch myself going, ooh.

1664
01:07:53,266 --> 01:07:53,633
Sure.

1665
01:07:53,683 --> 01:07:54,466
Yeah, absolutely.

1666
01:07:55,183 --> 01:07:56,083
too protective here.

1667
01:07:57,166 --> 01:07:58,483
It's one of those things.

1668
01:07:58,550 --> 01:08:01,733
I've always felt and in watching people

1669
01:08:01,733 --> 01:08:05,250
that get the biggest blessings and just my observation.

1670
01:08:05,983 --> 01:08:08,199
It is whatever you are the stingiest with.

1671
01:08:08,383 --> 01:08:09,766
That's what God wants you to give.

1672
01:08:10,716 --> 01:08:15,099
If you are super stingy with your time, God starts, we'll start mess.

1673
01:08:15,166 --> 01:08:16,250
will start poking at your heart.

1674
01:08:16,716 --> 01:08:17,550
Give me more of your time.

1675
01:08:17,866 --> 01:08:18,699
Give more your time.

1676
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,566
If you're super stingy with your money.

1677
01:08:21,216 --> 01:08:22,783
I'm not talking about you got no money.

1678
01:08:23,316 --> 01:08:24,633
I'm talking about you stingy with it.

1679
01:08:24,699 --> 01:08:25,833
You got plenty of money in the bank.

1680
01:08:25,899 --> 01:08:26,683
You just don't want to give it.

1681
01:08:27,649 --> 01:08:28,966
God starts poking at your heart.

1682
01:08:29,266 --> 01:08:30,350
Hey, why are you not giving?

1683
01:08:30,516 --> 01:08:33,699
And sometimes it is an act of faith where it is God going,

1684
01:08:33,699 --> 01:08:37,300
hey, I need you to trust me because I've got something for you.

1685
01:08:37,716 --> 01:08:39,399
And when God puts that on you, trust him.

1686
01:08:39,883 --> 01:08:43,300
But it's amazing to me to watch when

1687
01:08:43,300 --> 01:08:46,300
somebody is, well, like you said, like we said in that

1688
01:08:46,300 --> 01:08:49,833
video we watched the other day, you can see people when they start getting under conviction.

1689
01:08:50,083 --> 01:08:51,283
God starts messing with it.

1690
01:08:51,399 --> 01:08:52,833
God starts dealing with their heart.

1691
01:08:53,016 --> 01:08:55,416
It starts becoming more and more obvious over time.

1692
01:08:55,416 --> 01:09:00,816
And I've seen people that just, Man,

1693
01:09:00,816 --> 01:09:01,949
they would come to church.

1694
01:09:02,483 --> 01:09:06,649
Or they would swing by the church on Sunday morning and drop off a check.

1695
01:09:07,483 --> 01:09:08,916
They never set foot in the church.

1696
01:09:09,399 --> 01:09:12,516
I've literally seen people that were older, retired, and they just,

1697
01:09:12,516 --> 01:09:13,600
they, they'd swing by.

1698
01:09:13,666 --> 01:09:16,733
They'd drop off a check in the, in the offering plate, and then they just leave.

1699
01:09:17,616 --> 01:09:20,616
And and we get, here's the check from where

1700
01:09:20,616 --> 01:09:21,816
they, why aren't they here today?

1701
01:09:22,250 --> 01:09:23,516
And then they wouldn't be back again.

1702
01:09:23,566 --> 01:09:24,283
They wouldn't be back in.

1703
01:09:24,699 --> 01:09:25,600
met their obligation.

1704
01:09:25,666 --> 01:09:25,850
Yeah.

1705
01:09:25,850 --> 01:09:28,850
Or they'd come by and find out we were working on something and,

1706
01:09:28,850 --> 01:09:32,149
hey, here's your, here's your, you know, and we're talking generous

1707
01:09:32,149 --> 01:09:35,266
checks, Rocky, here's your $5000 do whatever it is.

1708
01:09:35,316 --> 01:09:35,733
Okay.

1709
01:09:36,283 --> 01:09:38,149
I mean, I've seen people do that.

1710
01:09:39,816 --> 01:09:42,883
But then they get to a point where all of a sudden they start getting involved

1711
01:09:42,883 --> 01:09:45,949
and they start actually showing up and they start actually

1712
01:09:45,949 --> 01:09:48,949
spending time doing this instead of whatever else it was they

1713
01:09:48,949 --> 01:09:52,716
were doing and all of a sudden I watched that person go from being

1714
01:09:52,716 --> 01:09:55,833
a little, like something was just wrong with them,

1715
01:09:55,850 --> 01:09:58,250
like they were sick, like they didn't feel well all the time.

1716
01:09:58,483 --> 01:10:00,766
And then all of a sudden it's like, man, that's a new person.

1717
01:10:01,066 --> 01:10:02,633
Because they were acting different.

1718
01:10:02,683 --> 01:10:03,516
It's a cheerful heart

1719
01:10:03,699 --> 01:10:04,066
Yeah.

1720
01:10:04,066 --> 01:10:08,083
Because that's that's where, man, when you when

1721
01:10:08,083 --> 01:10:10,666
you start giving and you give out of a cheerful heart.

1722
01:10:11,149 --> 01:10:12,350
It's such a blessing.

1723
01:10:12,583 --> 01:10:14,566
I mean, it's such a blessing, right?

1724
01:10:14,683 --> 01:10:17,683
And when you're able to give without worrying,

1725
01:10:17,683 --> 01:10:21,350
who cares if nobody has to know about it, right?

1726
01:10:21,649 --> 01:10:23,266
Right, nobody should know about it.

1727
01:10:23,316 --> 01:10:24,449
nobody should know about it.

1728
01:10:24,516 --> 01:10:26,083
You're not announcing it to the world.

