00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:07 Recap of Biblical Counseling Intensive

00:52 Pastor Mark's Upcoming Wedding

01:12 The Importance of Pastors in Weddings

02:38 Discussion on Marriage and State

05:40 Genesis 36: The Genealogy of Esau

08:09 Genesis 37: The Story of Joseph Begins

13:51 New Testament: Jesus and the Sabbath

21:17 Conclusion and Encouragement

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Hope you're all doing well.

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Yes, we do.

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We do hope you are all doing well.

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Yeah, we we just came off,

we didn't talk about it.

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I guess you and Lewis mentioned it briefly

the other day, but we had the biblical

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counseling intensive last weekend.

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It was awesome.

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It was a big win for our church.

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Pastor Lucas Pace came out and

talked to us about the importance

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of knowing how to handle God's word.

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One of the things he kept saying is.

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What if you're in Christ, if you're a

believer to one extent or another, you

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are a biblical counselor, that's all of

us because it's taking God's word and it's

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bringing it to bear on people's lives.

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So that was such an awesome time.

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He's coming back out in April, and so

if you weren't able to make that one,

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but you wanna join us again in April?

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April 17th through the 19th, you

can mark your calendars for that.

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Should be a good.

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Good time with him.

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I mentioned it during the prayer

yesterday, but Pastor Rod is out.

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He's on vacation and so he's getting

some time with his family, and so you

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can pray for him as he's away doing that.

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But yeah we are here.

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And we're rolling.

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Are you taking any time

off coming up, pastor Mark?

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I am.

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I am at the end of January.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to Colorado.

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My sister's getting married, so Yes.

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That's awesome.

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It's very exciting.

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You happen to be doing the wedding.

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We'll see if they'll let me do

it when we actually show up.

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Okay.

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But yeah, no, that is the plan.

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I was honored to be asked to do it.

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Yeah.

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So, I'm excited to do that.

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That'll be fun.

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Why do we, as the church.

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Value pastors doing weddings because

marriage is before God and created

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by God and an institution of God.

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I think we can so easily think of

marriage as the marriage license

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that you get from the state.

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Right?

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And I, it's important, I think

it's good that the state recognizes

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marriage and that there's a license

that those are good things, right?

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That's actually not what

true marriage is defined by.

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It's helpful, but true

marriage is before God, right?

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And so it is appropriate that a

pastor is the one who officiates that.

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What about man?

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My best friend's getting married.

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My brother's getting married, and he

said, Hey, I want you to go online

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and get ordained into my wedding.

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I would generally caution against that.

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I'm, I think you need to go case by

case, but I'm gonna generally caution

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against that because I do think that, the

ripe thing is to have pastors, pastors,

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elders who are, had the hands laid on

by the church carrying out that thing.

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And again, I'm gonna just say that as a

general statement, but I do think that

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would, that's the best case scenario.

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Yeah.

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Now we would differ from.

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I believe the Catholic church, it

is not an ordinance, but what do

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they call their means of grace?

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Man?

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Sacrament.

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Sacrament.

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They call it a sacrament.

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Yes.

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Right.

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It's a way that, that grace is conveyed

by God, right through the act of marriage.

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We would differ from them in that

we believe the two ordinances of

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the church, which we call them

ordinances, not sacraments, would

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be baptism and the Lord's Supper.

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Communion.

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So excluding marriage different than Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're for marriage.

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And I'm with you.

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Let me just say this.

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If you have a family member and you're

like, man I would love my family

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member to be involved in my wedding.

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I've overseen ceremonies before

where I've been the one to.

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To kind of pronounce them husband

and wife and even deliver the charge.

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But I've had family members involved in

various other aspects of the marriage and

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even there's, I think it's appropriate

for a family member to come up and give

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the charge if they're able to do that.

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The sermonette is what

I mean by charge there.

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The sermon the charge to a couple.

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But I do think having a pastor

be the one that is, is doing

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the official ordaining is.

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Of them as husband and wife

is important because you're

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right, it is before the Lord.

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That is number one.

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Marriage is a godde defined institution,

not a state defined institution.

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Mm-hmm.

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We honor the state right now

because we should, we're called

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to the state's not asking us to do

anything that, that we shouldn't do.

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But, I could see a scenario

down the road where if.

