00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:27 Vacation Plans and San Diego Adventures

02:30 Upcoming Biblical Counseling Intensive

04:41 Genesis: The Fall of Man

07:02 The Consequences of Sin

10:30 God's Judgment and Promise of Redemption

11:23 The Struggle Against Headship

12:05 The Consequences of Sin

12:43 The Story of Cain and Abel

16:28 The Genealogy and Significance of Seth

19:06 The Birth of Jesus and the Visit of the Wise Men

22:18 The Nature of the Star and the Fulfillment of Prophecy

23:39 Concluding Prayer and Encouragement

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Hey folks.

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Welcome to day two, back with another

episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Happy New Year, man.

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This music is bumping.

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It is the best music we've had so far.

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So far.

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It's so upbeat.

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I feel like I'm in the club.

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Undo reading the Bible.

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Undo, undoubtedly.

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Excellent.

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Hey, if you read yesterday,

that was one day I did.

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If you read today, that's day two.

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That means you're on a streak.

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You have a chain.

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Don't break the chain.

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Don't break the chain.

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Keep it going.

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Hey, you know I, I did

have a question actually.

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People are wondering.

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Everybody's asking, why are you here?

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Because you told us on Sunday that I

told you were leaving and then you're,

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and you said that on your leader video,

and yet here you are in the flesh.

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I'm here hologram in your office.

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Yep.

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What's going on.

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Yeah.

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We're actually recording these ahead

of time so that we can have some

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of the can because this is, we want

you to get a flavor of what this

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is gonna be like moving forward.

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That's right.

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And that, you know what we're about.

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So yeah.

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So what are you doing for your vacation?

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We wanna know, we are gonna be

in San Diego, so we're there now.

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You're there now.

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We drove out on Sunday after

church and made it safely.

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We're assuming a lot.

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I guess you would not, you

would not make it out on Sunday.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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We, we, we will pray for that.

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Yeah.

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In San Diego, you're gonna go to SeaWorld.

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You're gonna go on the USS midway.

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No we're not, we're gonna just

hang out with Amanda's family.

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They're out there, so we're just

gonna spend some time there and Cool.

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See some of her extended family.

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My sister-in-law's coming down with my

niece and we're, yeah, just celebrate

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Christmas out there with my in-laws.

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Do you know, you probably know this.

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That one of the world's most

highly rated zoos is in that area.

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San Diego Zoo.

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Do you know?

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Yes, I've been You've heard of that place?

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Yes.

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What do you think about that place?

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It's big.

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It's huge.

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It's enormous.

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Yeah.

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And very hilly.

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Yeah.

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Hard to walk around.

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You know what?

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I'm not handicapped, thankfully.

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At least for right now as we record

this and to my knowledge, I'm not.

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Just to say that too, to my knowledge,

I'm not handicapped, and one of the

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things that I've always been tempted

by at the San Diego Zoo is those carts.

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The wheelchairs.

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Yeah, the wheelchairs.

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You know, the electric.

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Yeah.

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It's like, dude, those

things are so steep.

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Yeah.

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Man, I was flirting with it one year.

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I'm thinking if they're available

and no one else is using it,

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why can't I jump in and go?

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I think you carry the kids, you're

carrying people and your wife and you

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carrying everybody in your shoulders,

and it just gets hard after a few hours.

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Yes.

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Yes it does.

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You should go visit the

San Diego Zoo on my behalf.

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Well, I miss it.

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Are you paying our family's

way into the San Diego Zoo?

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I am praying your family's way.

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I will pray the whole way.

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I will pray your family's way in.

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Just walk in, walk past

the security people.

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Yeah.

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Don't even look at them.

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Yeah.

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And the Lord will get you in buddy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So we're gonna be out there doing

that and then Lord willing, we will,

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we'll drive back where I'll spend a

little bit more time just here at home

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and then I'll be back in the office.

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That's great.

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For our biblical counseling

intensive coming up on January 9th.

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That is coming up so soon.

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You're gonna be back on the ninth?

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I will be back on the ninth and

then that's when we start our

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biblical counseling intensive.

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Yes.

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We have so many people signed up for that.

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Yeah, it's great.

