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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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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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the app can help protect that.

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Um, so there's, you can.

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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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That's probably a myth.

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Yeah.

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That's, that's a very small,

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Rod: yeah.

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That's.

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There's no yap.

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It's not very young.

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Basically.

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No.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So there's so many cool options here.

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I would encourage you that

P T L Bible rebinding.com.

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This is super cool.

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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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And maybe throw in a leather cover too.

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Oh, okay.

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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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What would you call this?

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This is an imitation.

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Imitation leathers.

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It might be imitation plastic.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: It's pleather.

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It wants to be plastic someday.

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PJ: Yep.

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So it's not even leather, right?

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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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Cause sometimes you can go

to evangelical bible.com,

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which is another website.

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If you are looking to purchase a

really nice Bible that from the

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get go has a great cover on it.

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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.

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Is that, is that the Bible

you want really clearly not.

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Yeah.

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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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a cheaper Bible, and yet you love it

because you know where everything is.

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It's you've got to memorize.

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You got your notes in it.

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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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And.

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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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Right.

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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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And so one of the things that I've

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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be baptized and that's a good thing.

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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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Rod: a young buck.

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So when you get older, you realize.

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I'm 40.

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You said 40 is so old.

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That's true.

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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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senses start to deceive you a bit.

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And he's,

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PJ: he's used to this.

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I imagine I, yeah, I guess so.

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But, uh, he gives the blessing to.

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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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though I'm intending it to be for Esau.

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It must because when Esau comes

back, he says, don't, you have

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a blessing for me, father.

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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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to you, Lord, over your brothers.

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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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But

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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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Yeah.

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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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This is confusing to me.

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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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Because of Genesis 25, 23.

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The older is going to serve the younger.

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Right, right, right.

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So.

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That was never going to be a reality.

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No matter what he was always going to be.

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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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Abrahamic covenant is here in Isaac's

word as much as it is when God shows

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up and reconfirms it specifically.

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Rod: Hm.

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I'll have to think about this.

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Yeah.

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I was confused as a red and I thought,

how does it, how does that work?

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I've read this multiple times

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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Post 10 Brum breast.

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Yep.

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Luxe.

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Yeah.

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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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Chapter 27.

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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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set up what comes after this.

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So.

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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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names the place Bethel or Bethel.

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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 he stopped between Bethel and AI.

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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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Bethel?

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I think the answer is Jacob did

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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that was the common, no name for it.

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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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That is not about trying to get to

God that God is going to do something.

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Through, uh, humanity and creation there.

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Rod: Yeah, God is

communicating through this.

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He's demonstrating that he's,

he's revealing himself to Jacob.

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In a way that's unique and special.

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Jesus picks us up later

on the gospel of John.

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Yup.

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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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Right.

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I suppose God could, if you wanted to,

we would challenge you probably on that.

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Yeah.

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A little bit.

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Yeah.

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But there you go.

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PJ: Yep.

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Yeah.

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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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So.

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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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I'm an old guy.

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PJ: Intoxication I who knows.

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Wow.

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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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Come on really.

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Yes.

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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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his good and sovereign purposes.

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PJ: Yeah.

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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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Levis, who become political priesthood.

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That's significant and Leah is the

matriarch of the Levitical priesthood.

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And then the next one there on

the list of the last one for now

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that she has is Judah and Judah.

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The lion of Judah that that

should ring a bell for you.

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Judah is the Royal line, which

means Judah is the line of Christ.

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And so Leah.

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The despised wife, the hated

wife, the scorned wife, that

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the wife of decreased status.

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She is going to be the one to give

birth, to, and be the matriarch

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of the line of Christ here.

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And it's not going to be Rachel.

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The one that, uh, that Jacob loved more.

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Uh, is unique.

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It's God's kindness.

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I think towards Liam.

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Rod: This is so cool because it

shows us something about God,

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the rejected, an ugly spouse.

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Is the line of the Kings,

the priests and the Messiah.

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This is so cool because I

think it shows us that God.

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Looks at the overlooked.

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He's the kind of God who loves

to take the downcast downtrodden.

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The despised and make something of them.

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In fact, this is what Paul's

going to say in the new Testament.

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First Corinthians chapter one, it

couldn't help, but think of this one.

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He says for consider

your calling brothers.

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Not many of you were wise, according

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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the world to shame the wise, he chose

what's weak to shame the strong he chose

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what is low and despised in the world.

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Even the things that are not

to bring to nothing, the things

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that are, and the whole goal.

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Paul says this so that no one can

boast so that God gets the glory.