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The, our nation comes to us and says,

you have to marry anyone who shows

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up through your doors as a church.

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And if you don't, then

we're gonna shut you down.

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Oh, listen, we don't have to

do marriages by the state.

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Right.

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We can still, as a church, back

off that and say, well, we're not

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gonna do state defined marriage,

but we're still gonna marry people.

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We're gonna marry people Biblical.

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Because it's really before

the eyes of God that matters.

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Yeah.

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Because if you go to another country,

like we've got people that we know that

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are gonna go and be missionaries, let's

say in a third world country somewhere.

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Guess who?

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They're not filing a marriage license

with the United States government.

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But if there's two people that

get saved on the mission field and

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they want to get married and that.

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Missionaries stands up and

officiates that wedding.

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They're married in the eyes of God.

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Yeah.

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It has nothing to do with Uncle Sam.

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It has everything to do with the Lord.

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So I think you're right on that.

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Having a pastor involved in

that, being a part of the church

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is such an important thing.

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Lemme throw you a curve ball.

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Okay.

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Let's say that you.

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Did a courthouse wedding.

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Yes.

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And your pastor wasn't there, right?

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Are you not married?

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You are, you have gone through

the process not biblically

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speaking legally you're married.

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Yes.

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I would still say.

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I think it, it would be helpful

to involve the church in that.

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Yeah.

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And now if you're sitting there

going, well that was 40 years ago.

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Yeah.

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You really want me to have

a wedding with the church?

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Maybe do a recommitment where

you are vowing before the Lord.

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Because that's the thing.

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Right.

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And I tell this to all of the couples

that I do a wedding for is yes,

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your friends and family are here.

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Yes.

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Your bridesmaids and

groomsmen are up here.

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Yes.

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I'm standing here before you as you do

this, but the most important thing right

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now is you are vowing before the Lord.

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Right and promising before him that

this is how you're gonna love one

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another till death do you part.

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So I would say yeah, do a re renewal of

your vows and have the pastor show up.

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And if you want that in your living room,

if you want it in the pastor's office.

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I've done weddings in my office.

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It doesn't have to be this grand

affair, but I think there's

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something to that because marriage

is god's, it belongs to him.

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It doesn't belong to this state.

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It's not about taxes, it's

not about any of that.

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Marriage is God's.

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Yeah.

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And it can be so easy to

confuse those two things.

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Yeah.

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Again, because of the way

the world we live in the.

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But it's important not to.

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Yes, yes.

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Well, let's jump into Genesis,

I believe 36 through 37.

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That's right.

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Just two chapters, then another A plus.

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Okay.

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36 through 37.

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Man.

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Chapter 36 is not one of those chapters

that you're gonna be like, you know what

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my favorite chapter of the Bible is?

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It's Genesis 36.

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No, it's there and it's good and

it's wise for us to pay attention to.

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And so, what this is it's closing

the book on Jacob and Esau.

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It's closing the book on Esau,

at least not Jacob, but it's

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closing the book on Esau.

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And this is through the

list of his descendants.

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It's the genealogy of Esau.

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You'll note there in

chapter 36, verse eight.

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So Esau settled in the hill country of Sr.

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And then it says in parentheses

for us, Esau is Edem.

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There it is.

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That's where the Bible is

telling us that the Edomites are

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the ones that come from Esau.

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So this is really there.

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Their records, their lineage here.

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Verse 31.

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What's interesting here is the

Edomites, the descendants of Esau.

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Produce kings before Israel does.

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And so you've got Jacob and Esau sons of

Abraham there sons of Isaac and they're

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going to produce kings before Esau is

gonna produce kings before Jacob is gonna

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produce kings, which is fascinating.

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And yet the ultimate king, the king of

kings, is gonna come from Jacob's line,

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not Esau's line, but this is kind of a

shifting or a closing of the book on

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Esau here will still interact obviously

with his descendants a lot in the

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pages of the rest of the Old Testament.

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But this, as far as Esau is concerned.

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He's gonna show back up at

the death of his father.

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Although, no, that's already taking place.

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That's, yeah.

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That's verse And I think it

is also the wrap up of Isaac.

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In the sense that the story of

the New Testament will continue

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with the lineage of Jacob.

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Yes.

