00:00 Introduction and New Year Greetings

00:17 Meet the Pastors and Church Background

01:14 Purpose and Vision of the Podcast

02:20 Daily Bible Reading Challenge

04:52 Genesis: Creation and Theological Insights

14:15 Matthew: Genealogy and Birth of Jesus

19:56 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Questions or Comments? Email us podcast@compassntx.org

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to a brand New Year's

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Happy New Year.

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That's a firework.

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I was wondering if you were the first to

wish everybody a happy New Year or not.

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I was not the first, at least today.

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I was the first, several days ago.

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I don't know, maybe a

month ago at this point.

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Probably Happy New Year.

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Yeah, happy New Year.

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I am Pastor Rod.

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I am the associate pastor

at Compass Bible Church.

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And who are you?

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My name is Pastor pj, and I am the

lead pastor at Campus Bible Church.

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Oh and we meet in Prosper, Texas.

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If you're in the area, we'd

love to have you join our Church

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Founder's Classical Academy.

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Thanks for tuning in.

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How long have we been doing ministry here?

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What are we doing here?

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Why are we here?

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Have been here for just

about two and a half years.

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We launched in 2023 and we launched

here in this area because of all

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the growth that's taken place here.

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There's a ton of people.

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There's a lot of people.

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Yeah.

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And it's not slowing down.

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Why did you choose North Texas?

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North Texas.

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The growth was a big part of it.

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Yeah.

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We looked at the map we were seeing,

okay, where are people moving to?

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These were Prosper.

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Salina McKinney, some of the fastest

growing cities in the nation at the time.

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Not just in Texas, but in the nation.

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And so it made sense for us to

come here because this is where

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the people are coming, but also my.

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Background here.

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I grew up in this area and so I

have a heart for this area to have

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biblical preaching and teaching

and and biblical churches here.

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So that's one of the reasons

that drew us as well.

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That's a great reason.

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What are some of your

hopes for this podcast?

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Why do we do this?

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This is a lot of time.

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Yeah.

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We're both full-time pastors.

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We're doing ministry, but we've

been doing this now for about

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as long as we've been planted.

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So two and a half years, we

have, why are we doing this?

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Yeah, we're doing this.

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In fact, I preached on this on the 28th,

that time in God's word is the greatest

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investment that you will make in 2026.

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That time in God's word

is never wasted time.

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And we want to give our thoughts and

attentions and mind fully to time and

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God's word, but even as the spirit

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dwells within us.

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Anytime that we're spending in

God's word is going to bear fruit,

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it's going to be positive for us.

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It's gonna be beneficial for

us to make us more like Christ.

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And so we have a passion.

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The Bible is central.

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It's one of our distinctives, but

we want our people in God's word.

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Not just on Sundays or even Sundays

and Wednesdays, or maybe when

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you have your community group.

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We want our people in God's word

every single day of the year.

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And so our challenge from that

sermon back on the 28th was that

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everybody participate with us in this.

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And so hopefully we've got a lot of new

listeners to the Daily Bible podcast

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today because the challenge was, hey we

want you in God's word every single day.

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We're gonna be with you every single day

helping you out with the podcast here.

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And this is the greatest investment

that you can make because this is the

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investment that's gonna make you more

like Jesus more than anything else will.

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Yeah.

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And one of the things that we would

encourage you to do is to get the

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bookmarks for your Bible, because

this is gonna help you stay on track.

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We're gonna be here with you every single

day of the year, God willing, unless Jesus

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comes back and we don't have any more.

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Episodes in the queue.

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We won't promise to do it after that,

but short of that we will be here.

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And if not us, we would find some

worthy substitutions, God willing.

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So we're gonna be here.

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We'd love for you to

go to compass ntx.org.

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You can find our Bible reading plan.

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There.

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You can find some bookmark.

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PDFs, I think.

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I'm not sure what they are,

but we would love to have you

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join us this day and every day.

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And it's always gonna be mostly PPJ and

myself will bring up all the hard topics.

