00:00 Introduction and Greetings

01:06 Working in a Church Office

01:47 Pastor Rod's Return

02:41 Daily Bible Reading: Genesis 46-48

02:51 Jacob's Journey to Egypt

05:55 The Significance of Shepherds

07:16 Jacob Blesses Pharaoh and His Sons

11:48 New Testament Reading: Matthew 14

11:57 Jesus Walks on Water

14:54 Conclusion and Prayer

15:22 Closing Remarks

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome to Tuesday's edition

of The Daily Bible Podcast.

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Tuesday's a great day.

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Is it a great day?

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It it, it is.

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I love Tuesdays.

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I like Tuesdays.

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Tuesdays are good.

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Yeah.

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You seem hesitant.

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No, Tuesdays are good.

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We're back in office.

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Well, you have a different schedule, but.

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Yeah, Tuesday's a good day.

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Yeah.

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I can get with Tuesdays.

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I think why I love Tuesdays is Monday

is over, and it's funny to me 'cause I'm

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like, the weekend's only two days, but

you know, you gotta get the momentum back.

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And Tuesday is when I feel

like I've got my momentum back.

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You know, Monday there's lots

of little things that have to be

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addressed Tuesdays when I feel

like it can get down to, real work.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So you, regular listeners have

heard us say this before, but pastor

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Rod and I both take Mondays off.

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Pastor Mark takes Saturday

instead off, and it just different

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schedules and everything like that.

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So Monday is my day off and so

Tuesday is kind of my Monday.

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And so sometimes Tuesday's great.

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Other times Tuesday's like, oh man,

I gotta go back to school today.

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As much as I love my job.

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Yeah, I love my family too, and when

I have to leave and come into work

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sometimes it's like, oh, okay, here we go.

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Let's go.

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Yeah.

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One of the interesting things to me,

and I was told this by many, many

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wise people, so thankfully it wasn't a

surprise, but you would love to think

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that working in a church office is just

somehow magically this perfect bliss.

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But unfortunately, it's still work.

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There's still thorns, there's still weeds.

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And it is great.

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It is great.

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Don't hear me saying that it's not great,

but I still have to deal with my flesh.

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It didn't stay at my corporate job.

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Well, we didn't hire you well enough then.

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Yeah, no, no, you're right.

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Yeah, you're right.

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It is.

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And there's gonna come a day

when it's no longer the burden.

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That's right.

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But that's not here now.

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That's right.

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But it's a good burden here now.

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It's a good burden.

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And we get to serve an awesome church

family that we're thankful for.

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We do, we do.

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So Pastor Rod's back.

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He was on vacation, so he's back.

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So he'll be back on the

podcast, I think tomorrow.

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Yes, you'll hear him again as long as he

agrees to jump back on sometimes after a

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break and he hears the podcast from other

people, he is like, Hey, you guys got it.

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I don't need to jump on here anymore.

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And so we'll see.

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We'll do our best to

get him back on there.

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I trust that he'll be back.

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But I've been on the podcast now for.

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What, a couple weeks you have, man.

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You let me a great, lemme this

opportunity since I'm just gonna

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wedge it in here to thank you all.

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This is a great church.

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You're welcome.

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This is a great church.

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I'm really thankful for you guys.

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It is a blessing to, to do this

podcast, but it's a blessing to.

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To serve you and to see

you throughout the week.

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And I'm sure I'll be back on this

podcast, but he's not going anywhere.

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We're not firing you.

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I'm thankful for Pastor Rod

who is does this year round.

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Yes, he does.

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It's a lot of work.

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It's a lot of work and it's a good thing.

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But I'll take this opportunity to

thank you listeners and my dear church.

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You're welcome.

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On behalf of the listeners

in the Dear church.

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Well, hey, let's jump into

our daily Bible reading today.

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We're in Genesis 46 through 48.

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As the Joseph story continues and now

everybody knows and so now it's all out

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there and now we get to see what happens.

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And it's fascinating at the beginning of

chapter 46, 'cause Jacob agrees to go.

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And he gets on his way and he

gets all the way down to Beersheba

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and he stops at Beersheba and

you're going, what is going on?

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Well, if you read through the rest of the

scriptures, you're gonna find references

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to sayings like from Dan to Beersheba.

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And what that's a reference to is

the entirety of Israel, because

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Dan was the northernmost city in

Israel, Beersheba the Southern.

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City in Israel.

