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00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:12 Church Vision and Mission

00:44 Importance of Community in Church

03:33 Commitment to the Church

04:37 Listener Question: Genesis 15

06:11 Discussion on Genesis 22

11:52 Abraham's Family and Legacy

14:33 Conclusion and Prayer

hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hello?

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Hello, end.

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Hello.

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Okay, just to lock.

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All right.

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Hey, it's Sunday.

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Uh, and we have a unique Sunday this week.

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In fact, last week, this week, next week,

we've been going through the type of

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church that we envision ourselves being.

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Our mission is reaching teaching training.

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We want to do that as a fulfillment

of the great commission.

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We take that from that passage there.

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Uh, and we believe that that's going

to produce a church that is three

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things, Christ, exalting, church

equipping, and a culture engaging.

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And so today at church, if you've already

been with us, you already know this.

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If you're on your way, then this

is what's coming up, but you're

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going to hear a message on being

a church that's well equipped and.

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You may think right away.

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Okay.

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We're going to talk about serving

in the church and that's true.

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We are going to talk about

serving in the church, but.

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Even more than that.

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Uh, we're going to talk about

being committed to our church,

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being all in with our church.

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In fact, the point of the sermon

is this a church it's all in is

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the church that's going to win.

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Um, as we think about wanting to be a

winning church in we're going to define

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that differently than probably some

other churches will, but we want to be

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a winning church when it comes to the

great commission to doing what we're

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after to, to fulfilling our mission.

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Uh, then we need to be all in.

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We need to be committed.

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And a lot of that looks like that

first step that we're gonna talk

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about this weekend is, uh, being

committed in community, in relationship

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with one another in the church.

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So.

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Um, PR.

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They're going to hear from me.

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As, or if they've already heard from me

on this, probably by the time they're

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listening to this, or maybe they're

getting ready to on their way into

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church, but some of your thoughts on

the importance of community groups.

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Uh, for our people, as in why that

relates to such a big part of what

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it looks for us to be a church

that's well equipped because.

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Uh, again, we think service, but

we're going to start by talking about

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community before we even get the service.

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There is

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Rod: no such thing as a Christian.

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That's thriving by himself.

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There are times of necessity where we

can't have the kind of relationships with

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others that we would want were in prison,

or there's some kind of isolation that

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replaced into because of circumstances.

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I think of a hospital visit where you're

primarily by herself, hopefully with lots

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of visitors, but there are situations

where we can't be with other people.

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In fact, one of the ways that you

can successfully torture somebody

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is by putting them in isolation.

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You can.

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And in fact, I think that's illegal now.

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I don't think you're allowed to

do that at the national level

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when it comes to federal prison.

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I could be wrong on that.

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I haven't gone to prison

lately, so I'm not sure.

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But I do know that it's one of the

things that God has designed us for.

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We cannot thrive apart from the

community that God has placed us with.

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In fact, most of the

scriptures that were, we enjoy.

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Are written to a plural audience.

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The letters themselves are written to the

church at Ephesus or a circular letter.

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To the church, starting at emphasis,

perhaps, and meant to be sent to the

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other churches in the areas, the,

the letters, primarily the tenor and

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flavor of the church has communal.

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And so from the very beginning, we

have this assumption that scripture

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says, we're a body of believers.

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We're not solo.

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And I think that's a very different

mindset from what we have here

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in contemporary Western culture.

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We're primarily.

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Individualistic.

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We don't think in terms of community,

we don't think in terms of the plural,

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but we're supposed to, we need to,

and it's for the good of our own

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lives and it's for the good of others.

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Even for those of us who

would consider ourselves.

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Introverted.

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And maybe a lot more introspective

and it feels like sometimes we

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don't need that community aspect.

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I think God still does a great

work and people like myself who

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would call themselves introverted.

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In the midst of community, we need

people who can shape us and sharpen us.

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And we can't do that by herself.

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Even if you have a really good Bible

on great Bible study software, we are

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meant to live in community and to do

anything else is to commit spiritual.

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Well, let's be less aggressive , than

the S word, but to commit some kind of.

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Self-destruction let's call it that.

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PJ: Yeah.

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That's exactly right in.

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That's part of what we're talking

about tomorrow or today, I guess.

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Um, And then also the other

component of it too is, and

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this is, it goes hand in hand.

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Yeah, for, for you and I to do

our job well with this church

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and with this body we need.

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This body to be all in with us.

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We need this body to be committed to us,

and that's going to make us better at,

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at shepherding, better at shepherding

the flock better at being able to, to

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know what's going on with the lives of

the people that are a part of our church.

