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00:00 Intro and Weekend Chat

00:20 New Year Resolutions and Winter Retreat

01:13 Gym Culture and Workout Routines

04:51 Daily Bible Reading: Genesis 19-21

05:09 Discussion on Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah

12:28 Abraham's Journey and God's Promises

17:41 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Let's.

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What's up folks.

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How's your Saturday going?

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Hopefully it's good.

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And, uh, you're out there and joined some

nice weather before the cold returns.

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Again, on Monday, it's supposed to

have this Arctic polar plunge on.

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The snow doesn't show up.

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I'm okay with that.

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Yeah.

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I don't think it's supposed to snow again.

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I'll take.

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That's okay.

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I guess.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, hopefully you're enjoying

your weekend, your Saturday, and,

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uh, getting into the swing of 2025.

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How are your resolutions going?

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This, your pastor out?

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Are you still have you, I know you

talked about national quitting day.

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That's in our rear view mirror.

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Yeah, so.

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I made it past that.

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That's good.

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So I'm excited for that.

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I'm doing okay.

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I don't have any , major,

crazy things , on my radar.

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Yeah.

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There's a few things that I'm really

trying to show up and so far, so good.

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Good.

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The challenge will be.

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After winter retreat.

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Yeah, because once you're thrown off

your normal routine, that's when I find

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, your habits and the projects that you're

working on are most vulnerable because

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you get out of the swing of things and

suddenly it's like, oh, I missed one

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day and I missed two days now I miss 30

days and you give up on the whole thing.

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So I'm hoping that I can do these things.

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During winter retreat and I'm praying

that, that, that maintains that's good.

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Yeah.

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How about you?

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Yeah, I've been, uh,

did you lose 180 pounds?

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I did.

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It's amazing.

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I'm a negative five.

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Just floating through your life.

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That's why you were in the

seatbelt on this office.

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It's funny.

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Uh, no, I I've been trying to get back

on the treadmill again because it's cold.

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Outside it is cold outside.

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And our gym has a 16 and over

policy and I go to the gym.

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You.

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Usually around four or five

and there's, there's a lot of

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people there that are not 16.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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And I give them dirty looks.

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Do you call the HOA director?

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Call Karen and Kevin.

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I do.

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I'm like, Hey guys, that's.

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You didn't hear it from me, but,

uh, there is a couple people in

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there that shouldn't be there.

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No, but, uh, yeah, Jim, culture's

weird, you know, at far more than I do.

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Cause I go to our HOA.

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Which is not really a gym.

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It's not the same.

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It's it's just, I mean, yeah,

it's got treadmills in it.

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It's got, you can do all

the gym stuff there, but.

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It's not really.

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Oh, what are you, what were

you pointing out though?

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Like , what's weird about the

culture that you're noticing.

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It's just like.

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It's just a strange thing to go

and work out a bunch of rounds

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around a bunch of other people.

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I don't know why it just is weird.

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I love watching people

as you're working on.

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Because the treads off are

on the far end of the gym.

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Sorry face out the window.

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And some I'm usually just staring

out the window, but it's just, it's

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a weird place because everybody's

there to work on themselves.

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Like what's interesting is when

you're part of a team like team

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sports, which has been most of my.

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You know, athletic career before this.

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You're there as a team to work

together towards a team goal.

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And so you're, you're working out

together, but you're still focused

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on the team goal or whatever in

the gym you go in and it's just,

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everybody's there for themselves.

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They're just there to, to

try to improve themselves.

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And I mean, I guess

that's why I'm there too.

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So I.

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W what am I?

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It's just a weird place.

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It's a weird place.

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You'd have never thought of it that

way, but I guess there is something

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strange about people going into a box

and, air controlled box to go lift heavy

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things into approximate athleticism.

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To look like you're being

athletic when you're not.

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Yeah, I guess it is.

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There's something to that, but

it's kind of like stretching or

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even, you know, reading, reading

before you go and do the thing.

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I think of the gym as something

that you're doing to prepare

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yourself for the rest of the day.

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So it would be something akin to

eating before you go into the activity.

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Interesting.

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This is like the activity.

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In fact, this morning I got, I

get a late start on Thursdays

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because of late Wednesday nights.

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So I always decide, am I going to

get, am I going to do something?

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Am I going to do the bike

or go exercise, whatever.

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And I always choose, I take it back.

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Most of the time I will choose

to do the exercise because

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I knew it benefits my work.

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I'll get more work and better

work done if I do the exercise.

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And that's how I conceive of it.

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It's a matter of stewardship

and an ability to serve the

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Lord better with my life.

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If I do those things interesting.