1729
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:30,216
You're just doing it because God has called you to do that, right?

1730
01:10:30,283 --> 01:10:31,183
You know, but.

1731
01:10:31,250 --> 01:10:31,966
And that cheerful heart.

1732
01:10:32,016 --> 01:10:33,633
We see that right here, you know, in verse six.

1733
01:10:34,066 --> 01:10:36,833
or verse five, Cain and his offering had no regard.

1734
01:10:36,883 --> 01:10:39,166
So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

1735
01:10:39,883 --> 01:10:40,716
He did his duty.

1736
01:10:41,083 --> 01:10:42,216
did what I was supposed to do.

1737
01:10:42,399 --> 01:10:43,066
Yeah, yeah.

1738
01:10:43,300 --> 01:10:44,083
I gave.

1739
01:10:44,149 --> 01:10:44,566
Yeah.

1740
01:10:44,616 --> 01:10:46,050
And it was like...

1741
01:10:46,116 --> 01:10:48,149
It's like, God, you owe me something, right?

1742
01:10:48,350 --> 01:10:50,683
Yeah, that, and that, I think we get that.

1743
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:52,899
We get that mentality in church, right?

1744
01:10:53,199 --> 01:10:54,516
God, I'm coming to church.

1745
01:10:54,583 --> 01:10:57,883
And I'm showing up, you know, and I

1746
01:10:57,883 --> 01:10:59,016
haven't missed a Sunday.

1747
01:10:59,149 --> 01:10:59,933
I quit drinking.

1748
01:10:59,983 --> 01:11:00,583
I quit smoking.

1749
01:11:00,649 --> 01:11:01,366
quit doing this.

1750
01:11:01,716 --> 01:11:02,850
I'm sending you in a choir.

1751
01:11:03,050 --> 01:11:05,033
Yeah, yeah, I'm checking on all the boxes.

1752
01:11:05,149 --> 01:11:06,116
I've seen you in the choir.

1753
01:11:06,166 --> 01:11:07,366
I'm writing you a check out of

1754
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:10,483
I'm writing you that 10% or 20% check.

1755
01:11:10,483 --> 01:11:12,699
Or 30% check or however big it is.

1756
01:11:12,816 --> 01:11:14,199
I'm writing that check every weekend.

1757
01:11:14,866 --> 01:11:16,550
You are to be blessing me, miss.

1758
01:11:16,666 --> 01:11:18,649
So I shouldn't be struggling to pay my bills.

1759
01:11:18,699 --> 01:11:18,933
Yeah.

1760
01:11:19,366 --> 01:11:20,566
I mean I've seen people do that.

1761
01:11:20,616 --> 01:11:21,883
And it's like, dude.

1762
01:11:23,149 --> 01:11:24,466
Maybe God's not asking for your money.

1763
01:11:24,516 --> 01:11:25,899
He's asking for your heart first.

1764
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:30,516
And you have missed the whole boat, you know, in that situation.

1765
01:11:31,250 --> 01:11:33,716
You know, and I say that because, and and let me be clear.

1766
01:11:33,766 --> 01:11:36,883
I throw this out there and say that because I have a

1767
01:11:36,883 --> 01:11:40,066
attended a church that every single time they

1768
01:11:40,066 --> 01:11:41,566
passed the tithe and played around.

1769
01:11:41,683 --> 01:11:43,183
They stood up and read the scripture.

1770
01:11:43,250 --> 01:11:44,383
Prove me now in this.

1771
01:11:44,449 --> 01:11:47,449
If you will give, blah, blah, you know, and you will not be wanting,

1772
01:11:47,449 --> 01:11:50,500
and they get up and they read that scripture every single time they

1773
01:11:50,500 --> 01:11:53,500
pass the plate around it, and I'm like, And I'm

1774
01:11:53,500 --> 01:11:55,116
looking over here and I see this little old lady.

1775
01:11:56,233 --> 01:11:59,266
On her, on her, uh, uh,

1776
01:11:59,266 --> 01:12:03,283
social security, and she's fishing out of what, $100 bills.

1777
01:12:04,483 --> 01:12:04,899
Yeah.

1778
01:12:04,899 --> 01:12:08,266
And I'm like, y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

1779
01:12:08,916 --> 01:12:09,933
Because let me tell you something.

1780
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,100
That's literally every dime that little old lady has.

1781
01:12:12,166 --> 01:12:14,983
Are y'all going to take care of her when she comes up short this month?

1782
01:12:15,516 --> 01:12:16,949
story about that too in there, isn't there?

1783
01:12:16,966 --> 01:12:17,800
There is.

1784
01:12:17,866 --> 01:12:18,283
Yeah.

1785
01:12:18,283 --> 01:12:18,816
There is.

1786
01:12:19,300 --> 01:12:22,483
And, I mean, and, and, you know,

1787
01:12:22,483 --> 01:12:24,216
and I've watched churches do that.

1788
01:12:24,816 --> 01:12:29,199
And let me tell you, the difference is, are

1789
01:12:29,199 --> 01:12:33,216
they doing it for the right reason and is the person giving doing it for the right reason.

1790
01:12:33,516 --> 01:12:37,050
number one, and number two, are

1791
01:12:37,066 --> 01:12:40,183
you following God's command, or

1792
01:12:40,183 --> 01:12:42,516
are you doing what you feel like is just a duty?

1793
01:12:43,716 --> 01:12:44,800
Because there's a difference.

1794
01:12:44,866 --> 01:12:47,633
And I think I think you got the got it right on the head.

1795
01:12:47,683 --> 01:12:51,649
Kane knew exactly what he was doing, and he expected something out of it.

