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00:00 Introduction: The Rarity of Worn Bibles
00:33 Discovering Bible Rebinding
01:17 Understanding the Rebinding Process
01:45 Exploring Customization Options
02:29 Considering the Cost and Value
03:58 Transition to Genesis 27
04:10 Jacob and Esau: The Deception
07:18 The Blessing and Its Implications
09:56 Jacob's Journey to Laban
10:22 Jacob's Dream at Bethel
12:24 Jacob Meets Rachel and Laban's Deception
14:10 Leah and Rachel: The Struggle for Love
14:35 God's Favor on Leah
15:37 Lessons from Leah's Story
16:44 Modern Reflections on God's Choices
19:13 Concluding Prayer and Farewell
Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the daily Bible podcast.
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:Host 10 Abras
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:Rod: Lux.
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:Which is Latin.
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:Okay.
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:English which, which you would say.
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:Uh, after darkness comes the light.
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:That's right.
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:And you could go to PT L Bible.
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:rebinding.com.
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:Praise the Lord.
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:That's right.
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:Peter post 10 numbers Lux, actually
to get an estimate, I would've been
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:cost to rebind your Bible or the
Bible of someone that you really love.
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:And they have a worn Bible, which is
a great thing to have, by the way, how
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:many warm Bibles have you seen lately?
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:I don't think I've seen very many.
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:I've seen a handful every once in a while.
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:You'll come across one.
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:It's dude, you've had
that for a long time.
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:And isn't that so cool.
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:What better way to keep that Bible
intact and going for another 20 years
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:and by getting it rebound, now we
have no connection to these guys.
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:I just recently come across them, but
I come across them multiple times.
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:I re.
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:I'm realizing over the course of
several years, just never getting in
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:a second thought because I never had
a desire to rebind one of my Bibles,
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:but now I have a Bible that I love.
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:And I read something about this recently.
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:I'm like, I want to say, I
want to see what these guys do.
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:So I came to look at their website.
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:They've got some really cool options, man.
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:I'm excited about
getting multiple ribbons.
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:The Bible I have in front of
me only has one measly ribbon.
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:No.
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:Just one.
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:Yeah.
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:What kind of Bible is this meant to be?
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:I don't.
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:This is a working man's Bible.
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:So I need multiple ribbons.
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:So I'm looking at them for that.
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:Now, but if you want to get
a Bible rebound, this looks
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:like a really great website.
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:They're expensive.
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:Not going to lie.
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:But they are the top tier of Bible
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:PJ: reminders they are.
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:Yeah.
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:And you might be out there going,
uh, can we define what rebinding is?
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:Cause I'm not there.
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:If you look at your Bible and
you look at what's the spine of
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:the Bible, which is the backside.
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:If you kind of begin to, to peak
around that, you're going to notice
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:that it's either sewn in or some
of them, the cheaper ones are
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:just glued in that's your binding.
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:And so if you want it to last, a lot
of times, if your binding begins to
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:wear, or your coverages begins to
deteriorate, you can get it rebound.
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:They'll take your cover off.
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:They will separate it.
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:They do it all in such a way
to care for the text block,
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:the main portion of the Bible.
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:And then you get to choose the leather.
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:You get to choose.
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:The goat skin,
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:Rod: calf, skin, color, how
many ribbons you want, if you
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:want gilding, if you want to.
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:Yap.
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:PJ: Yap.
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:Yap.
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:Yap is when the cover extends out
beyond the text block and will actually
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:lay over the text block a little bit.
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:And what's the purpose of that?
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:It's mostly aesthetic sometimes
it's it's to protect the gilding.
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:The gilding, by the way, is when
you see a Bible that has color on
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:the side, or it looks like it's
got a silver or gold finish to it.
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:That's the guilt that's on the
edge of the pages there, and
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:A full yap, which means that when you
fold it together, it meets in the middle.
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:And so that means it's, it's
covering the whole thing.
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:You can get a quarter yap half yet.
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:There's all kinds of gaps
that you can get out there.
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:What is, this is zero yap right here.
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:Rod: yeah.
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P T L Bible rebinding.com.
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:What a great gift idea.
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:This would be for someone
who has a worn Bible.
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:Um, you have to pry it from their hands,
which I think is the hardest part of this.
