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about the Bible in fun, in
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morning good morning to you. Hey,

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uh, what you know we're gonna
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You know there, nobody's gonna listen
that. No nobody cares here, Chris,

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Yeah, we're a big deal're gonna
anchor. Man, I'm not sure

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you've heard, but I'm kind of
a big deal. That's so good.

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You have many books. Yeah,
my steady smells a rich mahogany. It's

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so good. It's so good.
Okay, so hey, good morning to

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you, or maybe it's evening.
But my name is Chris, this is

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Jeff. We're the Bible Guys.
And before we jump into our segment today

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or excuse me, our passage today, we have a segment called Who's most

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Likely? Which I love. Okay, so we're just gonna we're just gonna

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read these We haven't read them.
You have not pre read them. I

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have not, me neither, and
let's just read them and then quickly we'll

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just who's We'll just okay, number
one, Who's most likely to accidentally set

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off the fire alarm while cooking?
You me, because you don't cook.

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Yes, that's correct. That is
correct, so it really doesn't matters likely.

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That's rights. And I've already told
a story this week about using a

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quote unquote smokeless grill in the kitchen. That's right, correct, that's Christ

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Okay. Number two, who's most
likely to bring a pet to work and

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not tell anybody? I'd say me, Yeah, have you done it before?

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Nope? Never done it? Okay, Although I don't know either of

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us could sneak a pet into the
office and not tell anybody. That's our

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problem. Yeah, that is our
problem. That's the hang up. Although

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I will say this, does she
know what? I will say this?

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About ten years ago, I worked
at a church where there's like three hundred

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people on staff, and somebody had
sent an email and said, hey,

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we found this cat in the road. It was this tiny lit kitten,

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just this teen tennant kitten they've just
found on the road. Whoever wants it

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come get it. Well, at
the time, we already had four cats.

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And then my daughter Sarah shows up
and she literally she looks at me

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and I go, you're not here. And she and she goes stop.

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She goes, she's you didn't see
me, You didn't see me. And

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I said, do not go upstairs
and grab that cat. Do not.

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And she goes, la, la
la, I'm not listening, La la

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la, la la. And she
goes all the way upstairs and gets this

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cat, brings it home. And
since then, we've actually lost three of

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those cats and now we're down to
two. And one of them is that

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that is that goofy ken For a
long time, so I kind of had

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a pet of work. Yeah,
there you go, kind of your daughter

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did. Yeah, let's let's go
for a while. My wife was bringing

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our brand new puppy to the office. Oh so, actually we should have

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said you then. Yeah, well, not tell anyone about it. Was

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the hang up for me on that
one. Right, who's most likely to

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organize a last minute themed costume party? You definitely then that is you.

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You are. You're a party guy. Hey. We actually celebrated my daughter's

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thirtieth birthday and we all dressed like
nineteen eighties musicians. Oh wow. And

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so we all flew down to Florida
and we surprised her and all of us

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had costumes to the end degree.
We went all out and then we made

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a music video. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, so that'll give you.

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My wife and I were just in
Venice last week and that was the

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end of our vacation. We were
there for three days. And they have

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all those costume shops for the Venetian
Carnival. Oh wow, where you wear

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the fancy outfits and the did you
buy them wear the mask? No?

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Dude, they're crazy expensive, are
they? But she said, hey,

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let's come back for carnival sometime.
I rent one. That'd be fun.

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Yeah, that'd be fun. All
right, all right, So numbers it

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was most likely to organize an elaborate
prank that gets everyone involved. You,

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Yeah, definitely, these are almost
all you. No, no, not

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almost Hey, you know I have
done elaborate pank pranks with a lot of

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people. Have you ever done Have
you ever organized an elaborate prank? No?

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Really? Never? Wow? Never
have? Yeah, I've done elaborate

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pranks, so wow crazy? Yeah? Okay, Well, then number five

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who is most likely to create a
new absurd trend that everyone eventually follows?

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Not me. That's tough, I
probably says, but I don't. I'm

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not absurd, but not trend.
I don't. I don't know if I've

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ever created a trend, maybe a
tradition, like you know, maybe maybe

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uh doing something crazy and doing it
often enough to where people start doing it

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around their house or something. I've
done those kinds of things, but a

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trend. U Trends are different,
aren't they. That's a hard one.

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That's a tough one. Yeah.
I don't know if I'm a trendy guy,

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but I guess I'll pick me just
pretty absurd because I'm absurd. Yes,

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yes, a new absurd trend.
You know, one time and everybody

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likes to follow you. I have
to say this. One time in the

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seventies, I came out of the
bathroom and I left my zipper down,

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and every started doing it. I
started noticing people leaving their zipper downs.

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I think he caught on. I
don't think so. No, no,

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no, no, I don't think
that was They just people just forgot the

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hip. That's exactly right. Okay, okay, that would be it.

