00:00 Introduction and Sunday Special

01:02 Preaching Psalm 90

01:51 Church Logistics and Tear Down

03:44 Bible Reading: Noah's Story

04:19 God's Covenant with Noah

06:08 Capital Punishment and Sanctity of Life

07:39 Ethical Treatment of Animals

10:48 Valuing Humans vs. Animals

11:37 Noah's Unsavory Event

13:06 Lineage of Noah

14:23 Tower of Babel

16:27 Introduction to Abraham

17:41 Jesus' Baptism and Temptation

22:12 Calling of the First Disciples

23:27 Jesus' Ministry in Galilee

23:58 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey folks.

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Welcome to Sunday's edition of the

Daily Bible Podcast, and it's very

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much like Monday through Friday's

edition, or Monday through Saturday.

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Some would say very similar.

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Very similar.

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Not a lot of differences

except that this is on Sunday.

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It is on Sunday.

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Like your market.

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It's, and it's a unique Sunday.

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It's a special Sunday because you

are the one in the pulpit today.

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I am I'm really excited.

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I always appreciate doing it,

and at the same time, it feels

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like such a stressful thing.

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I think you're probably used

to it, but whenever I was.

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Tasks to cover the main pulpit.

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I never did well, my sleep suffered.

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My stomach would not work with me.

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Here's the thing.

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I don't want to be blase about it.

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Not that you are No, that's

not my intention to say that.

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I just, I appreciate that, this is

gonna sound funny to say it out loud.

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I like that I'm stressed out about it.

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'cause it tells me I care.

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Yeah.

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And if I ever did not feel stressed

out about it, I would question

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myself and wonder do I feel the

weight of this the way that I should?

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So I'm excited.

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I'm sure that by the time this

comes, I'm gonna be rip roaring.

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I feel like I'm having a baby.

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I need to push this thing out, shove

this thing out as quickly as I can.

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So I'm excited.

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And I hope I'm well slept

by the time this shows up.

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What are you preaching?

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Psalm 90.

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Psalm 90.

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It's gonna be a fun time.

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Looking at what Moses, it's a song that

Roses Moses writes and it's in response

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to some judgment that they go through.

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And so one of the.

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Best things that he says that I've

memorized and I've repeated ad nauseum

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is teach us to number our days so

that we may get a heart of wisdom.

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So we're gonna look at that and

consider our days as we look at the

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future 2026, while looking back at

the past, God's faithfulness, but

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saying, okay, what about the future?

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And how do we best live our lives?

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And so my anthem is to

make your days count.

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Count your days.

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Awesome.

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And who is.

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Tickle the strings on the

guitar this week without you.

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David, Walt David tickling the strings.

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David will be doing all the tickling.

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I don't know if he's tickling

by himself or if he's tickling

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other people with David Rappi.

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Ddo will be tickling all sorts of things.

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Yikes.

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Okay.

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Yeah, and sad note.

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This is so sad.

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We have to tear down today.

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Yes, we do.

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Oh, and I bet you're so sad.

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It's gonna be so hard not to be here.

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I can't, you know.

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You know what?

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Here's the thing, bro.

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We're gonna let you come back

early and join us, will you?

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I know you so generous.

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You're gonna want you to do that.

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I'm gonna let you do it.

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We're gonna let you join us, you know?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Unfortunately, we do gotta tear down,

which is just further motivation

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for us to go out and invite people

to church and grow and share the

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gospel so that we can get a facility.

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I mean, that's like 13 steps down the road

and we don't have to tear down anymore.

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Well, it's still to show

up early for some reason.

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Yeah, but you know what?

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Man, I did not miss it when we

were keeping all that stuff up.

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In fact, it felt like a dream.

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It was sweet when you show up to church.

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Yeah.

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And you just like things

are there already.

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Yeah.

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Oh, that was so nice.

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Then you just get to leave and

then you just got to get up

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and go and leave from there.

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Oh yeah.

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We're thankful for

Founder's Classical Academy.

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Prosper.

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They've been gracious

to let us keep it up.

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Yeah.

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And we don't wanna take advantage of that

'cause they won't let us do it after all.

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Yeah.

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Not that we had a

choice, but we're stoked.

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Yeah.

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And where are you gonna church today?

