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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. And guess what, Jeff's back. Yes, yes,

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Jeff was traveling across the world.
The adventures of Marco Polo have been ended.

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And yes, so we're back in
town. Back in town. Yes,

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and so you are back and you're
glad to be back. It's so

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good to be back. Yeah,
I bet you. The highlight of returning

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to the United States is the Bible. Guys. Well, so we were

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scheduled the very first thing to come
back into studio, and yes, so

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very excit. You were like,
I can't wait to get back to Chris.

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You said to your admin the first
thing I thing I want, I

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demanded, demanded. And then does
everybody know that your admin is your wife?

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Yes, that's well, that's it, so there's no demanding. Yeah,

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my wife and I were on a
romantic vacation in your and then I

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couldn't wait to get back to studio. Yes, as fast as possible.

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Well, hey, if you're tuning
in, we are very excited because we're

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diving into perhaps passages of scripture that
you may not necessarily hear about on a

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normal sermon or a typical sermon for
a lot of people reading, this is

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like the flyover zone right here,
right going from the coast to west coast,

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just fly over the Midwest. This
is kind of some well Viticus.

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It could be some tough reading sometime
every once while, yeah, yeah so,

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or sort of skipping over some things. And we're hitting the religious festivals

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today. Yeah so. But before
we do that, we have a segment

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that Desire has planned just for your
and a lie. And this is a

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brutally difficult one. She said,
Jeff, we know that you're a big

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fan of grilling for others. Yes, and so for today's edition of Two

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Truths in a Lie, I have
to recount three different grilling stories, and

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I have to challenge you to figure
out which one isn't true. And by

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the way, do you have three
grilling stories? I have thousands of grilling

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stories. Okay, all right,
but are they all good? Though?

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I mean, I know once upon
a time I made burgers. Yeah,

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I made burgers, having made some
talking ate them the end. Okay,

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Well, you got to figure out
which one was a lie. Okay.

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So one time I bought a smokeless
grill, but actually it was given to

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me. The smokeless grill was given
to me. I was very excited about

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it. I'd never seen a smokeless
girl before. This is rt after we

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get married, and so my wife
and I in the middle of the winter,

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we wanted to do some grilling,
and so I thought, well,

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we have this smokeless grill. So
I set it up in the kitchen.

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We grilled and just about killed ourselves
because of the so much smoke in the

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house for quite a while. So
that's one smokeless girls aren't truly smokeless.

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Two. I the very first gas
grill that I ever bought for my my

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home. I put on a patio
and very excited about it and did not

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realize the closeness of how close it
was to the wall, and I broke

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a five and a half foot plate
glass window in our front front window.

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Then from the heat, and then
the last one was the first time that

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I got somebody gave me a replacement
propane tank. The hookup was wrong and

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I started a fire from the from
the grill all the way down to the

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tank and almost exploded. The tank. So those first first, let me

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first of all say that all three
of those were told very convincingly. And

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also I believe that your first story
is true because you immediately and instinctively said

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it was given to you the smokeless
grill, and everybody in ministry when they

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first started out are given things,
so that one has to be true.

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So I'm going to say that one's
true, and then you broke it was

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true. It was true, by
the way, oh yes, okay,

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so I'm down to two. Okay, so I'm going to say that the

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thing that is false is you started
to fire down the hose to the connector.

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And the reason why is because I
can believe the heat thing escaping your

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knowledge perhaps, but I just don't
see you. Well, you're not necessarily

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the handy guy. Why do you
say that just because I have scars all

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over my body from power tools.
Yeah, I'm still going to go with

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that. With that, that's the
false one that I accidentally started a fire

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with with the with the connected Okay, well you're correct, Yes, you're

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correct. Yes. So the very
first house we ever owned, we were

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so proud of it, and we
the one thing was there wasn't like a

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deck or anywhere. And so there
was a little slab of concrete out front,

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and so I got made railings and
the little you know, slats and

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all that kind stuff. Was really
nice. We made this little sitting area.