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'cause I, so I've been, you put me

on to this guy, Kerry knew Hoff.

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And so Carrie knew Hoff is a,

we can't recommend everything.

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He says, by the way.

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No, not everything he says, but he writes

a lot on leadership and he is a pastor.

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And so he.

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He brings some of that

flare to it as well.

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Uh, he's, he's got a book that

he wrote about doing basically.

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What you're best at when

you're at your best.

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And he talks about it, your green

zones, your yellow zones, your

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red zones throughout the day.

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And he, he pictures it like a clock

and he says, Hey, look at your clock.

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And, and, uh, and those times

throughout the day where you're at

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your best mental, your sharpest and

everything else, that's your green zone.

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Then you've got your yellow zone.

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Maybe you're doing

meetings during that time.

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Then your red zone is like, man,

I can't put two thoughts together.

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And so he made the point

and I thought about it.

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I was like, oh, that's interesting.

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Th that he tries to save his workouts

for his red zones, because he doesn't

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really need to be super, mentally sharp

to be able to go get a workout in.

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And I started to think about that.

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I was like, man, that that's freedom

because a lot of times I'm trying to get

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the workout done in the morning and it's

eating into my green zone time because

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I'm doing my workout during the time

that I'm at my sharpest measure usually.

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And so I started this year pushing my

workout back towards the end of the day.

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And, uh, and read a book while I'm

on the Treader, whatever it may be.

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And, uh, and yet you like to do at the

beginning of the day because you feel like

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it jumpstarts your, your productivity.

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There are studies.

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Uh, on humans.

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So it's not just an animal studies or.

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Well, I mean, cause you could,

you can approximate again.

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This is probably helpful for humans

based on these studies by rats.

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But there are studies that show that

when you work at the beginning of the

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day, it's going to have a day long effect

on your mental clarity and your energy.

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And I found that to be personally true.

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Yeah, but I just don't like getting

up earlier to have to work out.

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I'm with you, man.

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I'm with you.

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Some things have to sacrifice.

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All right.

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Let's jump into our daily

Bible reading for the day.

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Genesis 1920 and at 21.

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Uh, Genesis 19, we just left off and

yesterday he's reading that, uh, this,

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this, the often he plus a couple, uh,

had showed up to Abraham and said, Hey,

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things are not going well in Sodom.

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And we're going to destroy it.

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Abraham had said, if you find

10 righteous spirit and they

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said, okay, yeah, we'll spare it.

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If there's 10 righteous.

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Well, it turns out there's not a.

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Because the angels two angels are

sent to retrieve law in his family

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and to spare them from the judgment

about to befall Solomon in the scene.

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Uh, this is one of the most

uncomfortable scenes that I

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think we find here and it just.

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Lot.

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Lot takes a big hit in my eyes.

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Um, In this scene because the angel

show up and, and he brings them into

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his house because he doesn't want

them to be abused in the city square.

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And yet here come the men and they want

to abuse these angels and a lot wants

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to send his daughters out to them.

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And this is where a lot

just takes a hit in my eyes.

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I can't think of a scenario.

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In which I would be comfortable trading my

daughter for the life of, of anyone else.

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You know, I mean, It just.

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I get it's a different culture.

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It's a different time.

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Family had different ties.

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Hospitality was, was a big deal

and it was different in that time,

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but I just don't think a lot does.

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Right.

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When he says, let me send my daughters

out instead of giving you these,

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these angels, these visitors that

have come to my home PetSmart.

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Your thoughts on, on lot in this section?

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Yeah.

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I'm not going to defend

them by any stretch.

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I'm.

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I'm just thinking to myself like, oh,

I don't think anyone's letting it say.

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I think LA was a great guy.

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Except what we have in Peter.

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Which says that righteous lot.

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That's what he calls.

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It was tormented in his soul because

of what was happening in the city.

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So something about him was right before

the Lord, such that scripture in the

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new Testament affirms his character.

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Now what he does not acceptable, not

commendable, even in the least it's

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highly condemn Annabelle, but that

goes to show that God uses imperfect.

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Fallen end even.

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I don't want to call them wicked, but

just morally reprehensible creatures

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and still uses them for his purposes.

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He's going to be called

righteous in God's sight.

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Totally.

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And he spared from Sodom because of that.

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He's not speared from Sodom

because he's Abraham's right.

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That's true.

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From Sodom because he was.

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Is righteous, righteous.

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Yeah, God goes to, to bring them out.

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So yeah, I'm with you there.

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I just, and this is, is a little bit of

a foreshadowing of what's going to happen

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later between lot and his daughters, which

is also not great, but, um, yeah, that's.