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:You do have to send your Bible
and you have to send your Bible.
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:What are you gonna do?
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:You're not gonna read your Bible for six
months, however long it takes to do this.
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:I don't know what this takes, but,
uh, yeah, it's, I'm looking at it.
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:Um, I'm in love with it already.
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:I want to find out what these guys do.
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:So I sent them a form today to say,
give me a quote for multiple ribbons.
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:So it's not just the ribbons you're
getting, it's the, it's the coverage
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:I wanted to, I want an estimate.
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:If it's reasonable, then, then maybe it's
worth having, because I love this Bible.
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:I've always wanted an inter lead Bible.
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:Now I have it, but I hate to cover
this thing is basically it's.
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:Imitation leathers.
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:PJ: Yeah.
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:Rod: It's pleather.
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:PJ: Yep.
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:Yeah, but it's, but it's
affordable that way.
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:Which by the way, this is a great way.
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to evangelical bible.com,
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:If you are looking to purchase a
really nice Bible that from the
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:Whatever evangelical Bible.
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:Tom has a lot of really good options.
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:But if you had only three ribbons
at the most guys, only three, right.
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:Is that, is that the Bible
you want really clearly not.
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:Um, But it's, uh, it's uh, if you
have a Bible that you bought and you
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:bought it off of Amazon, or you bought
it at Mardel or whatever, and it's
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because you know where everything is.
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:It's you've got to memorize.
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:This is a great option.
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:Like pastor rod said to extend the life
of your Bible, maybe to, to pass it on
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:to a future generation as well, so that
they will have it and be able to see what
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:God was working on in, in your noodle.
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:As you read the Bible,
I'm excited about that.
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:Well, speaking of the Bible,
let's jump into Genesis 27.
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:And, uh, we'll throw in a
couple other chapters there.
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:2 27, 28, 29 in today's
reading for free, for free.
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:Or free.
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:Anyways.
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:Uh, Genesis 27 in this chapter
is one of the most common.
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:Uh, C's that we think of when we
think of the Jacob and Esau story,
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:this is the chapter where Rebecca
and Jacob, and again, and I think
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:this goes back to Genesis 25, 23.
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:Uh, where God told Rebecca that the
younger was going to rule over the, the
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:older, the one she'll be stronger than the
other, the older shall serve the younger.
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:So Rebecca heard that while
they were still in utero.
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:These twins.
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:And so I think that led to her having
a special, uh, affinity for Jacob.
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:And here we see that lived out has.
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:Isaac.
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:Uh, to your point that you said
yesterday believes that life
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:is drawing to a close for him.
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:So he thinks it's time to do the
blessings and to get ready to die.
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:Although he's going to live for.
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:Another 80 or so years.
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:He calls Esau and says, Hey, go
out and get some game and prepare
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:a meal for me and bring it to me.
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:And I will give you my blessing.
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:And, uh, Rebecca eavesdrops
on this conversation and she.
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:Plots and in contrives this plan
with her son, Jacob, to deceive Esau.
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:And she's really the driving force
because Jacob's like, well, what,
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:I'm not Harry, like my brother is,
I don't smell like my brother does.
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:She's got answers for all of it.
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:And she's sitting there thinking to
herself, Hey, this is going to happen
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:and I'm going to make it happen.
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:And the plot does.
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:Come to fruition as, as you would think it
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:Rod: does.
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:Is it possible for a blessing or a curse
to skip somebody and go to somebody else?
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:Cause she suggests that to him saying if
your father curses, you let it be on me.
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:I don't know that it works that way.
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:What do you think.
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:PJ: Yeah, I don't think so.
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:But we would often say, Hey, I'll, I'll
take the, the, the hit on that one.
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:For example.
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:I with, with our kids, as our kids have
been grown up and I've had conversations
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:with some of Josh and Danny have both
made, I think what are legitimate
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:professions of faith at this point.
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:But there were times when
they were younger that they
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:would come and say, Hey, Dad.
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:I want to be baptized at, I, I want
to be a, I think of a Christian.
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:I think I've saved.
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:And I've always told my kids,
there's no age limit to salvation,
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:but I always also want to make sure
that there's genuine fruit there.
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:I want to make sure that it's it's real.
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:And so they've said isn't
it important to be baptized?