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Um, If we're dealing with people that

show up on Sunday and then leave.

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And that's the only interaction that

they have, and they're never plugging

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into community groups and putting

themselves under the care of some of the

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under shepherds in the church as well.

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It's hard for us to feel like we can

really truly give an account for them.

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Um, as far as how they're

doing spiritually.

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So there's a measure of your

commitment to the church that,

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that allows us as pastors.

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Uh, to, to do our job more effectively.

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And in, in the long run, that's

going to help you as well.

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That's going to be beneficial to you

because you're going to have pastors that

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are able to truly care for your souls.

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Rod: Absolutely.

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And in fact, you can make our jobs

are really hard and maybe even

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impossible by being part of the

church without being a part of the

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church in a true, sincere sense.

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So if you hear about us, this is

one way for you to showcase your

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commitment to our body believers.

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You don't need a paper, you

don't need to have some kind of

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ceremony at the front of the stage.

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All we need is your commitment.

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And that commitment makes a big difference

when it comes to the effectiveness

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of the local church, it does,

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PJ: it does a hundred percent.

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We've got a question texted in.

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So let's deal with that.

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Uh, Genesis chapter 15,

which we've been in recently.

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The question is this,

the sun is going down.

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It says 15, 12, the sun was going down.

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A deep sleep, fell on Abraham

and behold, a dreadful and

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great darkness fell upon him.

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The question is basically.

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Why is this a dreadful darkness?

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What is the fear that is seizing

Abraham here or Abraham at this time?

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Um, my best thought is he's

overwhelmed by the, the significance

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of this event, the presence of

God in, in a way that he had never

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experienced before with this covenant

blessing that God has given to him.

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And so.

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Um, as he is in a deep

sleep, even in this.

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I don't want to call it an unconscious

state, but there is a, an awareness

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of the significance and the

weightiness of God's presence here

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that is causing Abraham to feel.

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Uh, the, the dread and the fear of

God that really, this is, I think

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the only place that it talks about

Abraham being in dread or fear of, uh,

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of Yahweh in any way, shape or form.

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But that's my take on a

pastor out of your thoughts.

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Rod: Yeah, I would agree with that.

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I think of Isaiah chapter six,

where you have the foundations of

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the thresholds shaking their smoke.

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There's terror in the holiness of God.

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And so I can't help, but see an element

of God's holiness being displayed here.

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And I think that's, what's driving this.

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It is not Abraham's goodness.

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It is God's holiness.

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It is his sense of rightness that

will accomplish the covenant.

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The covenant.

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Requirements.

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. And so I think there's something

about the holiness of God

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being displayed toward Abraham.

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And I think it makes its mark.

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I think Abraham does have a slightly

different view of God after the fact.

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So I think it's a

relation to his holiness.

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That's my best guess

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PJ: on that.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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I think so.

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Good question though.

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Glad it was written in and, uh, glad we

were able to answered on the podcast.

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Y Genesis 22, 23 and 24

is our text for the day.

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Uh, 22 is a familiar section.

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It, it never gets easier year after year.

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It never gets easier to read

what takes place in chapter 22.

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This is the, the offering of Isaac.

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Um, since the sacrifice of Isaac on

the top of the Bible and ESV here, but.

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Really isn't.

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Spoiler alert.

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He's not actually sacrificed.

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Um, but Abraham does go forward with

offering him to the Lord, to the

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point of having tied and bound and

laid on top of the wood for the.

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The burning or the burn

offering and picks up his knife.

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Um, Before God stops him.

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And it, what, what struck me a new this

time and I've seen it before, but just

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again, this, the significance of this.

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Uh, yes, this was going to be a

burnt offering, but before the burnt

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offering would be able to be rendered,

Abraham had to first kill his son.

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Uh, this was not passive that the

flames were going to do the work or

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the smoke was going to do the work of

extinguishing the life of Isaac Abraham

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picked up the knife to kill his son.

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Um, Before offering him then as

a burnt offering to the Lord.

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And so this is, this is, uh, the,

the, the tension, the weightiness, the

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darkness of so much of this chapter

before Don intervenes and provides

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the Ram in the thicket, which.

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You know, is just Laden with the

symbolism of substitutionary atonement

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and what ultimately God provided

for us through Christ, through

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Christ on the cross, on our behalf.

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But, um, this is a difficult passage

for us to read and as Christians to

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walk away and be like, man, Okay.

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I understand exactly why

get God did what he did.

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I, I understand it, theologically

that God wanted Abraham to say,

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I'm willing to give you everything.

