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January 20, 2025 - Genesis 25-26
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00:00 Introduction and Winter Revival Week

00:11 Weather Predictions and School Closures

00:49 Excitement for the Retreat

01:11 Registration Details and Humor

02:40 Transition to Bible Discussion

02:45 Abraham's Later Life and Descendants

05:35 Isaac's Family and God's Promises

09:37 Esau and Jacob's Birthright

10:27 Isaac's Life and Legacy

12:25 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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PJ:

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Monday.

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Happy Monday, happy winter revival week.

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Celebrating it the whole week.

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Yeah, it's the whole week long.

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Yeah.

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In fact, I don't know the weather

cause I'm not a prophet and we're

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recording this ahead of time.

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There is supposed to be a

little bit of snow tonight that

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potentially could hit the metroplex.

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I'm seeing reports of, of

a dusting up to an inch.

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It's not like we got last

week, not like 6, 7, 8 inches.

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Um, but it could be like an inch.

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In fact, my daughter was saying,

you know what, maybe they'll

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cancel school on Tuesday.

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And then maybe the snow will,

will melt and freeze and they'll

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cancel school on Wednesday.

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And she was like, and then I'll go

on revival and then I'll have the

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whole week off and it'll be great.

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So I told her not to get

her hopes on upon that.

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And to pray it up any.

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Let's see what happens.

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Let's see how good your prayers are.

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Maybe there's a dusting of

snow headed our way tonight.

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I know my kids are excited about revival.

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I know a lot of them are so.

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Not to be.

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I'm excited about it.

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It's going to be great, man.

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The house

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Rod: alone is going to be super cool.

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Retreat houses are fun.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: Yeah.

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And it's probably one of the

last times I'll be able to do

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something like this because , the

bigger we get got willing, right.

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The more space we're going

to need in a place like this,

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isn't going to be feasible.

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Right.

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But right now it's really cool.

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Really special.

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PJ: Yup.

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Yup.

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So.

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Uh, I.

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You may be listening to this

right now, going, you know what.

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I've been hesitant.

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I haven't made the decision

yet, but I think I really want

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my kids to go on this retreat.

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I imagine there's still a

possibility to make that happen.

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If you get in touch with us here

at the church office, we can.

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Find a way to get your, your kids

registered and get them out there.

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Or you could just go to the

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Rod: website and sign up.

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The form we'll close that the second

that we rented a space, we have,

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we do have a firm number because

obviously the house has limited beds.

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But.

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, we still have several spots open.

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So if you want to do this and you want to

send your kids, or maybe you want to come.

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I can't guarantee that we'll let you come.

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, as muCh as I might want to, I

just, I can't let you, but you

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could sign up a neighbor's kid.

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And maybe, maybe you want to do

that, but let them know first.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Hey, I send your kid up for this retreat.

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They're going

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Rod: or don't kidnap

them the night before.

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That would be horrible.

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And send them to the retreat the next day

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PJ: don't do

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Rod: that.

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PJ: Yeah.

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We want our church to continue and

we don't want any police presence,

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Rod: but they say no press is bad press.

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Is that the phrase?

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Yeah.

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I don't know that.

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That's true.

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Well, yeah, it would put

us in the news though.

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It would make it newsworthy.

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That is for sure.

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And then they would interview you

and say, you're the lead pastor?

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How did this happen under your watch?

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And then you'll be able to say,

well, let me just tell you about

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the gospel and people will be

still enthusiastic about that.

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They'll show up to our church in droves.

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It'll grow.

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PJ: Overnight.

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I like this idea, all of a sudden now.

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Okay.

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We need to find volunteers now.

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Just for the record, we are

completely joking upon this.

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If something happens,

this is a total joke.

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This is not conspiracy.

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This is not premeditated.

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Anything.

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This.

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Rod: Too late.

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It's

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PJ: in joke

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Rod: recordings.

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They're going to use it.

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They're not going to, they're not

going to give context that the

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news media is not about giving

context is going to do a nuance.

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They're just going to say

here's what they said.

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PJ: Yeah.

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You tell us what he's saying.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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Well, let's talk about what

God we're seeing in the Bible.

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Genesis 25 and 26 today.

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Uh, Genesis 25 Abraham, uh, here

towards the end of his life.

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You remember his wife?

