00:00 Introduction and Weekend Recap

00:56 Understanding Biblical Counseling

02:27 Genesis 27: Family Drama and Deception

10:18 Jacob's Journey and God's Sovereignty

17:35 Faith and Healing in Matthew 9

23:32 Compassion and the Harvest

24:51 Closing and Prayer

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It is January 11th, and we're

back with another episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We're so glad you're with us.

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I'm Pastor Mark and I'm

joined by my faithful friend.

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I'm Lewis and I'm excited to

be here with you once again.

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It's a good thing to be reading our Bibles

and I trust that you are well at Compass.

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We are wrapping up a weekend of a.

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Intensive.

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Very intense weekend.

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Yeah, very.

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What makes this weekend so intense?

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Pastor Mark?

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Yeah.

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Very intense weekend.

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Well, it was our Biblically.

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Biblically.

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Yeah, I guess it was biblically, but it

was our biblical counseling intensive.

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We brought in Pastor Lucas, who is one

of the pastors from our sending church.

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I am, I know you've heard about

him from the announcements and

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here on the podcast in the past,

but it was great to have him here.

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And we as a church got to get better

at what is called biblical counseling.

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What is biblical counseling?

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What is biblical counseling?

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Is it just like every

other kind of counseling?

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Well, it's biblical.

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That's what makes it different.

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It's biblical.

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But what we mean by that, when we

say biblical counseling, we don't

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mean that this is the only type of

counseling in the Bible necessarily.

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It means that it's the type of

counseling that uses God's word as

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its foundation, as its starting point.

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It's the type of counseling that directs

people to solve problems God's way.

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Yeah, and there's many, many

things out there in the world.

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There's many people who go to

their therapists, who go to their

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counselors, who go to all these

things, and it's not based on the

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word of God and biblical counseling.

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There's much more to it.

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But at a very high level, it is

designed around the word of God and the

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truth that's presented in scripture.

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So we were really blessed

this weekend to have that.

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I know Pastor Lucas is coming

back out again for another

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weekend, another intense weekend.

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But what a blessing it is.

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As a church to together better understand

what good biblical counseling looks like.

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If you miss that, the sessions

will be recorded and it, I

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believe they'll be recorded.

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And if not, then we'll just

have to come back and edit

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this section outta the episode.

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But I'm confident they'll be recording

and they'll be available for you to watch.

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If you were not able to

join us this weekend and you

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want to find out more about.

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Biblical counseling or perhaps even

join us for the next set of sessions

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that we'll be having later this year.

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Alright, we're gonna jump into

our Bible reading for today.

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And speaking of counseling, this is

a family that needs counseling that

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we're about to see in Genesis 27.

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Oh oh oh.

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That is a good transition

that I did not have.

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I did not have.

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Yeah, and they, they

don't, that's why I'm here.

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They don't have.

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The counseling, at least in the

account that we're gonna read,

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that they probably should have.

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In fact, there's plenty

of bad counsel Yes.

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In these chapters.

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Well, what's happening here?

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Well, Isaac is getting old.

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Isaac is getting old.

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We're actually moving pretty

quickly through the patriarchs

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and in a lot of ways we're pretty.

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Rapidly progressing through their lives.

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Isaac is getting old and he

is going to bless his son.

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Who is he supposed to bless?

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Well, according to what he was told about

his kids when they were born, he was told

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that the older would serve the younger.

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So he was told that his younger son was

going to be the one through whom God.

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Kept his promise line going.

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Right.

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And a big theme in Genesis is which

person is continuing God's promise line.

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We started it off with Adam and Eve.

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They had a son.

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We thought it was gonna be Abel

who was continuing the promise

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line, and then Kane killed them.

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So then it ends up being Seth, and

then out of Seth's kids, we see That's

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why there's so many genealogies.

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It goes down to Noah.

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And then out of Noah's

kids, which one is it?

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Well, it ends up being

one of those three, right?

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Not all three.

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One of the three.

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And then we keep that going.