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Was so proud of ourselves. And
I put my grill right in front

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of the the big plate last window
because I thought, that's great. It's

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so easy, easy access into the
house. And fired up the first time

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and destroyed a thousand dollars window.
Wow. And then which which was one

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fortieth of the value of our house. I was gonna say, I was

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gonna say, how much money did
you say? Now? And they're a

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little patio exactly. You could have
expanded your patio. I think it was

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I think I think we paid forty
five thousand dollars for that house. Wow,

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I'd love to have that back.
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the window was a thousand bucks so
yeah, wow, that's a that's an

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expensive window today. It was huge. It was a huge window. Yeah

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yeah, yeah, wow. Well, I I am glad that you didn't

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hook up a propane tank wrong,
because actually that's the scariest of all the

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scenarios, right, I have had
big fires but never, never from approach.

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So before we move on, Jeff, I do have a question.

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When you almost killed yourself with a
smokeless girl that wasn't smokeless, did your

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fire alarm go off? No,
there were no fire alarms in our apartment.

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Nice. Nice, It was the
eighties, man or nineties in nineteen

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ninety ninety one, Yeah, ninety
two, was it nineteen ninety two?

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It is what happened. So,
yeah, that's hilarious. Back then,

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back then, they just figured you
need to be smart enough to figure out

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how to get out of the house, right if it's smoking in your coffee,

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get out if you're sleep well.
So somebody hit Bonnie's dad actually was

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one who gave us that little grill. And then somebody down the street.

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We move into this apartment and somebody
knew us, and so they were a

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married couple and they came over because
we don't have been married for just a

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few weeks. They came over.
The two steaks. Wow, So,

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I mean, these are first steaks
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college kid, you know, all
excited about it, got my grilling salts

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out and all this kind of stuff, and fired that bad boy up right

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on my kitchen table. Next,
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house. We got all the windows
open. It's January and northwest Indiana.

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It's like five degrees outside. We
got the windows out. We're sitting on

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the floor eating our steaks. Wow, that's great. That's a great that's

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a great visual right there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So actually for

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like a month afterwards, the whole
house smelled like steak every time we open

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the door. You're like, man, I'm hungry. Yeah, that's funny.

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Yep, steaks embedded into your furniture. It really was. Yeah,

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it was horrible. Okay, well, hey, as you mentioned, we

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are looking at festivals and seasons,
and this really drives and still does even

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to this day. These festivals still
drive the Jewish calendar, right, it

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drives so much of their society,
and so I think that they're really important

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for us to understand what God was
thinking and why he did these things.

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And so it's kind of a long
chapter, but it goes kind of in

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a pretty quick fashion. So we'll
try to get through it. See what

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happens Leviticus, chapter two, twenty
three, and we'll start with verse one.

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It said the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the

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people of Israel. These are the
Lord's appointed festivals, which you are to

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proclaim as official days for Holy Assembly. You have six days each week for

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your ordinary work, but the seventh
day is a Sabbath day of complete rest,

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an official day for Holy Assembly.
It's the Lord's Sabbath Day, and

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it must be observed wherever you live. In addition to the Sabbath, these

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are the Lord's appointed festivals, the
official days for Holy Assembly that are to

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be celebrated at their proper times each
year. The Lord's Passover begins at sundown

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on the fourteenth day of the first
month. On the next day, the

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fifteenth day of the month, you
must begin celebrating the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

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This festival to the Lord continues for
seven days, and during that time

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the bread you eat must be made
without yeast. On the first day of

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the festival, all the people must
stop their ordinary work and absorb beneficial observe

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an official holy day for assembly.
For seven days, you must present special

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gifts to the Lord. On the
seventh day, the people must again stop

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all their ordinary work to observe an
official day for Holy Assembly. Then the

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Lord said to Moses, give the
following instructions to people of Israel. When

