00:00 Introduction and Co-Host Introduction

00:19 Elon Musk and Biblical References

02:18 Discussion on Genesis Chapter 25

03:50 Themes and Patterns in Genesis

07:35 Esau Sells His Birthright

11:12 Warnings and Lessons from Egypt

14:45 Isaac Repeats Abraham's Mistake

16:02 God's Faithful Interventions

16:55 Ordinary Means of God's Care

18:32 Esau's Divergence from God's Path

19:22 Introduction to Matthew 9

19:48 Jesus' Authority and Miracles

23:59 The Call of Matthew

27:55 New Wine and Old Wineskins

30:19 Conclusion and Prayer

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We're glad you're with us.

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I'm joined as I have been for

the past few days by another,

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none other than my co-host, Mr.

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Lewis Zuma.

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How are you, sir?

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I am doing great.

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Excited to do This is really fun.

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I love doing this with you.

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Yeah, it's fun.

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It's fun.

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And today we get to talk

about Elon, Elon Musk.

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Elon Musk.

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He, he makes his first

appearance in Genesis 26.

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What do you think of Elon?

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Well, I've heard that Teslas

actually don't have a new car

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smell, but they have an Elon Musk

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That is awful.

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There you go.

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That is terrible.

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That is a excellent job.

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I miss my opportunity to

talk about how Abraham.

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That's the smartest man in the

Bible because he knew a lot.

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Oh, so I had to get that one in there.

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Yeah.

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That, that, that's quality.

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That's quality.

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Well, yeah, we actually are gonna

talk about Elon, not Elon Musk

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of 2026, but Elon, the Hittite.

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Do you think Elon Musk is

named after Elon the Hitite?

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Maybe, but I'm disappointed that

his dad is not named Base Map, just

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like Elon, the Hitite's father.

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Well, I don't know.

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Yeah, that is a baby name.

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If you're looking for one, if you're

desperate, there's been someone in the

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history of the world named Base math.

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You gonna own a Tesla someday?

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Probably not.

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Probably not.

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Why not?

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Why not?

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I don't like the way they smell.

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You gonna ride to Mars on the Starship?

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If you church plant on

Mars, I will come visit you.

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I did tell Julia I was like.

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Once there's a thousand people

living on Mars, that's the

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point in time when we will be.

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Church planning on Mars

Compass, Bible Church, not

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Mars Hill in Seattle, whatever.

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But that would be good because I don't

know if they have the trademark anymore.

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Mars Hill would be a

good name, wouldn't it?

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Yeah.

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That, in fact, that's a 10 out of 10.

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What could you do that's better than

that for the first church on Mars?

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Mars, I, you almost have to, right?

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You would have to.

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'cause it's from acts and anyway.

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Well, Julia told me.

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Julia is my wife.

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For those of you don't know, Julia

told me when I told her that, that

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she would not be coming with me.

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So, wow.

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You know, long distance marriage.

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I guess, I guess it's not

gonna happen, but I don't know.

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You can.

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You can dream.

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You can dream.

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Alright, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading for today.

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We are in none other than Genesis.

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Chapter 25, Genesis chapter 25.

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Now, you hopefully have done your reading,

I think it's wise to do your Bible

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reading before listening to this podcast.

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Mm-hmm.

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And this podcast is certainly

not a replacement for your actual

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study and reading of God's word.

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So I'm gonna assume that you

have read chapter 25 already.

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I'm gonna be honest.

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This can be difficult.

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I hope you've been being honest this

whole that's, I hope this is the first

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time you've been honest on this podcast.

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Well, people say that when people say

that, it's always funny 'cause it's like,

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yeah, we're like, I'm not gonna lie.

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You've been lying all the

time, but now you're honest.

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Okay.

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Well, but to be frank, how about that?

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I thought you were, mark you really

got the jokes today to be frank.

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Chapters like this in Genesis

can be difficult to read.

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They can be difficult to read because

there's just a lot of information in them.

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Yeah.

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At the end of chapter 25,

you get some fireworks.

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You definitely get some fireworks

with Esau selling his birthright.

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Mm-hmm.

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But all this other stuff leading

up to it, it's not super engaging.

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I don't mean that to insult the Bible.

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I'm sure the Bible's very offended.

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Right.

