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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

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to the Bible Guys. My name
is Chris. This is Jeff, my

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faithful companion, and we are here
today with excitement. We are here to

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just brighten your day. Well,
that's why I'm here. I'm here to

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brighten everybody's day. Well, you
break my day, Jeff, So i'd

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imagine I can only imagine what it
might be like to you can only imagine

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movie. That'd be great. Hey, So, so I don't know why

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you're here, but I'm here too. Well, everybody, we don't know

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why the listeners are here. They
too, they keep have their day brightened.

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Chris, I just told you well
to learn about the Bible, okay,

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and you get to know more about
us. Yes, in fact,

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that is a great segue into the
first segue. That's right. What is

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it called, yes into the segment? That's correct, it's called story time,

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story time. Yes. And so
we're starting a brand new Shanes today,

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right. So we just finished up
two hundred and fifty events in the

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life of Genie. Let's all the
way through the four Gospels and that was

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pretty great, Yeah for sure.
And thanks for carrying me through that whole

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thing. Well, you know,
I do what I can. Yeah.

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And then now we're going all the
way back to the very beginning. We're

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going to go back to the Book
of Genesis and we're going to take the

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highlights of the Old Testament. Right
now, we have one hundred and five

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highlights laid out, but there's a
bunch more. I just haven't finished the

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work of laying them all out yet. But yeah, we'll go through a

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couple hundred. Probable we'll get there. These things take time, exactly.

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So anyways, we're gonna go through
the highlights of the Old Testament. So

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today we're going to share a funny
story about something that happened to you when

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you first started doing ministry full time. Wow, a funny story that happened

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to me when I first started doing
ministry full time. Yeah, And I

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have to give you a caveat if
your story is long. She has here

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for time purposes. It's okay if
only one person shares a story, right,

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right, So it's almost like Desiree
knows. Yeah, well, do

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you have one off top of your
head, I do, I have a

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couple, Okay, go ahead and
share one and then I'll think of mine.

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So depending on if you're long.
Right after I started working full time

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in ministry, it was at a
Baptist church down in Texas, and we

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had a big baptistry on the back
of the stage. So if you think

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of the big stage, and it
was one of those ones they had thrones,

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you know, where all the pastors
sitting froze, and then there was

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the choir loft behind that, and
then up above there was a big baptistry

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and there's like a little glass window
along the bottom and you could see the

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water, you see people going to
anything. So it's kind of deep because

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that meant both people had to get
into this big baptistry. And the guy

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who did most of the baptistizing was
our youth pastor. He was assistant pastor

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there, but he'd been there the
longest we were. Both the senior pastor

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and myself were both young, hadn't
been there very long. He'd been there

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long time, so most people wanted
Monroe to baptize. So it was a

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suit and tie church. We always
wore suit and tie, right, We

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always looked really good. So there
was a baptizing suit coat for each of

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us that we could wear over top
of waiters, so you wouldn't see that

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we were wearing waiters, but you'd
see us wearing our suit eye you were

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in the water because we were down
in the water. That's right. So

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we go. So Monroe goes in
and Monroe was maybe still is I was

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gonna say, was hi Monroe,
if you're listening, what is five six?

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Maybe five seven? And he goes
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time he probably weighed one hundred and
fifty pounds max. One hundred and forty

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five pounds max. And this lady
comes in and she's easily six feet tall

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and she's two and a half times
his size. Oh right, sure,

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So he leans in. I saw
him whisper to her and then she nodded

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and everything. And so he goes
to the thing here plug your nose,

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and he baptized the name of the
father son jun spirit. When he went

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to dunk her, she panicked going
under the water, and she grabbed me

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and she pulled him under the water
with me. So I'm just sitting there

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watching and all of a sudden,
she disappears Monro disappears under the water.

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There's just thrashing. It looked like
it looked like like a shark attack,

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you know, just water flying,
feet and hands everywhere. And Monroe comes

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up out of the water for a
breath, and she grabbed him and pulled

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him back down. So and you
can just see, because there's that little

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glass window you could see below the
water. You see panic on his face.

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He's trying to get out. So
finally everybody's laughing. That was the

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only baptism that day. She gets
up, she goes out, but now

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his waiters are full of you know, like one hundred gallons of water.

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He can't get out, he can't
get out of the baptistry. He just

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stuck there. We had to cut
him out of his back, out of

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his uh w, out of his
waiters. So that was one of the

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funniest things I've ever seen in my
life. Wow, that is unbelievable.