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Abraham, then not Ishmael, but

Isaac, and then here we are.

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Which one?

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Esau or Jacob?

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It ends up being Jacob, but

instead Isaac has other plans.

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Right?

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Right.

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Isaac is intending to bless Esau.

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He is effectively trying

to subvert God's plan.

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Mm-hmm.

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But then there's also another

subversion that happens in here and.

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In some sense it is God.

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Well, I say in some sense it's very much

is God's sovereignty over this situation.

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Working through Rebecca and her

subversion of her husband is Rebecca.

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Acting righteousness.

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Righteously.

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Fuck man.

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Righteousness.

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I'm having a hard time talking today.

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Is Rebecca acting righteously?

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No.

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Right?

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No.

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Rebecca is actually, she's having

favoritism, which we know is a bad thing.

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We see that in the book of James, right

about partiality deception, right?

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She's lying.

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And even trying to take into her own

hands what she should be trusting

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God to carry out even in the face of.

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Even in the face of Isaac's intentions

to do the wrong thing, we've already

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seen God intervening and stopping.

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Stopping the wrong thing from

happening, and Rebecca, rather than

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taking it into her own hands and

sinning in the process, ought to be

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trusting God, even as this blessing

seems imminent, even as it seems like

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there's nothing else that can be done.

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She doesn't believe in God's sovereignty

in this situation as she ought to.

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And I think this is a great

lesson for all of us, right?

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There's so many times that we think.

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God has a plan for us and we

think, man, if God would be

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so glorified by this thing.

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And really it's just us trying

to baptize our plans, our timing,

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our goals, and doing it our way.

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And we justify it by attaching it

to something that God may have said.

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And so I think this is a

really great lesson for.

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For me and for all of us that

we don't wanna justify our own

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selfish desires by trying to attach

them onto God's plans for us.

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Yeah, there's a lot of characters in

this chapter who are way off track.

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There are a lot of characters who are

certainly not being faithful to God.

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Jacob though is interesting because he

certainly is part of this conspiracy,

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but he also recognizes in verse

12 that if his father feels him,

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he might be seen as mocking him.

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And he actually might bring a curse

upon himself and not a blessing.

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I'm not trying to defend Jacob here

by any means, but Jacob is the one

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voice of reason even as the then goes

on to participate in the shenanigans.

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But he does recognize the

severity of what's going on

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here, even when everybody else.

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Hmm.

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Probably doesn't as they ought to.

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Well, so ultimately you know, this, I

trust from reading your Bible, reading

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today, but the trade happens, right?

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Isaac, who is the one

of the promise, right?

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The seed of the woman is.

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Swapped into the clothing

of the seed of the flesh.

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Right.

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And that's what you see here.

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Jacob, right?

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Sorry.

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Yes.

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Did I misspeak?

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I'm sorry, Jacob.

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That's okay.

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Yes.

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To be clear, Jacob right?

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Mm-hmm.

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He is covered up in the hairy.

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The hairy skin of animals and

the deception takes place.

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Now, I wanna just think about something

really quickly here that I think is really

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important because we've talked about

this seed of the serpent, seed of the

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flesh, and we've seen all these nations.

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Coming from Abraham, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Starting with Ishmael, but we've seen all

of these different nations, and many of

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those nations are what make up parts of

Africa today and parts of the Middle East.

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Mm-hmm.

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Should we continue to look at those

people as seeds of the serpent?

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What do you think?

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Yeah, so Genesis, right?

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Setting up that good

guys, bad guys almost.

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Right, right.

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In the two lines.

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And I don't think so because I think

a big part of this is when we see

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later on in the Old Testament even

like we talked about a few episodes

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ago about the nations are invited

back into, god's people, right?

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Yes.

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And God, a big deal about the New

Testament is God showing that his

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people are not an ethnic group, but

the children of Abraham are those

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who are children of Abraham by faith.

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Right?

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Right.

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It's a big theme in

Romans and in Galatians.

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Yeah.

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And so it's right to see these themes.