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It's there's parts of the

Bible that are hard to read.

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Mm-hmm.

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So what are some of the ways, Lewis, that

when we get to a chapter like this, where

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it's just talking about people and kind

of genealogies and factual information

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that's kind of maybe interesting but

isn't super exciting, how should we

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faithfully read a chapter like this,

especially the portion before we get

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to when Esau sells his birthright?

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Yeah.

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I think in chapters like this, you

always wanna look for patterns.

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Patterns that have.

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Preceded it in the book of Genesis or

in the Bible if you're in a different

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part of the Bible and patterns that

continue on afterwards as well.

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Yeah, I think that's a great, I think

that's a great thing to engage your mind

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as you read through some of these things.

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So like one of the examples

is the direction of eastward.

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What do you think that

direction has to do?

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Right?

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We see that specifically in there,

right in verse six, number six.

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Why does that matter?

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Why does Moses include that particular

little bit of information in here?

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Yeah.

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What are your thoughts on that?

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Especially something where it says

eastward to the east country, right?

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Something like that.

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No doubt.

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You're like, man, that's

gotta be something.

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Yeah.

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When you can go eastward to the west.

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Right.

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Let me know.

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I will, I will.

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But I think in Genesis, so far we've

seen the direction of East is not good.

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When Adam and Eve are sent away

from the garden in God's judgment,

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they are sent eastward out of the

garden and they can't go back.

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There's the angel with

the flaming sword, right?

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And then Abraham is in the east.

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He's away from the promised land.

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He's supposed to come

back to the promised Land.

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And so I think what this is showing is

that he's sending them away from Isaac,

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the child of promise, he's sending his.

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Other son, Ishmael, he's sending them

away, or in this case not Ishmael and

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his other children, by his later wife,

he's sending them away from Isaac.

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He's kinda just showing that these

are not the promised people, right?

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These are not God's chosen people.

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And in fact, it's really interesting

in Isaiah 60, a lot of these same.

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Nations that are named after these

children are called back in redemption.

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Isaiah 60.

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The latter parts of Isaiah are all about

God's salvation, his plan for the future.

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And it includes the nations,

not just the people of Israel.

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And so in Isaiah sti, you see a lot

of these same nations like Midian and

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Sheba and Iffa, all of these nations

cdar, they're coming back to the Lord.

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And so these people who originally

were not part of God's chosen ethnic

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people in the line of Abraham.

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Do get to come back and be part of God's.

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People in the very end.

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Yeah that's helpful.

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And maybe you're blown away by that.

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Maybe you're like, well, I never

would've gotten that reading East Word.

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Well, let me encourage you by

just saying, continue to read your

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Bible as you continue to read.

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Year after year, month after

month, you're gonna see these

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interconnecting themes and these ideas.

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In scripture, it's helpful to listen to

something like this podcast or read a

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commentary that help you identify those

things, but you'll see those things

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more and more, and you'll see the beauty

and intricacy and intentionality of God

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in scripture as you read these things.

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So maybe east is a little bit of

a more difficult thing to catch.

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But there's other themes here

that, that you probably should

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be able to see quite easily.

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One of them being barrenness.

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Who is barren here?

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There's another character who is barren,

which is not the first time, and it's

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not the last time that we're gonna

see one of the women, of the people

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of Israel struggle with barrenness.

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Right in verse 20, we see

the reference to Rebecca.

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And in verse 21, Isaac prays to the

Lord for his wife because she was

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barren and the Lord granted his prayer,

and Rebecca, his wife, conceived.

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So as you read some of

these things, look for that.

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Be excited about that.

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Recall the.

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The previous times when there were

fireworks, when God delivered, God

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saved, God brought life from death.

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Even in just a simple little couple

sentences like that, you can be

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recalling the goodness of God.

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So, this chapter may be

a little bit difficult.

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But it does end with something

particularly exciting and something

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that I think most people know, at

least on average, pretty, pretty well,

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which is Issa selling his birthright.

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Do you have a birthright?

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If I do, I don't know about it.

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Well, if you have a birthright.

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Listener, let us know.

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I would love to know if somebody out

there has a birthright, not something

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we really deal with these days.

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Certainly not in 2026

in the United States.

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What is a birthright?

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A birthright is something that you

are promised to inherit whether

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it's material or sometimes in this

case it would be immaterial as well.