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So why this is significant is Joseph

is stopping right on the edge of the

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Promised Land, or Jacob rather is stopping

right on the edge of the promised land.

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He's ready to cross over and leave

the Promised Land, which we've talked

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about this before, is a big deal.

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Yeah.

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Because God was calling people

into the Promised Land and he,

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the Abrahamic Covenant was about

entering the Promised Land.

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And so Jacob's leaving the Promised

Land going with his family to settle

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in Egypt and he understands that he's

gonna die in Egypt at this point.

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And so he's not.

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Totally okay with this at this point,

even though it means seeing Joseph.

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So he stops here to worship God,

and God comforts him and shows up

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to him and says in verse three, I'm

the God, the God of your father.

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Don't be afraid to go

down to Egypt for there.

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I will make you into a great nation.

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So he's afraid of forfeiting, or

giving up at least temporarily.

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One part of the Abrahamic

covenant, and that is the land.

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But God's saying, I'm gonna fulfill

another part of the Abrahamic

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covenant and that is the seed.

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna multiply

your people down in Egypt.

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But that's what's going

on in the beginning of 46.

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Jacob's stopping at that last stop on

the road before he leaves Israel there.

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And he worships God there.

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And God shows up to comfort

him at that point before he

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finishes going down into Egypt.

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Yeah, throughout, and we've said this

before, throughout the Old Testament,

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Egypt is a place of false salvation.

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Why is that?

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Because it's not God's land.

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It's not where God.

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Dwelling.

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And Jacob, to your point, is right

to be concerned about that, right?

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Yeah.

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He's rightly worried because it

hasn't gone well already and it's

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gonna continue to not go well.

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But what's different here right,

is God in verse four says, I myself

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will go down with you to Egypt.

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And that's gotta be a

huge comfort to Jacob.

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That's gotta be a huge comfort to him

because he's rightly worried about this.

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Yep.

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He lists there does our author, Moses,

the the sons of Israel, the sons of

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Jacob that went down into Egypt with him.

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And so this is gonna be

a lot of the offspring.

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Some of these names we've read

about before, like in verse 12,

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you'll get the Sons of Judah.

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Remember Er and Onan, we talked about

them with the Tamar incident there.

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Shayla Perez.

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Perez is the line of Christ line.

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There.

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You've got Hezron again, line of Christ.

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And then you've got more

of the sons that are there.

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So list all the people.

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At the very end it says all

the people that went down in.

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Egypt where 70 people in all.

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Now that's gonna be significant 'cause

there's gonna be way more than 70

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that leave Egypt as we're gonna see

here in the next handful of days.

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But 70 people go with him,

including Joseph and Joseph's sons

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down into Egypt to settle there.

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What will be for the next

430 years at this point.

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Yeah, and there's a really interesting

thing here that shows up when they talk

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about exactly where they're gonna settle.

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In the land, right?

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They're gonna be in the

land of Goshen in Egypt.

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And at the very last verse of our

chapter, it says, for every shepherd

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is an abomination to the Egyptians.

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Shepherds are recurring theme.

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Again, we've talked

about recurring themes.

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Shepherds are recurring theme,

and it's amazing how the.

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People of Israel are an abomination,

but God loves those lowly shepherds.

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He loves them so much so that he

will call himself a shepherd, right?

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The shepherds we don't quite

have a parallel for in our modern

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day, but they truly are, they

truly are the lowest of the low.

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They're smelly they're

stinky, they're illiterate.

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But God loves the humble and we see

that here in one of the first places

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where we start to see this theme

of shepherds show up in our Bibles.

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Yeah.

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End of chapter 46, you've got the

emotional scene of Jacob and Joseph

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being reunited, where Jacob throws

his arms around his son and weeps,

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and Joseph likewise weeps with Jacob.

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And it is this.

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This sweet scene of a father and son

being reconnected and there's a lot

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there that's not written for us about,

Hey dad, lemme tell you what's happened.

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And oh, by the way, did my brother

share with you what they did to me yet?

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Because we should

probably catch up on that.

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They might need to be grounded

and maybe take away their phones

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for a little while, but there's

so much there that we don't see.

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And maybe Joseph just covered that over

because of his trust in God's sovereignty.

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He was like, dad, don't worry about it.

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You're here.

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I'm here.

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This is all.

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And Jacob basically says I can die now.

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Now he's not gonna die right away.