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Uh, has now died, she's passed away.

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And so, uh, Abraham ends up

taking another wife for himself.

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This wife's name is Kitora.

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Um, There's a lot of.

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Polygamy.

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Now this isn't necessarily a polygamy

in the truest sense, because I guess.

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His first wife died.

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But there's a lot of multiple wives in

the Bible, and I think it's important

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for us to make the clear distinction

now and we'll have to revisit it again

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because it comes up time and time again.

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You never find God in the old Testament

condoning the amassing of multiple wives.

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You never have.

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God's saying, this is a good thing.

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You should do this.

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Marry multiple people.

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Um, it happens.

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And it's it's recorded because in, and

this is another evidence of the fact

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that the Bible is trustworthy because it

records the, the warts and the errors as

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much as records, all the victories and the

heroic moments of, uh, the key players.

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And, and so here again,

you have a situation where.

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Abraham takes this other wife,

whose name was Katurah, and we

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have to ask ourselves, okay, is

this, was this what God desired in?

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I don't, I don't think I can

get there because if you look at

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verse two, it says she bore him.

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Zimmerman, junction,

mitten, meeting, and Midian.

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So from this marriage of this, this other

woman comes to the Midianite people.

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This is the clean of the Midianites.

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They're not going to be a

friend to the Israelites at all.

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Again, this is another people

group that's going to be a thorn.

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To the people of Israel there.

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So here.

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Uh, towards the, uh, the

end of Abraham's life.

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I don't think this is a high point

in his life here by taking this

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wife and having another child by her

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Rod: in first Chronicles.

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One actually tells us

that she's a concubine.

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So I think there's a bit of

fuzziness between wife and concubine.

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Yeah.

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But later we find out that at least

the author of Chronicles thinks that

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she's a concubine, which we think we

can then say, okay, I guess that's

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what she was, which tells us that her.

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Her role in the family, I guess,

was that of the matriarch.

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She had the place of honor a

position, but she was still

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nevertheless, a concubine, which is.

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Technically less than a wife.

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Yeah.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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As the chapter progresses, then

Abraham does eventually die.

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Verse eight, breathed his last and died

in a good old age, 175 years old, full

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of years, and gathered to his people.

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His two sons bury him in that same

cave where he had buried Sarah.

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Um, and then after the death

of Abraham, it says in verse

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11, God blessed Isaac, his son.

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This is the author, this Moses helping us

understand that the Abrahamic blessing to

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Abraham and Kevin is progressing and it's

progressing through who, not Ishmael, but.

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Through Isaac.

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And so it's going to come through

Isaac that the blessings are

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going to continue, but then.

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What about Ishmael?

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Well, it does turn to Ishmael and it talks

about him and some of his descendants

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and some of his generations there.

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And then it does eventually

record that, that Ishmael himself.

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Dies in this chapter, but not before.

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Uh, giving birth or not him giving

birth, but not before father.

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That's the word fathering, the

head of, uh, their own 12 tribes in

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fulfillment of God's promise to Hagar.

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So here's the fulfillment of God's promise

to Hagar being recorded for us by Moses

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in verses one through 18 of Genesis 25.

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After this, then we get the

birth of Esau and Jacob.

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And so you've got shifting

back now to Isaac away from

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Ishmael the center promise.

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Now, Isaac is back on the scene in Isaac

prays for his wife because his wife

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is barren and God has promised that he

would be the father of multitudes, just

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like he had promised that to Abraham.

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And so here, he's dealing with

another situation of bareness.

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This comes up a lot.

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Uh, with the promise line.

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And it's interesting, we're going to

see this again with, uh, with Jacob's

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wives and, and, uh, it's, it's almost as

though God is saying, do you trust me?

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Do you trust me?

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Do you trust me?

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Are you going to trust me?

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And we've seen it before.

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We've seen it again here and Isaac

to his credit praise for God to bring

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children to his wife, Rebecca and God.

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He listens to him and gives

him twins, gives her twins.

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Um, and there's the prophecy here that

there's two nations, Jacob and Esau

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are going to be these two nations.

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The older is going to suffer the younger.

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That's going to come back into

play as we get to a, to more of

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what's going to happen there.

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Uh, but that's a prophecy that

is, is going to be significant

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as this continues to unfold.