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you enter the land that I'm giving
you, and you harvest its first crops,

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bring the priest a bundle of grain
from the first cutting of your grain

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harvest. On the day after the
Sabbath. The priest will lift it up

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before the Lord so it may be
accepted on your behalf. On that same

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day, you must sacrifice a one
year old male lamb with no defects as

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a burnt offering to the Lord.
With it, you must present a grain

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offering consisting of four quarts of choice
flour moistened with olive oil. It'll be

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a special gift of pleasing aroma to
the Lord. Must also offer one quart

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of wine as a liquid offering.
Do not eat any bread or roasted grain

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or fresh kernels on that day until
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This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation

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to generation wherever you live. From
the day after the Sabbath, the day

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you bring the bundle of grain to
be lifted up as a special offering,

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count off seven full weeks. Keep
counting until the day of the seventh Sabbath

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fifty days later. Then present an
offering a new grain to the Lord from

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wherever you live. Bring two loaves
of bread to be lifted up before the

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Lord is a special offering. Make
these loaves from your fore courts of choice,

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flour and bake them with yeast,
and there'll be an offering to the

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Lord from the first of your crops. Along with the bread, present seven

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one year old male lambs with no
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as burnt offerings to the Lord.
These burnt offerings, together with grain offerings

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and liquid offerings, will be a
special gift of pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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And then you must offer one male
goat as a sin offering and two

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one year old male lambs as a
peace offering. Priests to lift up the

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two lambs as a special offering to
the Lord, together with the loaves representing

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the first of your crops. These
offerings, which are holy to the Lord,

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belong to the priests. That same
day would be proclaimed an official day

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of Holy Assembly, a day on
which you should do no ordinary work.

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Supermanent law for you. It must
be observed from generation to generation wherever you

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live when you harvest the crops of
your land, do not harvest the grain

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along the edges of your field.
Do not pick up what the harvesters drop.

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Leave it for the poor and the
foreigners living among you. I'm the

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Lord your God. Lord said to
Moses, give the following instructions to people

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of Israel. On the first day
of the appointed month in early autumn,

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you are to observe a day of
complete rest. It will be an official

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day for holy assembly, a day
commemorated with loud blasts of a trumpet.

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You must do no ordinary work on
that day. Instead, you to present

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special gifts to the Lord. Then, the Lord said to Moses, be

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careful to celebrate the day of Atonement
on the tenth day of that same month,

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nine days after the festival of trumpets. You must observe it as an

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official day for holy Assembly, a
day to deny yourselves and present special gifts

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to the Lord. Do no work
during that entire day, because it's the

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day of Atonement, when offerings of
purification are made for you, making you

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right with the Lord your God.
All who do not deny themselves that day

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will be cut off from God's people. I will destroy anyone among you who

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does any work on that day.
You must not do any work at all.

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This supermanent law for you, and
it must be observed from generation to

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generation wherever you live. This will
be a Sabbath day of complete rest for

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you, and on that day you
must deny yourselves. This day of rest

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will begin at sundown on the ninth
day of the month and extend until sundown

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in the tenth day. The Lord
said to Moses, give the following instructions

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to people of Israel. Begin celebrating
the Festival of Shelters on the fifteenth day

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of the appointed month, five days
after the day of Atonement. This festival

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to the Lord will last for seven
days. On the first day of the

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festival, you must proclaim an official
day for Holy Assembly when you must do

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no ordinary work, and for seven
days you must present special gifts to the

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Lord. The eighth day is another
holy day on which you present your special

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gifts to the Lord, and this
will be a solemn occasion. No ordinary

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work may be done that day.
These are the Lord's appointed festivals. Celebrate

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them each year's official days for the
Holy Assembly by presenting special gifts to the

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Lord. Burnt offerings grain offerings,
sacrifices, and liquid offerings, each on

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its proper day. These festivals must
be observed in addition to the Lord's regular