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I'm gonna ask the really

tough questions, hard hitting.

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I'm going for the hard hitting questions.

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I don't hold back.

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I don't pull any punches.

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I go for the jugular because

the word of God deserves that.

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It deserves our effort and our

intentionality and our questions.

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We don't shy away from questions.

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In fact, that's one of my favorite

parts of the podcast is I get to

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throw stuff at you and I get to

sit back and listen to you answer.

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One of the best parts of the podcast.

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Speaking of questions, if you have

any, we invite you to participate Yes.

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podcast@compassntx.org

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is the email address that you

can send your questions into.

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And we will get 'em answer.

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And by and large, we do get to them.

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Sometimes it takes us

time for whatever reason.

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But we would love to have

you participate with us.

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You can give us your feedback and

let us know what you're thinking.

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podcast@compassntx.org.

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And I think without further ado,

now we wanna jump in where we

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wanna start the year strong.

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It is the new year.

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Maybe one other thing, one other

thing though if you stay with us.

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Oh, all year long.

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What?

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Oh, here we go.

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There may be some swag.

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A thousand dollars.

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Oh, well I, pastor Rod's gonna

pay you a thousand dollars.

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You may get some swag for Pastor p

checking account that might be a little

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reward for saying, Hey, I made it

through, I was with you all 365 days.

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We're excited to do this with you.

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So what are we thinking?

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What kind of swag?

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Let's get the people some,

something, see what it tastes like.

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, we might do a t-shirt, we might

do, oh, like a, we talked about a

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refrigerator magnet or something

like that magnet that Every year.

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Every year.

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A add to that.

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Yeah.

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So we will get creative.

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We've got ideas, a Yeti tumbler.

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A MacBook, perhaps, maybe all sorts

of options that we can think of.

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We wrap your car if you're the top 1%

of our Spotify listeners this year.

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So help us, Lord.

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We will create one of those Spotify

wrapped special messages for you.

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We're gonna do that.

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There we go.

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We're gonna do it.

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Yep.

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And if you're the top 1%, you,

you'll get to wrap your car with

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our church's logo on your dime.

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We're gonna let you do that.

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And for the top.

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0.01%.

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You get to have Pastor PJ's car.

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The Okay.

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For a day.

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For a day.

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I was gonna say, I'll autograph your car.

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I don't know, but, but okay.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, yeah.

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But we can jump in right now.

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So we're in, this year we're in Old

Testament and New Testament together.

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Yes.

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So that's different from last year.

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Last year we were.

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Chronological and all

God's people said, amen.

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Amen.

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This is good.

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Yeah.

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So last year I think we kicked off

with Genesis one through three.

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So this year we're only doing Genesis

one through two, but then we're also

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gonna be in Matthew chapter one.

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Nice.

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So as we start in the Old Testament here

what we're doing is we're setting up

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everything for the rest of the Bible.

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In fact, in the beginning, God could

be seen as the foremost important words

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in the entirety of the Bible, because

if we can't get past those words, then

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none of the rest of it makes sense.

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If we can, if we can agree with that.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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God was there at the beginning.

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Of all things.

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In fact, maybe you're brand new to

reading the Bible, you're a new Christian.

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You're trying to figure that all this out.

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What this is arguing is that God is the

unmoved mover, he's the uncreated creator.

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He's the one that existed before all

things existed, and so he is the one

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that has to be there by necessity

for anything else to exist because

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there's no other logical expression

or understanding for why we have.

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What we have in the universe.

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So in the beginning, God, super important

words, just four of 'em, but don't

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overlook their significance there.

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And then from here in chapter one and

chapter two, which is our reading today

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Moses, who's the author of Genesis as

part of the beginning of the first five

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books of the Bible called the Penit.

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Moses is the author of these

five books, we believe Moses.

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Is gonna give us the creation account of

how God formed the world, and not just

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our world, but the universe in total.

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So chapter one is kind of high level.

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Chapter two is gonna zoom in specifically

with the creation of mankind.

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I'm really glad that you said that.