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There's still room.

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There is still room.

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And it's still the same price.

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It is still the same price of $0.

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What a deal.

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Zero US dollars.

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How can f.

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Canadians, we don't know

what the conversion rate.

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Yeah.

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$30 for Canadians.

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Okay.

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So what can we expect with that?

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Yeah, it's gonna be a great time.

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Pastor Dr.

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Lucas Pace is gonna be here to Mr.

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Pastor, doctor to you, and he is gonna be

teaching us on the basics, intro level,

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what biblical counseling is all about,

why it's important what does it look like,

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what are some of the basic principles

and tenets of biblical counseling?

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Why is it different from maybe

what you've known as Christian

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counseling or Christian psychology?

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And why do we.

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Prescribed to this over

some of those other models.

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These are gonna be a lot of the things

that you'll hear from him as he lays the

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groundwork for what really we are planning

to be a full year's worth of material.

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Wow.

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So this is in person for Friday

night, Saturday and Sunday, man.

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And then you're gonna have two more

video lecture series that are gonna be

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provided for you during the year, and

then we'll bring him back out again

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at the end of the year to do one more

in person to finish everything up.

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And it's our understanding that if

you do all of those things, that you

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will have at least a classroom portion

of the A CBC, that is the Association

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of Certified Biblical Counselors.

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The classroom portion of that work

done towards your certification.

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There's more that you need to do.

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No, there is.

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So this doesn't guarantee that

you're gonna be certified at

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the end of this classroom stuff.

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There's quite a bit more that

you need to do, but this is.

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Big step in that right, right.

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Direction.

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It sure is.

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And don't let that dissuade you.

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We would be happy for you just

to take the classroom hours.

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Yeah, that's totally fine.

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Totally.

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And it's beneficial and valuable.

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In fact, when you listen to what the

teaching is and you get a sense of how

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this works, I think you're gonna love it.

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Yeah.

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We've talked about this before about

how exciting it is to do it and how

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your understanding of scripture broadens

and changes when you realize, oh,

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there's a lot more here than I realized.

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That would be helpful to people.

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So it's gonna bless you,

it's gonna benefit you.

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There's no loss.

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It's literally free.

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You can't go wrong with this

thing if you don't like it.

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We'll give your money back for sure.

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For sure.

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Can't give you your time back though.

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That's God's department, but

you'll be around other people

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from the church, so Yeah.

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Even if nothing else, you'll, you'll

have good brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Good friends are gonna be there.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's jump into our next

portion of reading for the day.

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We have Genesis chapter three,

four, and five, I believe.

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And then we have Matthew chapter two.

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So again, old Testament

and then New Testament.

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So we're back in the Old Testament.

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We've looked at the creation

from a high level chapter one,

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creation of mankind, chapter two.

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Now we're getting into what happened

to cause everything to go haywire.

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And this is where I think the Bible is.

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Self attesting, one of the most

reasonable interpretations of

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the current world that we find.

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Because no matter who you are,

you have to look at the current

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world and say things are not right.

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No matter what your background is,

your worldview is, your system is.

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Everybody's gonna look at

things in this world and be

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able to say something's wrong.

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And the Bible right off the bat provides

an explanation for why that is, and

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it's what takes place in chapter

three, which is the fall of man.

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It's a familiar story.

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If you've been in the church from

the time that you were little.

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You've seen this on the felt

boards or on the TV screens or with

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whoever is telling you about this.

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But this is Adam and Eve, and this

is the temptation, the serpent,

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the enemy, Satan, the adversary.

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He embodies a serpent, which,

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there's a lot there.

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Eve is not shocked when the

serpent starts talking to her.

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So it causes us to wonder, maybe

animals were able to talk at this time

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during the early stages of creation.

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But eve listens to the serpent as the

serpent causes her to question God's

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word she takes from the tree that was

forbidden, the tree, the knowledge of good

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and evil, which God had forbidden them.

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Back in chapter two, verse

17, he had specifically said,

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don't eat from this tree.

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She takes from it.

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She gives it to, to

Adam, who was with her.

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Who had abdicated his role or failed

in his role as a leader there.

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And they both eat together,

and this is the fall.