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sabbath days, and the offerings are
in addition to your personal gifts and the

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offerings you give to fulfill your vows. No voluntary offerings you present to the

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Lord. Remember that the seven day
Festival to the Lord, the Festival of

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Shelters, begins on the fifteenth day
of the appointed month, after you've harvested

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all the produce of the land.
The first day and the eighth day of

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the festival will be days of complete
rest. On the first day, I

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gather branches from magnificent trees, palm
fronds, bows from leafy trees, and

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willows that grow by the streams,
that celebrate with joy before the Lord,

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your God, for seven days.
You must observe this festival to the Lord

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for seven days every year. This
is a permanent law for you, and

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it must be observed in the appointed
month from generations generation. For seven days

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you must live outside and little shelters. All native born Israelites must live in

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shelters. And this remind each new
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live in shelters when I rescued them
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Lord, your God. So Moses
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festivals of the Lord. All right, let's pray and go. Okay,

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yeah it was a lot. She
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reading. Well, I like the
last one where God makes them have an

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annual camp out. Yeah right,
yeah, yeah, yeah, that was

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great. That's good for Jeff.
So you have the religious festivals. So

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you have the Festival of number one
on leaven bread is what we talked about.

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Then celebration of the first harvest.
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There's the Festival of Trumpets, there's
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Festival of Shelters. So a lot
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it is it's crazy almost right,
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we have more in our culture.
We have more in our culture,

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don'tly. So I struggle with this
when I'm sure, I'm sure I think

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most people do, actually, which
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right, So I'm more of you
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like attracted for knowledge for knowledge sake. And don't get me wrong, all

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of God's word is important. I
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you know, symbolic, and it
means something, and it's reflects nature.

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I mean, there's something to learn
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right, So I do believe that. But you know, sometimes it's

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hard to translate, and you know, you read something like this and you're

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like, okay, all right,
God, what do we do with this?

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What does it mean for me?
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this where it's basically two guys we
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go what's God telling us today?
Right? And you go, well,

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yeah, right, yeah, right, Well, I think there's several things.

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There's several things in here. One. You know, first of all,

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he re ups the one of the
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day. He's like, don't mess
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fact, ignoring the Sabbath causes a
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Bible. You read most of the
minor prophets, he's pretty ticked off about

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them. Skipping the Sabbath day.
Jesus later on reups that when it says,

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hey, man isn't for the sabbath. The sabbath is for man.

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It's a gift to you to rest. And a lot of our problems,

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and I think physical problems and emotional
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our foot off the gas, right, and then we just wander. God

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rescue my marriage. Guys, Like
I've been giving you a day off every

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year, every week for you to
invest in your family. Oh God,

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you know, lower my blood pressure. I've been giving you a whole day

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off every week, and we refuse
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these we know the health benefits,
we know the mental benefits, we know

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the relational benefits of taking one twenty
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We just don't want to do it
or we feel like we can't do it,

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like somehow we know something God doesn't
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hir and so he's re upp in
that he and we know that Jesus said

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that the Sabbath is a gift.
Then you see the rest of these,

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and he tends to build these these
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count one time, count seven Sabbaths
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this new thing. And so he
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their lives because that day is supposed
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and for assembly, gathering together as
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them apart as a culture from all
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you think about it, I was
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fourth of July, and my cab
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day for you, right, I
see. Yeah. He said, it

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must be amazing to be fourth of
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funny? He has this picture how
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fourth of July, and he was
like, you know, is it hard?

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Is it hard for you not be
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now? Yeah? And you know, so he had this understanding that there

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is something very unique and very special
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was we kind of had a sense
of loss that we you know, there's

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no fireworks going off, there wasn't
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of that kind of stuff. Did
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what did you do? I went
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Greenfield Villains fabulous and they were playing
as the fireworks were going off. Yeah,

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and it was like it was the
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This is this is the first year
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it because we're out of the country. Did you know I played fifteen of

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those concerts, did you Yeah?
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that you were in it. Yeah, yeah, that way saying that that's

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what you go to every year.
Every year you do a Greenfield Village.

