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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. Hey, everybody, welcome to

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the Bible Guys. Here we are
today is Friday, TG. I f

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there you go. I wonder if
everybody is working Friday? There are people

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getting ready to work? Are they
are? They? Are they going into

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work and listening to us in the
morning when they're getting ready? Well,

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thanks for ruining the morning, Chris. Why what do you mean everybody had

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a moment where they were going to
just spend time with the Bible guys and

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not think about work. Oh?
I see, I say, Well,

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guess what. We have a segment
today because it's Friday, and it's the

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most important one is this is backed
by popular demand. Our fans keep demanding

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that we want. Yeah, we
had so many card and letter sent and

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email and text overwhelming pressure to have
you explain to us once again your benevolent

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feelings for us. Yes, with
regard to what made Chris mad this week,

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Yes, because you always are angry. Not for yourself, no,

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but for the on behalf of us, the world, for the world.

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Yes, So you're kind of an
expert on humanity. Yeah, so I

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have that's funny. No, not
freud me. Oh yeah yeah, yeah,

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yeah, so I would say that
the thing they got me mad this

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week is have you ever been either
in a school with a white board or

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maybe in the olden days a school
with a chalkboard. Yes, and they

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actually had something written on the white
I'll just say white board today. Right,

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it's something written on the white board
and they want to write something else.

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But instead of erasing everything on the
white board, they only erase the

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middle. Yes, they just smear
it a little bit. And yeah,

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they smeared a little bit and then
write something new. Okay, let me

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tell you something that those people deserve
a special punishment. Wow somewhere and now

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I've seen you react about this before, so yes, yeah, no,

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you you have to erase if you're
going to erase the board and start over,

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erase the board, the whole board, the whole board, every bit

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of the board. How could you
possibly like like only erase the middle part

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and then have information around the sides, and especially if it's a chalkboard,

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then it's all that like it's just
that smear. You know back in the

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day that you used to drive me
nuts. But uh And by the way,

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do you ever clean chalkboard with a
sponge and water? Yes? Yeah,

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I used to clean chalkboard all the
time. I bet I'm solicited too,

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right, right, it's just what
you did, I bet that's yeah.

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No, no, no, it's
just what you did. You didn't

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even have to do it. You
did it because it drove you nuts.

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Oh I thought you were meeting as
a punishment clean the chalkboard. No,

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but this happened the other day at
church. So somebody is, as you

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know, is a whiteboard filled with
writing. They get up and they want

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to write something, and they erase
like, yeah, ninety percent of it,

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and then they just continue as if
that's acceptable. Yes, right,

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I saw this. I was in
that meeting, wasn't I wasn't it the

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one that was well? I think
because I saw you jump up and erase

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the rest of the boord. So, but the thing is, the world

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doesn't like this, the world,
at least at least all of your OCD

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friends. No, the majority of
the world, even those who aren't.

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My wife's on OCD, and she
would say, what is he doing?

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Erase the whole board? Right,
because that's just crazy. It's it's madness,

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I say, mad well, thank
you, thank you for pointing this

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out. If you're a boss,
if you're going to be writing on a

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whiteboard today, yeah, be curtious, erased the whole thing. Be courteous.

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There's going to be a Chris Star
bond there that can't hear another word

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you say while there's a little red
line over in the corner, and there's

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more of me than there is of
you. I'm not sure about the teacher

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that that is. That's an obsessive
thing. So there are people, there

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are people who are not OCD.
That's still that drives them those Okay are

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you a little do you lean a
little that way? Just a little,

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just a little, Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure I do.

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It was bad in college, was
it really? You get really bad?

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Somebody had to actually point out that
this is unhealthy and really bad.

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And then I had to learn to
not be OCD. And I had all

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my labels up front. I used
to hang my shirts in the closet,

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I take out a ruler and make
sure that they were oh wow, yeah,

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I'm not kidding. Yeah, that's
a lot. My brother when he

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used my hair dryer, he'd have
to have it wrap a certain way,

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and I'd say, put it perpendicular
on the dresser. And then if he

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didn't put a perpendicular, I'm like, I'm like, what does the matter

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with you? Put a perpendicular and
he's like, what does the matter with

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you? And then uh. And
then finally somebody mentioned it to me and

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I was like, oh, I
wasn't familiar with this, and you know

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what cured me? And actually I'm
not cured. I just tolerated, right,

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Like, what's what's his name?
A beautiful mind? He just learned

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to deal with his schizophrenia things.
But I do every day. I deal

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with OCD every single day. I
just ignore it. But what cured me

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was being a youth pastor. His
life is messy, Yeah, very messy,

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very messy, especially when you're a
youth pastor. Yes, yes,

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and so I had to learn to
deal with it. And I used to

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I used to have eye twitches every
single day being a youth pastor. But

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I just learned to go with it. And so you've overcome all of it.