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Their eyes are open.

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They're embarrassed

that they're unclothed.

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They hide from God.

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God calls them out to give an

account of what they had done.

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He then issues a judgment and says that

there are consequences and punishment

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that will come, and also at the same time.

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Introduces us to our first hope at

redemption in verse 15, where he

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promises that the offspring of the

woman would ultimately crush the head

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of the serpent crush, the head of Satan.

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Things go pretty bad to, to really

awful in a short matter of time.

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Yeah, they do.

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How long was it between

chapter two and chapter three?

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Man, I wish we knew.

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That's a fascinating question.

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We don't know.

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The text doesn't tell us.

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We're not sure.

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We're not sure.

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Probably not long.

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We leave them naked and unashamed.

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And then chapter three, they're

very naked and they're very ashamed.

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Yeah.

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Things go bad really quickly here.

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Okay.

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So notice a couple things and one thing I

wanna point out, the serpent goes to Eve.

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Not to Adam.

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Right.

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Violation of the order

of things right away.

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Right.

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So sins already in the world, although

not through Adam and Eve because a

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serpent's already sitting against God.

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Is that true?

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Yes.

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And who's a serpent?

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Serpent is we know this to be Satan.

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The adversary.

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And that's a great point.

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'cause at some point.

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Between the end of chapter one

where God created everything.

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It was very good.

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And what we find here, there was

the fall of Satan in Heaven, which

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we find described, we think in

some other passages of scripture.

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Yeah.

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Though there's debate about whether those

are, and we'll get there in our daily

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Bible reading, but the sin of Satan seems

to be pride that he wanted to be God.

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God cast him down from heaven along

with a lot of angels who would

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choose to follow him rather than God.

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So that's taking place in the white

space between the chapters here.

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And so Satan is here and he's made him

himself an a vowed and sworn enemy of God,

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and he's gonna go after God's creation.

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Because God's creation is that which was

created in his image and Satan hates God.

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And so he's gonna go after the creation of

God and he goes after Eve, to your point,

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usurping the authoritarian structure that

gotta created, which is that Adam should

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be the leader here, and Satan knows that,

and he's undermining what God has done.

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This is fascinating because it gives us

at least a glimpse into how God designed

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creation, because it wasn't when Satan

fell that everything went haywire.

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Yeah.

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It's when Adam and E fell, who God gave

a vice regency, co regency, they were

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meant to reign with him and he was

gonna use them to rule over a creation.

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Yeah.

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That was the culture mandate, the

creation mandate that we saw previously.

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God says to them something interesting.

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He says where are you?

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So, yeah, verse nine of chapter three.

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How does God not know this?

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Yeah, no, he does for sure.

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This is a grace of God and a mercy

of God because what God is doing here

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is he's drawing them into confession.

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Mm.

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And by extension, drawing

them into repentance.

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He's causing them to come out of hiding

and bring their sin to the light.

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And God still does this today for us

as the church, through the indwelling

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of the Spirit within us as believers,

when you feel the weight of sin, right?

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Or like David prayed in Psalm

55 or Psalm 51 when he said,

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your hand was heavy upon me.

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So God is drawing them into confession

of their sin so that that sin can be

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dealt with like it should be dealt with.

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Even though the consequences are hard,

it's better for them to confess than to

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continue to hide what incredible grace,

so early in the pages of scripture.

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And right on the heels of their sin.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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What does it mean then?

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So this is actually before

what I just asked you.

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He says, the eye, it says here in

verse seven, the eyes of both were

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opened and they knew that they were

naked and they sowed fig leaves.

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What does it mean that

their eyes were opened?

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How is it that it seems like.

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Their commitment to evil produced some

new visibility, some new knowledge

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that they previously did not have.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think this is connected to

the result, and that is they

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felt shame for the first time.

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And so they were able to understand the

realm of darkness, the realm of evil, the

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realm of humiliation, the realm of shame.

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Things that they had never.

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Yeah.

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Humiliation.

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No.

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Okay, so this is about feeling

a sense of insecurity, right.

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Inadequacy, for the first

time, humanity felt broken.

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Incomplete because they were right.

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They were broken.

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They were in fact broken.