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told them is, Hey, I'm going to
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:take responsibility for being the
one that right now is telling you.
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:It's not time for you to
be baptized right now.
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:So if, if you are genuinely saved right
now, And you're saying I desire to
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:Hey, as your dad, I'm going
to take the hit on that one.
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:If God.
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:Desires that sooner than later, I will
be the one that's responsible for that
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:as I'm stepping in and covering you.
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:In my leadership.
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:So in that sense, I don't, this is, is
more nefarious than, than that situation.
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:What, what she's doing
here with, with him.
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:But I think that's what
she's basically implying.
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:Hey.
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:I'll take the hit on this one.
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:I'll take the blame.
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:If this goes sideways.
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:And it doesn't go sideways and that's,
what's always so puzzling to me.
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:I just, how did he not know?
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:Hey, she puts goatskins on his arm.
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:She, she glues the hair of a wild goat.
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:Dude was old.
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:Yeah, but he even says, it's
the voice of my son, Jacob.
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:Doesn't trust his senses.
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:I hear you're still
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:You said 40 is so old.
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:Say that I did say that you're right.
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:Uh, but in, in a more comparative sense
to an older population, maybe your
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:PJ: he's used to this.
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:Rod: to Jacob here now, which
again comes back to my challenge.
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:Uh, does a blessing work that way?
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:It's like, I'm, I'm
giving this in my mind.
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:I'm giving this to Esau, but Jacob's
sitting in front of me, so, oh, I guess
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:it actually goes to Jacob because he's the
one who was sitting in front of me, even
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:It must because when Esau comes
back, he says, don't, you have
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:PJ: And it's not as though.
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:Um, I'm still trying to
figure out how that works.
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:Uh, but this is not
the Abrahamic blessing.
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:Right because God is going to show
up later on with Jacob and reconfirm
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:the specific Abrahamic blessing.
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:And so I think there's a distinguishing
here between the blessing that Isaac
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:provides, which is more of a fatherly
blessing and the divine blessing.
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:Being given there.
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:Rod: No, because he says that
people serve you nations bow down
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:Crispy everyone who curses you.
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:This sounds like this is
the Abrahamic blessing.
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:There's parallels there for sure.
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:PJ: it, but God has been the one
that has provided that directly to,
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:Rod: oh, the affirmation of it, right.
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:He affirms it and says, yes.
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:You are the promise line, right?
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:I think got a fro.
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:This doesn't change for me.
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:The fact that this is still confusing.
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:I think he's intending
for this to be Esau.
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:His mind is saying Esau.
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:But because Jacob is actually standing or
sitting in front of him, he receives it.
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:And I'm not sure how I, I'm not
sure I understand the dynamics
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:of how a blessing or a curse for
that matter is meant to work.
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:If my intention doesn't change
the actual receiving of it.
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:PJ: Yeah, I suppose.
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:Had this not happen though.
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:Esau was never going to
get the Abrahamic blessing.
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:That was never going to be a reality.
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:Even if, if Isaac had blessed.
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:Esau in the end, God was
going to show up to Jacob.
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:Not Esau Intel, Jacob, you're
the son of the promise.
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:And through you will come the
blessing to all the nations.
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:And so that's why I think there's just.
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:I don't know that the power of the
transfer of the blessing of the
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word as much as it is when God shows
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:I'll have to think about this.
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:I was confused as a red and I thought,
how does it, how does that work?
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and I've had the same thought.
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:I just, this time felt different
as I was working through it
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:saying, how does this work?
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:Maybe when you have a better
cover and multiple ribbons
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:that might help you'll know.
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:And you'll be able to cross
reference so much more quickly.
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:I've only got one ribbon right now.
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:You're in darkness, but
after darkness, That's right.
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:They're sort of trying to
say, yeah, Alright, Genesis 28
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:PJ: then as the chapter ends in.
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:It's worth noting that Rebecca tells
her son, you need to get out of here.
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:Cause he sells not going to be happy.
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:And so she tells Jacob to fleet
of Laban and that's going to
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:Uh, Jacob.
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:Uh, goes to, to, to Laban.
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:In fact, in 28, Isaac specifically
sends his son to Laban to find a wife
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:and, uh, transfers the blessings there.