1796
01:12:53,500 --> 01:12:56,566
And the folks, the folks that go in expecting

1797
01:12:56,566 --> 01:12:59,083
something, they're the ones that often come up later and go.

1798
01:13:00,399 --> 01:13:02,199
Well, I just got evicted.

1799
01:13:02,316 --> 01:13:03,583
Lord, I gave you everything.

1800
01:13:03,949 --> 01:13:07,000
And now I'm, yeah, but you expected me to

1801
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,883
do, you didn't give it to me because you thought it was mine.

1802
01:13:09,949 --> 01:13:13,316
You thought it was yours and I was going to give you more just because you gave it to me.

1803
01:13:13,666 --> 01:13:16,666
I was preaching at a small church and there was only

1804
01:13:16,666 --> 01:13:19,666
probably a dozen people in this church and one of the guys that was taking up

1805
01:13:19,666 --> 01:13:21,283
the offer was just, he was just a,

1806
01:13:21,350 --> 01:13:22,433
a practical joker.

1807
01:13:22,483 --> 01:13:23,983
I used to who nut, you know?

1808
01:13:24,516 --> 01:13:27,816
And he goes by this little old 90 year old lady and he gives

1809
01:13:27,816 --> 01:13:28,833
her the offering plate.

1810
01:13:28,899 --> 01:13:29,866
She puts some money in.

1811
01:13:30,783 --> 01:13:32,500
All right, I put that watch in there too.

1812
01:13:40,366 --> 01:13:42,399
Oh, man, it was hilarious.

1813
01:13:42,516 --> 01:13:43,000
That good.

1814
01:13:45,699 --> 01:13:47,433
And then he went limping out of the church?

1815
01:13:47,983 --> 01:13:49,600
didn't even see it smacked him, you know?

1816
01:13:53,733 --> 01:13:54,399
That's fun.

1817
01:13:56,316 --> 01:13:58,116
Oh, but his countenance fail, man.

1818
01:13:58,183 --> 01:13:59,199
He got angry.

1819
01:13:59,266 --> 01:14:00,050
He got angry.

1820
01:14:00,100 --> 01:14:03,633
And then the next the next ones are, we can do 6 and seven.

1821
01:14:03,766 --> 01:14:04,600
We got time, sure.

1822
01:14:04,666 --> 01:14:05,449
Yeah, we can do those.

1823
01:14:06,633 --> 01:14:07,183
Who's up?

1824
01:14:08,183 --> 01:14:09,216
Uh, how are you?

1825
01:14:09,399 --> 01:14:12,633
And the Lord said unto Kane, why art thou wroth?

1826
01:14:13,116 --> 01:14:14,983
And why is thy countenance falling?

1827
01:14:15,583 --> 01:14:18,649
If thou doest well, shalt thou

1828
01:14:18,649 --> 01:14:19,666
not be accepted?

1829
01:14:19,966 --> 01:14:22,966
And if thou doest not well, sin lieth

1830
01:14:22,966 --> 01:14:26,750
at the door, and unto thee shall be his desires,

1831
01:14:26,750 --> 01:14:29,383
and thou shalt rule over him.

1832
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:30,516
Hit a.

1833
01:14:30,583 --> 01:14:31,716
Go ahead and hit 8 while you're in there.

1834
01:14:31,783 --> 01:14:32,266
Might as well.

1835
01:14:32,616 --> 01:14:35,850
And Cain talked with Abel, his brother, and

1836
01:14:35,866 --> 01:14:39,216
it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain

1837
01:14:39,216 --> 01:14:42,333
rose up against Abel, his brother and slew him.

1838
01:14:43,850 --> 01:14:44,866
And isn't is powerful.

1839
01:14:45,216 --> 01:14:48,483
If we do well, if we do well, well,

1840
01:14:48,483 --> 01:14:51,516
doing well involves obeying him and loving him.

1841
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,516
Because that's how we love him is by obeying him, right?

1842
01:14:54,583 --> 01:14:57,399
And we have a close relationship.

1843
01:14:57,399 --> 01:14:58,366
We stay close to him.

1844
01:14:58,550 --> 01:14:59,933
Our countenance is lifted up.

1845
01:15:00,949 --> 01:15:01,850
We're in the right place.

1846
01:15:02,199 --> 01:15:02,616
right.

1847
01:15:02,750 --> 01:15:04,616
We're in the right place and that's where he's not.

1848
01:15:05,533 --> 01:15:06,399
It's where he's not.

1849
01:15:08,083 --> 01:15:09,516
It's actually angry about this.

1850
01:15:10,066 --> 01:15:10,966
Yeah, yeah.

1851
01:15:11,199 --> 01:15:12,033
He's so angry.

1852
01:15:12,100 --> 01:15:13,600
He goes out and kills his brother over.

1853
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:19,666
I mean, did their conversation, they say, you know, the

1854
01:15:19,666 --> 01:15:21,233
Bible uses the word talk here.

1855
01:15:22,300 --> 01:15:23,916
I was looking at the TOV.

1856
01:15:23,983 --> 01:15:24,883
It says spoke.

1857
01:15:25,250 --> 01:15:26,816
Uh, they spoke to each other.

1858
01:15:26,866 --> 01:15:28,133
So they talk to each other.

1859
01:15:28,550 --> 01:15:29,683
They had a conversation.

1860
01:15:31,483 --> 01:15:35,266
And evidently, uh, he

1861
01:15:35,266 --> 01:15:37,250
just continued to get more and more angry.

1862
01:15:37,300 --> 01:15:39,933
Kane did as they as they talk to each other.

1863
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:44,083
So they turned into an argument and then from that argument, he slew him.

1864
01:15:44,149 --> 01:15:45,166
He killed him from there.

1865
01:15:45,399 --> 01:15:48,466
Yeah, you know, I don't know.