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Okay.

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Interesting point here.

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Eve sins first, and yet

Adam gets the blame.

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Mm-hmm.

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What's going on with that?

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Yeah, that's again, the headship,

the responsibility feature here.

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God is going to call Adam to

account because Adam really

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failed as well by failing to.

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Lead his wife.

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It says that she took some

of the fruit and gave it to

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her husband who was with her.

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And so Adam is not off, tending

the garden in some of their area.

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This cat.

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Yeah.

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He's with her.

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Yeah.

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He should have.

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Unbelievable woman.

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We're not gonna do that.

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Yeah.

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Slap her hand, her hand guys her hand.

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And not in a violent way, just

like, Hey, we're not the fruit

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out of the hand smack the fruit.

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Out of her hand.

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That's a good way to put it.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So God talks to the serpent in verse 14.

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Yeah.

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And issues this curse to the serpent.

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Can you explain what this means?

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Yeah.

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There's grounds to think that

perhaps the serpent walked upright.

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I know the creation museum down in Dallas

has a depiction of a very creepy looking

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that mission accomplished, I guess,

walked upright, didn't make it look.

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And so the animal is punished

for its complicity in here.

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And it's interesting because in chapter

three verse one, it says the serpent

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was more crafty than any other beast.

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So there was something about, created

even animals at this time that I

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think are different than the animals

that we experience and see today.

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Mm.

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And God is gonna punish the serpent,

the serpent's gonna crawl in his belly.

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And this is why we have rattlesnakes

in Copperheads and everything else.

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Wow.

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Okay, so she says to the woman that

she's gonna now have childbearing pain.

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So I guess to this point they didn't

we don't know about her kids if

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she had any before this, right?

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But we do know that now part of

the curse is childbearing pain.

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And then he says something to

her That's really interesting.

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We'd love for you to talk about this part.

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Your desire shall be for or contrary

to your husband, depending on what.

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Yeah.

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The year of your ESV, you're reading Yeah.

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Contrary to your husband,

but he shall rule over you.

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So some people point to this as

saying, look, see, headship is

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actually a result of sin and not a

result of the new creation in Christ.

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No.

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I think what this is saying is the

struggle against headship is the

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result of sin, not headship itself.

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Here, goddess saying to eve, this

is gonna be a chore for you now to

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submit to your husband's leadership.

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Mm.

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This is gonna be something that

you're not gonna want to do now.

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And that's what this is a result of.

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Not so much that the authorities

is not been changed at all.

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Rather, the response to the

authority is what's changing.

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Fascinating.

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Okay, one more thing here.

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He says to Adam, all the things

that he says, work's gonna be hard.

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It's gonna stink.

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You're gonna have to

sweat to make it happen.

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And then he says, you're gonna die.

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You came from dust, and

you're gonna return to dust.

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And this is, as we see it today.

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Your body eventually decomposes and goes

into the ground and that's kind of it.

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So much things here in chapter three.

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This is one of the most

important chapters in the Bible.

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It is so critical.

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So if you didn't read it slowly,

maybe go back and read it one more

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time and make sure you're just

kind of getting a feel for this.

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Because this is the rest

of why scripture exists.

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Jesus has to come

because of chapter three.

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Yep.

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Everything in, in.

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Chapter four, de Revelation 22

is because of chapter three.

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So just halfway, I, in chapter four, we

see that God's plan is gonna continue.

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And that is because right away, Adam

and Eve, they have children after this.

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And so that, that seed of the woman that

was promised in Genesis three 15, we

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see that it's gonna move towards that.

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And this is the very beginning of this.

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And there's two men that are

born, one being Cain, the other

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being able, you probably again,

are familiar with this story.

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Abel brings an offering that

is pleasing to the Lord, not

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just because it's the animals.

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It's not that Kane's offering was not

acceptable because it lacked protein,

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but rather it was the best of the flock.

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It was the choice.

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And it seems that Kain brought the second,

so he didn't bring the cream of the crop.

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He didn't bring the first fruits to the

Lord, the best of what he had to offer.

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And so, abel is gonna be commended and

Cain is going to be challenged on this.