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It's just a difficult way to

go about the object lesson, but

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we've just come off with joke too.

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So I guess it's appropriate for

us to be looking at this on the

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heels of Joe, your thoughts.

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We are.

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Rod: Yeah, I think this is one

of the best texts to support

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penal substitutionary atonement.

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For that very reason.

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God gives us a glimpse, a preview.

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If you will, a trailer to the movie

that tells us what his relationship

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to us is going to be like.

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So he says here in verse 14, Abraham

called the name of that place.

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The Lord will provide.

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As it, as it is said to this day on the

Mount of the Lord, it shall be provided.

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And of course, this is the same place

where God does provide his one and true

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sacrifice, uh, atoning for our sin.

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So I love this chapter.

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It's a hard one to read.

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And I think if I were Abraham, I would

really struggle with this, but I really do

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love the way that it paints the picture of

the gospel before the gospel took place.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Now you guys may remember, uh, A

little while ago, we had, uh, a

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younger listener of the podcast.

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Let us know about the y'all Bible that was

on a youth version or something like that.

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Well, I ordered a copy of it.

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I have it in my hands right now.

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Leather

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Rod: goat skin.

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Yes.

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The pages are.

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Element

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PJ: preaching from it.

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Right.

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I expect that.

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No, it's a, it's actually

a really bad text block.

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It's paperback.

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But.

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The translation is based off.

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I think you looked at it, the ASP yeah.

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American standard version, which

is the predecessor of the ESV.

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The RSV.

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Yeah.

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So there's a lot of similarities there.

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Anyways.

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I thought you might get a, a little

bit of a kick out of some of the

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language that he brings in here.

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The translator the editor does here.

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So.

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The writer of Hebrews

implies that Abraham here.

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Trusted that even if God had

him kill Isaac, that Isaac

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was going to be resurrected.

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He says by faith, Abraham believed

that he would receive a son back.

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Right.

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And so, and I think we

see a little bit of that.

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Here in, uh, in Genesis 22.

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And I'll just read the, the y'all

Bible to give you the flare there.

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It says on the third day, verse

four, Abraham lifted up his

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eyes and saw the place far off.

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And Abraham said to his young man, the

servants that came with him, he said,

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y'all stay here with the donkey, the boy.

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And I will go over there and we

will worship and come back to y'all.

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Abraham took the wood of the burnt

offering and laid it on Isaac, his

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son, and went up from that point.

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So.

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He's telling us servants there and, and

the y'all comes in in the y'all Bible

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here, Hey, we're going up here to, to

worship and we will come back to you.

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And so that may be some of what the

writer of Hebrews picks up on and shed

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some light via the divine commentary

of the word of God to let us know that

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Abraham thought, man, even if I do have

to kill my son because of God's promise

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that he is the son of the promise.

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I believe that God is going to

resurrect them and get them back to me.

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Um, and then wouldn't have

made it any easier, right?

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No, I mean, yeah.

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It's it's not hard.

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And we don't want to spend a lot

of time ruminating there mentally,

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but it's not hard to think, man,

if he, even if God told you, you.

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Your son will, we'll come back

to life, but you you've got to

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kill them for me that still don't

make that any easier at all.

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Uh, and there would need to be some

family counseling probably after that.

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I think it'd be a running joke.

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Rod: Dad, can I have a new camel?

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Remember when you killed me, dad.

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You know, one of those things.

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Yeah.

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I think it might go a long way.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah, but I think, you know, your, your,

your point of emphasis on substitutionary

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penal atonement here is well taken.

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I think that's a lot of what

we're, we're seeing here.

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Rod: Uh, okay.

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One thing to not miss and

we brought it up last year.

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I just wanna make sure we

bring it up again this year.

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And I think I alluded to it is that

this location where this takes place.

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Mount Moran is Mount Moriah

is typically associated with

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Jerusalem that this is where.

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Jesus is crucified essentially,

and where he atones for our sin.

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So the second Chronicles three one

is where we get those connections.

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Genesis 2 22 Mount

Moriah, second Chronicles.

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31 is where we make those connections.

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Some people ask, where's the mountain.

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What specific mountain

are we talking about here?

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Um, and really Jerusalem

is kind of elevated.

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So the whole thing serves

as a mountain of sorts.

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So we're going to take it at face

value and say, okay, God intended

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for this to be a foreshadowing

of what he would eventually do.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I mean, if you go there today

that the connection is made

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actually to the temple Mount.

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Um, that this becomes the

threshing floor of, of a runner,

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the Gebbie site and right.