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:Uh, I think specifically,
now we can save the Abrahamic
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:covenant tune before he departs.
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:And then Esau says, okay, we'll
find, or I'm going to go over here.
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:And he marries one of Ishmael's daughters
to cause pain to, uh, to his parents.
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:And to cause them
consternation frustration.
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:But meanwhile, Jacob goes, uh,
off to visit Laban, but on the
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:way he stops for the night.
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:And in this stopping, he has this
dream where, and he sees, uh, God is
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:standing at the top of a ladder and this
ladder is descending to earth and the
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:angels are ascending and descending.
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:On the ladder here.
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:And so Jesus is going to pick
up on this and John 1 51 and
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:basically say, Hey, I'm the latter.
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:Now I'm the bridge
between heaven and earth.
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:But Jacob has this dream.
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:And sees these things taking place
there, and then he gets up and he
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:Uh, now we've already read
that it's called Bethel.
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:We've read that back in Genesis chapter
12, verse eight, that Abraham came
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:And built an altar there and
called upon the name of the Lord.
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:So who named it?
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it, but Moses, as he's writing and
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:recording Genesis 12, eight calls
it Bethel at that point, because
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:Even though Jacob was going to be the one
that later on that, that calls it that.
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:So at that time it seems like
it was called Lutz or Louis.
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:Um, back when Abraham had stopped
there, but here it's now called the
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:house of God because Jacob recognizes
there's something significant
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:happening here as he has this dream.
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:Rod: What does it mean?
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:Do you think that the angels are
ascending and descending on this ladder?
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:What is Jacob meant to see from this.
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:PJ: I think that the idea of that, the
bridge between heaven and earth, in fact,
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:one person, one commentator that I read
on this said in a time when people were
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:trying to get from earth to heaven, all
a babble, uh, this is showing that God
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:is doing something here on earth with
the creation that, that exists there.
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God that God is going to do something.
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communicating through this.
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:He's demonstrating that he's,
he's revealing himself to Jacob.
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on the gospel of John.
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:Uh, in other words, God's spoken these
ways, but now he's speaking to him.
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:He's speaking through me, right?
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:I am God's final word,
Allah, Hebrews chapter one.
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:So this is God's revelation,
special revelation, unique to Jacob.
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:You should not experience
experienced this.
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:Uh, well, You should not
expect it to experience this.
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:I suppose God could, if you wanted to,
we would challenge you probably on that.
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:We'll chapter 29.
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:Then Jacob comes to a layman's
house here and meets Rachel and
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:Rachel catches his eye right away.
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:And he asks Laban for
Rachel Cendyn marriage.
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:And Laban says, Hey, worked for me
seven years and you can have Rachel.
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:Uh, Jacob's love for Rachel is something
that's always stood out for me, as it
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:says, it seemed to him as his, nothing
to work those seven years and those
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:seven years up and here comes a Laban and
Laban is going to deceive the deceiver
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:because Jacob's name means deceiver.
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:So layman's going to trick the trickster
here and he does so by giving Leah
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:instead of Rachel and without going into
too much detail, that is unnecessary.
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:You might think, how is that possible?
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:I want to know, people want
to know how that's possible.
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:Th th the veils, the
darkness, the ceremony.
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:The circumstances.
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:About
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:Rod: the
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:PJ: voice.
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:Rod: Because you just said, Isaac
should have known better, right?
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:Why doesn't she know she's
young, so she didn't have it.
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:She can't say.
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:PJ: Intoxication I who knows.
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:Who knows?
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:But it wasn't as though they
walked into fluorescent lights.
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:And the current situation of our
modern day weddings and everything
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:else there, there, there were
extenuating circumstances that.
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:We're.
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:Befitting the time and lack of
elimination in other things like
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:that, that probably did make this.
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:I think Rachel
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:Rod: could have just said,
Hey bro, just so you know.
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:Here's what my brother has in store.
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:Or here's at my, my father has in store.
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:Uh, it just, this is one of those
situations where, unless she
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:PJ: didn't know either
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:Rod: until night of.
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:I mean this whole thing, such a
deception it's painful to watch.
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:It's, it's horrible to work through,
but to your point, there's a million
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:different ways this could have happened.
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:Yeah.
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:A million and maybe 10 billion
more that God has access to that.
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:You and I don't.
