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You're listening to the Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Well, good morning everyone,

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Welcome to the Bible guys. I'm
Christian. This is Jeff, Yes,

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and we are so glad to be
here, and we're very excited as

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we are kicking off. This is
the inaugural week nice term of our Old

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Testament Highlights series. I like it, and we have barely made it out

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of the first two chapters. Well, we're still in the second chapter Book

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of Gama. Yeah, yeah,
that's and that's fine. In the Foundation,

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we're not going verse by verse,
right, We're going by milestones or

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highlights of the Old Testament, that's
right. So we're gonna be talking about

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the true knowledge of good and evil, the Tree of life, and about

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marriage and all that stuff today,
right, right, Yeah, we're covering

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some ground today. But first,
it's one of your favorite segments. Yes,

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and our listeners love this one as
well. They play along. So

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this one is the movie cool Grace
her I don't know so much today.

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So it's a movie quote race,
Yes, and we're going to see how

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fast Chris can guess the movie based
on these quotes, I'm going to give

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you get there's bonus points for the
listeners who beat Chris. So let me

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let me think about this for a
minute. A thousand point. No,

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if you beat Chris, I'm gonna
give you ten thousand bonus points. Ten

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thousand. Today you dismissed a thousand
like a terrible idea. Chris only wants

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you to have a thousand. Chris
only wants you to have a thousand.

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But I'm thinking today is a special
day, today only for only suggesting fantasy

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worthless points that knew nothing at the
increment of the thousand a thousands, Right,

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So today only, we're going to
give you ten thousand points. No,

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we're gonna give you ten billion,
Jeff. And then we're at a

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million points, and then we're going
to give Chris a thousand points for each

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of the correct Answerskay, here we
go, here we go. Okay,

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I'm gonna seck myself up. Okay, So I'm going to say the quote,

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and you have to say the name
of the movie as quickly as you

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can guess. Go ahead, Okay, she doesn't even go here, she

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doesn't even go here. Do we
have a movie? It sounds like somebody

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three saying something about high school one. I have no idea, mean girls,

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Oh it is a high school thing. You go, yep, yep,

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she doesn't even go here? Okay, And why is the carpet all

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wet? Todd Oh, yes,
I know that. That's uh National Lampoon's

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vacation. It's Christmas Christmas vacation,
that's right. Yes, okay, wow,

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so hey, there's an opportunity right
there. We have somebody one of

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our listeners already has twenty thousand points. You know that right, well,

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because they already because they already knew
the mean girls one. And it took

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you a long time to get to
Christmas vacation. Yes, you're right,

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you're right. So congratulations to our
listener with twenty thousand points. Okay,

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all right, I'll try to be
If you ain't first your last nights,

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that's ricky. If you can dog
dodger wrench, you can dodge a ball,

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dodgeball. Come, that's awesome.
According to the map, we've only

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gone four inches. Dumb and dumber. Ooh, there's another opportunity for ten

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thousand. Yes, hey, that's
so funny that line. I love DuMond

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Dummer. So my favorite movies of
all time. Well, some people say

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that's the tagline to our show,
right right there you go, yep,

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Okay, I don't know how to
put this, but I'm kind of a

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big deal. Oh Anchorman, Oh
you left room for forty thousand points.

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Yeah right, because you were pretty
quick on Talladagonites and Dodgeball. Yes,

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but the others are yeah, well
it takes you a minute the process.

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We could have a fan out there
with forty thousand. Hey, I only

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saw Mean Girls twice. I've only
seen it. I've never seen Mean Girls

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once. Oh it's classic, it's
super classic. Okay, but but yeah,

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it's it's a generation kind of thing. I think that people of the

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millennial generation would say, like that
was their anthem movie. Oh okay,

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even like men. I know men
who say Girls is our favorite show?

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Yeah wow, yeah, okay?
Are they real men? Though? Then

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there that is a question. That
is a question. Please do not write

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in gents and tell us that Mean
Girls is your favorite show. Do not

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write. We don't want them.
We don't want to go find another podcast

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that's so funny. Okay, So
I'm going to go back and reread.