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Okay, mine is very fast.
One of the first times in my entire

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life that I was going on a
trip. I was only maybe twenty years

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of the first times you've ever I'm
sorry, as a youth pastor. It

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was one of the first trips I
ever took as a leader. As a

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leader that said it better. So
then I went to the U Hall place

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and they were that was waiting in
line, and there's a bunch of people

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getting a U haul and I was
just trying to hook up a one of

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those U hauls attached to a van
like the little you know, the little

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attachment right there. Well, I'm
just waiting and waiting and nobody's helping me,

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and so so anyway, I got
kind of bored and I noticed that

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my uh, you know, the
thing was reserved for me. So I

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picked it up and I pulled it
and I set it on top of the

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ball right right. But I didn't
lock it in and I didn't chain it

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up at all, right, So
I just I just sort of had set

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it there. That's all I did. Well, apparently the guy who was

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helping me came out, looked and
saw that it was on my truck and

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thought to himself, oh, look, this young man looks competent. Well

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he knows what he's doing, or
he thought another employee did it for him,

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right, But he looks like,
oh, it's already hooked up.

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So he goes inside and he says, okay, you're all set boom bom,

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boom boom. Well I'm assuming that
he's hooking it up out there,

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right, so you know, so
anyway, so I that's that's the mistake.

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So I pull out and I go
down. I'm probably like a quarter

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of a mile down the road.
I'm up to like forty miles an hour,

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and all of a sudden, this
thing comes off. Well, it

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turns out that he noticed that the
chains weren't on, so he went ahead

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and hooked the chains up. Okay, oh yeah, so but he didn't

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screw the the ball thing on.
Well, the ball thing came off,

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Well you know what happens. It's
got like a okay, so it fell

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first, and then when it falls
down, it launches like a catapult,

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right, does it make sense?
So the chains held it so it was

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still there, but it came off
of the thing the hitch, and it

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falls down. It catapults and it
slams into the back of my van.

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And then because the change are on, it's continuing to slam against the van

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and it literally smashes the van to
smithereens on the back end. Oh my

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goodness. And by the way,
I'm getting this the day of the trip.

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Is this the church van? This
is a church van. And we're

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talking like the kids are waiting on
me and the parents are waiting on me.

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Okay, so you know, last
minute kind of thing. So I'm

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driving down the road and all of
a sudden when it smashes the glass and

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this is a fifty pastuer van had
flown up and hit the back of my

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head. Hit the windshow that's how
that's much impact. So all of a

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sudden I hear ba ba ba ba
ba bad van, and I'm like,

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oh no, oh no, So
come find out, like you know,

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everything was delayed a couple hours.
They drove out, and then they try

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to blame me, and then all
of a sudden, it was my boss

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who went in and said, okay, come on, he goes, you're

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liable for this. So then they
had to end up paying for the repair

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of the van. Wow. Yeah, it was terrible. Wow, But

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it was me. I was just
being incompetent. Me. Well, no,

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you were being helpful and somebody didn't
finish their job. That is actually

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accurate. There you go. Yes, we'll see. I'm on your side,

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Chris, Yes you are here.
We are thirty years later. I

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wish you would have been there that
day. That's right. You were just

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trying to be helpful. It wasn't
your job to hook it up. But

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okay, so or the other side
is mind your own business. Let somebody

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do their work. Yeah. Yeah, well that's that's what I got.

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Yeah, back then, that's what
I got. Okay, yep, Well

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there you go. I hope that
suffice. That was our first time ever

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with storytime. Yes, and it
was seven minutes. Yeah, so good

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job on that one. Yeah,
that's a lot. Well. Hey,

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as we said, we're kicking off
a brand new series called what are we

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calling it? I don't even know
what we're calling it. I would say

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highlights of the Old Testament. Highlights
of the Old testament' that's the sound bite.

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I don't know. Okay, so, hey, we're gonna make up

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time because today it's only one verse. Is this the only time we've ever

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done one verse? Oh? For
sure it is, Yeah, for sure,

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I think so. Yes, we've
done a couple that were two or

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three verses, but this is the
first ever. But the good news is

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there's a lot packed in here because
it's the most important verse of the Bible.

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Yeah, I guess so. I
guess it's the most. None of

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the rest of the Bible matters if
the first verse doesn't isn't true Genesis one

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one. There you go, So, would you like me to read it

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or would you like no, no, no, it's all you. It's

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me. Buckle up, here we
go. Gis read this one. Okay.

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The Bible says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the

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earth. There you go. Okay, thanks for tuning in. We'll see

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you tomorrow. No, no,
no, it's it's it's unbelievable. In

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the beginning, God created the heavens
and the earth. And you could break

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that down. We're by word in
the beginning, God, God, in

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the beginning, God in the meeting
was God? What created the heavens and

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the earth? There was no heaven, there was no earth. Avoid what

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I mean, there's so many implications
just in that one verse. Yeah.

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So, first of all, this
one verse establishes the fact that there's a

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God. Yes, right, So
for a Christian or you know, this

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was the in Moses gave us this
in the Pentituke, So this would have

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been for the Christian and the jew
This is the defining verse that establishes that

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there's a God, and that there's
a God who is active in the universe.