1866
01:15:48,883 --> 01:15:51,883
Yeah, and I love what, I

1867
01:15:51,883 --> 01:15:55,066
love this, this verse, verse 7 and it's, uh,

1868
01:15:55,833 --> 01:15:57,766
If you, if you do not do well.

1869
01:15:57,816 --> 01:16:01,183
Sin is crouching at the door and it's desires for you that you must master it.

1870
01:16:01,250 --> 01:16:01,916
It's what M says.

1871
01:16:03,100 --> 01:16:05,500
And sin is always crouching at the door.

1872
01:16:05,866 --> 01:16:07,483
It's always waiting for you.

1873
01:16:08,983 --> 01:16:10,600
But we have to master it.

1874
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:11,866
And how do we master it?

1875
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:13,833
We love God.

1876
01:16:14,083 --> 01:16:14,500
Yeah.

1877
01:16:14,500 --> 01:16:15,516
Then how do we love God?

1878
01:16:16,116 --> 01:16:17,433
Jesus said we love other people.

1879
01:16:17,983 --> 01:16:18,649
Right, man.

1880
01:16:19,033 --> 01:16:19,716
Amen.

1881
01:16:20,083 --> 01:16:22,066
Those hatred in his heart towards his brother.

1882
01:16:22,366 --> 01:16:23,199
Yes, yeah.

1883
01:16:23,266 --> 01:16:25,133
He wasn't he wasn't only his brother.

1884
01:16:25,183 --> 01:16:26,149
He was his neighbor.

1885
01:16:26,916 --> 01:16:28,350
He was everything, right?

1886
01:16:30,216 --> 01:16:31,233
That was his only neighbor.

1887
01:16:31,300 --> 01:16:32,083
He was the only neighbor.

1888
01:16:32,916 --> 01:16:34,899
There's there's 4 people on the planet.

1889
01:16:34,966 --> 01:16:35,566
That's right.

1890
01:16:35,616 --> 01:16:36,283
Yeah, yeah.

1891
01:16:38,266 --> 01:16:41,449
I mean, and the other thing, it's

1892
01:16:41,449 --> 01:16:44,516
interesting the way that's worded in verse 7 that you were just pointing

1893
01:16:44,516 --> 01:16:47,916
out there, Dennis, and unto thee shall be his desire,

1894
01:16:47,916 --> 01:16:51,216
talking about sin lying at the door, and thou shalt

1895
01:16:51,216 --> 01:16:52,716
rule over him.

1896
01:16:53,016 --> 01:16:56,800
And the NIV says, but you must rule over it.

1897
01:16:57,583 --> 01:16:58,600
And you must master it.

1898
01:16:58,783 --> 01:16:59,149
Yeah.

1899
01:16:59,199 --> 01:17:02,616
And I love that, that phrasing,

1900
01:17:02,616 --> 01:17:04,083
because...

1901
01:17:06,133 --> 01:17:07,066
Pre-Christ.

1902
01:17:08,500 --> 01:17:13,000
And God is telling people, you need to master the sin that's in your life.

1903
01:17:14,149 --> 01:17:16,250
These are the people, these are the 1st ones.

1904
01:17:16,550 --> 01:17:19,016
These are the 1st 2 born under sin.

1905
01:17:20,199 --> 01:17:22,416
And God is saying, you have to master sin.

1906
01:17:22,483 --> 01:17:24,216
You have to, you have to rule over it.

1907
01:17:24,283 --> 01:17:27,399
You have to take, and what that tells me, that tells me 2 things.

1908
01:17:27,466 --> 01:17:30,649
Number one, he's provided a way for that to happen, or he wouldn't

1909
01:17:30,649 --> 01:17:31,783
have given him that order.

1910
01:17:31,850 --> 01:17:32,933
He wouldn't have said that to Kane.

1911
01:17:33,466 --> 01:17:37,183
And number two, Cain was not doing

1912
01:17:37,183 --> 01:17:41,316
what he needed to do to rule to master over the sin.

1913
01:17:41,383 --> 01:17:42,699
He was not being master of himself.

1914
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:43,783
he's got the choice.

1915
01:17:44,016 --> 01:17:46,000
He's got a choice to master it.

1916
01:17:46,066 --> 01:17:46,899
It tells me it's a choice.

1917
01:17:47,149 --> 01:17:47,816
Yeah, yeah.

1918
01:17:48,533 --> 01:17:54,649
Gosh, and if you look at this, this

1919
01:17:54,649 --> 01:17:56,866
is like the Holy Spirit bringing conviction on us.

1920
01:17:57,699 --> 01:18:00,883
God himself was speaking to Cain and telling

1921
01:18:00,883 --> 01:18:03,166
him, you know, you're wrong here.

1922
01:18:03,699 --> 01:18:04,716
I mean, you're angry.

1923
01:18:04,783 --> 01:18:05,750
You shouldn't be angry.

1924
01:18:06,100 --> 01:18:07,533
This is this is on you.

1925
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:08,500
This is your fault.

1926
01:18:08,566 --> 01:18:10,300
You didn't do what was right to start with.

1927
01:18:10,783 --> 01:18:11,866
Why aren't you angry?

1928
01:18:11,983 --> 01:18:15,816
You know, why are you so mad about this when you brought this upon yourself?

1929
01:18:16,183 --> 01:18:17,983
And why is your countenance falling?

1930
01:18:18,533 --> 01:18:21,766
Uh, and, you know, and then,

1931
01:18:21,766 --> 01:18:24,816
and then he tells him, look, this is, this is sin, in

1932
01:18:24,816 --> 01:18:26,733
your life that you've got to get a hold of.

1933
01:18:27,050 --> 01:18:30,883
You got to get a hold of the sin because right now sin has a hold of you.