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Yeah.

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And it includes not only money

that we might inherit, it

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includes like the position.

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Right, right.

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It's not just, it's not just

the stuff, physical stuff.

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It's also.

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Sort of the patriarchal title mm-hmm.

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For the family.

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And that means a lot more to

someone in this day than it

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does in United States today.

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Right.

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That title maybe doesn't matter

quite as much to us, but it

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matters a lot in this day.

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So what is Esau giving up?

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He's giving up a lot.

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And what does he give it up for?

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Some stew, which is, it's actually really

funny, in the Hebrew of this passage,

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that word stew isn't even in there.

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It says red stew.

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It's just red, red.

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He's just giving it up for some

red, which is even funnier.

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But I think part of this is it,

when you think about this specific

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birthright this birthright is

intertwined with the promises of God.

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Right.

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That's right.

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Esau is not just giving up his

inheritance or his position

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as the leader of the family.

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He is giving up on the promises of

God because he should know Abraham

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and Isaac are part of this line, and

God's made these promises that your

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offspring are going to and through

them all the nations are gonna be

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blessed and what Esau is saying is.

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I don't need that.

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Yeah.

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I don't wanna be part of God's promises.

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I'm gonna give up on that for some stew.

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Yeah.

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It's unbelief.

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It's unbelief.

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He doesn't believe that God is

actually gonna carry out his promises.

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Mm-hmm.

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He doesn't believe that God has made these

commitments to his fathers and he doesn't

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believe it and he believes it so little

that he's willing to trade it all for.

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A meal.

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One little meal.

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I mean, imagine trading the promises

of God for a happy meal, McDonald's.

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Yeah.

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I mean it's not far from that.

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What, the contrast

couldn't be more extreme.

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Right.

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And that I think shows us

a lot about our sin, right?

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Yes.

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It helps us put our sin in perspective.

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'cause our sin is really similar.

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We are shortsighted, we have

shortsighted desires and passions.

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And we feel, sometimes there

are physical desires, sometimes

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they're emotional desires.

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Much like Esau is hungry.

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He's exhausted, he's hungry.

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He's like, oh, I'm gonna

die if I don't get it.

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Which isn't true, right?

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But he's overcome by his short-term

emotions and his desires that he loses

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perspective of what's really important.

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And that's so often what

happens when we sin.

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We lose perspective of God's promises.

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We forget how good they are.

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We forget that they're worth it.

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And I'm gonna go back to that

word, it's unbelief, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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When we sin, it is not believing

that God's promises are true.

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And it's like.

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I don't believe help my unbelief.

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Right?

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And we need to be people who believe

in God's promises so that we don't

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make these foolish, foolish decisions.

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And all sin is foolishness.

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And here is the pinnacle of foolishness

on display as Esau sells his birthright.

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Yeah.

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And Hebrews 12 mentions this

same episode and warns us against

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repeating this type of mistake.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Well, there is another type of

mistake that is an echoing theme in

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Genesis and in fact, throughout all

the Bible, and it comes in the form

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of a warning from Abraham to Isaac.

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As we make our way into chapter

26, his warning is found there.

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In verse two, well actually

let maybe be clear.

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This is the Lord's warning to Abraham.

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Mm-hmm.

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And he says, do not go down to Egypt.

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Dwell in the land of which I shall

tell you, sojourn in this land.

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And I will be with you and will bless

you for to you and to your offspring.

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I will give all these lands.

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What is Egypt?

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Have to do with any of this.

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What does Egypt have to do as a recurring

theme that we see throughout the Bible?

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What?

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Why?

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Why does that matter?

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Yeah, so in the Bible, Egypt is

usually some sort of false hope.

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False deliverance, false salvation, right?

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We see this right here.

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There's a famine and much like in

later in Genesis with Jacob and Joseph,

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Egypt is okay during the famine.

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Egypt has a lot of food and what's

what Isaac is faced with is I

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can either stay in the promised

land and keep God's promises.

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To my family, or I can abandon

them for material gain.

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I can go to Egypt and survive

and not trust God, but trust

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my own way of doing things.

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And that's what happens

a lot later in the Bible.

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The kings of Israel are always tempted

to turn to Egypt to help them, right, to

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protect them from Assyria or from Babylon.