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And God even is gonna tell him, look you

need to do well because if you don't sin

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his crouching at the doors, desire is

contrary to you, but you must overcome it.

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You must rule over it.

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Cain chooses the wrong path and he goes

after his brother and ends up committing

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the first murder, and God comes after

Cain at that point and tells him what

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his punishment is gonna be, which

causes Cain to say, I can't do this.

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This is too much for me.

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God tells Cain I'm gonna protect you.

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No one is going to harm you.

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You mentioned how much time

is between Genesis chapter

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two and Genesis chapter three.

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Perhaps this gives us an indication

that Cain and Abel were not ab

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Eve's first children because later

on Cain is here afraid that other

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people living on the Earth at this

time are going to do him harm.

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And it's possible that they had

many other children and many other

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generations to this point because the,

we're gonna see in a little bit here,

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they're living a long, long, long time.

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This is not a 70 year life.

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This is hundreds upon hundreds of years.

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So there's plenty of time for

the earth who had been populated.

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I know that creates a lot of

questions about relationships

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between family members.

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It seems during this time period

that was something that God was.

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Was using and allowing.

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And you also have to remember that

humanity was so nascent in its form that

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there weren't a lot of degradations of

genetics at this point that could have

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led to problems that exist today when

two people of the same family members

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get together in ways that they shouldn't.

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I don't think we need to throw

a flag on that and say, oh,

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this is a different time.

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And I think the earth is being populated

and that's really what Genesis four

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is there to show us, number one,

God's value for life is still there.

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And number two, the earth is

being populated in chapter four.

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Such helpful points to be aware of

because all of this is baked in.

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You read and you don't really.

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Think at least in the moment, oh, there's

different implications about this.

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Who's gonna kill Kane?

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Who's gonna give him issue?

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And of course you have to say, okay, well

I guess this is this is not all the time

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that they spend on earth, and there's

lots of kids that could be involved here.

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One thing I wanna point out

here, Hebrews chapter 11.

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Verse four talks about the offering

that Abel made, and it says that

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he offered those things by faith.

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And so even though it's true, he did

offer the best clearly I think in part

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what caused God not to receive Kane's

offering is because it wasn't by faith.

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That's good.

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God, from, good point, from

the very earliest point was.

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Honoring our faith over and above

the actual sacrifice itself.

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So jot that down in your Bible.

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Hebrews 11, four.

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That's a big part.

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And also notice that where his

parents confessed Cain deflects,

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they honor the, honor it in the sense

that they acknowledged their sin.

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They agreed with God

that they were in sin.

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And yet Cain is like, well, are

you talking about who's, who's?

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My?

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Yeah, my brother, my

brother, the keeper, my guy.

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I don't know.

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So notice these things.

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However long this is,

things are not going well.

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Sin infects and affects.

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And one other thing about sin,

by the way you'll notice that

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when the Lord says to ca.

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He says if you do well,

will you not be accepted?

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Suggesting to me that there

is a relationship between your

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feelings and what your behavior is.

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When you do good, good things tend

to happen, including good feelings.

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And when you do wrong, bad things tend

to happen, including bad feelings.

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So this is maybe two elementary

for some of you, you.

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Thinking like, well, duh, but

I just wanna show you, God

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makes this a connection for us.

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He shows us when we do good, good things

happen, including having happy feelings.

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Right feelings.

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Is this undeniable truth

that always happens?

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No.

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Obviously there's always gonna be

complications, but generally speaking,

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this is how God designed us to work.

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Yep.

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Chapter five is a pivot chapter for us.

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It sets up where we're going from here

and it's a genealogy, and so you're gonna

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read a lot of names here and a lot of

long years, like I said, all the days

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after Father to Seth were 800 years.

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Adam lived notice in verse 5,

930 years, and then he died.

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So you think of.

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About that.

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There's plenty of time for the

Earth to be populated through the

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offspring of Adam and Eve here.

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But one thing that is repeated

here, is not just the fathering

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component, but the death component.

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And I think that's setting up the reminder

to us of the fact that creation is broken.

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And so he died.

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He died.

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He died.

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He died.

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He died.

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You're gonna notice that over and

over and over again in chapter five.

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As well as some names here that

are important to pay attention to.