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Today we're out with potentially with

David, Jeremiah, David, Jeremiah.

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So, and that was between him

and Joel Holstein as I recall.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what our, Joyce

Meyer was third place option.

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She was third.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what our

final schedule looks like.

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'cause we are leaving to get

back today as well because Wow.

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We, our kids have to go back to school Oh.

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I think on the sixth, so, okay.

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Yeah.

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You gotta be back for that.

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Yeah.

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So I know we're leaving on Sunday.

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But yeah, so we may be live

streaming you in the car on our

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drive back live streaming, or at

least listening to you on Okay.

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In the car on the way back.

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I know.

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I wanna be live streamed.

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I want a whole video on your front screen.

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It's gonna be a little earlier 'cause

we're in California for that part.

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Oh.

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So, okay.

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But man, I'm thankful that you're

preaching, filling the pulpit.

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I'm thankful to do it.

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Grateful to go away.

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I'm excited.

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Not have to worry about.

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Who's in the pulpit or

what they're saying.

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Yeah.

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Not worrying about anything.

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Right.

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We got it all under control.

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You.

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I'm sure you do.

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I've signed all the contracts.

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Dunno what they said,

but I signed 'em all.

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Great, great.

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I'm doing all sorts of

things where you're gone man.

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That's awesome.

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That's good.

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That is good.

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Hey, let's get into our

Bible reading for today.

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We are continuing with Noah's story in

chapter nine and 10 is his genealogy.

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And then 11 we get into some

different territory for the.

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Progression of world history, which

is always really cool to read in

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Genesis because we're watching the

birth and unfolding of history.

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It's not like there's other things

that have happened in the past, eons

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before this or that are unfolding

even at the same time as all of this.

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Really, this is the zoom in,

especially right now after the

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flood, this is what's happening.

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This is it.

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This is the whole kitten

caboodle right here with Noah.

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And so, God is going to make

a promise to Noah and tell

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Noah, Hey, you know what, Noah?

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I am going to make a covenant with you.

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In fact, he's gonna use

that word in verse nine.

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I'm gonna establish my covenant with

you and your offspring after you.

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And he's gonna promise that never

again will the flesh of the earth be

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cut off by the waters of the flood,

and never again should there be a

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flood to destroy the whole earth.

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And then he talks about

hanging his bow in the clouds.

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This is the rainbow.

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And this is the reminder, it says that

he will remember now, God doesn't forget

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anything, but it's more for us to be

reminded of the fact that God is going

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to be faithful to this promise that he's

never gonna flood the whole earth again.

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And maybe in argument

of a universal flood.

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I think there's evidence here

that, that might suggest as well,

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because there are still floods.

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In fact, in Texas this last year we

saw a tragic flood down in south Texas.

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Yeah, we did.

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That took the lives of

young children even.

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Yeah.

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So this is not a promise

never to flood anything.

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But this, I think is the promise

more than keeping it never to

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flood the whole earth at one time.

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Yeah.

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In fact as I pondered Pangea and

yesterday's episode, I was thinking, oh.

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This fits universal flood universal sign.

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Hence, it seems to me like this is a,

as an application to all sorts of people

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and I guess I'm sure there's at least one

person I can think of who's saying why.

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Why is this even a question?

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It says the flood all

the earth there are good.

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Exegetical reasons to, to say

maybe it's something different.

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So we're not trying to

question God's word at all.

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We love God's word.

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We esteem God's word.

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And so we take it at face value,

but we also take it seriously

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and we consider the word.

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So I agree that's another sign to

me that this is a universal sign

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that has universal application.

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Globally speaking, there's nowhere

where you don't see a rainbow.

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You can see it all over the

place, all over creation.

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So I would say that's another

mark in favor of the universal

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universality, the flood.

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Right, right.

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I guess before this, in verse six, we're

given a statement here by the Lord.

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He says, whoever sheds the blood of

man by man shall his blood be shed

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for God made man his own image.

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One thing that's probably

worth noting is the Bible is

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in favor of capital punishment.

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I know that's something that is looked

down upon in our society and culture,

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and we need to be careful with that.

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And we need to ensure that justice

is gonna be done and that justice has

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been weighed out appropriately there.

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That's right.

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But but God is not, he does not

shy away from a life, for a life.