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Except an honey race, a thoroughly
honey race. Well that's just that's

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just laziness. There's no excuse for
you not to erase everything. Yeah,

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that's not OCD. It's just driving
me nuts, right, It's just it's

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lazy. Hey. Uh, you
know, there's there's nothing wrong with liking

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things done. One more comment.
If you're out there and you're a person

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that decides to race only the middle
part and then write something, I don't

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think I want to work for you. Wow. In fact, I would

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venture to say, I think you've
told me everything I needed to know about

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you, forever, forever. I
dismissed you from my life. Well,

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I just don't think I want to
be friends really yeah yeah, okay,

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yeah, Well note to self.
I have a whole list of things I'm

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always like, Okay, I'm in
Chris's presence. I don't want to do

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that. I don't want to because
I don't want to. I don't.

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I am. I am terrified to
get canceled by you. I am.

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I spend most of my time obsessing
about maintaining maintaining our friendship and afraid that

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I'm going to cross the line at
some point. I'm always thinking, you

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know, I was just a home
depot and I almost didn't return my cart,

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and I'm thinking what if zar bas
here right. Hey, I'm getting

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dressed in the morning. I wonder
if Crystal like this shirt. Yep,

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that's it. And then when it
comes to now I've discovered I have to

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erase the entire board before Okay,
well, thank you, Chris, thank

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you, and I'm sure on behalf
of a whole segment of our of our

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listeners, yes, both of them. They are thrilled that you that you

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brought this up, and uh,
the rest of us will seek to there.

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It is not be a distraction to
you, all right. So we're

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moving on to Moses's last plague.
So there have been nine plagues, Yeah,

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nine plagues up to this point,
and Pharaoh just wants more. His

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heart keeps getting hardened. Finally,
the god of the sun is darkened,

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and they're like shocked by that,
but it doesn't matter. Then finally Pharaoh

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says, I'm not gonna you know, I don't ever want to see you

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again. Moses says, don't worry, You're never going to see me again.

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And now I remember this is very
likely either his stepdad or his stepbrother,

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very likely one of them. Then
the Lord said to Moses, I

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will strike Pharaoh and the land of
Egypt with one more blow. After that,

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Pharaoh will let you leave this country. In fact, he will be

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so eager to get rid of you
that he will force you all to leave.

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Tell all of the Israelite men and
women to ask your Egyptian neighbors for

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articles of silver and gold. Now
the Lord had caused the Egyptians to look

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favorably upon the people of Israel.
Moses was considered a very great man in

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the land of Egypt, respected by
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Moses had announced to Pharaoh, this
is what the Lord says. At midnight

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tonight, I will pass through the
heart of Egypt. All the firstborn sons

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will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh who

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sits on his throne, to the
oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who

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grinds a flower. Even the firstborn
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then a loud whale will rise throughout
the land of Egypt, a whale like

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no one has heard before, and
no one will ever hear again. But

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among the Israelites it will be so
peaceful that not even a dog will bark,

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and then you will know that the
Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians

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and the Israelites. All the officials
of Egypt will run to me and fall

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to the ground before me. Please
leave. They will beg hurry and take

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all your followers with you. Only
then will I go. Then, burning

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with anger, Moses left Pharaoh.
Now the Lord had told Moses earlier,

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Pharaoh will not listen to you.
But then I will do even more mighty

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miracles in the land of Egypt.
Moses and Aaron performed these miracles in Pharaoh's

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presence, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart. He wouldn't let the Israelites lie

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leave the country. So then God
begins to unpack for them. How He's

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going to pass over the firstborn of
Israel, and this becomes the most important

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national holiday, the most important religious
ceremony, the greatest celebration within all of

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the Hebrew religious system is the Passover. Yeah, and so we're going to

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skip over the first twenty verses of
chapter twelve where he basically instructs the children

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of Israel to have a Passover feast. Well, it's a feast of unloved

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bread, and they're going to basically
he gives a great instruction on to sit

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down and to have this sort of
a meal. And then while they're meeting,

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they have to do something in order
for them to be passed over.