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And certainly he's doing that here.

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I love seeing this.

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It shows you that all of us who

are part of the body of Christ,

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most of us fit that description.

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We're not the best

looking the best educated.

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We're not the most athletic.

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We're not the inventors are not the

cream of the world they crop, but in

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God's eyes, , he's the one who redeems us.

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He chose us before he turned it.

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He passed and now he's going to

utilize us to bring him glory.

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And he's going to do great things

through this body of believers,

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the lowly to despise the rejected.

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That's really cool.

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PJ: It is really cool.

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We see that in the life of the

disciples to Jesus, doesn't go out

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and go to the Sanhedrin, say, okay,

who's your best and brightest.

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He's calling fishermen.

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He's calling guys that

are ordinary people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, Simon, the zealot.

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Uh, societal outcast and

saying, Hey, come follow

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Rod: me.

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And Levi Matthew, the tax collector, who

would have been despised as well for being

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shady and a betrayer of his own people.

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Yep.

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He's still in the business of doing

that, which is why as Christians,

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our job is not to go to the most

powerful and the celebrity and say,

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Hey, would you please be a Christian?

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We'd love to utilize your influence.

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He's calling regular people like

you like me, like maybe people

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that are listening to this.

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So please , don't look down on somebody

just because they don't fit the bill

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of what you think a Christian should

look like, cast the net wide, let

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God be responsible for the results.

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PJ: And don't get

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Rod: overly

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PJ: excited.

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I mean, get overly excited because

it's a soul saved, but don't get overly

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excited when you hear about, well,

this celebrity seems to be a Christian.

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Like the one that comes to mind

right now is Russell brand.

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It seems to actually be.

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Genuine in his faith, as much

as we can tell at this point.

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But the one most recently in, in

the rear view mirror that we can

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all think back to is when Kanye came

out and was doing his whole thing.

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And I know there were a lot of people

that were like, isn't this awesome.

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He's not only a Christian, but

he's in our camp theologically.

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Well, where is he now?

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Um, but of late somebody went

on Joe Rogan and pronounce or,

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or shared the gospel pretty.

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Uh, pretty effectively

pretty clearly on Joe Rogan.

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And then you've got Jordan

Peterson out there and people like,

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well, Jordan Peterson, the same

Jesus Christ as the son of God.

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And I think there's this excitement

and this, like now we're really

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going to be taken seriously.

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If we could get this person to

be a Christian and this person.

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We don't need that.

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And that's, I think what this is

showing us, reminding us is God's

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going to do his work and he's the one

that has all the power that we need.

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So if somebody gets saved, that's in

a position of power and authority,

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great praise God like Nicodemus,

Nicodemus is going to get saved

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and be a follower of Jesus.

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Praise God.

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But the gospel is not going to be

more effective because Nicodemus

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is saved than it was when.

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Uh, got a saving Matthew

and Simon and Peter.

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Uh, it's, it's the,

power's not in the person.

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The power is in the person of Christ.

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The power is in the gospel itself.

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So.

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There is

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Rod: something cool

though that's happening.

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And I don't know what it is, but people

have noticed that it seems like there

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is a more openness toward Christianity.

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There's a, there's more

viability that people are seeing.

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Uh, someone said a while back.

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I'm not sure who said it, but there's this

plausibility structure within our society

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that makes Christianity a non-starter.

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Yeah, but now it seems like

perhaps the tide is shifting into

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something that's more reasonable.

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Christianity is not looked

down upon in a scorned as.

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There's no possible way, because

you have voices that are suggesting,

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and it's not just these celebrities.

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It's a lot of people saying,

yeah, my, my allegiance to Jesus

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Christ and he deserves our praise.

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It's really interesting

to see where this goes.

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Maybe God is doing something special.

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And if it is a God thing, we're not going

to say, oh, this guy made it possible.

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It was this guy in Rogan, or

it was Joe Rogan who got saved.

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We're going to point to Jesus.

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If it's a real revival, Jesus

is gonna get the credit.

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Amen.

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PJ: Amen.

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May it be so.

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Well, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God we ask for that.

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We, we pray 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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And you have certainly done great

things in the past and brought

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revival to our country and brought

revival and other parts of the world.

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If that's what you're doing

right now, Lord, we would say,

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let it be so amen, please.

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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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of our nations, so that we might be.

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More effective as a church,

more fruitful as a church.

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And so we want that to be true.

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And so God give us a season as it,

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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many people come to faith in Jesus.

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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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whatever that might look like.

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But in the meantime, we

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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of the daily Bible podcasts.

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Bye.