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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. Here we are, Chris,

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we are here. Man is good
to be here. Yes, And

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it is Friday, which means that
Friday, it is the last day of

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the week. People have to suffer
through the weekend without us. But it's

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the best day of the week for
Friday is the best day for most of

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our listeners because the majority of time, this is when we get to find

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out what made Chris mad this week. It's the most important. Yeah,

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it's the most important segment we do. Somebody, Yeah, so I do

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have one. I do. So
you're kidding you've had something making mad this

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week? But it makes everybody mad. I never saw it coming out of

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all fairness. This makes everybody mad, Okay, because sometimes, like if

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I say I'm really angry at like
returning shopping carts, that doesn't make everybody

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mad. Yeah, it makes most
people, most people, but not everybody.

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But this right here makes everybody mass
Okay. Okay, So what happened

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this week? And I can't tell
you who it was or exactly the circumstances

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because it was personal within my family. But somebody texted me from my family

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and assumed the worst, and they
didn't approach it with a question, because

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the question should have been, hey, did you do this, and then

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my answer would have been no,
I didn't do that. But instead the

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assumption came with like, hey,
you did this, and now blah blah

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blah blah blah blah blah, and
all of a sudden, this text comes

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with this really poor assumption right of
assuming the worst, and yet what should

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have happened is assuming the best,
right like, oh, he probably didn't

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do that. Hey, Chris,
did you do this? Right? And

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so let me give you an example. So even though I can't get specific

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about this, I can get specific
about a time that this happened in my

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previous church. So we were doing
this building campaign and it was, you

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know, a large church, the
previous church I worked at, and we

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had printed these really nice, full
color, high gloss us campaign books.

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Right now, what I knew was
these books were donated. Right, So

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this company who we used was owned
by a person who now comes the heritage,

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by the way, but owned by
a person who said, hey,

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this will be my gift to this
capital campaign, and I'm going to provide.

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I'm not even kidding when I say
this, Like I think probably tens

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of thousands of books, like twenty
thousands of these books, and they were

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just really nice and they decided to
give that. Well that's a big financial

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gift, right, so they give
it. But we're not going to stand

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up on the stage and say,
hey, credit goes to this guy,

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right, we just don't mention it. So this lady comes over to me

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after the service, and she comes
over and she goes, I'm not giving

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a dime. I'm not giving a
dime to this capital campaign. I'm like

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why, and she goes, because
I can't believe that you spent so much

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money on these books. She goes, why would you want your money with

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this high gloss look at these books. These books must have cost, you

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know, tens and tens and tens
of thousands. In a church that's going

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to waste that much money. I'm
not going to give a dollar or two.

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And then I you know, of
course, you know I know what's

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coming, right, And I go
I said, actually, these books were

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donated by this person who gave it
as a gift. And she goes,

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oh, and she court you immediately
she felt so unbegally dumb, right,

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But then she goes, she didn't
know what else to say, so she

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goes, well, then why didn't
you say that from the platform? And

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I said, I have a better
question. Why didn't you just assume it?

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And she had no answer for it. Right, I'm like, why

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didn't you assume that we're going to
make good financial decisions? Right? Of

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all the things that we've done for
you as a church, why wouldn't you

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just assume something like that, Hey, they must have probably got a deal,

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or they must have you know,
maybe even donated or or something like

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this. Right, Why didn't you
assume that? Why won't you assume the

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best? Instead you assume the worst? And then all of a sudden you

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have this horrible conclusion, right,
and I think that that makes everybody Matt.

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So what made you mad this week
was you had a family member who

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assumed the worst, yes, instead
of approaching it just with the question,

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at least give me the benefit of
doubt of saying is this true? Right?

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Hey? Can I confirm something before
I get mad? Right? Approaching

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the question? Right? No,
they were wrong, they were wrong.

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Yeah, they assume the worst,
and it was wrong. Well, obviously,

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if they were right, they wouldn't
have made me mad. Right.

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Well, no, it still makes
me mad when people assume the worst,

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even if it is the worst.
Yeah. So Annie Stanley does a message

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where he says there's always a gap
between expectation and reality. Right, So

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the expectation is, hey, my
daughter's going to be home at eleven thirty.