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And we see that here in

verse six, because why?

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Because God made man in his own image.

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So that's something that is, is gonna be

instituted now as part of the law moving

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forward is as the law has continually

developed for mankind, as God continues

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to reveal himself to them more and more.

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Yeah.

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And that's one reason we are

very firmly pro sanctity of life.

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Yes, we believe life should be protected

and honored from the earliest stages

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all the way to the latest stages.

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But that would also include things

like medical assistance and dying

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made as it's often referred to.

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But we don't think that

that's a good call.

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We know that there's times

when the body is dying and we

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choose to let the body die.

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That's different than saying,

I'm gonna help you die, right?

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We're not for that, and

because God's not for that.

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In fact, you might have

noticed in verse five he says.

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I will co require your lifeblood, a

reckoning from every beast and from man.

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So it's not just a man.

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If an animal were to kill a human

being on accident, you would even

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say that animal doesn't have a moral

compass in the same way that we do.

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Right?

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And yet God still holds that

animal accountable, right?

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And so it's very fitting to take the man's

life who took a, took another man's life.

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It's also fitting to take an animal's

life that took another man's life.

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But not to take a man who

takes an animal's life, not to

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take a man who takes, right.

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Because the animal is

different than a man.

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The animal is different than a man.

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And that's, yeah.

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It doesn't go the other way.

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You're a hundred percent right on that.

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What a good observation, because

there are lots of people that

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really, really value the ethical

treatment of animals and their rights.

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There are people who.

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Stand for that.

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There are lots of people who are all

for the ethical treatment of animals and

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hey, praise God for the humane treat.

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Okay.

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Let me throw a dilemma at you.

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This is a slight digression,

but I need you to answer it.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Maybe people in certain neighborhoods

are saying, don't use rat poison

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because, A, it's inhumane and B.

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It can kill the house pets.

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'cause if a cat catches the rat that's

eating the poison, the cat eats the rat.

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The cat's now poisoned.

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Both die, not just the rat.

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The second argument is, and also don't,

instead of using poison use these humane

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rat traps where you catch them and

then you release them into the wild.

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Okay.

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Another thing in addition to that

is please don't use glute traps.

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'cause those are inhumane.

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They're not helpful 'cause the animal

suffers and, it's a terrible way to die.

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So I take issue with the word humane.

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Can you.

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Talk to something like that.

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Let's apply Genesis nine.

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It doesn't go both ways.

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Talk to poisoning animals and dispatching

of animals when they're merely pests.

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It's not like it's posing an ethical

issue for us or a health issue.

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Right, right.

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Talk to those things.

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Right.

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For the, the person that argues that,

my guess is if you have a cockroach

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run across your kitchen floor,

you're gonna step on the cockroach.

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You're not gonna create a

humane trap for your cockroach.

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Well, they're not as cute though.

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Let's just be honest.

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Out into the wild.

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No one thinks a cockroach cute.

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But that's the thing.

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That's the point.

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It's a subjective argument.

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Right.

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It's not objective.

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It's totally subjective to say, well, we

think that this has more value than this.

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And I think God's parameters

is we're to exercise dominion.

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Now, the writer of Proverbs says

that a man needs to treat his

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beast with care and concern that he

shouldn't be brutal unnecessarily

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towards the life of his beast.

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That that's something that is

disdained in the eyes of God, but the

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dispatch of that, which is a pest, I

think just like swatting a mosquito,

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we're just at a different level when

we're dealing with a pest that is

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potentially harmful because rats

are filthy, they're dirty animals.

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They carry disease carriers.

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Yeah.

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They can hurt your family.

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And so I think it's wise

to, in stewardship of your

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family to get rid of them.

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Now, the poison the cats eat the rats.

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The rats have poison.

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The cats are poisoned.

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We're so far removed as far

as the potential hazard there.

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And I did see a Facebook post recently

that pointed to that happening.

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Yeah.

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This is the first time

I had ever seen that.

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And I assume it's happened before,

but this is the first time I had

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ever seen anything like that.

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I think you, you need to make a

conscious driven decision at that point.

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As for yourself I'm not gonna

make a law where there is no law.

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We have rat poison in our backyard.

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Yeah it's there, it's effective because

I've picked up dead mice from our

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backyard and thrown it in the trash can.