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That that's the police that

David purchases that becomes the

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temple Mount in that is today.

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Under the current dome of the rock

was it, which is an Islamic shrine.

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They believe is the rock where,

and we've talked about this before.

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In one of the most recent episodes where

the Muslim people will say, this is where

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Abraham offered Ishmael on this rock.

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And we, as Christians would say, no,

that's the historic place, the traditional

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place of where Abraham offered Isaac.

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So, um, The traditional lease holds

that this became the same mountain

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that the temple was built upon.

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And you can still go there

today and underneath the dome

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of the rock, find the rock.

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Uh, which is why it's called

the dome of the rock, the rock

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where Abraham bounded Laden.

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Isaac as Christians, we would say.

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Genesis 23.

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Uh, This is another blow.

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Sarah dies.

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And Abraham.

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In this chapter, acquires a

field and Canaan with a cave

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in it there to bury his wife.

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And it's significant that he wants

to own it and purchase the cave.

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I think really because of

the fact that, that this is.

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Uh, not only his wife and he wants to

honor her in the sacrifices worthy in,

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in worth the honor, but also because

it's it's, he wants to own the land.

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This is significant.

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This is going to become a

significant place for him.

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This is where he's going

to be buried as well.

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So.

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Um, that's what's going on in

this interchange here, but this

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is, uh, the, the death of the

matriarch, this the death of Sarah.

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Uh, and, uh, Abraham Barry's

heard there in Canaan.

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Chapter 24 then.

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Abraham towards the end of his life now.

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Uh, commission's a servant to go

back to his Homeland to take away for

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Isaac, because he did not want Isaac

to marry from the foreigners there.

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And so through divinely ordained

circumstances, the servant

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prays and says, Hey God.

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Make it be this way and

God answers that prayer.

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Uh, and Rebecca is the one that is

identified and comes back with the

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servant to become Isaac's wife.

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Uh, the.

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There's a, an interchange here where they

say, Hey, let her stay for a little while.

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And he says, no, no, no, no.

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I need to go back.

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This is pressing.

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And, um, they let her go back.

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And, uh, one name to note

here, cause he's going to be

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significant is Rebecca's brother.

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Whose name is Laban?

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We're going to pick up on Laban

with the story of Jacob later on,

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but right now, This is that family

and Rebecca is taken back now.

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No, it says that she went back

with her nurse, uh, that, that

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jumped out to me this time.

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I kind of did a little digging there.

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This nurse's name we're going to

find out later on is, is Debra.

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And during this time in history,

a nurse was considered as almost

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a second mother in the family.

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Ed.

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Uh, a dear member of the family.

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So that's why the nurse

goes back with Rebecca.

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It was, uh, as though she was a mentor, a.

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I'd stop short of calling her discipler,

but, but somebody significant for Rebecca.

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So she goes back with Rebecca.

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Uh, with, uh, this servant to go back

as Rebecca goes to become Isaac's wife.

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There you have it.

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Genesis 22, 23, 24.

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Any other points on, on either

of those last two chapters BR one

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thing I noticed about Isaac that

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Rod: struck me is that he's meditating.

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When Rebecca meets him for the first

time he's out in the field meditating,

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which I thought was interesting because

you don't see this about anybody.

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I don't think you find anyone in the book

of Genesis who's meditating, but he is.

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And that's a really great start for him.

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I don't think that his godliness

extends all the way through his life.

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There's certainly flaws in Isaac's

life, but this is really cool.

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He's meditating in the

field toward the evening.

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And then she sees him.

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I think that's really a

really special first meet.

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That's what you would call a meet.

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Cute.

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He's meditating.

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She's levitating.

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They're both seeing each other and just,

I dunno, it seems like a really sweet.

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First experience with of one another,

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PJ: and then they got married and then

they got up early in the morning and

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the Instagram, their first DBR time.

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We're still there with a cup of coffee.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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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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God, we thank you for the reality

that Genesis 22 pointed towards

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that, that we now know as believers

that you provided, not a Ram, but

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your son, the lamb of God to be.

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Our substitutionary atoning sacrifice.

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And so through faith in him, we can

know that our payment has been made.

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Uh, that we don't have to offer ourselves

on the altar or anything else that we

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have Christ that satisfied your wrath.

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And so we are so grateful for that

and help us to be increasingly.

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So as each day, Uh, passes

as we draw closer to the time

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of meeting him face to face.

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We thank you for this and

pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then, Hey, keeping your Bibles guys

and tune in again tomorrow for another

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Yep.

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Bye.