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Oh, yeah.

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And, and, and they, who knows,

it'd be fascinating to know more

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why they're hesitant to leave.

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Is it because this has been their home

for so long is because they love the

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people and they're, they're feeling.

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You know, fear on behalf of the

people that are there, but they're

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hesitant to leave in the angels in

an act of mercy, grabbed them and

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basically forced them out of the house.

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They're like, come on, we're going.

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It's time to go get moving.

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Um, and that's just God's mercy

on them to, uh, to against even

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perhaps there will, at this point.

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Get them out of the house.

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Well, we know at least for the girls,

they were, they would be trolled.

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So they were, they were old enough,

however old that was, we know that could

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be relatively young given our current

cultural standards, but they were be true.

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So I know they were probably

thinking about their.

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Husbands.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, which is why they act the way

that they do and the next chapter.

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But yeah, there's a lot of

interesting stuff that's going on.

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And we would probably say a lot was

infected too much with the wickedness

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of the city, even though he was

considered righteous in God's eyes.

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That doesn't mean that his righteous

standing wasn't in some way, corrupted

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by his, his circumstances and the

culture that he was sitting in.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Verses 23 through 29, then Sodom

and Gomorrah are destroyed.

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And as they're fleeing in a

tragic scene, lots of wife as a.

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JC Ronald has made famous in his sermon.

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Uh, looked back and she looks back

longingly as they're fleeing, and

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she turns to a pillar of salt.

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She is destroyed.

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Uh, along with those in Sodom

and Gomorrah, as she looks back

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longingly at what God was condemning

at what God was judging and JC Raul

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has got a great sermon, I think

called Lee lot's wife looked back.

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Um, that is all about that and about how

we can be tempted to look back at what God

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has, has condemned as, as wicked and evil.

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What God has delivered us from a

scripture says such were some of

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you, but you were washed, you were

cleansed, you were sanctified and.

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Even just being a part of the

church, the ekklesia those that

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are called out from the world.

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And as Christians, we can be

tempted to look back at what,

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uh, what God has condemned as,

as evil, the things that used to

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characterize us before our salvation.

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And we can look back longingly at that.

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And by God's grace, we're not going

to be turned to pillars of salt, but

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the danger is there for us as well.

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It's been argued before that the sin of

Sodom and Gomorrah was in hospitality.

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They are inhospitable to people that,

that they should have been hospitable to.

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In fact, They would site All 1649,

where he says it's been pride

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in excess, that that caused God

to respond as harshly as he did.

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Um, he also mentions and I'm

thinking about Matthew vines here.

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He's probably the biggest proponent.

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Not that he's been on the scene at

nearly as much as he was a few years ago.

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Uh, but could you quickly talk about

the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah and why we

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know it's more than just in hospitality.

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Yeah, it's in just a.

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At warning parents on this beep

beep beep you might want to,

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uh, to press pause for a second.

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Um, Yeah.

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Listen.

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The sin of homosexuality, which is

what was the primary sin in Sodom.

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Number one, it's evidenced by

the fact of what they want to do.

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The angels, when the crowds come to

lot's house, they're, they're not wanting

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the angels to go and party with them.

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They're wanting the angels

to sexually abuse them.

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Yeah.

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It's more than in

hospitality at that point.

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Yeah, for sure.

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More for sure.

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And then the other thing here

is equal when it says she

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and her daughters had pride.

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Uh, homosexuality is one of the

greatest expressions of pride that

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there is it's, it's the desire of

that, which looks like yourself.

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It's the desire of that,

which is just like you.

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And so it is an expression of

pride, is it is an expression

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of arrogance and self worship.

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Uh, to one of the greatest

levels that there can be.

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And so I think it fits even

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is the pride of homosexuality.

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And so that is what we see here in Sodom.

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And Gomorrah is one of the main.

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It's, it's not the only sin.

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There are other sins, certainly, but we

can't get away from the fact that one of

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the most grievous wicked wickedness is.

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Mrs.

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Uh, wickedness.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Uh, one of the greatest, uh,

depravities in Sodom and Gomorrah,

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it was the sin of homosexuality.

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Yeah.

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And Ezekiel 16 says that they

practiced an abomination before me.

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They did it an abomination before me in.

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Jude seven says they practiced unnatural

desire, which is why God destroyed them.

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So yes, it is those things,

but it's not only those things.

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And those things only lead

to the greater thing that God

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had to say, okay, you're done.

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This is a big deal and I

can't tolerate it any longer.

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Right.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Good, good point of clarification on that.

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Versus 33 38, then we get

this next disturbing account.