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Yeah, that's funny. Okay,
we need to get out of this segment

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as soon as possible. Use Oh, come on, you done that?

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Uh one time? I actually I
think you've done this haven't you ever you

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ever were you preaching? And then
you realize your zipper is down. Whole

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service. My best one of my
best friends, sitting on the front row,

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and he didn't let me know the
whole time. Oh yeah, I

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realized that because somebody motioned to me. It was actually the pastor, and

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so I said, everybody, let's
pray. And it was right in the

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middle of my sermon. I was
like, you know what, I'm just

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going to pray every every closed and
I was like exhibiting. I didn't know.

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I didn't known till the service was
over. That's terrible jerk. Friends.

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Yeah, okay, you know who
you are too. Oh do they

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really? Oh yeah, they know
who they are. Oh, still listening

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to the box. So after the
service he comes up and he goes,

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hey, man, I wanted to
tell you so bad, but your answer

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it what Zip? A fan?
Like, how come we do tell me?

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He said, I didn't want to
disturb or interrupt the service? I

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said, he interrupt the service for
seven hundred people. I was the only

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one who didn't know. Right right, I got news for you. The

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service was already interrupted. Zip.
Let me know. I would have fixed

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it. Okay, So This is
one of the most talking about absurd.

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This is one of the most amazing
stories in the Bible. It centers around

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a guy named Balem and talking donkey. Yes, you just gave away the

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whole thing. They had a reason
to listen, and now you told them,

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Oh, you were going to deliver
it as if nobody knew. Yes

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to the person who doesn't know,
to the person who doesn't know, gip

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that part. Hey, hey,
just in case you're wondering, Jesus does

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rise from the grave like Easter.
Okay. Well, hey, now you're

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ruining the whole thing. Why even
bother give it away? That's right?

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Okay, So numbers chapter twenty two. Well, I'm gonna start in verse

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twenty one. I'm gonna be a
rebel. Okay. So the next morning

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Balem got up saddled as donkey and
started off with the Mobid officials. But

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God was angry. Let me,
let me, let me do this.

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So the Mobid officials wanted Bayleem to
come and curse the King of Israel.

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Right, So they're gonna pay him. They're going to give you some money,

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like he's some kind of sorcerer,
right, And so we're gonna give

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you some money, and we're getting
ready to go fight Israel, and we

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want you to curse the King of
Israel. And so Baalem this isn't something

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he should be doing, but he
does so. The next morning, Balem

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got up saddled as donkey and started
off with the Moabid officials. But God

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was angry that Balem was going,
so he sent the Angel of the Lord

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to stand in the road to block
his way. As Baalem and two servants

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were riding along, Balem's donkey saw
the Angel of the Lord standing in the

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road with a drawn sword in his
hand. The donkey bolted off the road

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into a field, but Balem beat
it and turned it back onto the road.

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Then the Angel Lord stood at a
place where the road narrowed betwe two

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vineyard walls. When the donkey saw
the Angel of the Lord, tried to

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squeeze by and crushed Balem's foot against
the wall. So Balem beat the donkey

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again. Then the Angel the Lord
moved further down the road and stood in

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a place too narrow for the donkey
to get by at all. This time,

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when the donkey saw the angel,
it lay down under Balem in a

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fit of rage, Balem beat the
animal again with his staff. Then the

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Lord gave the donkey the ability to
speak. What have I done to you

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that deserves you're beating me three times? It asked Balem, You've maybe looked

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like a fool. Balem shouted,
if I had a sword of me,

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i'd kill you. But I'm the
same donkey you've ridden all your life.

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The donkey answered, have I ever
done anything like this before? No,

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Balem admitted. Then the Lord opened
Balem's eyes and he saw the Angel Lord

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standing on the roadway with a drawn
sword in his hand. Balem bowed his

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head and fell face down on the
ground before him. Why did you beat

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your donkey those three times? The
Angel the Lord demanded, Look, I've

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come to block you away because you
are stubbornly resisting me three times. The

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donkey saw me and shied away.
Otherwise I certainly would have killed you by

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now, and spared the donkey.
Then Baalem confessed to the Angel of the

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Lord, I have sinned. I
didn't realize you were standing in the road

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to block my way. I will
return home if you are against my going.

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But the Angel of the Lord told
Balem go with these men, but

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say only what I tell you to
say. So Balem went with Bailack's officials.

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When King Bailak heard that Balem was
on his way, he went out

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to meet him at a Mobikee town
on the Arnon River at the farthest border

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of his land. And then he
goes on from there and winds up blessing

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rather than cursing the king. Yes, that's what happens, right, but

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yeah, which is uh? And
and by the way, I think I

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already know what you're going to say, because that's what I'm going to say.