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And I wonder.

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If this doesn't have something

to do with why Rebecca ends up

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loving Jacob, as much as she does.

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Uh, because clearly Esau and

in, in Isaac have a special

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relationship, a special bond.

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And we're going to see that

later on as everything develops.

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But Jacob and Rebecca have

their own close knit bond.

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And I wonder if it comes back to this

prophecy that Rebecca heard, Hey,

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there's two nations in your room.

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And the younger is going to be the

one that is going to rule the older

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is going to serve the younger.

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And I wonder though, I think

Rebecca goes outside the bounds

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of what God's design and plan was.

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I wonder if she was trying to secure that,

that was going to be the fulfillment,

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that that was going to be reality.

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And she's worried that it's not because,

well, if my husband blesses the older,

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how is this going to come into fruition?

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And so that's why she gives special favor.

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So to speak to Jacob as

he's growing up there.

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Rod: Yeah.

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That's a great theory.

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I think the thing that stands out

to me as we read through chapter

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25, again, are the time markers.

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We read it quickly, but

it's not happening quickly.

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In fact, the thing that we learn about

Isaac and Rebecca is that he's not

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getting married until he's 40 years old.

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That's old, that's huge, really old.

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I mean, that's ancient.

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You might as well retire.

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It's time to go home soon.

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Right.

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That's how old this guy is.

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I'm just joking, obviously.

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I have to go.

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There's people that have.

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taking time to get married

for a variety of reasons.

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And I think Isaac's a really good example.

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He waited patiently, I suppose.

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But then also notice that after he

marries Rebecca, well, we read it that

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he's praying for her because she's

barren, but he prays for 20 years.

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He's praying for 20 years.

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We again, glance over that,

but he's praying for 20 years

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for God to give his wife has.

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His woman.

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Kids, and God does that, but 20 years

later, so this is one of those things

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where you're having to trust God

over the long course of time, which

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for us feels like a very long time,

but for God is a blink of an eye

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because he exists outside of time.

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Really interesting to know here,

pay attention to those things.

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That's a big deal, and I think it will

help increase and encourage your faith.

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As you think about the fact that

God didn't work on microwave speed.

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He took his time and he takes

his time to do the things that

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he wants to do in the right time.

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And I think that's something I

take great comfort from, and that's

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PJ: a great point because it does totally

change the impact of this passage.

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If you just read it, like he

prayed and then here's the babies.

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Or if you read it and go, he's

praying for 20 years, right.

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And then there's the answer to prayer.

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Yeah.

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And, and we've got a lot to

pray for, for our church.

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I mean, we're praying that God

would continue to grow our church.

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We would love to be in a facility

at some point in time and, and hope

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it's not going to take 40 years.

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I hope it's not going to take 40 years.

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It's not going to take 20 years.

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Um, but you know, it's, it's

good for us to continue to

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pray and trust God with those.

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Those requests is good for us to continue

to bring those things before him.

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Uh, there's a lot, um, between

the relationship of Jacob and

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Esau that, uh, is worth note here.

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If you jump to Romans chapter

nine, verses 10 through 13, as Paul

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is talking about the doctrine of

election, he appeals back to this.

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And it says that before they were born,

when neither had done anything good or

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evil, God had chosen one over the other.

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Uh, Malakai one, two through three

is quoted there in Romans nine as

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well about these two boys and says

that God loved Jacob and Esau.

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He hated.

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Um, and, and it's, it's difficult, but

it's an evidence of God's sovereignty

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over the life of, uh, these two boys

and, and really over the unfolding of

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the, the, the life of not just Israel,

but remember, uh, Jacob is going to be

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the one that is going to perpetuate the

Abrahamic covenant, which is part of it.

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The gospel, according to Paul

in Galatians chapter three.

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Including that one of his

descendants would be the one

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that would bless all nations.

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So this matters to us too.

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As God is working all of these

things out in his purview, in

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his wisdom behind the scenes.

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Uh, Romans nine is going to reflect back

on this and provide commentary as is

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Malika chapter one, verses two and three.

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Versus 29 through 34 then, uh, as the

boys grow up, there's a scene here where,

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uh, You saw it comes in from hunting and

there's Jacob having cooked something

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up on the stove and Esau's hungry.

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And Jacob says, Hey,

sell me your birthright.