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And again, parents, uh, if you're still

wondering, can we bring our kids back in?

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Maybe wait, just a beat again on this one.

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Um, In this account, lots of daughters.

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Uh, basically get him drunk and

lay with him, such that they

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would have, uh, offspring by their

father, which is, uh, not good.

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It's not commended here.

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This is not part of God's desire here.

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In fact, what happens as a result of this

is this in such an incestuous as a union

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is going to lead to the MobileBytes.

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And the Ammonites to people who

are going to prove to be thorns in

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the side of Israel for many, many,

many years to come after this.

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Uh, Ruth is going to

be one of the Moabites.

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And so God is still going to do

some, some good through this,

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even after all of this, but still.

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Uh, this is not a good thing.

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What happens in verses 30 through 38?

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What do you think the rationale is?

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So we see here that they say our father is

old and there's not a man on earth to come

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into us after the manner of all the earth.

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So are, are they thinking.

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That when God destroyed Sodom and

Gomorrah, that he'd really destroyed.

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All of human life.

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What do you think they're thinking here?

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That or.

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They didn't know where to turn.

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As far as you were going to see Abraham

to get a wife for Isaac here in the

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next couple of days, he's going to

send people back to his Homeland and.

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Depending on how old they were.

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They may not have had the

wherewithal to know how they

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would even begin to go about that.

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Um, or just the hopelessness

of we had something set up.

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We had our life planned and now

our life is completely destroyed.

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And.

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Uh, where do we go from here?

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How do we, which way is up at this point?

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Yeah.

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That's yeah.

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Okay.

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I guess maybe there's a shock value that

they just saw something so atrocious.

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But man, their decision to do this

awful thing results in two clans

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that are going to be thorns in the

side of Israel for forever, basically

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the Moabites and the Ammonites.

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Yup.

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Yeah.

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And yet.

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God's line is going to come through Ruth

through the Moabites through the mobile.

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Yeah, mind blown.

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Crazy.

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Crazy.

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Chapter 20.

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Uh, this is not a repeat.

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This is a.

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Part two, Abraham has his wife

again, lie about her identity.

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Uh, if he didn't remember the lesson, he

repeats it again so he can learn again.

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So.

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Uh, they, they come to, um,

the, the territory, the negative

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between Kadesh and shore.

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It says in, uh, Abraham

said of Sarah, his wife.

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She is my sister.

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And so here you have a I've been

Malecki is probably, uh, uh,

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Title more than a name of Amalek.

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It means son of the king.

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Yeah, ABI Mellick.

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And, and so we'll see multiple Abimelech's

in scripture and I, it probably was

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more of a title than anything else.

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Uh, Emily takes her to

be part of his harem.

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Uh, warned in a dream not to touch her.

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He confronts Abraham who

confesses to the reality.

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Now she's my wife, but he says, but

she's also my sister because she's the

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son of my father, but not my mother.

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It basically says, Hey,

she's my half sister.

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Uh, out of a fear of God, of

intellect sends them away with

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wealth and riches as a testimony

of his innocence in the matter.

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But it's also a way of God continuing

to bless Abraham, even in spite of

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Abraham's home, boneheaded stupidity here.

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Chapter 21.

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Then we get the birth of Isaac.

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Uh, verses one through seven, Isaac

is born as a result of the promise.

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And so the son of the promise is here.

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Uh, in fulfillment of that promise

that God made to both Abraham

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and Sarah, and this leads to

conflict between Sarah and Hagar.

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Uh, and there there's a competition

between them with regards to

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their sons and who was the.

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The son of promise or the center of

choice or who's the preferred son?

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So Sarah has Abraham send Hagar away.

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Again.

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Abraham is just passive here and,

uh, th that's leading to problems.

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Well, Hagar is sent away and

God comes to comfort Hagar.

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And again, reiterates the promise that

he was going to make a nation out of.

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Her son and he was going to provide

for, and, uh, and take care of Ishmael.

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And so, um, th this conflict takes

place and, uh, Hagar is, is sent

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away with, uh, with Ishmael there.

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Um, But then we flashed back

towards the end of chapter 21 here.

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And, uh, and Abraham is with a and

there's a well that's in dispute here.

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And, uh, they.

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Negotiate and go back and forth.

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And finally, a covenant is

struck between Abraham and.

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Uh, Ben Mullica over the

dispute of, well here.

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So, uh, some more.

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Uh, understanding for us of how the land

promises coming about as, as God is, is

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working these relationships and these

negotiations, it's going to be progressive

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promise, which is still not fulfilled

even as we sit here listening to it today.