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If you liked yesterday, You're gonna
love today because I'm going to read half

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the verses we read yesterday again.
I meant to stop at verse fourteen,

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and I went on to verse twenty
because context is great. Yeah, So

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what I wanted to do yesterday was
read that God made people and made us

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a living soul, and then he
made the garden. And then today I

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wanted to pick up that he placed
them in the garden and gave them a

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job to and he made made woman. So here you go. Verse fifteen

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of Genesis chapter two, it says
the Lord God placed the Man in the

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garden of Eden to tend and watch
over it. But the Lord God warned

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him, you may freely eat of
the fruit of every tree garden, except

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the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. If you eat it's fruit,

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you're sure to die. Then the
Lord God said, it's not good

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for the man to be alone.
I'll make a helper who's just right for

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him. And so the Lord God
formed from the ground all the wild animals

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and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to the man

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to see what he would call them. And the man chose a name for

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each one. He gave names to
all the live stock, all the birds

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of the sky, and all the
wild animals. But still there was no

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helper just write for him. So
the Lord God caused the man to fall

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into a deep sleep. While the
man slept, the Lord God took out

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one of the man's ribs and closed
up the opening. Then the Lord God

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made a woman from the rib,
and he brought her to the man.

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At last, the man exclaimed,
this one is bone from my bone,

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and flesh from my flesh. She
will be called woman because she was taken

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from man. And this explains why
a man leaves his father and mother and

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is joined to his wife, and
the two are united into one. Now,

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the man and his wife were both
naked, but they felt no shame.

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Okay, so that's what I meant
to read today. So they were

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both naked and a shame. You
know. That's the reason why she was

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called woman. Did you know that? Is that because when God created her

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and he saw her that way,
he said, whoa man? That's right.

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I knew that was coming, but
I wouldn't to give here. It

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is a good one. Good job, Hey, I get another one ready.

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How do we know that Adam wasn't
a Texan, and that the Garden

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of Eden wasn't actually in Texas.
I don't know. Have you ever seen

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a Texan give up a rib?
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all right, As a matter of
fact, I've never given up a rib.

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So well, I'm not used to
live in Texas. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, that's extra funny for you. That's very funny, And there's

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a lot of truth to it.
That's a part of humor, is there's

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a little bit of truth to most
things that are funny. Right, So

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here we go, God makes So
this is Genesis two expands on what God

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said in Genesis chapter one. And
so in Genesis one you see that God

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created the animals before he made man. But here he makes man and now

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making animals out of the ground.
The difference was making two lamas is different

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than populating Peru with lamas, right, right. Making two birds is different

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than filling the whole garden with songbirds. Right. So, having established that

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they were going to be animals on
the planet in what was it Day's four

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and five or whatever it was,
Days five and six is different than here,

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now he makes man, and now
he's making a bunch of animals and

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bringing them to Adam. This is
that ongoing creation component. It's still all

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in the sixth day though. So
Adam is naming animals. That's going to

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be a hippoponamous. Oh, that's
a funny name. Hippopois right, that's

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a fly. I think you made
that joke rightly, you know, So

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I have to believe that you know, did you know that there are over

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forty thousand different species of beetles?
Isn't that crazy? Right? Wow?

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So I have to believe that Adam
probably did not name all forty five thousand

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of them. That's the ricks beetle, right right, Like he didn't need

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to say that's a beatle. He
just said that's a beatle. Yeah,

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yeah, And so I think that
as time went on, we have given

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the different species different names. Well, so the in the first chapter it

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says that they were going to reproduce
after their own kind. So what God

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did was, if you remember how
how the structure of creatures is, kind

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is above species, so species is
breaks into all kinds of subspecies, whereas

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a kind was that's a beetle,
right now, there's lots of kinds or

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species of beetles. But there's one
kind. That's that's why elephants and lions

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don't breed. It's because they're not
from the same kind. But there are

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multiple species of or kind or types
of elephants, right that they can enter

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breed. And there's multiple kinds or
types species of tigers. Right, it's

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the same kind of thing here that
they So God made them in a kind,

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and within those kinds, then there's
all kinds. There's all types messing

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up that works that use kind a
lot, right, there's all types of

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interbreeding that make different species from that. So anyways, it's kind of neat

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here we go. So the Bible
says that God looked at Adam and said,

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it's not good for man to be
alone, which I think is really

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a peek into the heart of God. That the whole story was a relationship

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story. The whole story is a
love story. And so God made humanity

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for the purpose of relationship first with
him, right. He wanted us to

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be able to know him and experience
him. God didn't need anything. The

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doctrine of the Trinity is that He
was completely and totally perfect in and of

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himself, complete in and of himself, but he desired us so that we

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could have a relationship with him,
and so he makes us have a relationship.

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And then in the scope of how
he designed creatures, there was a

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red cardinal and a slightly brown cardinal, the boy cardinal and the girl cardinal.