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In fact in chapter 47 one interesting

scene is when Jacob appears before

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Pharaoh, and this is such a fascinating

thing, you've got the one who is going to

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represent the, be the representative head

of Israel, the nation standing before the

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representative head of Egypt, Pharaoh.

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And there's just this

interchange before them.

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As you can see, I think

Pharaoh respects Jacob.

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He's saying, how old are you?

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I want to know the number of your years.

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And Jacob tells him, and there's

this just interesting dynamic

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there before they agree to.

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Settle and then the rest of chapter 47.

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Don't just skip over it as though

this is just the rest of the

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administrative details of how Joseph

helped with the rest of the famine.

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I mentioned it before.

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This is massively significant

because Joseph is consolidating

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basically all of the power, all of

the land, all of the possessions and

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all of the ownership with Pharaoh.

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And so this is establishing the office

of Pharaoh, the role of Pharaoh, the

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king of Egypt, as one of the most

powerful roles in the entire world.

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And so later on we're gonna read,

spoiler alert, that after the

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death of Joseph, there are Rosa of

Pharaoh who did not know Joseph.

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And that's not gonna go

well for God's people.

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And God's people aren't gonna have a

leg to stand on, in part because of

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what happens in the rest of chapter

47 when Jacob sell, or Joseph rather.

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Buys all of the land and all of the

people as they come to find food

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because the famine was so severe.

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Yeah.

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Truly, truly amazing.

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Again, can I just go back a little bit?

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I want to just see something

here that I think is really cool,

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which is Jacob, when he's standing

before Pharaoh, you think right.

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Pharaoh is this guy who is this super

powerful, super powerful super true

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super power in the world at this

time, and you would think that because

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of that position, it's Pharaoh who

blesses Jacob, but in 47, 10 it's

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actually Jacob who blesses Pharaoh.

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Mm-hmm.

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And that again, we've, again talking

about themes, reoccurring things God has

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promised to Abraham that the nations would

literally be blessed through his people.

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And here we see it, right?

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The nation, even the foreign

the foreign nation that does

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not know God is blessed by.

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God's people.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 48.

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There's kind of a zoom in again with

Jacob and Joseph as they're really

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trying to get to know each other again.

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And so Joseph introduces his two

sons, Ephrem and Manas and Jacob says,

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okay, well they're gonna be mine.

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They're mine, you can have the rest.

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But he identifies them and says

They're gonna be mine as Ruben.

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Ruben and Simeon are mine.

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And then he's going to

give a blessing over.

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The head of both ere and Manas.

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Now Joseph is gonna do something

interesting here 'cause his dad

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puts his hand, a blessing on the

younger one instead of the older one.

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And Joseph thinks, oh,

my dad just can't see.

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So he tries to.

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Fix it.

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And Jacob says, no, I

know what I'm doing here.

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And he gives this prophecy where Eem

is going to be greater than Manasses.

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And I think in part, we see

some fulfillment of this because

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Eem does become, again, that

standin moniker for Israel.

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And in the Northern Kingdom,

EEM kind of becomes the more

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dominant between the two tribes.

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And I think that's in fulfillment

here of the pronouncement.

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Pronouncement of a blessing from

Jacob on the life of Freeman Manassas.

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So, I don't know that there's a

whole lot more significant there

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because these are not the lines of

Christ or anything else like that.

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But from here in chapter 49, he's gonna

go on and bless the rest of his sons.

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And so I think this is just kind

of transitional saying he's gonna

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bless Joseph's sons as his own.

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This is them formally being

welcomed into the tribe formula

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of Israel as half tribes there.

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Then in chapter 49, he's gonna

bless the rest of his sons as well.

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Why do you think Jacob switches

that blessing in other places?

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We get real clear reasons why, but

we don't exactly get that here.

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Do you have any thoughts on why?

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No.

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He just says, I know my son.

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I know he also shall become a

people and he also should be great.

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Nevertheless, his younger

brother shall be greater than he.

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I don't know, other than he seems to

be a prophetic utterance from Jacob.

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Yeah, I don't know either.

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My, my only.

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Thought is that perhaps Jacob

has witnessed and remembers

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from his parents telling him how

God has done this in the past.

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Like this is a common theme

that God has carried out.

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And maybe he's, and there's no indication

that this is instruction from God.

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But maybe he's just doing this because he

knows that this is how God often works.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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It just, that's an

interesting thought to me.

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Matthew, chapter 14, or do you have more?

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I was just gonna say, yeah, no, go for it.