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They're always tempted

to, to ask Egypt for help.

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Right.

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And that is a lack of trust in God.

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That's right.

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Something that's fascinating though

is that Jesus goes down to Egypt.

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I know this isn't directly in

our passage here, but Jesus is

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actually sent by God to Egypt.

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Why?

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Why is that?

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And I know we're jumping way ahead.

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I know we.

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We're mixing up things here,

but I find it so fascinating me.

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I think it's worth talking about.

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Yeah.

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This is the 5 0 1 DBR

podcast moment right here.

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But I think what's happening, you're

talking about Matthew two, right?

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That's right.

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Matthew two.

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When Joseph is told to flee to

Egypt to escape Herod, who's

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killing all the babies in Israel.

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Yeah.

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And that's the opposite of this warning.

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Right.

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God warns the people of Israel

don't go to, don't go to Egypt.

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But then Jesus is going to Egypt.

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Yeah.

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And so last episode we mentioned

how Matthew is painting the

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history of Israel through Jesus.

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Jesus is succeeding or Israel failed.

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And I think in Matthew two what's

happening is he's showing that Israel

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is so bad that they're actually, they

become the new Egypt king Herod, yep.

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Is trying to kill all the

babies, much like Pharaoh.

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Remember that was trying to

kill all the babies with Moses.

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And so instead of fleeing

Egypt like Moses had to.

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Jesus actually has to flee Israel

and take refuge in Egypt to hide

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from the new Egypt, which is Herod

and the Israel of that time period.

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Yeah.

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Fascinating, fascinating.

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And I think that is, I

think that's correct.

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I think that's a, it's

a fascinating thing.

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Yeah.

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The Promised Land is where the

people are to flourish, right?

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The promised land is where God

intends to fulfill his promises.

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And that requires the people of

Israel, and in this case specifically.

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Isaac to be in the land.

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That's very much a

stipulation of this promise.

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There's still some problems though.

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Yes.

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And we're gonna get to something

that's particularly ironic.

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And what we're gonna see is that Isaac

is not too much different from his dad.

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In fact, Moses makes it very clear

that he is almost exactly like his dad.

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He settles in the land of guar.

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And.

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What does he do?

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He says nothing other than my wife

is actually my sister, and he says

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it to none other than a bialek

and there's wells involved, right?

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This is, I think Moses is giving us

every detail possible to make us call

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back to the previous two times where

Abraham did something very, very similar.

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You say very similar, identical, yes.

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It's even with Abbe now,

is it the same abbe that.

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Abraham came across, we don't really know.

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We don't really know.

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It could be that Aek is a title.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so it could be that it's his son, but

whatever the case is, aek in both accounts

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is recorded as a righteous person is

shown to be a faithful, righteous person.

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And in this account, what you'll notice

is that this Alec, whether it's the same

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one that Abraham lied to, or it's his son

knows what's up, he knows what's up and.

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As Isaac says, oh, this, she is my sister.

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He immediately says, Nope.

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Well, oh, full stop.

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We're not doing this again.

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Mm-hmm.

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God is faithful to care

for his people and to.

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To intervene in different ways.

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Talk about that.

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Talk about how the different ways

God intervenes, 'cause this is a

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little bit different in terms of how

God interacts with this situation

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than what we saw with Abraham.

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Absolutely.

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so in the first two situations

and what Genesis 14 with

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the first time with Pharaoh.

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Abraham is in this situation and

God sends these plagues to Pharaoh.

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So God is directly and

supernaturally intervening in the

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situation to prevent Pharaoh from.

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Marrying Sarah.

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Genesis 12.

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Genesis 12.

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Okay.

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And then the next time with the previous

Alec and the wells and all that, he,

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God appears to have like in a dream

and says, Hey don't get with Sarah.

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And then.

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This time instead of a supernatural

intervention, God shows up,

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providentially it Al God doesn't

even get really mentioned.

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It just says that Abbe Malaki looked out

a window and he saw Isaac hanging out

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with Rebecca in a way that I guess only

a husband and a wife should be doing.

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And so.

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When he providentially just happens

to see this, that's still God at work.

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Right?

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Even though God isn't mentioned, even

though God didn't break the laws of

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physics or come in and do something to

make this happen, God is still taking care

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of his people and sometimes God's care

for his people doesn't look incredible.