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The reality is it's now twelve o'clock
and her phone's not answering. So

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assuming the worst is she's avoiding means
she's staying outlet on purpose. Assuming the

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best is, hey, she something
must have happened and her phone must have

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died. Right, So when you
come in through the door, here's an

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idea, ask the question first,
ask the question, Hey, was your

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phone? And if it's not,
then you can get mad. But why

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would you assume the worst? I
told my daughter's boyfriend. If I say

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be home at eleven, I mean
like ten thirty. Ten forty five is

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what I mean? Yes, and
not eleven oh one? Right, that's

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when you stop getting to date my
daughter. And he goes, oh okay,

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I said, So here's the thing. Two things. One don't have

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flat tires. Two, if you
do, you should go home and practice

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right now, how to change your
tire really fast. Yeah. Right,

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And then so if you leave a
half hour early so you know you're going

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to get her home a half hour
early, then you have a tire,

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flat tire. You should be able
to a strong young man like you should

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be able to change a flat tire
in less than thirty minutes. So I

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said, you understand what I'm saying. There are no excuses, none come

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home early. And he started laughing. But then, yeah, we still

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have to do the same thing,
check and make sure. Why are you

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guys late? Yeah, And the
rest of the sermon is every time there's

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a gap between expectation reality, you
as an individual have a choice of what

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to insert in that gap. So
you could either insert believe the best or

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you could insert assume the worst.
That's right. So anyway, that's what

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made me mad this week. And
I get mad when people assume the worst.

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And I think all of us get
mad. Absolutely, I think so.

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I'm mad for the world. I
thank you, thank you, thank

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you, thank you, thank you. We cannot thank you enough. Yes

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for being being irate for the rest
of us, I'm here for you.

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Vicariously angry, and I'm here for
everybody else, thank you. So here's

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the story. We've gone all through
the entire Book of Genesis, and not

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every verse, but the major stories, and then through the Book of Job.

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Job was a contemporary, probably of
Abraham Isaac Jacob Braden that that timeframe.

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There's no evidence in the Bible that
they knew each other, but Abraham

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was famous and Job was famously wealthy, and so perhaps they might have known

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each other known of each other,
but there's no indication of that. Job

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also talks about things to the heat. He was the Wizard of Us.

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Yeah, that's true. Job talks
a little bit about things from the east.

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He mentions like stuff mind in Afghanistan
and some of those things. So

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he might have been further east than
Abraham. But anyways, it was about

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the same time. Then. Remember
we ended the Book of Genesis with the

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life of Joseph, right yep,
And so Joseph then from that point,

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remember Joseph's family moves to Egypt to
avoid the famine that was happening, and

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they wind up living there for four
hundred years and somewhere near two million Jews,

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probably Hebrews Jesse. He didn't live
for four hundred years. No,

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he did not, but the Joseph's
family and Jacob's family descendants, their descendants

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lived there for four hundred years.
Eventually they were enslaved by the Romans.

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At first they were beneficiaries of the
Roman ross Egyptians. They were beneficiaries of

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the Egyptian's generosity, and eventually they
became slaves. And here's what the Bible

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says. It picks up in Exodus
chapter one, four hundred years after the

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story of Joseph. Yeah, crazy, and it says, these are the

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names of the sons of Israel,
that is Jacob who moved to Egypt with

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their father, each with his family
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,

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Issachar, Zebulan, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher and

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all. Jacob had seventy descendants in
Egypt, including Joseph, who was already

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there. In time, Joseph and
all his brothers died, ending that entire

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generation, but their descendants, the
Israelites had many children and grandchildren. In

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fact, they multiplied so greatly that
they became extremely powerful and filled the land.

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Eventually, a new king came to
power in Egypt who knew nothing about

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Joseph or what he had done.
He said to his people, Look,

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the people of Israel now outnumber us
and are stronger than we are. We

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must make a plan to keep them
from growing even more. If we don't,

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and if war breaks out, they
will join our enemies and fight against

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us. Then they will escape from
the country. So the Egyptians made the

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Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal
slave drivers over them, hoping to wear

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them down with crushing labor. And
they forced them to build the cities of

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Pitham and Ramsays as supply centers for
the king. But the more the Egyptians

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oppressed them, the more the Israelites
multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed

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the Egyptians became. So the Egyptians
worked the people of Israel without mercy.