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'cause I think some people are gonna

be tripped up over chapter two and

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say, well, what is this recapitulation?

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What are we doing?

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I thought we just read this.

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It kind of slows down the

scene and zooms in to.

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Focus in on the two highest

ranking creatures in all

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creation, which are God's people.

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Of course you've got Adam and then

it zooms in on Adam and Eve and

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talks about how they originated.

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But what's important to see here

is that God created everything.

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We don't believe in a

Darwin evolutionary model.

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We don't believe that

nothing produces anything.

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We think that nothing produces

nothing unless God steps

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in and creates everything.

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And you might know the term

x nihilo, which is Latin for.

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Out of nothing, I believe.

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Is that right Pastor pj?

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It is, yes.

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You took Latin for like

16 years or something?

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Not quite.

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Can you take that at some point?

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I took it for a minute.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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What does X mean?

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I must mean out of, I'm guessing.

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Yeah.

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Out of X Nilo.

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Yep.

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God creates everything X nihilo.

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And sometimes we look at Genesis.

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It's not a science textbook,

let's just be clear on that.

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It's not meant to be read that

way, but it, it is meant to

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tell us how God created things.

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So we do take it at face value.

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We don't take it in an overly wooden

or overly literal position, but we do

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take it for what it says and we take it.

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Absolutely.

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That is God made everything that we

see and nothing is without accidents.

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We think that it's really hard

to fit in a Darwinian model here.

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We know that there are some Christians who

will look at Genesis one and two and say,

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well, it's possible between verse one and

two that God made everything and there's

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this large untimed gap between space.

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Yeah.

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Billions of years, billions of

years could have been there.

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And they would argue, that could be

the reason why it appears that the

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universe has this redshift, which only

shows a certain a timing, a timing

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element, and that everything's expanding.

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And dinosaurs, which are dated,

we use carbon dating and they're

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billions upon, billions of years old.

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So let's talk about a few of those things.

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Of a Christian who is more scientifically

minded, looks at Genesis chapter one

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and two and says, well, I don't see

evolution in here, but does it fit?

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What do you think?

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My argument in conviction is I'm

gonna say no, it doesn't fit.

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And the reason being is one of the

problems with evolution, that is a big

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problem for Christians, and a big problem

for the gospel in general, is the death of

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living beings, the death of those beings

that have the breadth of life within them.

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Mm.

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And so when you have death

prior to the fall, which doesn't

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take place until Genesis.

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Three.

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Then what we are implying, or what

we were suggesting is that what God

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created and declared to be very good,

which is what his assessment was after

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his creation of mankind had a defect.

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And that is that these animals were

aging and breaking down and their

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bodies were breaking down and they were

dying of old age or dying of disease

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or dying of whatever may have you.

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And we have to ask the question,

where did that come from?

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Where did that deficiency?

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Where did that imperfection come from

'cause God is creating as the perfect God

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and he's declaring things to be very good.

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And so if we're gonna allow for death

of those that have the life of God

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breathe into them, then we have to

imply by extension that God created

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with imperfections in his creation,

which would suggest a problem with God.

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Not only that, I think it also calls into

question a problem of the wages of sin.

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The wages of sin is death.

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And so death is a physical consequence

and an eternal consequence, but a

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physical consequence nonetheless

of sin, and sin doesn't enter

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the picture until Genesis three.

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That's a helpful that's a helpful

feedback and response here.

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Let me ask you this question.

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When we talk about death, what

kind of death are we talking about?

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That is, are we talking

primarily physical?

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Physical and spiritual.

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And who are we talking about?

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Are we talking only humans?

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Are we talking animals?

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Are we talking plant life?

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Yeah.

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I heard someone say once, did Adam

and Eve when they walked through

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the garden, did they step on a

twig or did they step on leaves?

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Were there leaves falling from the trees?

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And if so, is that not a form of death,

even though it's not animal or human?

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What's your take on those things?

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So I'll start on the back

end of that question.

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That's why I was saying

the breadth of God in them.