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It doesn't.

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Make the news, but it's still

God at work through ordinary

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means to take care of his people.

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And you should look for

that in your own life.

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You should look for the ordinary,

simple ways that God provides for you.

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Maybe that's the paycheck that comes in.

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Mm-hmm.

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Twice a month.

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Right.

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Maybe it's the fact that there's

food in the grocery store.

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Maybe it's the in-laws who are willing

to help take care of your kids.

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Those are simple things that

we can take for granted, but we

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need to be very careful not to.

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We need to be very thankful for

those ordinary means that God uses to

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provide and protect and care for us.

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And I.

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In this life, the church is one

of the kind of pinnacles of that.

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Definitely what a blessing it is to have

a community group where you get to talk

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about how your life is going and you

can be honest and you can seek help.

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What a blessing that is.

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And we can, again, so easily

take that for granted and we

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need to be thankful when we.

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In everything.

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But when we see those things and we should

be looking for those things Absolutely.

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As God provides and protects for us.

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Yeah.

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And this chapter ends

with a note about Esau.

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It goes back, we get a couple sentences

about him and he's taking foreign wives.

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he's doing the opposite of what Isaac did,

and I think it's further showing us that.

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Esau is not going to carry

on the promised line.

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In fact, in Genesis, there's this

contrast between we've mentioned it

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before, but the offspring of the woman

the good guys, if you will, and the

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offspring of the serpent, the bad guys.

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That goes back to Genesis three.

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There's gonna be enmity between

the offspring of the woman and

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the offspring of the serpent.

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And what Genesis is often doing is

showing us who's who, who's, who's

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the good guys, who's the bad guys?

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And part of this is showing

us that, yeah, Esau is.

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He's going away from the Lord.

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He's not making decisions

to honor the Lord.

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He's just doing whatever he wants.

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Yep.

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And there's Elon.

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Elon hit Tide.

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There he is at the very end of chapter 26.

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All right.

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Turn with us to Matthew nine, or

if you're in the car, mentally

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turn with us to Matthew nine.

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We are gonna be looking at

just verses one through 17.

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We talked about this a

little bit yesterday.

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It's really important that we set

up Matthew nine with Matthew eight,

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so hopefully you've had a chance

to listen to our episode yesterday.

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But just high level, what's important

for us to know going into these

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few verses in chapter nine, Lewis.

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Yeah.

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So these two chapters are all about

the type of king that Jesus is.

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He's the Messiah, he's cho, he's

sent from God, he has authority

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over the world, and he's coming to

destroy sin and all of its effects.

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That is the setup for the

type of king that Jesus is.

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And so we've seen, some miracles

that he does that show that.

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And also some responses from

people that also further highlight

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what type of King Jesus is.

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And so we had three miracles and

then a response in chapter eight.

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And then we had two more miracles.

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We had the calming of the storm, we

had the casting on the demons, and

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this is an the our second set of three.

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This is the third miracle, 2.3,

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if you will, in our second set of three.

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So either getting in a boat.

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They heels a para or they get

in the boat, they cross into,

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so now they're back in Israel.

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They're back in.

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The, with the people of Israel, and then

some amazing things happen right here

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that have to do with authority, right?

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It's a heated interaction.

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One of the very first heated

interactions that we see between

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Jesus and the religious leaders, and

specifically this time it's the scribes.

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So Jesus heals a paralytic and then.

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We get this revelation of God's

authority, but it begins with a question

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from or a thought from the scribes.

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They say, this man is blasphemy.

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Why do you think they say that?

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Because all he did, right, he didn't

even say that he was heed, right?

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When you look back at verse two, Jesus

saw their faith and he doesn't heal him.

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He just says, your sins are forgiven.

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So why do the scribes get

so worked up about that?

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Because.

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Well, we know, right?

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Only God is able to forgive sins.

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So if somebody declares that your sins

are forgiven in the grocery store,

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you should be concerned and in some

sense, they're right to be concerned

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except for the fact they are not paying

attention to all the other things that

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are demonstrating God's authority.

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In fact.

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Maybe they're paying attention

to it and are upset about it.

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Yeah.

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And so maybe there's some distro,

dist, truth that's not really a word.

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Unbelief.

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Unbelief.

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Is that what you're looking for?