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They made their lives bitter, forcing
them to mix mortar and make bricks and

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do all the work in the fields. And they were ruthless in all their

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demands. Then Pharaoh, the King
of Egypt, gave this order to the

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Hebrew midwives Shiffra and Pua. When
you help the Hebrew women as they give

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birth, watch as they deliver.
If the baby is a boy, kill

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him. If it's a girl,
let her live. But because the midwives

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feared God, they refused to obey
the king's orders, and they allowed the

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boys to live too. So the
king of Egypt called for the midwives.

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Why have you done this? He
demanded, why have you allowed the boys

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to live? The Hebrew women are
not like the Egyptian women. The midwives

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replied, they are more vigorous and
have their babies so quickly that we cannot

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get there in time. So God
was good to the midwives, and the

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Israelites continued to multiply, growing more
and more powerful. Because the midwives feared

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God, he gave them families of
their own. Then Pharaoh gave this order

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to all his people, throw every
new born Hebrew boy into the Nile river,

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but you may let the girls live. That's rough, Yeah, you

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want to talk about rough. So
you ever seen the cartoon the Prince of

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Egypt? Yes, so there's a
They communicated this through and like, because

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you know, this is a horrible
thing to put in a cartoon, right,

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you think, you think? And
so they communicated it through. When

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he was walking through the hallways and
he saw all those Egyptian Uh, what

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do they call those there's a name, there's a not a high lift for

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graph. What is it called hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics. I'm think enough that's the

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that's their writings. Ye I was
thinking of the singular it ends with graph

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anyway, but the hieroglyphics. He
was walking through the hallways and then he

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saw the history of the baby's thrown
into the now river, just through drawings,

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and it didn't say anything, it
just showed it. And then and

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then he was like danta dom the
music. Then he runs off and he

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cries and all that, and and
so it's just it's just such an unbelievable

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thing to talk about throwing babies into
an out river. It's just it's just

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you can't get any worse right than
killing worse. So Herod did this in

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the New Testament, didn't He was
so threatened when Jesus he heard that a

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king was born of the Jews,
and he thought it was maybe threatening his

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title when Jesus was born, So
he had ordered, uh, you know,

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all the babies, all the firstborns
what two years in under, yeah,

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yet to be killed, and all
of death on him. And then

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and then and ironically, Joseph and
Mary fled to where Egypt, Egypt,

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which is where it happened in Egypt
way back when, which is pretty crazy.

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So the Devil, this is one
of the Devil's tactics, right,

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The Devil always tries to kill babies. So the Devil tried to destroy humanity

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in its infancy with the very first
two humans. The Devil tried to kill

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Israel in its infancy. Devil tried
to wipe out Israel here through babies.

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Devil tries to wipe tried to wipe
out Jesus as an infant. Devil tried

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to destroy the early Church as an
infant. Right, Devil loves to try

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to kill baby things. When we
launch new ministries, when we have to

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be really, really careful, it's
those early seasons that the Devil loves to

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try it because they're so vulnerable.
Devil hates babies. I don't think it's

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a mistake that we kill millions of
babies a year all around the world.

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Devil hates babies. And then the
same thing with young Christians, new Christians.

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The Bible says that when you trust
Christ and you're a brand new Christian,

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you're a baby in Christ that's what
says. And the devil tries to

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wipe out brand new Christians too all
the time. It's just it's his tactic.

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Over he keeps running the same play
because it's pretty effective, right right,

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So he's trying to kill kill the
Egyptian baby boys to stop them from

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growing. I looked up online.
It seems like this pharaoh was either very

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likely it was Ramses the second,
which is one of the most powerful pharaohs,

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or have been who was the other
one? Here Seti the first.

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Both of these guys, this is
like near the peak of the Egyptian Empire

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up to that time. So in
Charlton Heston's movie, it was Seti who

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then gave birth to Ramseys and then
Moses ended up saying with ram Yeah.