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And so I think we would look

to death as being animal and

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human death, I think would be the

category that I would put there.

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Prior to the fall, I don't believe

there was any death of animals.

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I don't believe that there

was any death of human beings.

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And so I think that the death that

came as a result of the fall then

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was a death that was applied to the

animal world and to obviously Adam

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and Eve and their progeny after them.

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Plant life.

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Was there death there?

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Yeah, because Adam and Eve had

to have, they had sustenance.

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Sustenance.

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Yeah.

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They had to have food.

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So certainly there was

death to plant life.

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But the plant life doesn't have

the breath of God breathed into it.

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And so I think that would then extend

into our understanding of what the death

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is as a result of the fall applies.

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Specifically in the main

thrust is that this is.

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To the Imago Day, those that

are created in the image of God

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they were created not to die.

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And yet because the, the fall

death enters the picture.

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So is that physical death?

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Yes, it's physical death.

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That they're no longer gonna live forever.

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And that's seen by the fact that after

Adam and Eve eat of the tree, the

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knowledge of good and evil, which is,

I think tomorrow's episode, God takes

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the tree of life away because he doesn't

want that spoil or alert to live forever.

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And it's also spiritual death.

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And that's the greater problem

because that's the death of

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the wrath of God for eternity.

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That's the death of the infinite

chasm between us and God.

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That's bridgeable by no

one else other than Jesus.

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Fantastic.

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Okay, another follow-up question.

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This one comes from chapter two,

and this is specific specific to

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the language that's used here.

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It says here that on the

seventh day, God rested, he

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finishes work and then he rests.

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Why does God need a break?

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So what he's resting from here, and it's

important that we understand this is not.

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Everything.

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And we know this because Colossians

chapter one says that by in him,

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all things are held together.

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In Hebrews chapter one says that

Jesus upholds all things in the

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universe by the word of his power.

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If God rested from everything, the

universe would've completely fallen

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apart and completely been destroyed.

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So this is rest from his creative act.

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This is rest from the work that he had

done on the first six days of creation.

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It's not resting from sustaining

creation because then creation

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would be completely obliterated.

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This is rest from his creative activity.

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In fact, Jesus talks about this in

John's gospel in John chapter five when

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he says, my father has been working

until now, and I myself am also working.

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And he's saying that in response to

being accused of doing work on the.

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Day on the seventh day.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's a good connection.

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And so Jesus is saying, I'm still

working just like he's still working

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because even though it says he

rested, he was still working, doing

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the work that he needs to do as God.

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And Jesus was saying, I'm

God, so I'm still doing work.

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So God rests in that He ceased from

activity in the creation process.

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Right.

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He never can rest.

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Right.

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At least by definition, because if

you did, then we'd stop existing.

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Right.

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So he's always functioning.

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Okay, fantastic.

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Let me back up a few verses

now that I'm looking at this.

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Can you address the plural that God uses?

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Is he talking about himself and angels?

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Is he talking about himself, the

son and the spirit when he says,

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let us make man an our image?

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Who's he talking about?

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Yeah, it's it, I think the only

way that we can really look at it.

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Is as a, an expression of the Trinity.

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And we see the Trinity even before this.

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In Genesis chapter one, it says, in the

beginning, God created the heavens and

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the earth, and it says the spirit of God

was hovering over the face of the waters.

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And we even see the word of God.

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And this is extrapolated from

John chapter one, looking back and

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commenting on Genesis, when Jesus

is referred to as the logos of God.

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And through him all things were created.

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So when it says, and God said, and that's

a repeated refrain over and over again.

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I think there's grounds for

us to see the logos of God.

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The word of God, the.

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Can member of the Trinity here.

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So I think we see the Trinitarian creative

activity here in Genesis chapter one.

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Thus when it says, let us make man in

our own image, this is the Godhead.

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This is the what's known

as the imminent Trinity.

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This is a conversation amongst the

father, son, and spirit that we get

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to eavesdrop on through the process

of divine revelation as God in the

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Trinitarian formula talks about

creating mankind after the image of God.

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Okay.