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My dog is smart enough or

dumb enough not to eat 'em.

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I don't know.

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But he avoids it.

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Okay.

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Do you take issue with anyone

using the terminology, the

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humane treatment of animals?

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Yeah.

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They're not worthy of humane treatment.

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We can be kind towards them, but

we need, and should we be, yes,

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we should be kind towards animals

to an extent when they become a

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nuisance or a threat to human life.

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Part of our call to exercise, dominion

is a call to rid ourselves of them.

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In fact, it's interesting 'cause right

after the flood too, we didn't comment

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on this, but God instills fear within

the lives of animals when Yeah, it

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comes to their relationship to mankind.

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He also lets us eat them.

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He also lets us eat them and he

doesn't qualify it at this point.

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Nope.

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There, there's just, Hey, carte blanche,

whatever you want to eat, enjoy it.

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Just go for it.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So that's helpful for

you to speak into that.

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That shows us that we value humans

differently than we value animals.

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Yes.

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And often we make judgements on which

value, which animals deserve more

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treatment, better treatment than

others, be because of emotional issues.

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Yeah, there's sentimentality

there and you're right.

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And a rat in theory or a mouse can

be cute where a cockroach is not.

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And so it's important to see those things.

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It doesn't mean that it's wrong per se.

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But it does mean that we're aware

of some of our biases and that

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we can account for those things.

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Now, if you wanna show love to your

neighbor and not use poison because

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your neighbor has lots of cats and okay.

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That's their animal and you know their

animal's gonna eat your rats, perhaps.

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Okay, maybe you don't wanna use

poison, but I do think you're right

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in offering the that helpful guidance.

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Make a decision that your conscience

can live with by faith and love for

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the Lord and love for people, and

whatever you choose to do, accept the

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consequences, whatever those happen to be.

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Yeah.

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In the rest of chapter nine,

there's an unsavory event that

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happens with Noah and his, we have

questions, his sons what happened?

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Tell us what happened exactly.

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It's euphemistic and we don't know.

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And I think it's intentionally

euphemistic and tell, no.

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Okay.

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I think there's enough that went

on other than just seeing Noah.

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That's all I can say with confidence

is I think that the consequences

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are enough that Noah was degraded

by his son in some way that led

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to quite the curse on his life.

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And this is a situation where you see

now that sham is gonna be the line,

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sham is gonna be the promise line.

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He's gonna be the one that him

and Jpe are going to treat their

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father with honor here and dignity.

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Even though Noah had not treated himself

with honor and dignity, but neither

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did his son him and him is gonna end

up being cursed as a result of this.

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So, I don't know exactly what happens

other than it's something that's bad.

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It's awful.

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And it's more than just a sideways glance.

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And I think we can.

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Progress.

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I'm gonna go with he humiliated him.

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Mocking, poking, something like that.

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Yeah.

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To read more into it, which

I know people have suggested.

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Yeah.

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Did he interact with noah's wife at that

point, was there, something like that?

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'cause to uncover nakedness

can mean a lot of things.

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I don't wanna read more than what's there.

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I don't wanna read less either.

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But I think I'm just gonna go

with the mockery humiliation.

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It doesn't matter actually

what the extent of it was.

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'cause scripture doesn't tell us, right?

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It does not, it's not clear and

specific and therefore we shouldn't

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try to twist the arm of scripture.

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Say, tell me what's there.

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Right?

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We should be good Bereans

and study what's there, but.

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There are some things that God

has chosen us to reveal to us, and

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that might be one of those things

right from here in chapter 10.

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Then we get the lineage of

Noah, and it's gonna go through

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this line of Shem, him and j.

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Now Shem is gonna be the son of the

promise, so he's the one that the, again,

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the promise made the eve back that we

talked about a few days ago that the.

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Offspring of Eve would crush

the head of the serpent.

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That one's gonna come from Shem

eventually, but we see some notable

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people here as we come down here.

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The sons of Ham.

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You've got Kush, you've got

Egypt, you've got Put, and Canaan.

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You can hear some of the names

of peoples that would emerge

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from these these numbers there.

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Down in verse 10.

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You've got Babel.

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Babel's gonna play a role in the very

next chapter that we're gonna get to.