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Yeah. So it's right there right
in that that those two that dynasty that

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they're in, and they were just
on this building machine. Now they weren't

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building pyramids then, right, So
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the what they did build it mentions
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Pitham. I don't know where that
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where that is. There's there's some
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along the Nile River for thousands of
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river. And then suddenly when you
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towards of this giant delta, and
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being up at the top of it, and it's a huge portion of the

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food grown and the Egyptian culture is
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Ramsays and Seti had their capital up
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end of all of the Egyptian empires, Cleopatra, her capital was there in

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Alexandria. King tut His was way
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them down in Luxore. So they
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the Egyptians as one group, but
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groups had come in and take over
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in the Sudan, and they would
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of people would be the rulers of
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ruling out of that northern Nile Delta
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and there's a couple of archaeological sites. But this Ramsey City pie Ramses,

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we know where that is, right, and it's up there as well in

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the northeastern and it's Quantier is the
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So huge palaces, temples, extensive
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that, right, wow, So
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history that this is one of the
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it was more difficult, but here
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The pyramids are already built at this
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they're going to be going through a
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in two of the midwives and say, hey, ladies, we don't trust

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these Israelites. We think they're going
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a baby boy born, just killing
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now that late stage abortion right there, right, yeah, it's it's a

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infanticide, right kill a well,
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So then but the ladies refused.
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right It just said because the midwives
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the king's orders. And there's something
to that. There's something too, you

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know. I can't tell you how
many people I've had conversations with afraid of

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losing their jobs, so they go
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over and over and over again.
And these two ladies, they were willing

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to risk their lives because they feared
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you know, we just talked in
the Book of job I Alasay at the

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beginning of wisdom is fearing God,
so putting God first, And it's a

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it's a great lesson that says,
you know, always obey your parents unless

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they unless they tell you to do
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right right, which is maybe an
unpopular view to the to the dedicated

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Christian, But I mean, seriously, we obey the laws of man unless

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they conflict with the laws of God. Well literally, John and Peter said

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that right, obey God rather than
man. That's right, Yeah, that's

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right. Yeah, should we should
we? What is it if I choose

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to be obey man over God,
then I should not be deserving of Christ.

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That's Christos Yeah right, yeah,
right, So there is I think

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a challenge. Jesus said, in
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me before they ever hated you.
And so you know, we make our

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decisions based on comfort, what's going
to be best for us? And God

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calls us to stand for what's right, and it's always it's always right to

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stand for what's right. So in
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chose to stand against him, look
what the note says. I love this

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note in Life Applications study Bible.
It says, against Pharaoh's orders, the

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midwives spared the Hebrew babies. Their
faith in God gave them the courage to

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take a stand for what they knew
was right. In this situation, disobeying

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the authority was proper. God does
not expect us to obey those in authority

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when they ask us to disobey Him
or his word. The Bible is filled

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with examples of those who are willing
to sacrifice their very lives in order to

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obey God and save others. Esther
and Mordecai and Esther, Shadrackmishak in a

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bed and to Go and Daniel are
some of the people who took a bold

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stand for what was right. Whole
nations can be caught up in immorality,

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racial hatred, slavery, prison cruelty. Thus, following the majority of the

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ruling authority is not always right.
Whenever we're ordered to disobey God's word,

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we must obey God rather than any
human authority. That's that verse I quoted

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in Acts chapter five, right nine, And so I just think that that

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was a really great thing. Now
the question is the lie? What the

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lie? These two ladies lied to
Pharaoh? He said, he said,

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what's the deal? How come you
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two ladies like, oh man,
the Hebrew women are very vigorous, and

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they have their babies very quickly.
We don't get there in time. That

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was a lie. Do you really
think the Hebrew women are more vigorous than

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the Egyptian women? So a midwife
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of the Israelite babies. Oh well, see this. This is interesting that

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you pointed this out, because I
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because didn't earlier it said, uh, it said that the Israelites were having

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babies right there. It says,
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are pressed them, the more Israelites
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alarm of the Egyptians became. So
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the millions of people that were there, the hundreds of thousands, so many

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people were pregnant at one time that
it was they couldn't possibly keep up with

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all the people that were pregnant.
That's not what that means, just the

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ones with the baby boys. Yeah, what I'm saying is like they can't

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keep you. They slipped through the
cracks because they can't possibly govern that many

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people. They can't go around and
just check them. So there could be