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It's right to identify how Moses has

structured this to kinda communicate

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to us and help us see who are the

good guys and who are the bad guys,

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especially when the bad guys are

often looking like, good guys.

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And sometimes the other way around.

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But.

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We need to make sure that we

are not assuming that this is

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something or a principle that we

should continue to apply today.

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In fact, we're sending missionaries,

Lord willing from our church to Chad.

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And I mean, I obviously can't make direct

parallels between the people who live

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in Chad today and what we're reading

here in Genesis, but I think it's a

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fair assumption to say that the lineage

of some of these people comes from who

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we're reading about here, the bad guys

in this narrative, but also notice.

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Even in this narrative, there is

blessings that God gives to the bad guys.

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Not the blessings of Abraham in the

sense of the promises for the people

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of Israel, but God is kind to Issa.

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God is kind to Ishmael.

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Mm-hmm.

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God is kind to these people and

ultimately he's gonna be kind to

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them by what you bring up, which is

that he is going to send a Savior

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and he's gonna call the nations back.

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Right.

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They're the Gentiles.

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Mm-hmm.

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That he then calls back to faith.

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And so, yeah, it is a literary function

here, but it is not necessarily something

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that we should apply as a principle.

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And I think you can even see that

with the reality of the hairy

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skin being put on Isaac, right?

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God is kind to all these people.

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And even in the New Testament, there's

a big theme that the ethnic people of

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Abraham are not always God's people.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Jesus tells the Pharisees, you

are of your father, the devil.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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We're gonna see that even in Matthew nine.

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Right.

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And so he's saying that even though

you're biologically descended from

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Abraham, spiritually, you are.

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Seed of the serpent.

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Yep.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Well, chapter 28 is the

progression of this story.

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For obvious reasons.

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For obvious reasons, Esau is not

particularly happy with Jacob.

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Yeah, and I think that really

highlights the fallout of sin.

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Mm-hmm.

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I think that's a really good

takeaway from these two chapters,

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is just the consequences of sin

right at the end of chapter 27.

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Rebecca is saying, Hey, you need to flee.

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You need to run away.

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And she's actually never

gonna see her son again.

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She'll never see Jacob again

after this whole fiasco with

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trying to deceive her husband.

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Isaac is never gonna see

his son again after this.

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And think about the marital strife mm-hmm.

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That this would cause

between Isaac and Rebecca.

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That's right, and we mentioned this

the other day, but this is something

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I try to teach my kids, is that

sin seems like it will satisfy.

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Mm-hmm.

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Sin seems like it's the solution

in the moment, but the Bible makes

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it very clear that sin is never.

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An actual solution Sin, mm-hmm.

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Never actually satisfies.

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It is only an illusion.

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It is only a bandaid at the very best

for the very briefest amount of time.

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Sin will always produce

pain and suffering.

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Mm-hmm.

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And despair.

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Now, righteousness, on the other hand,

will do the very opposite, and that's

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something that kids need to learn.

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That's something we, you need to be

teaching in your homes, but that's also

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something that we need to be reminded of.

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Definitely as adults we're not that

far removed from those struggles.

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And as tempting as sin might

seem, and as we might be like,

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ah, God's got to, you know, he's

gotta do something different here.

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He needs my help.

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We need to remember that he's sovereign.

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We need to be trusting in

him, and we need to be fleeing

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sin in every way that we can.

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Yeah.

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So he is sent to Laben and who's Laben?

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Laben is.

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None we met before, right?

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Than his very own relative.

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Yeah.

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I think it's his uncle, right?

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Yes.

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Lavin is Jacob's uncle.

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And so Esau wants to kill

Jacob because he's stolen his

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birthright and his blessing, right?

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Jacob?

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Tricked Isaac into blessing.

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Himself instead of

blessing his older brother.

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Which is interesting that Isaac

was planning on passing on

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the blessing to the wrong son.

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Yeah, right.

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He was planning on disobeying God.

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And God uses Jacob and

Rebecca's deception.

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He uses their sin to

bring about his promise.