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Yeah.

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They're.

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Intentionally saying this

because they're upset.

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Let me put it that way.

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Really simply, they're upset about

what is happening and Jesus knows

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their thoughts and listen to this.

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He says, why do you think evil

in your hearts, for which is

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easier to say, your sins are

forgiven, or to say, rise and walk?

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That's stunning.

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That is a stunning reality.

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Which is easier, Louis.

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Well, what we're gonna see is that this

miracle, the healing of this paralytic,

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that's the lesser miracle, right?

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That's gonna happen here.

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The the smaller thing to

do is to heal a paralytic.

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The greater thing to do is to forgive.

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Yep, that's right.

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And we have come off a bunch of

different miracles where Jesus

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is acting in a salvific way.

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Mm-hmm.

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But it's not super clear

that it's about sin.

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Yes.

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Up until this point, and in this miracle,

there is a transition in what Jesus

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says to making it very clear that he

is not only just in charge of storms,

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but he's actually in charge of souls.

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And that is.

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Stunning.

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That is stunning as we read this,

right, and to your point, it is

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incredible that he can heal, but it

is even more incredible that he is

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somebody who has the authority to be

able to say, your sins are forgiven.

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Yeah.

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And then we see some

responses to that authority.

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So the crowds in verse eight,

they're afraid and they glorify God.

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And again, the highlight.

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Who had given such authority to men,

but they're still missing something.

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Yes.

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Right.

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Because what do they say?

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They don't say this is the Christ.

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Mm-hmm.

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They say that this is.

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Authority that had been given to men.

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So they're still missing things.

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There's still a lack of clarity.

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We are gonna get some increased

clarity though, as we get into another

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kind of response to what's going on.

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And that's specifically through

Jesus's call of Matthew.

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Matthew, don't forget, is the

author of what we're reading, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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This is that Matthew and.

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Look at the humility.

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This is a point Lewis made

to me before, but look at the

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humility of Matthew, right?

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He is immediately calling attention to

the fact that he is a tax collector.

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What does a tax collector

in this point in history?

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A traitor.

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A traitor.

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That's right, because the Jews would

say that if you're collecting taxes for

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the Romans, you are often robbing your.

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Fellow countrymen of their food

or their money, their food.

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You're working for the Romans, you're

working for the enemies, the occupiers.

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Yep.

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And Jesus called Matthew to follow him.

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And Matthew in his account is eager

to say that he was this traitor.

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This calls back though to what we saw

in chapter eight, and I don't wanna

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spend too much time there, but don't

forget that Jesus in chapter eight.

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When the scribes come to him

and say, we're gonna follow you,

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he pretty much says, mm, nope.

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You're not.

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You're not.

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But Matthew does indeed follow him, right?

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This tax collector.

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This tax collector who's the

traitor to the people of Israel is

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the one who's gonna follow them.

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The scribes.

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They don't, don't miss that, that's an

incredibly important aspect to this.

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And it also highlights who

did Jesus come to save?

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Who did Jesus come to save?

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Did he come to save everybody?

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Well, in one sense, yes.

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But I don't think that's exactly the

point here in Matthew who did he come to?

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St.

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Louis.

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Well, Jesus says it himself right here.

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I came not to call the righteous, but.

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The sinners.

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And I think what the reason Matthew

is highlighting his past sin, he's

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highlighting that he is a tax collector,

that he hangs out with sinners.

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He gives more detail than the other

gospel writers do about this section.

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And I think he's really trying

to emphasize, I was a sinner.

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I was the worst type of person.

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Mm-hmm.

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And that's who Jesus came to save.

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He came for people like me, like Matthew,

and I think that's so important for us

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When we think about how God saved us.

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We don't want to just take our old

life and put it in a box and hide it.

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We want to show people Jesus

came to save sinners like me.

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Look at his mercy.

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Look at his faithfulness.

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That's right.

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Look at his grace.

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Look at his love.

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Because he came to save someone like me.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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And there's an equivalence here

between that state and being sick.

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Right.

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That the analogy that Jesus uses is that

he didn't come to help people who have no

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need of a physician, but those are sick.

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The reality.

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Right?

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Excuse me.

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Is we know that we're all sick.

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Right?

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Sin is a pervasive problem across

humanity, but it's those who

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identify the problem, right?