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Seth is gonna be the son of the promise.

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So that promise that God gave to

Eve, that one of your offspring is

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gonna crush the head of the serpent.

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That's gonna come through Seth.

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And the rest of this is gonna take

us all the way up to Noah, which is

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where we get in tomorrow's reading

in chapter six and following.

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Okay?

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Yes.

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But talk about Enoch.

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Enoch.

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What gives, I also hear he

wrote a book in the Bible.

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Nope.

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Okay.

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Talk about Enoch.

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Yeah.

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So Enoch here is a Committable

figure and we read about him in

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Hebrews as well, Hebrew chapter 11.

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But it says he, he walked with

God and then he says he walked

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with God and he was not for God.

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It took him mysterious.

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It seems that the curse of.

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Sin, which is death, that Enoch was

such a righteous man that God graciously

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took Enoch and prevented him from

having to go through physical death.

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That's nice.

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Even though for those that are

in Christ, physical death is

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a transition to eternal life.

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It's still not anything that we love.

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We don't welcome it.

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It sometimes our sending pastor would

say at a funeral, people will say all

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the time, death is a part of life.

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And he would say, no, it's not.

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It's the enemy of life.

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Yeah.

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It's the end of it.

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And so he antithesis of life.

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Yeah.

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So Enoch, graciously by God takes

him is taken so that he doesn't

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have to go through that period.

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There's a book, intertestamental book

apocryphal book that's named after

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Enoch, but it was not written by Enoch.

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Okay.

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What kind of body does

Enoch presently have?

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He was taken to heaven, I'm

guessing with his body 'cause

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they didn't find his body right.

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Is does he have a glorified

body is what I'm asking?

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I don't know.

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I don't know because yeah, I don't know.

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'cause he did, yeah.

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He wasn't separated from his body,

so that's a good He wasn't, he

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asked, I he would have to be right.

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Maybe every time a bell

rings, an angel gets his wings.

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Maybe Enoch got his wings.

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I love that movie by the way.

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Yes.

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It's great.

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It's a great movie.

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That's not true, by the way.

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Angels.

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Angels do not become.

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This.

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Yeah.

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People don't become angels.

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That's what I was trying to get into.

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Thank you very much for saying that.

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'cause that a lot of people

have that misconception.

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In fact, I encountered

that not too long ago.

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Yeah.

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And I thought, wow,

that's a persistent myth.

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Yes.

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That's not what happens.

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No they do not become angels.

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That's okay.

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So we don't know what happened to Enoch

but we do know what happens in Noah.

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And we will cover that tomorrow.

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But until then, let's

jump over to Matthew.

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Matthew New Testament.

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Alright, so you've got the birth of Jesus.

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We're getting into Matthew chapter two.

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We're gonna jump forward now.

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And you've got the visit of the wise men.

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And so the wise men are showing up.

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We talked about this in one of our

Christmas series messages here.

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They're possibly from the area of Babylon.

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All we know is that they're from

the east and we don't know how many,

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there were, there's three gifts.

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And so tradition is landed on that.

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There were three of them, but.

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We don't know.

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We know that there was more than one.

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They show up in search of baby Jesus.

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They go to the king to Herod at the time.

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Now King being a loosely applied term

here, he was a vice regent ruling

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on behalf of the Roman Empire here.

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And so he was in charge of the area.

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They go to him, he's troubled,

but so is all Jerusalem with

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him, which always puzzles me.

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'cause I'm wondering to myself

if the wise men are here in

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search of the promised Messiah.

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I would think they would be excited,

but there's confusion, there's

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puzzling there's troubling here.

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They even tell the

Wiseman where to find him.

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He's gonna be born in Bethlehem,

and that's where the Wiseman go.

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And they do indeed find him there.

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And so they go, they find the baby.

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Or, well, at this point in time,

he's probably a young child and

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they come in and they fall down on

their face and they worship him.

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And I'm just always in awe of

the insight that these wise

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men had over who this one was.

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The fact that they came,

it says to worship him.

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The word worship there in the Greek is.

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Pros, which means to prostrate

to fall down in front of.

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And that's what they're there to do

and that's what they end up doing.