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Right. Uh, there was the
male lion with the big you know,

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uh maine, and then there was
the female lion who didn't have the

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main And suddenly Adams looking around,
going, hey, wait a minute,

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it seems to be a system here. Right, there's boys and girls,

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but there's just me, and God
says it's not good that man should be

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alone. And so then that's when
he says, okay, I'm going to

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give him the woman, right,
the woman? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So uh so, you know,
so Adam is given this assignment to

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take care of the garden and then
also to name the animals. But then,

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uh, he says that this is
bone of my bone, flesh of

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my flesh. You should be called
woman. And then it goes on to

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say this explains why a man leaves
his father and mother and has joined his

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wife and the tour united into one. So so now it just sort of

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announces marriage, doesn't it. So
it talks about you know, just from

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the very the very first moment of
woman, you know, being a help

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meet to man is created in the
garden, the institution of marriage. Yeah,

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so there's there's kind of a flow
to creation. Fish and birds are

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far less sophisticated than the larger mammals, right, small mammals, big mammals.

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So he makes fish first and birds, and then he makes the animals

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on the earth, and he mentions
the creeping things, and then there's the

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cattle and there's all these bigger animals
that start to come. Then he makes

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man. And up to that point, man was the crown jewel of creation,

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but the final act of creation was
woman. There it is right right,

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he takes he takes woman out of
out of man. And so who

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is who's the only species gender that
has the ability to reproduce life? Yeah,

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it takes both. It takes too, Chris, I get I can,

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but the only one that you know, the only one between the two

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of us who can grow another.
I was trying to say something like that

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to give birth that okay, yes, And so you know this is incredibly

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important. Some cultures throughout history have
minimized women substantially to the point where they're

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just property. Ah, I was
in a country. Uh this I shouldn't

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laugh at this is a terrible I
was gonna say, you should. I

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know, this was so weird though. I was in a country not long

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ago. I don't want to say
the country now, but I was sitting

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along a very famous river and we
were drinking tea and this guy comes up.

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He's got a bunch of stuff.
He sets it down and uh,

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this lady puts it all in the
boat. And then they get in the

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boat and then they're standing. There's
a rowboat and they're standing there, and

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then they exchange spots, you know, so you know how just I'm watching

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it, thinking somebody's going to fall
in the water, you know when you

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try to change from front to back
spots and pass somebody in a rowboat.

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Yeah, that's what got my attention
was that. And so they're passing each

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other in the rowboat and I'm like, somebody's gonna fall. They don't fall.

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They sit down and then the lady
starts rowing them across the river right,

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and the guys just kick back,
you know, looking around, drinking

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whatever he was drinking as she wrote
him across the river and on one side.

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It was just it was a comical
thing that was happening there where I

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thought they were going to fall in
the water. That's why I laughed.

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But it was such a bizarre thing
to me, the idea that in a

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lot of cultures women are property and
that women do the work for the men,

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right, all those kinds of things. But it's really clear here that

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God took woman. She's the crown
jewel of creation, and that you know,

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just because men are physically stronger,
typically a lot of times then have

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suppressed women. But that's not how
God designed it. And you've heard it

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before, You've heard preachers talk about
this. I think it's worth mentioning again.

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God didn't take woman off the top
of his head so that she would

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rule over him. She also didn't
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bottom of his foot so that Adam
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He took her from underneath his arm
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close and that they would walk.
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suit, nor from his hand to
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but under his under his arm for
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loved that's right. That's the way
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Right. And and so if you
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the law of first mentioned. The
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in the Bible is the foundation of
what he wants you to know about that

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idea. Hey, everybody, there's
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then hey, everybody, he made
you personally, he wanted you, right,

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and he breathed into you the breath
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When it comes to humanity, when
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comes to male female, the first
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about in a very beautiful way.
She's the final creation. But she comes

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from Adam. They're from each other. Men can't exist without women. Women

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can't exist without men. They came
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but she came from under his arm, right, not not you know,

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from his hands or under his feet
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equality in the relationship itself. We
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Men can't have babies, right,
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but medically it's not possible, right
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you know, men have a physical
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both bring great value, but oftentimes
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then we get mad at the other
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which is what God wanted. God
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that we would make each other better. Yeah. Right. There was

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a comedian that it was making fun
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hilarious. Bit it makes me mad
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was definitely funny. And he said
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a fifty percent failure rate. He's
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odds? And he started, you
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risk and bet on fifty percent failure? And then he said he's like,

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and he goes, who would have
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So he goes, I'm gonna get
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need to stand in to lose half
my stuff? He goes, he goes,

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where to take a chance to lose
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so he's making fun of us,
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of dying on the way home.
I think I'm going to stay right right,

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So anyway, he's making fun of
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good reminder that Genesis chapter two,
verse eighteen reminds us eighteen through twenty four

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that marriage is God's idea. So
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that would say marriage is an obsolete
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we even be married anymore, Just
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it's like, why would I even
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go ahead and playhouse together and let's
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But yet it's it reminds us that
marriage is God's idea. There's a