1934
01:18:32,383 --> 01:18:35,449
And how many times in our life,

1935
01:18:35,449 --> 01:18:38,449
do we let sin get a hold

1936
01:18:38,449 --> 01:18:41,800
of us in a way where it

1937
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:45,100
brings conviction on us, but we push that conviction

1938
01:18:45,100 --> 01:18:48,216
away and we just keep going in that sinful direction.

1939
01:18:48,883 --> 01:18:50,383
If you called out on it, you get mad.

1940
01:18:50,449 --> 01:18:51,766
You get mad about it, right?

1941
01:18:51,816 --> 01:18:52,116
Yeah.

1942
01:18:52,183 --> 01:18:52,666
Oh, gosh.

1943
01:18:53,149 --> 01:18:56,333
Yeah, I mean, people get mad about that all the time, right?

1944
01:18:56,383 --> 01:18:58,716
I mean, of course, I mean, if you look on Facebook, right?

1945
01:18:58,783 --> 01:19:02,083
You know, I mean, people calling each other out about things and about saying,

1946
01:19:02,083 --> 01:19:03,883
and then people just getting just angry, right?

1947
01:19:04,483 --> 01:19:06,283
I mean, it's just like the TV show cops.

1948
01:19:06,350 --> 01:19:08,266
I mean, you need to see somebody get arrested.

1949
01:19:08,683 --> 01:19:11,800
They're usually, you know, 90 times

1950
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:13,116
out of 100, they're going to get mad.

1951
01:19:13,183 --> 01:19:14,383
Yeah, they're going to get mad.

1952
01:19:14,500 --> 01:19:14,866
Exactly.

1953
01:19:14,983 --> 01:19:16,066
Even though they know they're wrong.

1954
01:19:16,366 --> 01:19:16,850
I know.

1955
01:19:16,899 --> 01:19:20,016
Yeah, they were drunk driving in the wrong lane on the side,

1956
01:19:20,016 --> 01:19:21,216
on the wrong side of there and stuff.

1957
01:19:21,399 --> 01:19:22,716
Why'd you pull me over?

1958
01:19:24,583 --> 01:19:25,116
No reason.

1959
01:19:25,366 --> 01:19:26,083
Yeah, yeah.

1960
01:19:26,500 --> 01:19:28,483
Follow this line, follow my back.

1961
01:19:30,283 --> 01:19:32,500
And then they usually take it further, don't they?

1962
01:19:32,566 --> 01:19:34,666
I mean, you know, they're already in trouble.

1963
01:19:35,183 --> 01:19:37,850
And now I'm going to, now I'm going to try to take this cop out.

1964
01:19:37,899 --> 01:19:39,516
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1965
01:19:40,183 --> 01:19:40,783
keep it real.

1966
01:19:40,899 --> 01:19:41,199
Yeah.

1967
01:19:43,233 --> 01:19:44,383
We're going to take it up and not.

1968
01:19:44,383 --> 01:19:45,283
Yeah.

1969
01:19:45,283 --> 01:19:48,466
You know, and the amazing thing is, look at how me.

1970
01:19:49,966 --> 01:19:50,750
Tase me.

1971
01:19:51,883 --> 01:19:54,466
Look at how fair God is being here.

1972
01:19:55,899 --> 01:19:59,433
He doesn't just kill Kane for not doing it.

1973
01:20:00,283 --> 01:20:04,583
I mean, this is the 1st real...

1974
01:20:04,583 --> 01:20:07,783
example we have of somebody explicitly.

1975
01:20:08,149 --> 01:20:11,266
Like, I mean, you had the, the, the tree,

1976
01:20:11,266 --> 01:20:14,316
you had all that, but sin had not been in the world until that and

1977
01:20:14,316 --> 01:20:15,883
God dealt with that the way he dealt with it.

1978
01:20:15,949 --> 01:20:18,583
Now you've got these people that grew up with sin.

1979
01:20:18,816 --> 01:20:19,183
Yeah.

1980
01:20:20,033 --> 01:20:23,083
And he says, all right, I'm

1981
01:20:23,083 --> 01:20:25,416
going to try to teach you what to do.

1982
01:20:26,449 --> 01:20:27,649
Is that not beautiful?

1983
01:20:27,766 --> 01:20:30,100
I mean, it's like a father to his kids?

1984
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,066
You're gonna get in trouble, but I'm not gonna kill you over it.

1985
01:20:34,850 --> 01:20:35,866
Even though I feel like it.

1986
01:20:36,816 --> 01:20:38,916
The law wasn't even in place at this point.

1987
01:20:39,050 --> 01:20:39,416
Exactly.

1988
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,000
I mean, God was literally teaching them,

1989
01:20:43,066 --> 01:20:45,649
this is why this is not what I expect to be sure.

1990
01:20:45,699 --> 01:20:46,833
They didn't have a law.

1991
01:20:46,966 --> 01:20:48,583
They didn't have the Ten Commandments.

1992
01:20:48,883 --> 01:20:52,850
They had the Lord tell him, hey, that is absolutely.

1993
01:20:53,566 --> 01:20:54,050
training them.

1994
01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:54,699
Day by day.

1995
01:20:54,949 --> 01:20:57,283
And these are things, too, that are born into us, right?

1996
01:20:57,949 --> 01:21:01,300
I mean, before we knew the law, we know when we're,

1997
01:21:01,300 --> 01:21:04,533
I mean, you can see a little child, like you said, like we've talked about before.

1998
01:21:04,966 --> 01:21:06,649
They know when they're doing something wrong.

1999
01:21:06,766 --> 01:21:10,600
You know, they go hide behind a chair somewhere and do it or, you know, that kind of thing.