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You've got a reference to the Philistine.

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So you see right off the bat there that

the Sons of Ham, this cursed child of

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Noah, are going to end up being a thorn

in the side of Israel for a long time.

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In fact, the Canaanites

are going to come from Ham.

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The Canaanites are gonna be the

ones that they're gonna have to

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drive out of the promised land.

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You're also gonna have Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Our first mention of Sodom and Gomorrah

shows up here in Genesis 10 19.

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They are.

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Gonna be the descendants from ham as well.

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And then in the rest of it you

get Shem beginning in verse 21.

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And Shem is going to

produce his own offspring.

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We're gonna get more into she's

lineage in chapter 11, though.

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But but this takes us up to the

days the earth was divided as it

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references there in verse 26 of

chapter 10, which is explained to us

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in chapter 11 with the Tower Babel.

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Tower Babel in chapter 11 is one of

those stories that's always fascinating

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because it's what were they doing?

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What was the problem here?

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And I think that the main problem

is found there in verse four.

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It's not just that they were like

most boys that are thinking to

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themselves, let's build a tower

and get it as tall as we can.

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But rather they wanted to make a

name for themselves lest they be

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dispersed over the face of the earth.

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The creation mandate of God was

be fruitful and multiply and fill

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the face of the Earth, which was.

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In obedience to God,

making his name great.

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They were to populate the whole earth

and represent him part of the Imago Day.

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The image of God was that they would

image God and represent him globally

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across the whole face of the earth.

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This is a perversion of that

because they're gathering together.

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They're not dispersing and

they're trying to make a name,

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not for God, but for themselves.

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And so God in response is gonna

come down and confuse the language.

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He's gonna divide them

whether they like it or not.

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And the way that he's gonna do that

is gonna take what at the time was one

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language and turn it into many languages.

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And so they were gonna have to

gather together based on common

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tongue, which meant what a talk about

questions like how did this work?

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Because did they.

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Did God make it to where they all

knew the language together right

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away and what they were saying?

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Or did they have to learn this

thing and kind of fumble through

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it as they're finding themselves?

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And who spoke this tongue,

who spoke that tongue, right?

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There's a lot that's not explained

here but God is about his glory

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and obedience to him here.

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Yeah.

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And what's most exciting about chapter

11 is that you have the reversal

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of the Tower of Babel and, I don't

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years later in Acts chapter two.

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Where you have the tongues setting

on the heads of people, and now

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God is giving them the key, as it

were to speak God's truth in this.

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So you have the, you have God

initially sending people over the

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face of the earth and saying, I'm

gonna divide you with tongues.

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And then later on he's gonna

send divided tongues to

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proclaim his glory in His honor.

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So you can see some of the way

that scripture weaves itself into.

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Itself by giving you clues in context

clue's like this that help you see,

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oh, I see what's happening here.

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Sin resulted in confusion and division.

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God's righteousness unites that and brings

together what was previously fractured.

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How beautiful is that?

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It is.

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The rest here of chapter 11,

zooms in on sham and sham

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again is the line of promise.

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This lineage here is gonna take us down

all the way to verse 26, where it says,

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Tara had lived 70 years and he fathered.

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Abram Hor and Harran.

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Now Abram is later he comes church.

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Abraham.

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Yes.

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Abram Kim right here.

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He's really old, but he

wears it really well.

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He looks really good for his day.

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He does.

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He does.

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He does.

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And so Abram is gonna be the one that the

scene is now gonna zoom in on starting in

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chapter 12, but we also have a lot here.

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Mentioned in verse 27, lot is gonna play

a role and Saray is gonna be Abram's wife.

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She has mentioned there in verse

30, and notably it says that

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she was barren and had no child.

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That sets the stage for the

conflict that's gonna take place

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later on in Abraham's life.

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So chapters one through 11.

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Is considered a unit in the book

of Genesis one through 11, really

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through verse 26 is Primeval history.

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This is the creation of all things,

how God dealt with humanity prior

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to this from chapter 1127, all the

way through the end of the book,

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chapter 50 verse, whatever that is.

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You have patriarchal history, so

if you can remember that two Ps

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one through 11, primeval history 12

through 50 or about 12 through 50.

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Patriarchal history, and

we'll pick that up tomorrow.