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:So when you read stories like this and
you're left, scratching your head saying.
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:Really really stranger
things have happened.
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:And what we're reading
here is totally tenable.
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:If you just allow for the fact that
God is orchestrating everything to
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:And Leah is not.
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:She's not a nefarious individual here.
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:She is a poor thing, man.
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:She really is.
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:Yeah, because she ends up in a
Loveless marriage in, and that's
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:what it says is the text goes on.
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:That she was hated and hated
means that she was scorned.
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:She, she had decreased status in
the family between her and Rachel.
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:And so God shows her kindness by
giving her children before he's
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:going to give any children to Rachel.
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:So Rachel ends up bearing and we're
going to see in tomorrow's episode.
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:That Rachel is going to go to her husband
and say, Hey, you need to fix this as
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:though he has the power to do that.
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:But meanwhile, Leah praise and God
shows kindness to Leah as the one
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:that was scoring the one that had
decreased status in the eyes of her
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:husband and gives her children and.
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:They're significant children being
the first born, but, but more
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:than that, the last name they're
in fact, two of the names are
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:significant and two of the names are.
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:A little bit.
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:Uh, sham army.
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:So the first two are the shim
army ones, Reuben and Simeon.
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:Uh, those guys are not going
to be great in the long run.
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:The next two though, are
significant in the life of Israel.
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:You should recognize them.
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:Levi is one and from Levi is going to
descend the tribe of Levi who become the
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matriarch of the Levitical priesthood.
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the list of the last one for now
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should ring a bell for you.
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means Judah is the line of Christ.
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wife, the scorned wife, that
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birth, to, and be the matriarch
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:Rod: This is so cool because it
shows us something about God,
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the priests and the Messiah.
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think it shows us that God.
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to take the downcast downtrodden.
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going to say in the new Testament.
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couldn't help, but think of this one.
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your calling brothers.
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to the world, they standards, not many
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:were powerful, not many were of noble
birth, but God chose what is foolish in
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what's weak to shame the strong he chose
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to bring to nothing, the things
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boast so that God gets the glory.
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are part of the body of Christ,
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looking the best educated.
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cream of the world they crop, but in
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utilize us to bring him glory.
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through this body of believers,
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:PJ: It is really cool.
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disciples to Jesus, doesn't go out
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who's your best and brightest.
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are ordinary people.
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saying, Hey, come follow
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would have been despised as well for being
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that, which is why as Christians,
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powerful and the celebrity and say,
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you like me, like maybe people
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just because they don't fit the bill
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look like, cast the net wide, let
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it's a soul saved, but don't get overly
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this celebrity seems to be a Christian.
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right now is Russell brand.
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as we can tell at this point.
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the rear view mirror that we can
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out and was doing his whole thing.
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that were like, isn't this awesome.
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he's in our camp theologically.
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on Joe Rogan and pronounce or,
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pretty clearly on Joe Rogan.
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Peterson out there and people like,
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Jesus Christ as the son of God.
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and this, like now we're really
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be a Christian and this person.
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showing us, reminding us is God's
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that has all the power that we need.
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a position of power and authority,
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Nicodemus is going to get saved
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more effective because Nicodemus
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and Simon and Peter.
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power's not in the person.
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though that's happening.
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have noticed that it seems like there
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viability that people are seeing.
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plausibility structure within our society
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perhaps the tide is shifting into
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down upon in a scorned as.
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you have voices that are suggesting,
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yeah, my, my allegiance to Jesus
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to see where this goes.
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to say, oh, this guy made it possible.
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it was Joe Rogan who got saved.
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is gonna get the credit.
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:PJ: Amen.
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:May it be so.
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:God we ask for that.
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:We don't know what you're doing right now
in our country and our nation, but you do.
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things in the past and brought
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revival and other parts of the world.
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right now, Lord, we would say,
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:Uh, make it so that the church can thrive.
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:We're committed in scripture, even to
pray for the, the peace in the wellbeing
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more fruitful as a church.
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maybe it appears that you were doing
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:or setting up where we can really
take off as the church and see
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:If not Lord.
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:Help us to be faithful on the
other, other side of that, to
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just want to trust you.
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:We pray this in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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:Keep in your Bibles tune in again
tomorrow for another edition
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:Bye.