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He actively created what was, so
there was nothing and then God said,

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I'm going to make it, and
there was everything. That's that's how

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the process happens in the book or
in the first chapter of the Book of

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Genesis. So tomorrow we're going to
pick up and I think we're reading where

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God creates humanity, right. But
what you'll notice is if you read through

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the rest of these passages, God
speaks, right, it's always speaking.

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He says, let there be light, and bang, there was light.

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And then he goes, let there
be space between the waters, you know,

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separate the heavens and the earth and
all those things. So he's speaking

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out creation over these six days.
And so it establishes first of all that

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there's a creator. I pulled up
an idea here or a thing that highlights

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the eight major elements of Genesis.
Chapter one, verse one, it says

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God is the creator. Right.
So these very first words in the passage

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and beginning God created make it clear
that according to scripture, God's the ultimate

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cause and he's the ultimate source of
creation. It's it's very significant. We're

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not just finding a God, and
I think sometimes people are attempted to go

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find a God for good luck.
Right, what they're thinking is, man,

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you know what I need. I
got problems. I need somebody better

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than me to fix them. Rabbits
foot right, Yeah, exactly, And

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it goes way beyond that. Now, God does, you know, intervene

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and does step in and help help
us in our problems. But ultimately,

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first we have to understand it goes
way beyond his great desire to solve your

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problems. Yes, God is the
creator of everything. He's the author of

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everything. He's the source and the
cause of everything. Are you gonna expand

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on every point like that? No? I was just highlighting this one idea,

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Yeah, because that is an unbelievable
thing to talk about. Just there.

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That's a podcast right there. I
set it up because I wanted you

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to ask it. Yes. Well, I mean there's so much time because

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I usually give like the facts and
then you give the color commentary. Is

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that yeah? Yeah? Yeah,
It's kind of like we're calling a baseball

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game and I'm like the picture and
then you're like, you know, he

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could throw one hundred and five miles
an hour, right right? Okay,

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Well, my favorite show that I
watch every day. I think it's every

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I think it's every day is Big
Bang Theory. Oh and it's based on

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the fact that it's the Big Bang, right, I mean, I mean

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the title is at least right.
But there is some sort of religion thing

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where his mom's totally religious and she
believes in God and then he and he's

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a scientists and all these kind of
things. You've never seen it, right,

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never seen it an episode? Okay, yeah, it's pretty wonderful.

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So anyway, the point is is
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first thing, that God is the
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it matches up with creation versus evolution. I mean, that's not only

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just a podcast, that's a series. Right. So the idea that people

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think that, you know, science
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thing is this science. The more
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aren't even Christians, would you know, There's been like Blaze Pascal, there's

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been different scientists over the years who
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then when they try to, you
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and the precision of the universe and
they try to get into all these different

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details, they become Christians because they
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the more you realize it goes hand
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They don't have to be separate.
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when we were kids, it felt
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it was either evolution versus creation,
and these two were pitied against each other,

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as if science and genesis were enemies
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mainly because there is billions and billions
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no, you know that's only thousands
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is always of interest whenever I run
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This happened to me. I'm on
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just before Christmas. So a couple
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asked me what I do. I
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it leaned into I'll talk about this
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in why somebody would give their life
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of implied maybe I was a Charlottean, you know a little bit, and

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then he goes, well, you
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So do I right, That's what I'm

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talking about. And he goes what
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who believes in science. I said
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far, I've only ever seen science
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the Bible corrected by science. He
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said, oh, I don't know. For the first several thousand years of

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human society, they believe that the
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it's expanding, which means it had
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concept of a bang I think in
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there was something. That's amazing because
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whenever Moses wrote this four thousand years
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and then there was something. Then
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it was always here. And then
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they were still questioning whether or not
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whether or not there was the beginning. And I said, so, I

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mean, Jude, dude, that's
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so if you want to go on, and he started laughing, well that's

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of interest. And then we lean
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science versus the Bible, all this
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the first verse, and you led
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no, no, no, okay, all right. After a while,

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he put his headphones on in order
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a good story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I had a friend

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of mine who it was a very
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good friend used to tell me,
whenever you have a story that needs a

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good ending, he says, and
just simply say, and then I found

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five dollars. And then I found
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before we move on to the least
one of those eight things. There's a

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really cool note in the Life Application
Study Bible. We recommend it, we

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love it, and this is how
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statement God created the heavens and the
Earth is one of the most challenging concepts

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confronting the modern mind. The vast
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incredible speed of four hundred and ninety
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this break next our galaxy still needs
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and there are over one billion other
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Some scientists say that the number of
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of grains on the sand and all
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Yet, this complex sea of spinning
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To say that the universe just happened
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believe that God is behind these amazing
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universe. Well, that was one
of the phrases I mentioned is I said,