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But Isaac passes away in the

last few verses of chapter 35.

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And so we are kind of wrapping

up Esau to your point here.

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Yeah.

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But also don't miss base

math shows back up, which is.

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Lewis told me off air that

he is committing to naming

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his first kid base math base.

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'cause we talked about that a few

episodes back, and he's committed to that.

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So.

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Okay.

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Everybody hold him to that.

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All right.

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Hold him to that shea base math.

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There you go.

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Yeah, man I guess we didn't mention that,

but Isaac kind of has an ignominious end.

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There's not much like he,, it's

like, oh, you're still alive.

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He breathed his last.

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Yeah.

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Then he died.

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Yeah.

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And his death is really just kind of

there to get Jacob and Esau back together.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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What an interesting end

to Isaac's life there.

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Isaac's always fascinating to me

because he gets way less screen

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time uhhuh than Abraham or Jacob.

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It's just interesting.

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He does get time, obviously, but even

evidenced here he is I don't know.

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Yeah.

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Second tier.

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Yeah, tier.

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I don't know.

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I don't know how to put

it, but it is interesting.

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The scene shifts in chapter 37 and for

the rest of the book, there's really

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one figure that's at the center of

it, and that is the figure of Joseph.

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So, the first 36 chapters of

Genesis deal with all of these

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different patriarchs you go through.

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Abraham, you go through Isaac, you

go through Jacob, you go and then

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we get here and here's Joseph.

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And Joseph gets, what does

that end up Pastor Mark Gere?

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The mathematician between us is this

13 chapters that are 14 chapters.

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13 chapters, yeah.

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Good.

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Devoted to Joseph.

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B Joseph b plus.

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Thanks man.

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Bees get degrees.

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Well it's interesting too that Joseph

is not in the line of Christ, right.

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Ultimately.

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Right.

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It's interesting that he now gets so much,

I use the word already of screen time.

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Yeah.

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To the fact that even as a kid, I thought

that he was in the lineage of Christ.

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Yeah.

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But he gets a lot of time here

and this is the first time we're

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getting away from somebody who is.

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Outside of the direct line of

Christ, which is interesting.

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Right.

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It's enigmatic.

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'cause you would think

this would be Judah.

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Mm-hmm.

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You would think this would be somebody

like that, that he would, that God

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Ordains and God could have done that.

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He could have.

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And yet he didn't do that.

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But chapter 37 it's one of the most

familiar chapters in the Bible.

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It's been turned into a

musical, Joseph, in the.

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Technicolor Dream Code?

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I don't know.

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I haven't seen that musical,

but I assume it's about this.

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Veggie Tails episodes.

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Veggie tails.

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Oh yeah.

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You guys talked about veggie tales.

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I have seen veggie tails by the way.

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So just to clear that up.

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There's so much in chapter 37 and yet

it's so familiar at the same time.

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I think it's worth.

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Noting a couple things.

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I don't know that it was the wisest

move of Joseph to share his dreams

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with his brothers and his dad.

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In fact, he's kind of chastised

from his dad for doing this.

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And so especially after the first

one, maybe, yeah, you can give

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Joseph a pass for sharing the

first dream with his brothers.

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But then the second one,

it's like piling on.

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Yeah.

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But dreams are gonna be.

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A massive part of Joseph's story.

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And so it starts with dreams.

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It's gonna continue with dreams

as he's gonna wind up his story

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is gonna develop later on.

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I won't spoil or alert there,

but man, his brothers hate him.

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Sure do.

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And I couldn't help but think

of the Sermon on the Mount when

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in verse 18 it said they saw him

from a farm before he came here.

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They conspired against him to kill him.

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Mm-hmm.

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That murderous hatred of the heart.

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Mm-hmm.

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So even though they're not gonna

kill him, they're guilty of that

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murderous intent right here in Matthew

chapter or in Genesis chapter 37

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of that Matthew five hatred there.

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Yeah.

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And it begins with the

sin of jealousy, right?

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We see that they're jealous of him

and that sin of jealousy is what is

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ultimately gonna lead to their next.

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Outward act of, yeah, the sin of murder.

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And again, to your, you bring

back in the New Testament, right?

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What do we see Jesus say?

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Right.

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If you don't like your

brother or sister Yeah.