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little chart here in the Life Application
Study Bible, and it refers to verses

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that are to come all the way
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I think that it's important to sort
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origins, or the marriage origins starts. And just like you said, right

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first mentioned right first mention. So
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Genesis twenty four says commitment is essential
to successful marriage. Proverbs tells us that

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marriage holds times of great joy Son
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marriage. Malachi says marriage creates the
best environment for raising children. Matthew tells

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us that unfaithfulness breaks the bond of
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Matthew tells us that marriage is permanent. Romans talks about marriage and says

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the only only death should dissolve marriage. Ephesians mentions that marriage is based on

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the principle and the practice of love, not unfeelings. Ephesians tells us that

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marriage is the living symbol of Christ
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you know, as a as a
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And then Hebrews talks about how marriage
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you know, here it is.
God puts it in the motion in the

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garden, and he does it,
by the way, with perfection. So

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if you wonder why marriage has a
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because we're trying to uphold an institution
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and so and so, yes,
in the garden, it would have been

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the best it's ever been, and
it could still be phenomenal. Right,

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you and I have both been married, not to each other, no,

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but to two lives, that's right, for almost the same length of time.

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Yeah, thirty years, thirty two
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okay, thirty two for me,
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yes, thirty two, and or
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be going to be thirty It's going
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and it is and it's and it's
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it takes work and commitment and everything
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wasn't supposed to be difficult, right, But it's hard because it turns out

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my wife is married to a sinner, right, right, and I'm married

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to a sinner. That's correct,
right, That's that's why it's hard,

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right, And so if we can, if we can work past that,

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we have to work to overcome our
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yeah, anyways, say interrupted you, Yeah, that's okay. I just

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wanted to mention that just just how
just to remind everybody. If you're questioning

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the institution institution of marriage, guess
what marriage was God's idea. Yeah.

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And by the way, I just
read an article in the Wall Street Journal

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a couple weeks ago now that was
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generations, the two new generations coming
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discovering that satisfaction in life is much
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with a in a married relationship.
Isn't it interesting? They thought they'd be

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happier running around sleeping with everybody and
living with each other. But the research

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and the secular universities u fund the
research, the happiness quotient is way higher,

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even with all the dangers in marriage
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marriage. So I want to just
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remember how I was saying, the
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really important and it establishes everything else
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who established marriage. Thus God has
authority over marriage. Right. Governments can

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try to define things if they want
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you a piece of paper that says, Okay, you're officially married. But

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that's mostly about them tracking things right, trying to figure out who totacks that's

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what it's about. But God's the
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plan for marriage between one biological male
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for marriage. So regardless of governments
don't determine morality, right, Governments determined

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taxation and legality, but they don't
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and what is best. God did. So marriage was God's idea, not

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a government's idea. And marriage is
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amazing. Within marriage, within the
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gift of intimacy the gift of children, right, these two things, and

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from the intimacy comes the children,
and it's amazing if you want to look

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at the gift of marriage. Why
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was because this gift of intom he
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to go and make lots of babies. But then he made that process extraordinarily

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pleasurable, right right. We don't
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right, right, but he did
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that. That's why the Bible says
they become one flesh Paul later on talks

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about that. We we We've talked
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writings about when when two people come
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they become one, right and and
you know, don't break apart what

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God put together, and there is
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act of the secial experience is designed
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which is why you just said it, right. So, when when

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people go running around and they're playing
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else, the reason why they're so
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it. Part of their soul.
They're tearing their soul. They tearing their

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soul away from each other. That's
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that, and so and so there's
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intimate, deeper connection that happens with
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right, and so and so then
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and mechanisms to be cold and and
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interfere. And that's why so many
movies today, if you watch them they'll

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say, oh, I just I
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sudden I got the feels and all
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do you think that it happens that
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God designed us. It's just that
that's the way. So it's a beautiful

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gift, is what we're saying here. And God said, hey, I

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want this for you. And then
they were, you know, both naked,

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but they felt no shame. You
ever see a little kid come flying

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through the living room completely naked in
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Just same, big time right,
all that kind of stuff. It

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was that just total innocence. And
this is the beauty of what God wanted

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was a total innocence for humanity.
I've got a job for you. It's

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going to be meaningful, fulfilling.
You're gonna enjoy it. I've got intimacy

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that will lead to you being able
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you know, multiply. And so
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was absolute perfection and it's what God
desires for us even today. And you

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know, we're gonna talk about where
it all went wrong tomorrow. But yep,

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that's right. Well, that looks
like our time and we'll see you

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next time on the Bible Guys,