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Right, So then Moses called all
the elders of Israel together this is verse

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twenty one, and said to them, go pick up a pick out a

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lamb or young goat for each of
your families, and slaughter the passover animal.

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Drain the blood into a basin.
Then take a bundle of hissop branches

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and dip it into the blood.
Brush the hissop across the top and the

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sides of the doorframes of your houses, and no one may go out through

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the door until morning, for the
Lord will pass through the land to strike

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down the Egyptians. But when he
sees the blood on the top and the

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sides of the doorframe, the Lord
will pass over your home. He will

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not permit his death angel to enter
your house and strike you down. Remember

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these instructions are a permanent law that
you and your descendants must observe forever.

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When you enter the land the Lord
has promised to give you, you will

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continue to observe this ceremony. Then
your children ask what does this ceremony mean?

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And you will reply, it is
the passover sacrifice to the Lord.

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For he passed over the houses of
the Israelites in Egypt, and though he

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struck the Egyptians, he spared our
families. When Moses had finished speaking,

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all the people bowed down to the
ground and worshiped. So the people of

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Israel did just as the Lord had
commanded through Moses and Aaron. And that

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night, at midnight, the Lord
struck down all the first born sons in

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the land of Egypt, from the
firstborn son of Pharaoh who sat on his

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throne, to the firstborn son of
the prisoner in the dungeon. Even the

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firstborn of their livestock were killed.
Pharaoh and all of his officials and all

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the people of Egypt woke up during
the night, and loud wailing was heard

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throughout the land of Egypt. There
was not a single house where someone had

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not died. A single house.
Yeah, that is amazing. And you

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know, this becomes so significant for
us because, as mentioned before, it

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seems to be like, you know, the things that Moses did physically,

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you know, represent things for us
spiritually, right, and so this being

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the most important of them all right, because you know, the blood that

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is commanded to be spread on the
door frames represents the blood of Jesus.

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So the Book of Hebrews tells us
that without the shedding of blood, there's

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no forgiveness of sense. And so
so just imagine if you were there.

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You know, you had to take
a you know, sacrifice, you know,

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the firstborn, you know, without
a blemish, without a spot,

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a perfect sacrifice. And this lamb
has to be killed, and it's a

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pretty gruesome sight or goat. And
then and then when he said lamb or

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goat, he said, take a
young lamb or a goat. And and

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he said, and then and then
go ahead and spread it on your doorposts.

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Well, the doorposts would be representative
of the cross. Right, so

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Jesus is carrying his cross, and
you know there's the there's the posts,

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and there's there's the crossbeam and and
you know the blood that was you know,

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dripping off of Jesus' back and face
and beard and head would have would

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have covered those timbers and and so
and so you know, because the blood

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was sacrificed, the animal sacrifice,
the blubble shed and then the blood represented

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uh, you know, uh,
a passing over of judgment of sorts,

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right, not a physical death,
or actually it was a physical death,

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but for us it's a spiritual death. Yeah. So God says, when

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I see the blood, I'll pass
over you, right that, and he

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said my death angel will not kill
the firstborn. And that's a really significant

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issue. It's the same for us. Right, We're still sinners, we're

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still the same humans, but we're
covered in the blood of Jesus. There's

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Jesus blood that paid the price for
us, that ransom that had to be

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paid in Romans chapter six was the
blood of Christ. And so now the

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Bible says that when God sees us
we are, even though our sins are

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as scarlet, that they'll be as
white as snow. Right, So when

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God's looking through the blood of Jesus, he only sees us as clean,

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not covered in sin. And that's
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interesting the part we skipped over.
God unpacks this entire meal. There's these

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bitter herbs, and there's roasted lamb, and there's you know, unleavened bread

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and all these things in every one
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Of who Jesus was. This is
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he tells them, first of all, get dressed for a journey, and

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they do. And so this sitting
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not yet been set free. As
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Pharaoh went ah, changed my mind, right, But this time he says,

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I want you to get dressed,
get all your stuff, get your

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walking stick, get everything, and
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this moment of preparing for the thing
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an act of faith because it had
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know how God was going to deliver
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death Angel comes through Egypt and just
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finally Pharaoh's heart's broken to the point
where he sends them away. But what's

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really interesting is before that, God
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hey, go and talk to all
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silver. Right. They literally,
when they finally are freed, because we'll

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read in the next episode, we'll
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they literally plundered the land of Egypt, and God had prepared everything. He's

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sending them off with all the resources
they need. Hey, you work for

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free for four hundred years. Here
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the resources. They get dressed,
they're ready to go. They have this

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special meal, and then he says, I want you to keep doing this.