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Hey, if you're a kid listening and

you we're gonna start reading about

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the tribes of Israel, don't miss this.

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'cause as a kid I always wondered,

where's the tribe of Joseph?

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Yep.

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Well this chapter that we just read here

answers that question, so, hey, if you're

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a kid, don't be confused about that.

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Jersey gets two tribes.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Neither of them end up very good though.

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So Yeah, that's, that is true.

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Yeah.

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That is a bummer.

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Yeah, it's alright.

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New Testament, Matthew 1422 through

the end of the chapter there, verse

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36, chapter 22, or chapter 14 verse 22.

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Opens with Jesus walking on water.

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And this is one of those parable or

parables, one of those miracles that.

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Is again, it's just like

the feeding of the 5,000.

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Just astounding.

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This is something that

we've never seen before.

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You've never seen anybody take two loaves

and feed 5,000 people, 15,000 people.

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You've also never seen, contrary to trying

to run as fast as you can off the edge of

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your pool when you were growing up, you've

never seen somebody walking on water.

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Neither had the disciples.

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And that's why when they

see him, they're afraid.

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They're going, what in

the world is happening?

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And so this is when he says, take heart.

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Do not be afraid.

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Peter says in Matthew's Gospel,

Hey, let me come to you, Lord.

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And you get that amazing scene

where Peter comes out of the boat.

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And yet, as soon as he takes his

eyes off Jesus, he begins to sink.

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Jesus saves him and confronts

him for lacking faith.

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How do we know He lacked faith?

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Because he took his eyes off Christ.

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He put his eyes on the circumstances.

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He put his eyes on the waves, on

the storm, on everything else.

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Us and took his eyes off Jesus.

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Well, when they get back in the

boat, they worship the Lord and they

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confess truly, you are the son of God.

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That's a messianic confession there.

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So this is this is amazing.

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The response of the disciples,

anytime Jesus calms the storm or

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walks on water is always the same.

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They say, who is this?

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They're in awe.

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They worship him.

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And I think we see that

again here in chapter 14.

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And that's because Jesus is the God man.

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He is fully human, truly human.

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But he is also God and he is demonstrating

here that he is in fact the creator.

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Right?

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Think about Hu Hebrews chapter one, right?

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He is in fact the creator who upholds

the world with the power of his word,

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and he's also the man who walks on the

water, but he is demonstrating that

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he has power over creation, and so

it's right to ask, who is this right?

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Of course we know the answer.

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Right?

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Right.

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No, for sure.

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The chapter ends with Jesus crossing

over and coming to land at Nesset.

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There.

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This is an area where he had

done other miracles and done

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other acts of power there.

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And this is a unique.

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Area, because this is

along the Sea of Galilee.

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This is in the region of the Sea of

Galilee, but this is gonna be, again,

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a gentile region, predominantly

there which is fascinating because in

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chapter 15, you're gonna find and we'll

see this next time we get together.

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But the Pharisees and the scribes are

gonna come to him there, they're gonna

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come to him into Gentile territory which

just shows the amount of heat that is

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being turned up on Jesus at this point.

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This is a geographic note here.

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He comes there, he's healing, he's

ministering even in a region that was

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largely a gentile territory at the time.

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And eventually the scribes and

the Pharisees are gonna come

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and try to meet him there.

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So if I go and find this garment that

Jesus was wearing, assuming it hadn't

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been eaten by moths, and I touched it.

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Would I be healed?

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No, you wouldn't.

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Why not?

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No, because the power, not the power.

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Unfortunately, pastor Mark was not in

the garment, but in the garment wearer.

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So yeah, man.

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Just fascinating.

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You think of the woman with the

hemorrhage who touched the Yes.

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The edge of his garment.

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She was made well it seems like

others were doing that too.

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Yes, yes.

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And there are some who have worshiped.

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The garment and not the

one who wore the garment.

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That's true.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Well, hey, let's let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word.

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Thanks for this time together.

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We just pray that we would give ourselves

over to its study and be wise bean

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and good students of it as we do so.

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And so we thank you for today and

just pray that we would steward

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the rest of our time well today.

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And Jesus name, amen.

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Hey keeper in your Bibles and Pastor Mark

on behalf of all of our church, thanks

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for pinching and over the last two weeks.

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It's been good.

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Good.

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I'm glad.

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Yeah you're welcome.

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And thank you.

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You're welcome.

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Alright guys.

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Thank you.

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We'll catch you tomorrow.

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Bye.

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