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And they present 'em with these gifts

which are gonna be important because at

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least church history teaches that that's

what Joseph and Mary, these poor Jewish.

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This poor Jewish couple used to be

able to afford their flight to Egypt to

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protect the baby or to protect Jesus.

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That is after Herod said, all

right, I'm gonna take out all

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of the children in this region.

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You mentioned that he is likely

a young child at this point.

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How do you know that?

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Where does it tell us that in the text?

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How would we do.

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Come to that same conclusion.

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Part of it is the amount of time it

would've taken for them to journey

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from the East to get to Jerusalem

at this point, because they're not

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taking a plane, they're not taking the

Super highways, so it would've taken

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quite a while for them to get there.

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There was in a Dallas

North Tollway, right.

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Okay.

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Right.

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And.

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And then the word that's used there

when it says that they saw the

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star come to rest over the place

where the child was in verse nine.

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So it's a word that implies not

necessarily an infant any longer, but a

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child, it could be a toddler or older.

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And also Herod's response is

that he, after ascertaining

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what time the star arose.

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Order that all children two years

and younger should be executed.

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So from things like that, we can

glean the fact that Jesus is no

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longer baby Jesus at this point.

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That's very helpful.

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Okay.

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Verse 23.

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Of chapter two, when he went and lived in

a city called Nazareth, so that what was

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spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled.

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What prophet are we talking about?

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That he would be called a Nazarene?

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Nothing.

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I could find in my Bible that

he would be called a Nazarene.

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Do you have any insight about

that particular verse and what

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Matthew might be referring to?

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Yeah, that's unique because there isn't

a verse that we can point back to you.

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Now, the word nazer in

Hebrew means branch.

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And so it's possible that there's an

illusion back to the passages that he

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would be the root of Jesse, a branch from

the House of Jesse, and that this is.

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The branch town.

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So you've got the branch man from the

branch town and that this is a loose

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illusion back to that connection.

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Very helpful.

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Oh, I did have I, okay.

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I remember part of the question.

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Okay.

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The star.

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Yes.

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What's going on with that

star, star of wonder?

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Is this a natural, huh?

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Star of wonder?

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Star of wonder.

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Star of knight.

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Star of royal beauty.

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Bright.

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Yeah.

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That one.

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What is the nature of the star?

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Is this a miraculous event or are

these astronomers slash astrologers?

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Are they looking at the sky and

seeing some something new that's

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actually physically guiding them?

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It says that the star came to rest

over the place where the child was.

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So is this something in the sky or

is this something unique that God is

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sending to these guys to get them there?

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Mean, there's been a

lot of study of this.

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A lot of people have done a lot of

work to say, look, there was this

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coalescence of this planet with this star.

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I've heard.

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And it's here.

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These three three planets have aligned

and it so it's especially bright, but it

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seems like it's resting over the child.

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It really does.

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And so I think there's a supernatural.

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Interference here with the cosmology,

with the order of the Stars coupled

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with the likelihood that these wise men

from the east would've been astrologers.

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They would've been those

that study the sky.

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And if Daniel is behind.

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Some of their knowledge and understanding

here, they would've had verses that talk

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about the dawning of the morning star.

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And so looking for something like that,

a star that wasn't there, A star that

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stood out, A star that was unique,

this is something that would've flagged

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them to say, wait a minute, this must

be the fulfillment of that prophecy.

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Let's go check out what this is about.

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Okay.

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That explains everything.

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Good.

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I'm glad.

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Alright, well, hey, let's wrap this

one up with prayer again, and then

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we will be back again tomorrow.

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God, we thank you for the promised.

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Messiah even as we just read about

the fall earlier in our reading today,

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and now we get to see the birth of

the one that is gonna be the seed

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that's gonna crush the serpent's head.

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What a great thing that is even in our

Bible reading, the way this plan works

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out to be able to see the curse and also

see that the answer to the curse in Jesus.

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And so we are so grateful for Christ.

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We pray that we would live

faithful to him in the rest of

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our days in front of us today.

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We thank you so much

for this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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You guys keep reading those Bibles.

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Stay with us.

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You're on day two.

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Day three tomorrow, and we will

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episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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