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to be honest with you, I'm
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actually reject a god. Because he
had commented on what it takes a lot

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of faith to believe in God,
and I said, I think it's the

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other way. I think to just
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and that you are intelligent enough to
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it and contemplate our place and our
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it. I said, dude,
snails aren't having this conversation as far as

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we know. But you and I
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The scale of the universe is almost
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on absolutely a mathematical razor's edge in
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is just unbelievable, unfathomable to me. So I said, to be honest

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with you, I have a hard
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I don't think I have enough faith
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my mind. It's too precise.
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deal with my genetics, the fact
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in my DNA describing who I am. I said, there is nothing else

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in your life you don't believe.
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or on the table in front of
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believe that all those letters just randomly
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the story that you're reading. Yeah. Right, You look at letters and

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you see information, and with that
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take a lot of faith believe that
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that gave you the information that you're
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created, right, I said,
so, dude, I just have enough

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faith to believe that there's not a
God. Yeah. Well, somebody said,

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if you figure out the mathematical odds, it'd be like taking a watch,

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like the watch that's on my you
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and putting it in a paper bag
and smashing it with a hammer until it's

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almost ground to dust, and then
shaking the bag and saying, what are

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the odds that you'll shake this back
into a perfect functioning watch? Right?

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Right? And that's and those odds
are greater or less then right. There's

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a comedian that talked about how he
said, well, people believe that God

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designed the universe, and then there's
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designed the universe. And he goes, so, either you believe in a

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god something that you can't you know, see smell here or science can't prove,

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or you believe in nothing, which
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smell or science can't prove. And
he goes, he goes, well,

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some people, some people say that
God doesn't exist. He goes,

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you know, it really doesn't exist
nothing. Nothing doesn't exist. Nothing doesn't

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exist, you know, which is
so anyway, So this establishes then for

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the Christian, this passage established is
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And not only that there is a
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the earth. And then the rest
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He creates an atmosphere in a planet, and then he separates water from

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the land, and then he raises
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stars in the universe so that you
know, for a time and day and

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all that kind of stuff. And
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He on the dry land, he
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finally humanity. And this passage,
the first chapter in the most important book

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in history, articulates the fact that
this is a creator that didn't just spin

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things off and ignore us, but
he's been active, active in his creation

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from the very beginning with a so
plan, right, and so one of

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the greatest exercises you could go through, and maybe this is the journey of

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your entire life, is to discover
what is your purpose? Because He made

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you on purpose, and he made
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to discover your purpose and then fulfill
it is the greatest discovery that I think

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you can have, apart from how
to have a relationship with him. Yeah,

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that's great. You want to work
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read it earlier it was pretty phenomenal. Oh yeah. So all I said

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was that this little list I have
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identifies the Trinity. In the first
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God created in the earth. Bible
says that over the waters there the Holy

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Spirit hovered, and then it was
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existence. John one one tells us
Jesus is the word. Yeah, right,

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and I think somewhere in there it
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then it said let us make man, let us make that's right. And

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then there's the divine plan. He
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the solar system. You and I
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system. God was very, very
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just for that but for time as
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his authority. If you make it, it's yours. I don't know if

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you do, you have that sense
true? Right? Yeah, so sign

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it at the bottom after I paint
it. Yeah, you write your name

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on it. This is my I
did this, right, So God is

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the authority. It highlights the power
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he used Jesus to speak into existence
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says something, it's going to happen. And then the order of creation,

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which by the way, follows exactly
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follows the exact same path. Right
that there was nothing then there was something,

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and then you know, you had
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and you know, all those kinds
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that way. Then human stewardship,
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He said, now I want you
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on. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So somebody once told me that we

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were created for relationship, and you
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does God tell us? We were
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with God. That's why he created
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in relationship with each other. So
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then you know, told us to
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interestingly enough, he said, we
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relationship with the planet. And he
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and said, think about the fact
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out carbon dioxide, and then the
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literally breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe
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it's incredible. Just it's incredible.
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the just the fact that there was
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that's why when when at the end
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done making everything, he said,
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was perfect right. We'll find in
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But what God's original plan was is
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was perfectly symbiotic. Every thing related
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Sin broke, Yes, Sin broke
everything that exists. Yeah, and not

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just us, but also even the
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we'll uncover that in the next couple
of days. Yeah, well that looks

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like about our time. Good job, Chris. Hey, how about us

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talking about one verse? Yeah?
And I honestly, I think we could

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have done a whole series of Absolutely, And for those of you that don't

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sit in our office every day,
Chris and I could do this over less

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than that. We could talk for
thirty minutes. Give us a word,

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just any word, we'll talk about
it. Okay, Hopefully we will see

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you next time on the Bible.
Guys,