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In Christ, what is that,

I'm paraphrasing, right?

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But that is, yeah.

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That's murder, right?

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Yeah.

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And so.

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What's happening here is that

they, in some sense have already

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murdered their brother with

that jealousy in their hearts.

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And then that does lead to

the outward act of murder.

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The sin of murder as we see

here, or the attempted murder.

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Yeah.

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There's not a lot of good

guys in Jacob's lineage here.

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Ruben.

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Does intervene here and

say, Hey let's not kill him.

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But then he says let's go ahead

and just sell him, which is not

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much better for like 600 bucks.

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Yeah.

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So before we are like, oh look,

Ruben, Ruben is a good dude.

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Or you've got, Judah here

and I think Judah says.

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Yeah, well, let's do that.

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And then it says they wanted to come

back and deliver him, and we might look

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at Judah and be like, oh, look, Judah.

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And granted later on in the story of

Joseph, we see Judah really step up.

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Yes, yes.

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I can't help but be cynical here and

think there's a little bit of greed

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there because Judah wants to be the

hero for his dad and bringing Joseph

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back because Joseph's the loved one.

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And so Judah could be like,

oh, look, dad, I saved Joseph.

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Yeah.

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I think that is the implication there.

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Yeah, that that's my thought process.

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But that's not what happens.

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You know the story.

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Joseph's gonna be sold to these

ishmaelite, which is interesting because

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Ishmael is back on the scene here.

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His descendants at least.

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And they're gonna end up getting

him to the Midianites and the

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Midianites are then gonna take him

and sell him to Farrah's household.

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Yeah.

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And.

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Pharaoh's household is in

Egypt, which is a coif first's

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household, I should say that.

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Yeah, that's true.

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I'm jumping again a little bit, but in, in

Egypt, you were saying in Egypt, which is

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a recurring theme don't miss that, right?

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It's a recurring theme

that is intentional by God.

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You can see his authorship of history

in these recurring themes, and at

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the very least when you see God.

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Making these circles that seem to be

just happenstance, attribute that to him.

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Yeah.

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Recognize that he is the author

of these things he's intending.

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Even the simple fact

that the Midianites take.

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Joseph to Egypt of all places.

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Yeah.

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He is sovereignly overseeing that

and man, his Joseph's brothers,

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there's no, no way around it.

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They're cruel.

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They're cruel.

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They are.

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Because they go back and they tell their

dad that he's been murdered by an animal

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and they give him this robe dipped

in blood and the father is weeping in

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mourning, and he's broken over this.

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And it says in verse 35, all his sons

and his daughters rose up to comfort him.

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Like how cruel and twisted do

you have to be to watch him just

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broken over the death of his son?

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You're sitting there trying to

comfort him when you know all

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along exactly what's happened.

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This is a specific kind of cruelty that's

taken place here and it's an opportunity.

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We've already mentioned Reuben and Judah.

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Why aren't they making

the truth clear here?

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Right.

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Right.

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They're not.

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They could've, they could've, this

would've been the chance to do it.

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And they're not.

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And so I think we're right to, to see the

condemnation of even those two characters.

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Yeah.

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Even at the end of this chapter.

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Now, I don't know what Guru would've

done because there's no, there was

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no find, my Joseph didn't have his

iPhone on him, so he's gone for

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all their thinking at this point.

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There's no DNA forensics.

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Yeah.

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They're not finding him.

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They sold him to a band of

traveling Ishmail lights.

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He's gone.

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Gone.

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Yeah.

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And so for his brothers, his

brothers are literally thinking,

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we're done with Joseph.

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We're never gonna see this guy again.

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Yeah.

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Little do they know.

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Yeah.

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Spoiler alert.

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Stay tuned.

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Let's jump over to the New

Testament, Matthew 12, one through

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21, Matthew 12, one through 21.

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And so here we find the opposition

against Jesus, increasing the Pharisees

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you guys have already talked about this.

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The Pharisees are not big fans of Jesus.

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Nope.

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They do not like him and he's

kind of ruining a lot for them,

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not making them look super good.

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And so here we find Jesus walking

through the grain fields and it, the

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note here on a Sabbath is important.

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What the disciples are doing, they're

walking through, they're picking off

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a head of grain and they're rubbing

it in their fingers, and they're

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eating the kernels of the grain.