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But, uh, part of the, the.

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The foreshadowing of Abraham

getting the land in the end, I

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think is what's going on there?

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So Abraham is a hundred years old now.

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That put Ishmael I'm in the

ballpark of 14, 15 years old.

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And that puts us 25 years

from Genesis chapter 12.

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He was 75 years old when God made

the promise to him that he was

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going to bless him and multiply him.

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So I just want to point this out, because

again, the timing of this, it feels

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so compressed because we're reading

it so quickly, but just think about

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how long that is 25 years waiting for

God to deliver on a promise that yeah.

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I'm sure for him felt like

he was never going to come.

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But a year before this God promises,

I'm going to give you a child.

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Uh, they're through Sariah Sarah

now, and here it is delivering on it.

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And now Ishmael is going to sound

like we're talking about a child

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when, when we read the narrative,

but he's about 14, 15 years old.

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So keep that in mind as you read along.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it does feel awkward because it

seems like she's carrying a toddler

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and laying the toddler down underneath

the bushes and going and sitting

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somewhere else, which is interesting.

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I don't know.

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Cause I've always read it that way.

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Yeah.

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Until I started doing the math and

saying, wait a minute, this kid is he's.

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He's a teenager.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But clearly dependent upon his mom's yes.

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Quite a bit.

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So.

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Oh, I guess was a bit of a mama's boy.

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But, uh, yeah.

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So with Jacob, as we're going to

find out a few days, So, yeah.

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Anyways, anything else on that?

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The end of chapter 21 there?

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I think again, I think this is just

part of, of God showing an and.

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Confirming the land promises again

with, with, uh, Abraham here.

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Well, just one quick note here in

verse 33, uh, Abraham planted a tea.

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Tamarisk tree and Beersheba and

called there on the name of the Lord.

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The everlasting God, I love that title.

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In fact, I think this is the first

time we come across this title for God.

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He's the everlasting God, he's

not a God that has a shelf life.

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He can't be, he can't expire

after a certain period of time.

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And we just saw that over the

course of 25 years, he was faithful.

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He continues to be faithful to Abraham.

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He doesn't reject him.

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Despite the fact that God, God has

plenty of opportunities to reject Abraham

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and say, dude, you're a knucklehead.

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Um, dealt with you.

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You make too many mistakes.

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I think it's important for us to see

because God is as committed to us.

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In fact, nah, nah, I say

he is more committed to us.

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Because of what Christ has done.

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We are not only acceptable in his eye,

but we are righteous in his sight.

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God looks at us as though

we had done the same thing.

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Jesus had done perfect in our

righteousness, not a single sin or stand

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upon us and we can thank Jesus for that.

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So this is an incredible thing for it,

for Abraham to say about God, but we could

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say it even louder and better because

of our awareness of who Jesus is for us.

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We could even, you know, sing it.

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The strength will rise

as we wait upon the Lord.

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That's true because he is the

everlasting God, the everlasting God.

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The everlasting God.

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Seven 11 songs that I love those

that's another Tellman song.

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They just get stuck in the nugget, man.

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It's a good song.

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It's service kicking off song.

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Cause it's.

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I have to do it.

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I'm gonna have to get

she's brings the energy.

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I see you get upset.

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When I do old songs are too old.

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A CCM is.

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No, no, no.

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I would say that at all.

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In fact, I sent you that real the

other day, that him victory and Jesus.

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I never heard that song.

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Yeah.

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But did you go back and

listen to the original?

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No, I thought this new

one was so much better.

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Why even listen to the

original, this one's great.

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So AI basically took victory and

Jesus, the him, and made it like a.

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A hard rock song.

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And, uh, and so I sent

pastor rod a reel of that.

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And it was really good.

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He didn't have the background of the,

the original him in, in his mind.

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You should go listen to

the original him though.

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Oh man.

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Wow.

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That's quite, that's quite different.

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Anyways, y'all let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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Got, we are thankful for that reality,

your title, the everlasting God.

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And, uh, and you're the same

yesterday today and tomorrow.

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And God, we are thankful for that and

thankful for the way that we get to relate

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to you as a, as a result in Christ, as, as

pastor rod was just talking about and the,

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the blessings that we have they're in.

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And so.

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Uh, God give us fruit.

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As we continue to read your word and

spend time in it on a daily basis.

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So we thank you for this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I'll keep reading your Bibles and tune

in again tomorrow for another edition

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of the daily Bible podcasts evokes.

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Bye.

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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That would be awesome.

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Texas, you can go to compassntx.

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Again, that's compassntx.

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org.

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And we'll be back with you

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of the daily Bible podcast.