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I think it's what everybody's thinking.
Do you know what it is?

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I don't know that Balem didn't seem
surprised that his donkey was talking. No,

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no, right, that's what blows
my mind as well. Yeah,

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yeah, that's exactly what I was
thinking. Is Baylim just starts arguing with

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the donkey, and by the way, he may have been surprised, and

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in fact he probably was. It
doesn't say because the scripture doesn't record didn't

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doesn't mean that it didn't happen,
because you know, it says that Bayalem

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shouted the donkey, yeah right,
So I mean he's straight up aren't you

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shout shouted back in a regular argument, right, just just as if you

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would, and like your child or
something. I'm telling you he doesn't realize

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what's going on right now. He
doesn't realize how odd of his mind he

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is. You think he's so angry, Well, think about the times you've

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been out of your mind angry.
Yeah, you're not thinking sanely In the

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moment, everything makes sense in me. Yeah, that could be an explanation.

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I've never thought that, though.
I've always thought one of two things.

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Well, you haven't thought right,
then, is that right? I've

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thought one of two things, and
again we don't know the answer this side

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of heaven. But I thought either
one of two things. Either number one,

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because God spoke audibly, because things
were magical, because there were sorcery.

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You know, there were sorcerers who
could turn staffs into snakes, right,

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I mean, there were there were
things like that that existed in the

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Old Testament, and there weren't you
know, there was rumors of the partings

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of Red Sea, and miracles and
and all these different things. I think

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that maybe perhaps either things that were
supernatural weren't as unusual as they are today.

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I think that that could have been
it, or perhaps Baylim was absolutely

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surprised, but it just didn't record
that part in the Bible, which could

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be completely true as well. It
doesn't go out of his way to say

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he wasn't surprised. Yeah, so
I'm sure that we're gonna get to have

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it and realize there's a lot of
context, you know, stuff in context

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that we don't realize. Yeah.
I don't think it's either of those.

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You think it's just he was I
think he was so enraged. Well,

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he's already beat this donkey three times
and he's hurt physically, so his foot

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got hurt that donkey sat down on
him, right, I think I think

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he's just he's furious. But how
how upset do you have to be to

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not recognize that you're donkey talking?
Well, I think that he's not thinking

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clearly anyways, in his sin,
willing to sell out and go bring curses

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against the he's not thinking clearly.
He's just he's That's that's what I think

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it is, all right. I
think he is just so full of himself

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and so angry in the moment that
he's not even paying attention. Okay,

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So I bet you, I bet
you five bucks. Yeah, okay,

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Hey, I wonder if that really
true. I wonder if God's gonna harmor

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me and give me five dollars.
She's not gonna give you five. You

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just lost. You know, He's
going to be like Jeff was, right,

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Yeah, right, maybe if God
said, if if I wanted you

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to know that he was surprised,
I would have I wonder what currency would

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choose. He probably give us a
piece of gravel off the side of the

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road, straight of gold, streets
of gold. Dude. So hey,

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here, here's here's graduation. Here's
some pavement. That's really all right.

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So let's go back to the scripture. So so here's uh, that's a

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probably good place. Yeah, God, God is actually did this thing to

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grab Balem's attention. And you know, God doesn't do anything by accident.

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So I have to believe that he's
teaching Baalim a lesson because here Baylim doesn't

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see what other people see, or
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But you know, so here's here's
the angel saying, why did you beat

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your donkey three times? Well,
it seems like an unreasonable question, which

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actually makes me wonder if Baalim was
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him? Or is it because he
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being willing to be paid off to
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Israel, which is God's chosen people. You know, had he been in

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a different state of mind, would
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why would the angel ask such a
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beat your donkey? Well, hello, donkey wasn't doing what I was telling

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it to do, right, you
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little things in there that's that make
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notes in numbers chapter twenty two kind
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a servant of God like you would
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right, that he's really a sorcerer. And so the real question is why

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would God use a sorcerer in general? Anyway, sorcers would be supposed to

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be put to death. And I
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had already decided to use the sorcerer. So God in the same way that

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God chose to use Pharaoh. For
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now here's the thing. You're not
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Well maybe that's why he wasn't surprised
if he's a sorcerer. Yeah,

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you know what, I'm not even
I'm just being transparent here. I'm not

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really sure that I knew that he
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and so so in this instance,
then God's just saying, you're not supposed

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to curse my people, and he's
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King. But the Mobike King had
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God decides I'm going to use him
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Lord's stand there, are going to
strike him down, going to kill him,

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right, so God's God's like,
you know, I think I'm going

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to kill this guy, wipe him
out. That's the message I'm going to

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send to the Mobike King. Is
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angel and the donkey can see him? So I didn't we have one time?