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So Rebecca comes up with another

scheme to send Jacob off to

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her brother away from his.

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Rather Esau who wants to kill him?

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And now I think this sets up a theme in

these next, this kind of this Jacob story

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arc that I had a professor who, he put it

this way, Jacob schemes, but God redeems.

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So Jacob is gonna be doing a bunch of

crazy things that he thinks are going

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to set him up for success and none of

them work, but instead God is going to.

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Redeem them.

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He's going to use Jacob's

terrible plans for good.

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And that's the start of this

right here in chapter 28.

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Yep.

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At the end of chapter 28 is

the account of Jacob's Dream.

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He has a dream that God

sends to him and there is.

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A ladder.

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In this dream, there's a ladder

with angels going up and down it.

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You might read that and

go, why is that here?

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What does that matter?

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And you, that'd be a totally fair question

because you could think, why doesn't God

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just jump to telling him the promises

and reminding him of these things?

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But I think that is there though

as Jacob makes it clear, Jacob.

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I guess didn't understand

that God is in this place.

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Mm-hmm.

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God is working in this place and that.

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Opening illustration of maybe,

perhaps even the spiritual

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realm of what's going on.

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Demonstrate to Jacob that

God is indeed in this place.

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And I think that location's

important because this is away

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from the promised land, right?

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He's gone away from.

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S what should be the

presence of God, right?

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And especially in this culture is you

have a lot of local deities, right?

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Like I remember later on in the Bible

there's a story in, I believe it's in

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Kings or Samuel, where the people who are

invading Israel think, oh, we should fight

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Israelites on a different area because

maybe their god's a God of the hills.

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And if we fight them on

the planes, we'll be okay.

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And so I think that's part of

it too, is God is showing them

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that I am, I'm everywhere.

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I'm not just.

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In the Promised Land, I'm still with you,

even though you've gone away and I, he

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says right in verse 15, I am with you.

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I'll keep you wherever you go,

and I will bring you back to land.

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I won't leave you until I've

done what I promised you.

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And that's such a great

passage right there.

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Right?

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Because we see that even though

Jacob is going away from the promised

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land, which is usually like we

talked about, usually a bad thing.

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Usually when someone's leaving the

promised land, it's not a good thing.

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Someone like lot is going, goes

away from the promised Land, he

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goes to Sodom and it ends poorly.

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Ishmael goes away from the

promised land, ends poorly.

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But God is saying, I'm still

going to be faithful to you even

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though, you're the here because

of your sin, you're deceiving.

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And something else that I think is

interesting is this is the first

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time Jacob has contact with the Lord.

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Yeah.

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He's his first interaction

with the Lord, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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And I would even suggest.

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That perhaps in, in terms of

Old Testament salvation, this

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is where you see that, right?

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You see this as the recognition

of Jacob, and he sees God, who he

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really ought to be understood as.

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And you know, in terms of Old

Testament salvation, which is.

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Of course in the context of Genesis I

think this is where he recognizes that

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God truly is God for the first time.

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I think he sees that in the previous

passage that there are there's problems

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when you disobey God, but I think here.

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He recognizes for the first time.

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Something though that is

interesting about Jacob's if you

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will, profession of faith, right?

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When he responds to God in verse 20 and

makes a vow and it's almost conditional.

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So what we're gonna see in these

chapters of the following chapters

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when Jacob is scheming that.

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He likes to make bargains.

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He likes to come out on top and he

tries to make, it seems like his

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vow is really a bargain with God.

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He says, so you don't think this is

a point where he's So, in my opinion,

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I don't think this is where Jacob is.

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Trusting the Lord.

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I think he is trying to use

the Lord for selfish gain.

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Where do you think he does?

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I think at the, when he comes back

to the promised land I think in

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chapter 34, 32, 32, I think that's

where, he fully trusts the Lord.

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I think right here he's saying,

God, if you're with me and

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if you do this for me, right?

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Look at verse 20.