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And it says in the text that Esau

despised his birthright because

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he treats it so flippantly as

to sell it for a bowl of stew.

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Now, the birthright would have been.

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He's you saw it.

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It's basically surrendering his rights

to the inheritance as the first born.

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So Jacob is now going to

get the double portion.

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He's going to get the, the majority

of the, the inheritance there.

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And so Esau gives that up for a

bowl of stew and he does so, and

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it's just a reminder of, of the

danger of the decisions that we

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make in the passions of our flesh.

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The, the, the less of our flesh can

cause us to do things that we sacrifice

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way more than it's worth in the end.

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And we see that, I think with

the example of his hunger here,

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Rod: I think this tells me that

Jacob's cooking was really good.

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PJ: It could be that team.

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Maybe it's both.

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It could be both.

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Uh, chapter 26, then, uh,

we've got another famine.

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And yet this time God forbids Isaac from

going down to Egypt, as Abraham had done.

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And then God with, with Isaac, they

reiterate the Abrahamic covenant to Isaac.

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So specifically now, He's passing

on the promises of blessing and

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land and offspring to Isaac.

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And so, uh, again, Genesis 26

4, here he is reiterating this

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point, repeating this point.

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Uh, where he says in your offspring

shall all the nations of Europe people.

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So this is pointing again down the road

to Jesus as the ultimate descendant.

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That's going to bless not only all the

families, but now all the nations of

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the earth, the goyim, the Gentiles.

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Are going to be blessed through one

of the descendants there of Isaac.

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Verses six through 35, then 26 Isaac comes

to live in Philistine territory here.

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Uh, for some time and the Lord

blesses him and multiplies his flocks

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and possessions to the point that

the Philistines begin to fear him.

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And they're saying, Hey, this

guy is getting too strong

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and too wealthy among us.

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And so they send him

away from their presence.

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And yet again, the Lord promises

in confirms his promises to Isaac.

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And at the end of the chapter, we find.

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Uh, Esau they're in this kind of

flashback to meanwhile with ISA

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is just rebelling more and more

and more against his parents here.

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So, um, Things you mentioned

with, with Isaac things.

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Are, are, are there some

good things about Isaac?

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Some not great things about Isaac?

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Uh, the conflict that we see

amongst his boys here is fomenting.

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And, uh, in at least indicating that, that

there was a little bit of an application

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of, of godly leadership from Isaac,

with his, uh, with his two boys there.

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Any other thoughts PR

on, on 26, 25, there.

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Rod: No, except just to

give you a notation here,

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Isaac's a hundred years old.

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When these things are taking

place, he dies at 180.

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He thinks that.

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He's about to leave soon.

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He thinks he's about to die

soon, which is why we're about

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to enter into the blessing.

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He's preparing to, to let go, but he

has another 80 years on top of this.

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So just to give you a sense of the timing

for Isaac's life, a hundred years old as

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one chapter 27 takes place, give or take.

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That's, that's

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PJ: a helpful note because

yeah, I was thinking about that

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recently because we're going to.

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You know, a little while here,

we're going to see when he does

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die, then Jacob's like, oh no, Esau.

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He said I was going to come after me.

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Right.

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But that's still a ways away from where.

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I know that.

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Yeah, it doesn't know that yet.

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So.

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All right.

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Well, Hey, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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Got thanks for your word.

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And, uh, and for the promises that

you've made and for the way that you

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work things out, according to your plan.

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In ways that we had made are

above our pay grade ways that

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we don't always understand.

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And yet we trust you with that.

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And so we thank you for your sovereign

unfolding of the way that you were going

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to bring about your plan for salvation.

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Uh, through one of the descendants of

Isaac through one of the descendants,

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ultimately of Jacob and through one of

the descendants of Jacob's son, Judah, and

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the line and everything else that you are.

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A God of order and design and you've laid

it out so clearly for us in the scripture.

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We're grateful for that

and thankful for that.

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So we pray that we would be encouraged

by the, your care for us and your care

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for all of those who about the needed

Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior.

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We pray that you'd multiply more of them.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then, all right, keeping your

Bibles and tune in again tomorrow for

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another edition of the daily Bible.

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Another exciting addition,

another exciting edition

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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That would be awesome.

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If you need more information about

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