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A uh, somebody asked on the
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of this story, yeah they did. You know, can can animals see

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angels? Because sometimes I think,
remember I think she wrote something, because

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sometimes I think my cat can see
angels or something, yeah, yeah,

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or they see the supernes, see
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mean, you know, in movies
they certainly portray that, they portray that

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dogs are sensitive to ghosts and they
know things like yeah, like those kinds

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of things, right, like the
the unseen or whatever, those kind of

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things are. Well, this is
the only place in the Bible that has

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that kind of idea right in it
was that this for some reason, this

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donkey could see this angel. Yeah, because what was that other scripture in

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the Bible where it says, hey, it was it Elisha who said open

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his eyes that he may see,
and he saw the church for a servant,

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because Elisha wasn't afraid, right,
and Elisha's servant was terrified. We

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can't go out there. We're gonna
get killed. And he said and he

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said, open open your servant's eyes. Let let your servants see. Yeah,

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And then all of a sudden he
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God had placed there, and he
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It's just an amazing thing. Right, So there's an unseen world,

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and that's probably that's a good sermon
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we completely believe that the Bible teaches
that there's an unseen world and that's there's

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a spiritual battle that goes on every
day, and so the scripture teaches this

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right now that we believe that even
now, right now during this podcast,

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that there's there's an unseen battle that
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and there's an invisible realm, and
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believe that when Heaven comes together,
that you know, when the New Jerusalem

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comes down, we believe that there's
an invisible realm that's going to merge with

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the physical realm and that that that
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the way that Heaven was in the
beginning, right Heaven or Paradise all of

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existence? Yeah, yeah, all
of existence. So Paradise was a place

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where God walked with Adam and Eve
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in the garden. He walked with
them. And so now we you know,

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we're told that God is a spirit, He's an invisible spirit. But

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yet we are also told that when
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the source of light, that God
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being on the throne, that Jesus
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Father. These are physical, tangible
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currently they're invisible. Yeah, yeah, I always feel bad for this donkey,

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right, So somehow he has this
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can't. But Balem loses his mind
on this donkey. Donkeys are extremely dependable,

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right, So mules are not.
Mules are strong, they're stronger than

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donkeys, but they're very, very
undependable. You just they're difficult to work

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with. But a donkey, a
well trained donkey, will live for decades

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and will just work hard and very
dependable. So this donkey goes Bayalem,

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you've ridden me like your whole life? Have I ever done anything wrong to

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you before? And he's like right, But for some reason, now you

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know, this donkey is broken down
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And this donkey saved Balem's life.
But there's a really interesting note in the

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Life Application study Bible says the donkey
saved Balem's life but made him look foolish

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in the process. So Balem lashed
out at the donkey. We sometimes strike

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out at blameless people who get in
our way because we're embarrassed or our pride

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is heard. Lashing out at others
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within us. Don't allow your own
hurt pride to let you hurt others,

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hurt people, hurt people. Isn't
that powerful? Four innocent donkeys saved this

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guy's life and he went off on
even beating, And a lot of times

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it has way more to do with
what's inside of us and what's happening outside

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of us. Yeah, you know
our reactions, you know, it's it's

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a it's a funny thing because I'm
fifty three, so are you fifty three?

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But it seems like the older I
get, the more I realize more

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and more that none of us really
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We really don't, you know,
something in us, you know, you

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know, anything bad or negative which
is oftentimes comes out of us is really

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a result of like unprocessed wounds that
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think that a lot of us we
have either bad reactions or we feel something

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emotionally, and it really takes a
really well educated and well exp in person

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to realize, like, wow,
I shouldn't be reacting this way, and

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I wonder why I'm reacting this way, and it's probably because something in our

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past. And it's amazing to me
how we're controlled by that and our brokenness,

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and we don't realize how broken we
are as humans. But every time

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we react but poorly, I'm convinced
it's probably because of an unprocessed wound that

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we have as children. We just
never we're not perfect. We're imperfect people,

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right, and we live out of
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Or this guy, he's just godless. Yeah, well that's definitely the case

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here. Right, doesn't say anything
about his dad being mean to him when

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he was a kid, just that
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don't go, and the mobite said, hey, we'll give you lots of

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money if you go, and he
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the money. I'll go. Anyways, Then the angel decides, okay,

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well I'm gonna have to count him. Yeah, well, it's probably both

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right, because none of us can
can be free of unprocessed wounds. Sure,

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God godless or not, you know, godly are godless, But but

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yeah, you're certainly right there.
I honestly didn't know he was a sorcerer.

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But that that explains a lot,
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the reason why he's probably not too
shocked because he probably taps into powers that

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yeah, perhaps all kinds of demonic
stuff. Yeah, all kinds of demonic

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stuff. Well, hey, there's
a lot of sermons hitting in there,

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so that's pretty good. So hopefully
we will catch you next time on Monday.

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