2000
01:21:11,083 --> 01:21:14,149
And and so and so, you know, some of those things

2001
01:21:14,149 --> 01:21:17,566
were that conscience was born into them, but then like you said,

2002
01:21:17,566 --> 01:21:20,449
here's the Lord's giving them step by step instructions.

2003
01:21:22,183 --> 01:21:25,250
And, I mean, and then, and then we have,

2004
01:21:25,250 --> 01:21:29,083
if we, if we read further, we don't have time, we, we're going to go too long.

2005
01:21:29,199 --> 01:21:30,816
Um, unless y'all want to.

2006
01:21:30,883 --> 01:21:31,483
I don't care.

2007
01:21:31,550 --> 01:21:34,666
But we're about to, uh, if

2008
01:21:34,666 --> 01:21:37,600
we go next week, then we're about to see a repeat of the garden.

2009
01:21:39,699 --> 01:21:41,566
in the next verse, right?

2010
01:21:43,366 --> 01:21:46,066
God comes to him and he asks him a question, right?

2011
01:21:46,666 --> 01:21:49,433
He deals a rhetorical question.

2012
01:21:49,899 --> 01:21:50,500
Absolutely.

2013
01:21:50,983 --> 01:21:54,050
A question that got already knows the answer to, but

2014
01:21:54,050 --> 01:21:58,133
he brings it to him and he's like, what's happened here?

2015
01:21:58,483 --> 01:21:58,899
Right?

2016
01:21:59,083 --> 01:21:59,683
Oh.

2017
01:22:00,433 --> 01:22:03,516
Yeah, yeah, when we see the spoiled brat, who's

2018
01:22:03,516 --> 01:22:05,983
angry, turns into...

2019
01:22:05,983 --> 01:22:06,350
That's right.

2020
01:22:06,466 --> 01:22:07,850
The kid that ate the donut.

2021
01:22:12,166 --> 01:22:12,766
No, donut.

2022
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:15,583
Next week, I'm going to tell the truth podcast.

2023
01:22:15,699 --> 01:22:17,433
The kid that ate the donut.

2024
01:22:18,033 --> 01:22:19,183
That's where we'll pick up.

2025
01:22:20,449 --> 01:22:22,016
brings some donuts in your next suit.

2026
01:22:22,366 --> 01:22:26,333
Hold on, maybe that's temptation, temptation.

2027
01:22:28,183 --> 01:22:28,850
Oh, man.

2028
01:22:28,899 --> 01:22:31,666
that, yeah, that's a that's a really good spot to stop at.

2029
01:22:31,783 --> 01:22:34,483
Um, uh, for...

2030
01:22:35,633 --> 01:22:36,283
49.

2031
01:22:36,699 --> 01:22:39,516
And Tanner, now you'll have to come back because we're not till we unfinished it.

2032
01:22:39,816 --> 01:22:40,416
That's right.

2033
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:41,016
right.

2034
01:22:43,366 --> 01:22:44,449
Genesis 49.

2035
01:22:47,266 --> 01:22:48,649
Yeah, we'll have to have Tanner back.

2036
01:22:48,699 --> 01:22:49,783
You gotta come back next week.

2037
01:22:49,850 --> 01:22:50,616
You don't have to.

2038
01:22:50,616 --> 01:22:51,216
I'm going have to.

2039
01:22:51,283 --> 01:22:51,699
Yeah.

2040
01:22:51,699 --> 01:22:51,883
Yeah.

2041
01:22:52,183 --> 01:22:53,316
Yeah, lift it there.

2042
01:22:54,699 --> 01:22:55,600
And the clubhanger.

2043
01:22:55,666 --> 01:22:56,083
That's right

2044
01:22:57,166 --> 01:23:00,166
Um, but we'll pick back up with Genesis 49 next

2045
01:23:00,166 --> 01:23:03,350
time. and, uh, we'll

2046
01:23:03,350 --> 01:23:05,566
probably remember where we ended up at, we won't.

2047
01:23:06,516 --> 01:23:08,133
We forget every single time.

2048
01:23:10,966 --> 01:23:13,366
Oh, guys can't remember where we stopped at.

2049
01:23:16,366 --> 01:23:19,550
But we get to find out, like we were saying, the

2050
01:23:19,550 --> 01:23:23,083
repeat of what we saw the 1st time sin entered the world, and

2051
01:23:23,083 --> 01:23:24,283
sin just repeats itself.

2052
01:23:24,583 --> 01:23:25,300
It really does.

2053
01:23:25,366 --> 01:23:27,283
And it is pretty amazing to watch.

2054
01:23:27,816 --> 01:23:30,333
And we see the 2nd time someone gets cast out.

2055
01:23:31,416 --> 01:23:34,416
where God finally has to say, okay, you've crossed a line.

2056
01:23:34,483 --> 01:23:35,266
Now it's time to leave.

2057
01:23:35,866 --> 01:23:37,433
And now you can't be around everybody else.

2058
01:23:37,483 --> 01:23:39,649
You can't you can't keep doing what you were doing.

2059
01:23:39,949 --> 01:23:43,183
And man, that is the beauty of what God shows

2060
01:23:43,183 --> 01:23:46,416
us with this is that he gives us chance after

2061
01:23:46,416 --> 01:23:47,500
chance after chance.

2062
01:23:48,516 --> 01:23:52,533
And even when he should just strike us down, instead,

2063
01:23:52,550 --> 01:23:56,016
he says, why don't you go out here away and

2064
01:23:56,016 --> 01:23:58,899
gives us the opportunity to work our way back to it?

2065
01:23:59,266 --> 01:24:01,433
He's, I mean, because that's really what he's doing here.

2066
01:24:01,899 --> 01:24:05,133
And it's such an incredible thing that he just... my

2067
01:24:05,149 --> 01:24:07,016
way back to you, Lord, okay.