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It's those who say, I am indeed sick.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's part of what repentance is, right?

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Is it's not that, yes.

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Part of it is in

apologizing for individual.

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Sins that we've committed deaths.

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That is indeed repentance.

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But repentance is also recognizing

that we have a sickness, right?

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It's saying, yeah, I actually am sick.

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I actually do need a physician.

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I know what it's like to be

like, ah, no, I'm not sick.

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I don't need to go to the doctor.

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Ah, nah, nah, nah.

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And I mean, you know,

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I'm a guy, I know what that's like.

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And it takes humility and it takes

a recognition of reality sometimes

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to be like, oh yeah, I'm actually

sick and I actually need a physician.

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So what we're seeing here right

is, and the word repentance is

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not used, but what we're seeing

here is indeed repentance, right?

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That is who Jesus is

coming to save is those.

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Who repent, who see their

need and are looking for a

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physician to heal their sickness.

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Right?

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And this next paragraph picks

up on that theme of the people

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who think they're good enough.

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Aren't the type of

people that follow Jesus.

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The people that follow Jesus are

the people that recognize they are.

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Like Matthew says in Chapter

five, poor in Spirit.

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They need him.

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They're humble, they're meek.

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They need him.

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And that's what this thing

about wineskin is all about.

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Now, this is a really interesting

and sometimes confusing section.

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So what are your thoughts

about what's the new wine?

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What's the old wineskins?

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What's, what did all

these things represent?

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Well, I think what we're seeing here

is that there's something completely

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incompatible with each other.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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The old wine skin and the new wine

skin have zero compatibility together.

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Mm-hmm.

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Meaning you can't have

both at the same time.

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You can't patch them together.

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You can't bring them together.

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They don't work together at the same time.

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What he's talking about is the

old covenant and the new covenant.

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Does that mean that we just ignore the

old covenant as new covenant Christians?

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Certainly not.

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That's not what I'm saying.

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But it does mean that salvation cannot

be accomplished through trying to do

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both, or in fact, trying to do the

Old Testament old covenant on its own.

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And that's why he connects it to fasting.

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Right?

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Right.

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That's why it's right after the

conversation to fasting, what lets

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his, the disciples of John say,

Hey, we fast the Pharisees fast.

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Why don't you guys fast?

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And what Jesus is saying is that the.

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Jewish way of living, of keeping the

law and trying to be good enough, right?

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Because there's a difference between

old covenant Christians, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Someone like Abraham, right?

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Right.

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Abraham was not trying to

be righteous on his own.

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Right?

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Abraham was righteous by faith.

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And so it's not necessarily

everyone in the old covenant

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was a works-based religion.

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That's not what we're saying.

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But what's happening is

Jesus is saying, is that the.

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True law keeping is not for you

to be good enough on your own.

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True law keeping is really

an act of faith in God.

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And that's the new wine.

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The new wine is trusting Jesus.

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And that doesn't mix with the old

wine skin of trying to be good enough.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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And when we are not saved, because we

did some good things and then Jesus.

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Did the rest.

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Right?

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Right.

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It's not like we did 20% of our

salvation and then Jesus did the rest.

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Right.

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That's not how salvation works, and

we can be tempted to think that way.

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Definitely.

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We can be tempted to think that way.

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We can be like, ah, well, God's gonna like

me more because I reached a higher level.

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not how it works.

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Right there.

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The works and.

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Faith are not compatible as a measure

of salvation or a means to salvation.

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Well, we're wrapped up another day.

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Of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We're glad that you are with us.

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We know we've been running 30

minute episodes, so forgive

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us for that, but I don't know.

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We can't help ourselves.

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So let me pray for, let me

pray for us as we conclude.

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Lord, thank you that

you are our God who is.

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Fully able to save us.

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Thank you that we are not

part of that equation in the

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sense of contributing to it.

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If we were Lord, we would

find ourselves hopeless.

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Lord, you are the God who is able to save.

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You are the God who is

fully righteous, fully good.

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You are the Messiah.

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And we are dependent on you.

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We are dependent on you, even

as we are sometimes foolish.

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Like Isaac was, like Abraham was.

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Lord, forgive us for our sins and

we're excited to be followers of you.

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In Jesus name I pray.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right.

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See y'all.

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