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Man, there's so many questions

in Genesis, and I cannot ask

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everything that you are thinking.

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I know that you have more questions.

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If you wanna follow up, send 'em in,

but there's a lot more here, and let

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me just make one observation for you.

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Okay.

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Days one, two, and three, you might

have noticed and maybe you didn't.

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That what God does on day one, two,

and three is creates the environment.

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And then on day four, five, and

six, he fills that environment.

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So, day one you have light and dark.

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On day four, you have lights for the

day and you have light for the night.

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So the sun and the moon.

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On day three you have the fertile

earth, and then on day six, you have

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the animals that fill the earth.

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So God creates environments and

then he fills the environment.

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It's beautiful because God creates

this parallelism and you're gonna see

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this all throughout the Hebrew Bible.

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There is parallel all over the place

where God does an A and then an A

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one Prime and then a B, and then a

B one prime, something like that.

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So keep an eye out for those things.

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Genesis one and two in the books.

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Alright, let's jump over to our

New Testament reading in Matthew.

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Matthew chapter one.

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We read this not long ago if you

were with us last year because we.

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Back load the New Testament.

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So now we're in it right at the

start of the year again, and we start

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chapter one with the genealogy of Jesus

and the genealogy of Matthew here.

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'cause Luke has one as well.

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He starts with Abraham because Matthew's

intent was, he was writing to a Jewish

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audience, and Abraham was a very

significant character, significant

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figure in the lives of Jewish people.

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It was through Abraham that the promised

blessing would come to Israel, and not

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only to Israel, but also to the nations.

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Now.

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He's gonna go through this genealogy

here and he's gonna provide a lot of

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different names that you're going to

read, but it's important for us to know

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and to admit and to be okay with the

fact that there's gaps in this genealogy.

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And you might think to

yourself, well wait a minute.

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It says the father of the father.

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Of the Father of.

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So how can we be okay with the gaps?

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Well, the phrase father of can also mean.

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Ancestor of, or progenitor of.

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And so it's not necessary to

translate that as he's the

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direct father of this person.

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And so we know that there's gaps,

for example, between Rahab and David.

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There are four centuries

that elapsed there.

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So, there are far more people

that were born in four centuries

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than the names that we have listed

there in verses five and six.

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And we see that a few more

times in this genealogy.

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So at the end when it says in verse

17, all these generations were 14,

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and then 14 more, and 14 more really.

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You.

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What this is, is Matthew

saying, we're doing this as a

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way for you to remember things.

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This is a mnemonic way of breaking all

of this down so that you have a general

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flow of what's happened and how we

get from Abraham all the way to Jesus.

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It wasn't necessary for Matthew to unpack

every single name to show that Jesus

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lineage goes all the way back there.

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It's to Abraham.

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So what you have here then is

a compression of the genealogy.

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And this is important because some

people might struggle with this PPJ.

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What would you say to the person who

says, well then this isn't accurate.

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This isn't true.

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If you have 14 generations here,

14 generations there, that's, he's

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cherry picking number one and number

two, this is not the way it was.

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he's cherry picking.

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Was actually factual, right?

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And that's what I was driving at there.

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This is all true that these people were

all connected, genealogically speaking.

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It's simply a matter of the fact

that he skipped over some generations

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there in part number one, because

maybe those names wouldn't have

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been as familiar to his audience.

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But number two, he's hitting the

high points so that his people

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can remember these things.

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This was an old.

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Oral culture even now in the New

Testament, as Matthew is writing, it's

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becoming more of a literate culture,

but it's still a largely oral culture.

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And Matthew probably learned

this genealogy orally himself.

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And so he's going back and tracing these

things in a way that's gonna allow his

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people to remember it on the fly because

they're not gonna be able to whip out

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their New Testament copy and open up to.

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To Matthew chapter one, when they're

having the conversation around the passer

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Seder, when one of the Jewish converts

is trying to tell his Jewish family that

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Jesus is the promised Messiah connected to

Abraham, and they say, well, how can you

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prove that Matthew's got a genealogy here?