2068
01:24:08,916 --> 01:24:12,750
You know, he just gives us one chance after...

2069
01:24:14,266 --> 01:24:14,750
love it.

2070
01:24:15,766 --> 01:24:18,649
And I just got to say this.

2071
01:24:18,699 --> 01:24:21,883
Okay, Psalm 145, verse 8, the Lord is gracious and

2072
01:24:21,883 --> 01:24:24,816
merciful, slow to anger and great in loving kindness.

2073
01:24:24,883 --> 01:24:28,116
The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.

2074
01:24:28,550 --> 01:24:29,083
Amen.

2075
01:24:29,149 --> 01:24:29,683
Amen.

2076
01:24:29,750 --> 01:24:30,233
Love it.

2077
01:24:30,283 --> 01:24:30,516
Amen.

2078
01:24:31,666 --> 01:24:32,800
He loves he loves us.

2079
01:24:33,216 --> 01:24:33,750
Here we go.

2080
01:24:33,883 --> 01:24:34,600
Oh, man.

2081
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:36,633
Make me think about something.

2082
01:24:38,199 --> 01:24:39,283
Bible, ping-pong.

2083
01:24:39,399 --> 01:24:41,266
Or is in a pickleball.

2084
01:24:41,500 --> 01:24:41,983
Yeah.

2085
01:24:43,133 --> 01:24:44,800
We're playing ball, pickleball?

2086
01:24:45,699 --> 01:24:48,816
And the segment, and the 5 minute segment of bubble tennis.

2087
01:24:49,716 --> 01:24:51,100
Dennis versus brown hair.

2088
01:24:52,483 --> 01:24:55,666
I just, I mean, when you said that, it made

2089
01:24:55,666 --> 01:24:58,666
me, it made me think of, of 1st

2090
01:24:58,666 --> 01:24:59,800
Timothy chapter three.

2091
01:25:00,583 --> 01:25:03,649
I won't go into it and read all of it, but

2092
01:25:03,649 --> 01:25:06,949
the Lord then passes those same things

2093
01:25:06,949 --> 01:25:10,600
on to us as leaders of the church that

2094
01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:13,116
we're supposed to have these attributes, right?

2095
01:25:14,016 --> 01:25:15,149
slow to anger, right?

2096
01:25:15,949 --> 01:25:19,250
Apt to teach and all these different things that not

2097
01:25:19,250 --> 01:25:22,483
a brawler, not covetedness, but patience,

2098
01:25:22,483 --> 01:25:24,699
you know, all these different things.

2099
01:25:24,699 --> 01:25:28,183
He, he, he takes those, those same holy

2100
01:25:28,183 --> 01:25:31,666
attributes that are in him and he says, now I want you to be the same way.

2101
01:25:31,716 --> 01:25:33,100
I want you to live the same way.

2102
01:25:33,399 --> 01:25:36,399
And those are not only for for just deacons

2103
01:25:36,399 --> 01:25:37,633
and pastors, I believe.

2104
01:25:37,649 --> 01:25:40,716
Those are those are things that he tells everybody.

2105
01:25:40,766 --> 01:25:44,250
As Christians, we have been predestined and become conformed to the image of his son.

2106
01:25:44,316 --> 01:25:44,733
That's right.

2107
01:25:44,733 --> 01:25:46,649
Amen.

2108
01:25:46,649 --> 01:25:48,449
There's predestination for you, right?

2109
01:25:49,466 --> 01:25:51,866
If these godly attributes might live through us.

2110
01:25:52,050 --> 01:25:52,466
Exactly.

2111
01:25:52,833 --> 01:25:53,966
I'm supposed to be just like him.

2112
01:25:54,033 --> 01:25:54,399
That's right

2113
01:25:54,566 --> 01:25:55,050
Amen.

2114
01:25:55,116 --> 01:25:55,783
Just like him.

2115
01:25:55,883 --> 01:25:56,300
Amen.

2116
01:25:57,266 --> 01:25:58,533
Yes, awesome, awesome.

2117
01:25:58,649 --> 01:26:01,283
The mercy of God from beginning to end.

2118
01:26:01,766 --> 01:26:03,800
And that's what we live in daily.

2119
01:26:04,533 --> 01:26:08,133
We are alive daily because of his mercies that he pours out on us.

2120
01:26:08,850 --> 01:26:10,233
left and right all the time.

2121
01:26:10,716 --> 01:26:11,250
Amen.

2122
01:26:11,850 --> 01:26:13,233
And I love him for his mercy.

2123
01:26:14,433 --> 01:26:15,516
Love him for his mercy.

2124
01:26:15,983 --> 01:26:17,899
because without it I wouldn't be here.

2125
01:26:17,966 --> 01:26:18,566
That's right.

2126
01:26:18,566 --> 01:26:21,199
I've missed doing this the last several weeks.

2127
01:26:21,266 --> 01:26:22,466
I have I have too.

2128
01:26:22,533 --> 01:26:24,866
Yeah, I've missed you guys.

2129
01:26:25,949 --> 01:26:27,750
I purposely had to back off.

2130
01:26:27,750 --> 01:26:30,816
Like, I've got so many notes in Genesis, though, because we went through

2131
01:26:30,816 --> 01:26:34,350
Genesis on Wednesday nights and I purposely

2132
01:26:34,350 --> 01:26:37,583
the last couple of times, not brought my notes, so I wouldn't get too in-depth.

2133
01:26:37,583 --> 01:26:40,050
Because I tend to get stuck in my notes.

2134
01:26:40,466 --> 01:26:43,699
You know, I get stuck in them, especially

2135
01:26:43,716 --> 01:26:46,883
when we're doing Bible study and there's just, there's just so

2136
01:26:46,883 --> 01:26:49,100
much in here that I'm like, ooh, there's, that's good.