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thousands of babies born, but we
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That's certainly their claim. That's their
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believable to the Pharaoh. You think
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it probably was really yeah, So
were they having trouble before before he told

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them kill the baby boys? Were
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were. Huh, he had.
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supervisors of the midwives, right,
It's very unlikely that if you have,

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you know, a couple million Israelites, that two women are delivering all the

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babies, right, right, So
they're probably supervisors of the midwives, and

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these are the two getting hauled in
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we were able to deliver the babies
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just can't get to them all.
I see. So you're saying, you're

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saying you're assuming that this statement meant
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Hebrew birth. No, I'm saying
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didn't actually deliver the babies when they
did. Huh. Interesting. Yeah,

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well either either way though, it's
it's a uh yeah. The note here

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does kind of acknowledge. The note
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the Hebrew midwives for lying to Pharaoh? God blessed them not because they lied,

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but because they save the lives of
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a lie was necessarily the best way
to answer Pharaoh. The midwives were blessed,

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however, not for violating, for
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for business senseless laughder of innocent lives. This would be like Schindler hiding,

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you know, cooking his books and
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that he was rescuing, right,
and you know, buying Jews, right,

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That's that's what they're doing, is
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save a life. Hey, you
know, I think there's another sermon hidden

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in here too that talks about that. You could use it to talk about

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how God's going to use even the
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Right, So, like, you
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we're about to see that God's going
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come. You know, there's gonna
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a spiritual significance and all these different
things, and uh and and yet God

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is still working in the midst,
in the midst of even the most wicked

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king. It reminds me of like
when when when we read the Christmas story

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every year, and it says,
uh, uh, you know that Caesar

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Augustus uh put a census over the
whole world that they should be taxed.

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And then from the king's decisions,
from the Caesar's decisions comes Jesus being born

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in his hometown Bethlehem to fulfill the
scripture. Right, so God's going to

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use somebody like Caesar Augustus, you
know, just through his decision of wanting

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more money to fulfill the scriptures.
And and uh, it reminds me that

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even the most wicked of kings,
you know, God's gonna have his way

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and use and work amongst even the
worst of these guys. So you know,

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it just goes to show you that
God is not thrown off by ungodly

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leaders. So therefore we don't need
to fret. Right, that's right,

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We don't need to fret no matter
who our political leaders are, because it

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doesn't trump the fact that God's always
going to continue to work and have his

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way and fulfill his purposes regardless of
the leaders. Yeah. Yeah, I

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also think it's interesting, you know, he finally comes to the end verse

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twenty two there and says, throw
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right, and they worship the Nile
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they're killing here now. So they're
sacrificing these Hebrew children to their god or

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the Nile river there. And it's
interesting because the rest of the story of

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Moses is God squares off with all
the gods of Israel, I mean,

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of Egypt. Right by the end
of Moses's life, we'll get to that.

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But he squares off and every one
of the at the end of this

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story, every one of the plagues
was challenging another one of the main gods

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of Egypt. Right, So it
starts off with kill the babies. No,

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we won't kill the babies. Okay, Now take the newborns. So

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newborn is different from the you know, infant. The so kill the newborns

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always says, yeah, every newborn
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that expands it. Now, if
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know, a tiny boy, throw
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You got nile crocodiles out there,
You got all kinds of crazy stuff,

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right then, I'm sure the crocodiles
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be uh, you know, in
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I'm a god and I'm demanding that
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that we recognize. And you know, I think a lot of times so

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we were tempted to sacrifice the most
important things to the gods in our own

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lives. Right, we worship our
job so much that we're willing to sacrifice

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our family. We worship our ability
to make money, We're willing to sacrifice

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our integrity, you know, all
those things. And so a lot of

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times, if you wondered where you're
willing to sacrifice the most important things,

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look at what you're spending most time
on and the things that you worship,

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and the those will those are rise
up like that. So there's a lot

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of little sermons. Yeah, sure, there's tons of here in next this

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one. Well, it's going to
get crazy from here. Yeah, Yeah,

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tune back in on Monday because we're
gonna be talking about Moses. Yeah,

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because it's gonna it's going to go
from here. So hey, thank

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you so much for tuning in,
and hopefully we will see you next time.

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All the Bible guys, mhm h