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Celebrate it year after year after year
after year after year. And this

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celebration is so you can teach your
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in our world, what is that
like? That's Easter, right, It's

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Thanksgiving, right, remembering that God
gave us what God gave us. It's

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Christmas. And we need to keep
rehearsing, re rehearsing the stories with our

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children. Not just make it about
the cute elements or the fun elements,

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or the nice elements. Hey pass
the mass potatoes, or hey here's Santa

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Claus. But we need to also
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story that God came and invaded this
planet, He rescued us from our sins,

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and then we are thankful for what
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the resurrection, the Cross. We
need to be rehearsing them. And that's

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the whole purpose behind the Passover Meal
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never generation after generation after generatoration would
never forget. And here we are thirty

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five hundred years later and they still
do it. Yeah, they still do

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it. And it's by no accident
that when Jesus was actually killed that he

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intentionally waited, remember, outside of
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He was hanging out and he would
go into Jerusalem every day he would teach,

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he'd come back out. But then
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the first day of the Passover,
and Passover is actually a term that is

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used to describe the week, Passover
week, and it was a Passover festival

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that lasted a week. But then
the Passover meal took place on Thursday night,

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and so there was a there was
a there was a marching in,

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which is why we have Palm Sunday
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And it was by no accident that
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meal, that is when Jesus says, hey, remember this meal. I

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mean, I'm adding words, but
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remember this meal. That you've observed
years since you were a child. And

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he says, well, guess what
this this bread that you that you realize

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that everything here symbolizes something. Those
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and you know, and in bitterness. Well, guess what this bread?

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This is my body right which is
broken for you. You've wondered what this

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bread symbolizes and the tearing of this
bread. Well, guess what this is

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me? And he takes the wine
and he pours it out. Yeah,

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remember ceremoniously how you poured up this
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you know, your whole life.
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This is me? And what are
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this prophecy. God sets into motion
and Exodus chapter number twelve a tradition that

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carried over you know what is it. It's it's fifteen hundred years until Jesus,

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Jesus. That's up to Jesus.
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you know, I'm the fulfillment of
this meal r you know this word

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picture And so he's going to die
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that week, in fact, the
next day. Right, he's going to

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die the next day, and it's
going to be just exactly like the blood

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that was spread on the lamb of
the goat spread on the timbers. So

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that the judgment of God passes over
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We no longer have to die spiritually
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God says in that part, we
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instance, the unleavened bread. He
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I don't even want any leaven in
your home. Right, if you

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eat any leavened bread, you know, bread that has been able to rise

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because of the leaven, you're going
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Israel. This is don't mess around
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in Jesus and his teaching. We'll
talk about it too. Leven would represent

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sin, right, right, Not
that leven is sin, but it represented

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a little bit makes that all you
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yeast in a lump of dough and
the whole lump rise, right, And

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so it's the picture, just a
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of deviating over to the Egyptian way
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ruin everything. And so the idea
then is when when Jesus has that Last

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Supper with his disciples and institutes communion
for the first time, what we would

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call communion. Now there's this unleavened
bread, and Jesus said, he picks

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up this untainted bread, it would
be a cracker essentially, and he says,

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this is my body. He's he's
indicating it's sinless, right, my

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body has nothing to taint it.
It's sinless and pure. And I'm going

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to give this as a sacrifice.
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said, this wine represents that blood
because it's kind of grewsome the blood thing,

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he said, represents the blood.
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the price on the cross. As
as John said, behold the Lamb of

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God, who takes away the sin
of the world. That's what That's what

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John announced three years before, was
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we've been looking for is that guy, and he's going to take away the

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sins of the world. And so
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I see the blood I'll pass over
as when he sees the blood of Jesus.