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'cause they're hungry.

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You think, well, what's the big deal?

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Well, according to the law

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against the law in the Old Testament.

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Now, the Bara leaders of Israel, all

the way back in the Old Testament,

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the oral law that was developed,

the oral law was in addition to the

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written law, hence the oral law.

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And there were all sorts of commandments

that were meant to expound upon what was.

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Permissible what was not permissible.

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In fact, a lot of the oral

law was intended to help the

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Jewish people understand what

was meant by the prohibitions.

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Do not work on the Sabbath.

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Do not harvest.

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Okay, well, what constitutes harvesting?

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Can I go out and pick a stock of wheat?

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Is that okay?

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Can I pick two?

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Where's the limit?

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The rabbis said the limit is,

you can't even pluck the head

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of grain off the stock now.

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We read that and we think, wow,

that's insanely legalistic.

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I think the heart behind the

oral law initially was good.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because I think they were trying to say,

let's avoid any appearance of evil at all.

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We want to safeguard this as

much as possible as to say,

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here's what we're gonna do.

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We're gonna specify this so that you

know what it is to hit the target.

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Now the Jewish leaders are gonna

take that oral law and they're

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gonna come to Jesus and say, your

disciples are breaking the law.

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The thing is.

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They weren't actually

breaking the written law.

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This is what the interpretation of the

written law was, that they were plucking

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these heads of grain and harvesting, so

to speak, the kernels and eating them

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Still, Jesus is gonna say, you're missing

the boat, you're missing the point.

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The point was not.

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That you as humans, would be a

slave to the Sabbath, such that

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you would starve on the Sabbath,

but rather the Sabbath is for rest.

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The Sabbath is for you to be

reminded of your finitude, to

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be reminded that you're created.

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And if God rested from his

creative activity, you need

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to rest on a weekly basis too.

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So Jesus uses that time to put

them in place and confront them.

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What's fascinating to me is

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of these things going on with.

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Jewish communities even today.

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Oh yeah.

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In New York City there is a wire

that goes across the whole city.

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And the purpose of this wire is to

allow Jews to leave their home because

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everything is connected because of

one wire that goes across the city.

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It's the perimeter.

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They can't go beyond that scope.

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If you live within the confines

of that wire you're safe.

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Right, right.

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And so even to this day.

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Even to this day there's things that,

that the Jewish people do that are very

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much very much akin to the accusations

that they're throwing at Jesus.

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Well, there's things that they're

doing that they would condemn

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Jesus for doing in a similar way.

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But I think we have to be careful

too, that we don't just look

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at the Jewish people today and

say, oh, look how silly that is.

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It is silly in one sense, but we have

to be really careful that we don't.

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Make up these sort of rules for

ourselves and find ourselves

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righteous in a similar way.

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And it is silly when we create

methods and rules that are

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designed to, to save ourselves.

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Of course they don't when we have Christ.

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When we have Christ.

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So anyways, I just find that fascinating.

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A little bit of an aside,

but I find it fascinating.

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Yeah.

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And.

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Look, rest is good and it, the

Sabbath is for us now we don't,

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we're not saur in the sense that we

don't say, Hey, you can't do any work

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on a specific day during the week.

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But finding rest is a good

thing because it the whole.

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Purpose of the Sabbath was, it was an

expression of a way for us to worship

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God by reminding ourselves we're not him.

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Yep.

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In fact, back in, in John's gospel in

John chapter five, Jesus is gonna be

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confronted in a different scene by the

Pharisees for doing work on a Sabbath.

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And Jesus is gonna say,

there, he's gonna say, Mike.

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Father is working until now and

I am working to Jesus or God the

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Father re rested from his creative

activity, not from all of his activity.

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God is never not working,

otherwise we cease to exist.

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And so Jesus is saying, I am God.

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So I'm gonna work on the Sabbath.

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You and I aren't God.

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And so for us to have periods of

rest, times of rest, vacations,

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whatever it is a good thing.

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'cause it's a way for us to worship God.

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That's the point of a Sabbath.

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Yeah.

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We waste so much time as

Christians arguing, well, should

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we have the Sabbath today?

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Should we not have the Sabbath today?

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Right.

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Do we call it that?