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If God will be with me and will keep

me in this way that I go and will

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give me, if you do all these things

for me so that I come again, then

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the Lord shall be my God, right?

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The end of verse 21.

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So he's trying to make

a bargain with the Lord.

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And we see that the rest of his

time that he's always trying to.

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Do things on his own.

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Fair enough.

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We can finish our debate

about this so that our episode

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doesn't run to 60 minutes.

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We'll finish it later.

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Okay.

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Yeah, we'll just, we'll see.

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We will, over the course of the next

few episodes, we'll talk about this

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and we'll revisit what, how we think

Jacob's doing and how his relationship.

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The Lord is, but right now

we should probably turn our

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attention to Matthew chapter nine.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And Matthew chapter nine.

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Yes.

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Let's turn our attention to Matthew

chapter nine at we're halfway through

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this, so in verse 18, we're picking

up with the kind of dual account

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of the restoration of the daughter,

of the ruler and also the woman who

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had the discharge of blood for 12.

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Years.

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Yesterday, we saw that specifically

through one of the miracles, that

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God is demonstrating his power,

yes, to solve human sickness and

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the problems of sin in creation.

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But he's also is very clear that

Jesus is here to forgive sins.

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What does this passage

now have to do with sin?

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Well, I think we're

seeing here that faith is.

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The solution not faith

that comes from ourselves.

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Not faith that comes from this ruler

or from the woman, but faith is the

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means by which we see the salvation.

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And so the woman very clearly

is told by Jesus after her

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act of touching his garment.

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Jesus says in verse 22, take heart.

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Daughter.

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Daughter.

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What a precious word.

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Yeah.

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What a precious word.

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Right?

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Take heart, daughter.

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Mm-hmm.

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Your faith has made you well, so is that.

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Her faith in the sense of something

that she mustered up in and of herself,

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and that's what solved her problem.

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If we just faith our way , to healing,

is, is that, is that possible?

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Is that something that we should be doing?

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Yeah.

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Well, faith is only as

good as its object, right?

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Faith is only as good as what you pay.

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Put your faith.

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In.

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And so the most important

thing is who her faith is in.

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And something that we've

learned in the student ministry.

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We've been going through Romans.

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And Romans chapter three talks a lot about

how faith is the opposite of boasting.

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Mm-hmm.

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Faith is incompatible with taking credit.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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And here the ruler, he comes to Jesus and.

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And he's dependent on him.

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Mm-hmm.

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To save.

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Right.

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And the woman, yes, she touches the fringe

of the garment of his clothing, but.

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She thinks that that's all,

that's all she has to do.

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The most simple act and indeed that

faith is what Jesus attributes to what

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makes her well, and ultimately we see

the resurrection of the girl as well.

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Yeah, and I think that emphasis on faith

is so important because if you think

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about it, Jesus is in this crowd, right?

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He's walking through this

crowd and many people.

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Bump into Jesus.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, but she touches him.

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It's not the touching that

makes her Well, that's right.

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It's the faith that makes

her Well, that's right.

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And then we're gonna see some more

faith as in verse 27, we start to hear

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of the account of the two blind men.

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So they're blind.

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What's interesting about them being

blind, specifically in the context of

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faith and what we're talking about here.

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Yeah.

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Well faith often gets compared to

sight across scripture and Matthew

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started his gospel by saying

that Jesus is the son of David.

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Mm-hmm.

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The son of Abraham.

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And the very first people in Matthew's

story that recognize Jesus as the

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son of David are the blind man.

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Yeah.

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Isn't that funny?

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The people see Jesus.

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Matthew has to have a

sense of humor Absolutely.

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In this, like, this is, this

is a joke, not in the sense of.

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Like comedy.

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That's ironic, but this is ironic.

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Like this is intended to be seen

as something ah, get it seen.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's intended by Matthew to be ironic,

to be like, look at what's going on.

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All these other people misunderstand.

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Mm-hmm.

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They don't get it.

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They have sight, they have learning.

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They have, mm-hmm.

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The Jewish customs, they have

wealth, they have all these things.