2137
01:26:49,166 --> 01:26:51,033
Oh, I didn't see that before, you know?

2138
01:26:51,083 --> 01:26:52,583
because I didn't have it in my notes.

2139
01:26:52,766 --> 01:26:54,333
And I just like, wait, wait, wait.

2140
01:26:54,383 --> 01:26:55,350
Oh, that's good stuff.

2141
01:26:55,416 --> 01:26:57,816
You should have seen my message notes from yesterday.

2142
01:26:58,116 --> 01:26:58,833
Oh gosh.

2143
01:27:02,066 --> 01:27:03,683
I got I got to condense these.

2144
01:27:03,750 --> 01:27:04,833
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

2145
01:27:05,433 --> 01:27:05,850
Yeah.

2146
01:27:06,033 --> 01:27:09,149
Yeah, that PowerPoint presentation was actually longer than

2147
01:27:09,149 --> 01:27:10,533
we got.

2148
01:27:10,583 --> 01:27:11,300
He skipped over.

2149
01:27:11,366 --> 01:27:13,283
Yeah, I skipped a lot.

2150
01:27:13,416 --> 01:27:14,250
Yeah, yeah.

2151
01:27:14,316 --> 01:27:17,550
Well, when I, when I'm, when I'm writing my message notes, they

2152
01:27:17,550 --> 01:27:21,449
may be like 3 pages of notes, but there's actually 16

2153
01:27:21,449 --> 01:27:24,516
pages worth of stuff, you know, because I try to, I try

2154
01:27:24,516 --> 01:27:27,633
to just put stuff in there to keep me on track, you know, to keep me going

2155
01:27:27,633 --> 01:27:31,166
in the right way if I don't, I'll get stuck in it and I don't want to get stuck in it.

2156
01:27:31,233 --> 01:27:32,133
Yeah.

2157
01:27:32,133 --> 01:27:35,433
Because you let the Holy Spirit just like, he shows you things.

2158
01:27:35,483 --> 01:27:37,050
Yeah, you know, anyway.

2159
01:27:37,416 --> 01:27:37,949
Absolutely.

2160
01:27:38,616 --> 01:27:39,216
All right.

2161
01:27:39,266 --> 01:27:42,633
Well, next next time, Genesis 49,

2162
01:27:42,633 --> 01:27:45,750
we'll pick up there with what happens

2163
01:27:45,750 --> 01:27:47,850
after Kane kills Abel.

2164
01:27:48,149 --> 01:27:49,416
Genesis 4 9.

2165
01:27:49,533 --> 01:27:51,633
Say it the 2nd time, I think we'll remember it.

2166
01:27:52,233 --> 01:27:54,633
Or I will go back and review the video before next week.

2167
01:27:55,649 --> 01:27:56,433
Yeah.

2168
01:27:57,399 --> 01:27:59,733
Or I'll remind y'all either way.

2169
01:28:00,149 --> 01:28:03,149
Whichever, you know, 6 one, half dozen of the other.

2170
01:28:04,833 --> 01:28:06,216
Uh, brother.

2171
01:28:07,649 --> 01:28:08,100
Tanner.

2172
01:28:08,316 --> 01:28:09,516
You got to pray us in.

2173
01:28:09,566 --> 01:28:10,533
let you pray us out, too.

2174
01:28:11,733 --> 01:28:13,350
Hey, this time he won't knock the microphone.

2175
01:28:13,416 --> 01:28:14,016
Yeah, yeah.

2176
01:28:14,066 --> 01:28:14,600
Hopefully.

2177
01:28:15,250 --> 01:28:18,333
And if I do, it'll be on camera, so it'll be more better.

2178
01:28:18,983 --> 01:28:21,566
Lord, we love you and we thank you for this day, Lord.

2179
01:28:21,633 --> 01:28:24,683
I thank you for just allowing us to just bring up the bread

2180
01:28:24,683 --> 01:28:26,899
of life, Lord, just to read your word.

2181
01:28:26,966 --> 01:28:29,966
Lord, I pray that you would just use this podcast, Lord, to

2182
01:28:29,966 --> 01:28:31,399
reach out to people.

2183
01:28:31,466 --> 01:28:34,649
Lord, I pray that if there's one that just gets something out of it,

2184
01:28:34,649 --> 01:28:35,733
then that's worth it, Lord.

2185
01:28:35,783 --> 01:28:38,783
I pray that you would just reach the hearts, convict

2186
01:28:38,783 --> 01:28:40,883
hearts where, you know, convicting's needed.

2187
01:28:41,016 --> 01:28:44,483
Lord, I pray that if there's one that's listening to this podcast that

2188
01:28:44,483 --> 01:28:47,483
needs you, that needs them to be,

2189
01:28:47,483 --> 01:28:49,816
that they need you to be their savior.

2190
01:28:49,883 --> 01:28:51,500
Lord, I pray that you would just convict them, Lord.

2191
01:28:51,816 --> 01:28:55,116
Lord, I pray that you're saving powers, you know, it was,

2192
01:28:55,116 --> 01:28:58,416
you know, back in 2000 years ago, it's the same thing here now.

2193
01:28:58,883 --> 01:29:02,483
Lord, I pray that you would convict where convicted the evening.

2194
01:29:02,550 --> 01:29:05,550
Lord, I pray that you would just put your hand protection, as we head

2195
01:29:05,550 --> 01:29:06,866
out of here in Jesus' name, I pray.

2196
01:29:06,933 --> 01:29:07,350
Amen.

2197
01:29:07,466 --> 01:29:08,000
Amen.

2198
01:29:08,066 --> 01:29:08,483
Amen.