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Do we not call it that?

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Listen.

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You need to rest and you need to

have a period of time built into

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your week on a weekly basis where you

say, I need to recharge because I'm a

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creator being and God is the creator.

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I'm not him and I depend

upon what he's given me.

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Sleep, rest, disengagement,

whatever I need that.

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And that's trusting God, right?

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That's trusting that he is working and

that his work is sufficient, even in

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practical ways to care for you, right?

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That is an expression of the trust of God.

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I think of the people in the Old

Testament and the year of Sabbath when

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they were supposed to rest their fields.

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I mean, that is, yeah, I didn't do that.

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But that's an ultimate in, at least

in that context, an ultimate example

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of a trust that you would have in

God to provide, when you don't plant.

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That really requires believing that God

is gonna take care of you and work on

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your behalf even when you're not able to.

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Yeah.

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There, there's another scene right after

here where you get the same situation.

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It's just a different scene,

different picture here.

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And this time it's a man with a

withered hand who is a plant, I think

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from the Pharisees, and Jesus looks

at them and he is going to end up.

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Healing this man, and he does so

as he says, which one of you if is,

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has a sheep who falls into a pit on

the Sabbath will not take it out.

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And then he says, how much more

value is the man than the sheep?

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In other accounts of this, it says

Jesus was actually angry with them.

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He looked around at them angry over

their hardheartedness, and again, he's

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saying, you, you're missing the point.

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The point is not to suffer

for people to suffer for.

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The good of the law, rather.

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The point is that the law

is there for the good of the

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people and and so he heals him.

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And then the, our reading, at least

today, ends with this zoom in on Jesus.

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And it says there in verse 15, he

withdrew from there and many followed

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him and he healed them all and ordered

them not to make himself known.

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Why?

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Because it was not yet his hour.

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That's what John often says.

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Matthew being a Jewish author,

he appeals back to Isaiah.

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In Isaiah, it says there in Isaiah 42, 1

through three, which is the citation here,

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behold my servant, whom I have chosen my

beloved with whom my soul is well pleased.

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He goes on.

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He says He's not gonna quarrel or

cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his

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voice in the streets a bruised read.

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He will not break.

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In other words, Jesus wasn't here

to continue to escalate things

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until, what does it say there?

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Till he brings justice to victory.

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Verse 20 in his name, the Gentiles

will hope so until that time when he's

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gonna bring justice to victory, which

is gonna take place through the cross.

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He's not here to continue to

pick fights with the Pharisees.

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So that's why he's withdrawing and that's

why he's also telling the people that

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he's doing all these miracles with,

Hey, don't go blab about this everywhere

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you go, because it wasn't yet his hour

to go head to head with the enemy.

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Yeah.

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What an amazing thing, right?

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That.

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The Gentiles will help.

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I'm a gentile and what a blessing.

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We both are.

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We both are.

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Pastor Rod Pass, rod is not.

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He's Jewish.

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You may not know that.

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Right.

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You may not know that, but he

does have a Yama somewhere.

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1%.

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And the guy can't stop talking about

how he's part of God's chosen people.

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But I'm kidding.

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You and I are part of God's

chosen people because of the hope.

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That's right here.

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Right.

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We've been grafted in.

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Yep.

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What an amazing thing that it is.

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It's, it is, for sure, for sure.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, it is in that hope that we do gather.

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It is in that hope that we do hope

in a future with you in eternity,

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in heaven, in life with Christ.

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And we pray that as we go about the

rest of our day, whatever is in front

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of us, that we would do so mindful of

the great reality that we know Christ,

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and that changes everything for us.

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And so we thank you for that.

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God, we thank you for your

sovereignty as we're gonna really

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see developed in the life of Joseph.

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Even as we read about the very

beginnings of it today the tragedy of

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everything that took place in chapter

37 of Genesis was ordained by you.

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We're gonna find that out, and

we thank you that Joseph gives us

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such a good example of trusting

you in the midst of that.

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And so we're grateful for this time,

this time in your word, and we pray

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that we would live faithfully in

obedience to it as we continue on.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hey, guys.

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You are doing a great job.

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or not, but whatever you've done if

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you're listening now, if you've read

the Bible today, good job, keep going.

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Keep pressing on, and we'll be back

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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