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That was memorable for the people

to be able to say, well, let me tell

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you how he gets back to Abraham.

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So what you have here then is a

true and it may be not accurate

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by today's standards and not

accurate in the same sense.

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But I guess that does bring

up the question about what

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kind of text we're looking at.

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Are we looking at a textbook

that is meant to tell us with

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precision, this is this person's

father, all the way down the line?

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And of course the answer is no.

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The gospels are not meant to give us

comprehensive information, but they

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are meant to give us true information.

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They're meant to give us

true things about Jesus.

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And so here this genealogy.

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Is rife, it's rich with, I don't wanna

say symbolism, but it's rich with meaning.

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Because as you trace your finger

down these names, some of these

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names might ring true to you.

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Oh, I know that person.

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I know Hezekiah, he's one of

The's, one of the good kinks.

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But you also see Manas there.

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And as you pointed out, you also

see Ruth and you also see Rahab and

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you see different names that you're

like, oh man, this is the lineage.

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Of the king.

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This is the lineage of the Messiah.

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Okay.

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One more quick thing then you said

it's a monic to, for the purpose

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of remembering 14 generations from

David, 14 generations after David,

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is there any other significance?

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We start getting into numerology here

and I think it's called gria, yeah.

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Where you ascribe meaning to

numbers, anything there about that?

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The only other observation I

might make is 14 is seven twice,

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which seven is the number of God.

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And so it's possible that there's

some significance there as well.

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There's, there's some, some

spiritual significance there.

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Okay, that's good.

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After the genealogy, then we get the

account of the birth of Jesus, which.

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Christmas in our rear view mirror

is again, something that we've

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been through together recently.

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And I'm sure you've thought about this

and read it together as your family

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too, but this is the birth of Jesus.

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And I think there's a couple

of points here to note.

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Number one the emphasis on the

virginity of Mary, I think is specific

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here with Matthew where it says

there that she had been betrothed

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to Joseph and it says before they

came together without going too far.

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Just know that implies, this is definitely

before they consummated the marriage.

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This is something that is specific

from Matthew to note this, that she was

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found with child from the Holy Spirit.

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We can go to Luke chapter one verses

26 through 36, which I preached on

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just recently, where Luke there is

recording the Angel Gabriels specifically

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explaining how this could be because

Mary's gonna ask that question.

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How could this be?

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And so we can go to Luke

and see that as well.

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But he's going to be the one that is

going to go as the angel goes on to

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say save his people from their sins.

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'cause the angel goes to

Joseph, who at this point in

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time was uncomfortable things.

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And Joseph has told No,

go ahead and take Mary.

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And this is where we see some

commendable things about Joseph.

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Joseph, it says, was a righteous man.

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A just man.

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The word there is is from the

same word that we get righteous.

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He loves Mary.

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He doesn't wanna shame her.

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And the angel says.

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Take Mary don't divorce her.

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So, Joseph's a man of faith,

a man of obedience, a man of

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love, a man of righteousness.

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And he goes on to do this.

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And then in verse 23 it says, behold

the virgin shall conceive and bear a

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son and shall call his name Emmanuel.

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That name means God with us

again, emphasizing the necessity

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of the virgin birth there.

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And that's a quote from Isaiah

chapter seven, verse 14.

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Awesome.

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Cool.

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Well, like we do at the end of

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But let's pray right now.

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God, thanks for a brand new year that we

get to give our attention to your word.

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I pray that we would

mine the riches from it.

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I pray that we would gain and glean

so much from our time in the word

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that we would be faithful, that

we would be consistent, that we

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would not neglect to turn to the

pages of your word day after day.

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And so help us, Lord, to learn as much

as we possibly can and that we would be

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different people a year from now than

we are as we start out this morning or

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whenever it is that we're reading this.

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I pray that we would be

more like Jesus as a result.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Hey guys.

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There's a lot that you can do,

but we pray that you will make

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reading your Bible an important

part of every single day this year.

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See you tomorrow.

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See you then.

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