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That's good.

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New Testament reading.

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Now we get into Matthew chapter four.

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Matthew chapter four.

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Oh, this is a good one.

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So chapter three you had Jesus

baptized and it said the spirit of

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God descended upon him like a dove.

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Now that's more than just a, a.

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Argument for the existence of the

Trinity because you've got the father

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speaking, the spirits descending

and the son there in the water.

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It's also the spirit of God was descending

on Jesus for a reason, and that was to

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anoint him for his ministry, to equip

him, empower him for his ministry.

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Remember Jesus here has veiled

the fullness of his glory in

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the fullness of his humanity.

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His true deity is still present

within him, but he's chosen Allah.

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The Kenosis passage of Philippians

chapter two, to empty himself by

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taking on the form of a servant

and being found in the likeness of.

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Of men here, the spirit is going to equip

him and empower him in his humanity.

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That is to be able to do the work

that the Lord has for him, including

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what happens in chapter four,

which is the wilderness temptation.

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So the spirit, that's why it says, leads

Jesus into the wilderness where he's

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gonna face the temptation of the enemy.

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Now, this is one of the things that I

talked about last Sunday that time in

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God's word does for us, is it equips

us to experience victory over sin by

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helping us to battle sin and fight sin.

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This is the sword of the spirit

being wielded by the word.

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Of God by Jesus himself.

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And we see just a masterful interaction

between Jesus and the devil who comes

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to tempt him as Jesus combats the

temptations that the devil throws at him

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by using God's word to establish what's

true in the face of the devil's lies.

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What a cool display of Jesus' wisdom

and the power that he operates in.

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This is something you and I can do.

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We often look at Jesus and say,

well, I can't walk on water

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and I don't know the future.

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I, yeah, and that's fair.

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Jesus is God in the flesh,

but notice he is in the flesh.

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This is something we can do.

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And in fact, I have a sneaking

suspicion, at least a part of sneaking

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suspicion that maybe Jesus was.

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In his daily Bible reading.

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Maybe he was in Deuteronomy, because

two of these passages come from

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Deuteronomy, one's from chapter

six, one's from chapter eight.

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He does quote Psalm 91 and Isaiah chapter

nine, so he's a little bit all over, but

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I wonder maybe he memorized those and

he has just read Deuteronomy six scroll.

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Yeah.

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Eight scroll.

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I don't know.

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All I know is that Jesus

is a man of the word.

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He's the word incarnate, but

he's a man who knew this.

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He had to learn this.

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In his flesh.

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He had to learn these things.

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Yeah.

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How does it work?

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I don't know.

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I just know that he did.

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So if Jesus spent time doing this,

man, this is a worthy investment of

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our time to spend time in the word, at

minimum, to engage with it, but also.

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If you've got time and you have the will,

what a good thing to do then to memorize

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the word and employ it like Jesus did.

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And you mentioned yesterday that there's

the announcement from the father.

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This is my beloved son,

with whom I'm well pleased.

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And just like Satan in the garden,

like we talked about a few days ago.

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Yeah.

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Satan's gonna go after Jesus's

confidence in the father's love for him.

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Yeah.

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Does God really say, yeah.

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Did God say this?

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Don't, doesn't God care about you?

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If you throw yourself off, he's

gonna take care of you, won't he?

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Mm.

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Jesus is gonna see through

the lies of the enemy.

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In other words, no, Satan's not stupid.

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He is in the pejorative sense of the

term, but he's not stupid intellectually.

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Like he's cunning, he's smart.

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He's crafty.

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Yeah.

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And he even tries to use God's

word in ways to get us to

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fall prey to his temptations.

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And we need to be careful.

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We need to know our word well enough,

like obviously Jesus did to be able

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to combat these things as well.

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Yeah.

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You know that's a great point.

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Because that tells us that we

should not expect every person who

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brings the Bible in their mouth

that they're telling the truth.

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Right?

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You have to have, you have to have the

knowhow and the skill to, to know your

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word well enough to combat the truth,

or to combat the error with the truth.

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So another example that Jesus

gives us is not only to know the

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word, but to know how to wield it.

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That is, that's different than just

knowing, okay, where's John three 16?

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How do I find that in my Bible?

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That's good.