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Nothing in all of human history has
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of Christ. Right. Equally important
would be the resurrection, because lots of

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people have shed their blood, but
not everybody who shed their blood to pay

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for sins also resurrected. So those
two elements. But there's nothing more important

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for your salvation than the fact that
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right. And this is why communion
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we're remembering those things, it's not
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thirty five hundred years of this illustration
of the fact that an innocent one died

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to protect the guilty ones, and
that the guilty ones choose to remember by

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the unleaven bread the wine. And
then he says, get ready, prepare

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to go. And a lot of
us we consume all the stuff, the

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religious stuff, but we're not ready
to go do the work right and go

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on the mission that God has us
for. Yeah, and I always because

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our culture is so indoctrinated with confusing
things about you know, the communion today

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you know frequency? And then is
it you know, is it just bread.

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Is it grape juice? Is it
wine? Is does it represent you

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know, the body or the blood? And is it physically the body or

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the blood. Well, listen,
when you think about it in terms of

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everything we just said, when you
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a lot of times a lot of
us don't understand that when we understand the

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context and he says, this is
my body and he's referring to the Hey,

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this this ritual that you've been doing, this represents me. You know,

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Jesus wasn't literally saying that it was
his physical flesh. He wasn't saying

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this is my body. And the
example I always like to use this Jesus

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said, I am the gate,
but he wasn't a gate. He said,

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I'm the door. He wasn't a
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the rock. He wasn't a rock. Right, I'm the shepherd. He

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wasn't technically a shepherd. Jesus said
all sorts of things, uh, you

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know, like like the salt metaphors. I I am the light. He

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wasn't light. Although actually trans transfiguration, he became light. But the point

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is is that it is a metaphor. It was it was It was a

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in so many different ways. He
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my body. Why would we take
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of Christ when stacked up against everything
else we know about Jesus's teachings, right,

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And it's because we ask ourselves who
has the authority of the Bible or

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the Church? Right? And you
know, and somewhere along the way the

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Church has declared that. But if
you look at the Bible, who we

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consider the final authority, we understand
that that's not the case. And so

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and so the wine then he said, this is my blood. It just

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it means, hey, this this
symbolically is is uh, you know who

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I am? Just just like it, just like Jesus is the cornerstone.

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He's not a little cornerstone of a
building. Right. So so yeah,

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so the wine represented the blood of
the sheep of the lamb, that's right.

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And they sat there and clearly understood
that was not Lamb's blood. It

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was actual grape juice wine, that's
right, right, right, So wine

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from a from a grape. So
they knew already it was symbolic. But

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then since then we've changed it back
into an actual thing. Some some religious

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people, but in the moment,
they knew that this was not the blood

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of a lamb. It represented the
blood of a lamb, right, And

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now he's saying, it represents my
blood. I am the lamb. Right,

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He's the lamb. So it's a
figurative thing, right, right,

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Yeah, and so and so that's
that's what it is. And so just

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like Jeff said, we have to
remember, and this is probably the good

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closing thought, right, that that
this passover feast in Exodus twelve. If

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you go to church on a regular
basis and you receive communion, just know

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that you are connected. I mean, you're very salvation is connected to the

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passover. That's great, I mean, you know our salvation. But but

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the observance of it, the the
the appreciation of it, the gratitude for

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the understanding of all of that is
represented in the ritual of one of the

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only two ordinances that God gives to
the church. He gives baptism, which

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is a command, right, and
then he gives communion. In communion is

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something that we observe. And he
says as often as you do it,

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which means it doesn't matter how often
you do it. And most scholars would

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say that he probably meant every year, once a year, because he says

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as often as you do this,
he's referring to the Passover feast, as

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often as you do this, So
if you really want to argue frequency,

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you could you could lean toward months
annually, right, So it doesn't matter

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the frequency, because I'm sure there's
no sin against doing it once a week

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or once every you know, two
months, as often as you do it,

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that's right, that's right. So
big picture, you were enslaved in

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sin, that's right. The lamb
of God shed his blood. Yep,

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the sinless Lamb of God, undefiled, shed his blood. When God sees

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the blood, he passes over you
and you pass from death to life,

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and then freedom is on the other
side of that, which is exactly the

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story of the people of Israel.
That's great. Well, that's a pretty

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massive milestone in the Old Testament.
Huge, And that's what we're doing.

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We're covering the milestones of the Old
Testament in this series. So we will

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pick up next time on Monday on
the Bible guys, mhm hm