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They don't get it.

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Guess who gets it?

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Two blind men.

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Right?

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They're the ones who

say, have mercy on us.

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Son of David.

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Right?

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And again, that's that

faith coming through, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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They recognize they're entirely

dependent on the mercy of Jesus,

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the son of David, for their healing.

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Then Jesus says, right, do you believe

that I'm able to do this right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Belief and faith are very

much equivalents, right?

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Yeah.

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Do you have that faith

that I'm able to do this?

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And of course they say, yes,

Lord, and they are healed, right?

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And then just make sure it's not missed.

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Jesus says, according to your faith, be

it done to you and their eyes were open.

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So again, another account of Jesus

working to solve a bodily problem to.

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Solve a problem that is the result of sin.

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In these men's flesh, but

also a demonstration of faith

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and ultimately of salvation.

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Now, after those two really

good responses to Jesus, right?

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Two responses of faith, or I guess

three, if you include the woman and the.

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Man, and in these blind men we

see a not so great, probably

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the worst response possible.

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Can you have a worse response than

what we see from the Pharisees here?

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I don't think so.

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No, I don't think so.

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I'm confident in fact, yes.

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That you cannot have a worse response.

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Right?

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This in verse 34 is the

response of the Pharisees.

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They say he casts out demons.

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By the Prince of demons that

is, that's fighting words.

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Mm-hmm.

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And in fact, that is the

antithesis of the truth.

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Yes.

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So not only are they confused

and maybe murky on things mm-hmm.

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Or partly confused or, we've seen

the crowd say, wow, this guy's got

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this guy, this man has authority.

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Wow.

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Why would God give this guy authority?

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That's a different kind of confusion

than this sort of statement, right?

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Right.

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To say what God is doing is

actually attributable to Satan.

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That is, you can't get worse than that.

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Yes.

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You can't get worse than that.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yep.

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Yeah, so we've seen a lot of Jesus his,

he's doing miracles and people responding.

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So hopefully throughout, as you read the

gospels this year, you're really paying

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attention to how are people reacting

to Jesus, and what is that supposed to

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tell me about who Jesus really is and

how God wants me to respond to him.

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Yeah, and one of the ways that you ought

to respond is by listening to this.

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Very last couple verses of chapter nine

and where Jesus says the harvest is plen,

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plentiful, but the laborers are few.

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Therefore, pray earnestly to

the Lord of the harvest to send

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out laborers into the harvest.

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Into his harvest.

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Yeah.

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So instead of saying, this is the

work of Satan, you should be, as a

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Christian, you should be praying.

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Earnestly to the Lord of the harvest

to send out laborers into the harvest.

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Into his harvest.

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Yeah.

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And the motive for all of

that is compassion, right?

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That's what Jesus, she sees the

crowds and he has compassion.

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Right?

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And that should be our first

response to lost people.

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It's not anger, not

frustration, but compassion.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Well, hopefully you have

compassion on us for continuing

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to put out 30 minute episodes.

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We are so great right now.

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Uh, no.

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We're really grateful that you guys

are listening to Lewis and I we are

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grateful to give Pastor PJ and Pastor

Rod a break as they take vacation

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and as Pastor Rod does his PhD work.

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And we are going to pray as

we wrap up today's episode.

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Lord, please help us to have faith.

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Please help us to have faith.

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That is righteous.

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That is good.

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That is from your spirit.

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Now, we don't want to be foolish

like the patriarchs of Israel.

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We recognize that we are sometimes

we recognize we are, but we also are

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thankful that we can have faith like

Abraham and that we can look back at

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the cross as the solution for our sin.

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Please help us to be motivated by that.

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Help us to be eager, therefore to go

out and share that with other people.

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Help us to, as Lewis said,

have that compassion for others

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who are lost, who are foolish.

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In that sense just as we once were, now,

we're thankful for your word and we pray

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for another day of faithful living as part

of your family and as part of your church.

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In Jesus name I pray, amen.

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Amen.

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Alright, have a great one.

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Bye.

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