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And I'm not gonna poo poo that at all.

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But you should also know how to wield

the word of God just like Jesus did,

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and that's gonna take a lifetime.

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Of mastery, and I'm sure Jesus

was doing this from Sabbath school

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years when he was just a little boy.

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Mm-hmm.

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From his whole upbringing to his

adult life, he was a man of the word.

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And it's evident here as he engaged with

the devil, masterfully with the word.

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Yep.

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As chapter four continues, then

Jesus launches his earthly ministry.

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He's gonna have make his

home base there in Capernaum.

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So this is north in Israel.

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This is up by the Sea of Galilee.

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And so this is gonna be

where he's going to reside.

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This is also Peter's hometown.

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We know that Peter and his wife

and his mother-in-law live here.

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We're gonna find that out later in

the gospels, but this is where Jesus

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is gonna make his home base, at least

up in the Galilean region for the

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early part of his earthly ministry.

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He finds out that John the Baptist has

been arrested, and it says in verse 17.

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From that time on, Jesus began to preach.

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And his message is the same as John's was.

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Repent for the kingdom

of heaven is at hand.

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So Jesus here takes up John's

message and continues to go and

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reach people by calling them to

repentance for the kingdom is at hand.

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After this, he's going to

call his first disciples.

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Now it's important that you

note this is not their first

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time interacting with Jesus.

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We can go to John's

gospel and see that John.

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Recording.

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There is more of the initial interaction

between Jesus and these disciples.

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This is Jesus officially beckoning them

to come and follow him as their rabbi.

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This is the formal call

of these disciples.

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That's why they leave everything

that they're doing to go follow him.

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This is not as though this is a stranger

saying, come follow me, and they're

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going, okay, yeah, we're all in.

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No, these had already spent time with

Jesus and heard him and been around him.

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This is.

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Him commissioning them, saying,

come and be my followers.

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Come and follow me.

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Learn from me in a formal sense.

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And that's what's going on here with

the calling of the disciples here in

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this middle section of chapter four.

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And not to contradict you at all,

but I don't wanna take away from the

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fact that they did leave everything.

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Yeah, they did.

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They did.

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They dropped and they knew who Jesus was.

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And I think that's an

important caveat here.

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Yeah.

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Is that he wasn't a

stranger to your point.

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Mm-hmm.

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He had displayed to them.

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That he had the credentials to

be someone who could teach them.

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He was worthy of leaving

everything for Yeah.

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Now I, I don't know that this

was a permanent situation because

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Peter still had a wife and kids.

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They still had their fishing

business, they picked back up.

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So I'm not sure what it all included,

but it is a healthy picture for us of

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what discipleship typically looks like.

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You give up all to follow Jesus.

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Yeah.

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And that call that he gave

them still applies to us today.

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Yeah.

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The chapter ends, and it's an

interesting statement here.

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It says, he went throughout all

Galilee teaching in their synagogues

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and proclaiming the gospel of

the kingdom and healing every

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disease and every affliction.

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We may wonder what is the gospel

of the kingdom and what does it

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mean when he was saying Repent for

the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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I think we're about to

get a glimpse of that.

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Tomorrow when we start into the Sermon

on the Mount to understand some of

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what the gospel of the kingdom looked

like for Jesus as he was preaching

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and teaching through these regions.

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So make sure you tune in again

tomorrow as we tackle chapter five

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of Matthew, at least half of it, as

well as our Old Testament reading.

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Hmm.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, thanks for the example

that we have in Jesus.

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I pray that you would make us.

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It comes Bible church, men and women who

wield the sword of the spirit effectively.

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That we would know our Bible so

well, that we were able to combat the

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lies, the temptations of the enemy.

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And so God help us to be men and women

who are godly and who are ready to take on

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whatever comes our way each and every day.

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And we know that spending

time in your word each.

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Each and every day is such

an important part of that.

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So may we stay committed.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Well, hey guys, you are

doing such a great job.

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Keep going.

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You're doing an awesome work

in laying this foundation.

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It's going to pay dividends, I promise.

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Remember, the gains come in the end

as we look back, but this is part of

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the process of building those gains.

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So keep going, tuning against

tomorrow as we keep this process

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of reading God's word together.

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Y I'll come back now.

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Bye.

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