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went on. Yeah, it's fantastic. If you don't know. Greenfield Village

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is a place that Henry Ford built
as an outdoor museum where he brought in

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some of the you know, Thomas
Edison's workshops and where the Wright brothers invent

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in the airplane, the actual buildings
he moved them there. Yes, and

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Noah Webster's home where he wrote the
English Dictionary. But it's just a really

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great place for fireworks. And the
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symphonies in the world. So yeah, it was amazing, great experience.

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So that's what these are. These
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have the passover, obviously we know
what that is. We just talked about

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the passover, right, So the
passover, Hey, there wasn't something that

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happened back then. This is something
I want you to relive and re enact

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every year, right, I want
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the unleavened bread again, the sacrifice
with the animal, the way that you're

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cooking your food. I want you
to tell your children these things, right,

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in the Egyptian culture for four hundred
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you're out of that culture. You
need a new culture for you and

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your family. And I would say
for people moms and dads that listen to

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this podcast, you lived forty years
in slavery and God sets you free,

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and now you need to have new
celebrations for your family. Where you drive

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home. The meaning of Easter,
you drive home, the meaning of Christmas,

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you drive home, the meaning of
faith. Right, the fact that

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we take one day off because we
honor God and God's laws are important,

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right, all these things. You
notice, he says, if you skip

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these things, you're going to be
cut off from the people, right,

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So it's a big issue for him. And I think it's important for us

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as Christians to have holy days.
That's what a holiday is. Holy days

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set apart for re educating our family, reminding ourselves, celebrating what God did.

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And so that's the whole idea behind
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They traveled and wandered in the wilderness
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little shelters. So that's what that
is, all those things. But I

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think the most important one is you
know, for us, it's going to

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be the day of atonement. But
yeah, well it's it's an incredible overview

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there where you were talking about we
all need a new culture once you realize

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that we're set free from the bondage. You said slavery, right, Slavery

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is sin, right, Yeah,
And there's a lot of people who,

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you know, they try to get
the benefits of God in their lives without

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changing the culture. Right. So
they're just like, oh, yeah,

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we'll just sprinkle a little God in, you know, and and you know,

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I saw I saw a comedian trying
to defend atheism versus you know,

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creationism with a god. And then
and he's and he's dropping f bombs as

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he's doing it, and I thought, this is the most like juxtaposed.

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It was just really weird. It's
like, it's like, well, this

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is a great argument if you just
clean it up, because otherwise, you

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know, anyway, it's just weird
to have the two cultures mixed. Where

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whereas God's saying, hey, man, I have saved you, but I

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have saved you from your life in
order to give you a new one,

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right right. What God's not doing
is saying, hey, when you guys

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celebrate the festival of Osiris or when
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you know, He's saying, no, get rid of your old belief system

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and culture, and I want you
to have a new belief system and a

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new culture, and I want you
to build it around the reminding yourself of

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all that I did for you.
Well, the Bible tells us that he

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is making us more and more like
his son, that's right. So so

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our goal is to you know,
we're we're transitioning from glory to glory.

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The stripture says, so we are
to you know, become never sinless.

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But you know we can sin less, right absolutely, and we can work

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toward you know, these reflections in
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you know, at the very beginning
I mentioned about relevance, and I started

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thinking about you know, you said, we have more in our culture.

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So we have Fourth of July to
remind us of something, right, we

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have Labor Day to remind us of
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us of something. In the church. I think that the two big ordinances

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in the church. It's not that
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baptism is a perfect symbol and none
of that, but like every bit of

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baptism is the symbol. Right.
So you know, Paul talks about,

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you know what it means to you
know, just the water itself. You

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know, Jesus even said, you
know, baptized with water. You know

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you're talking about In John three,
Paul says, when you go under,

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you're you go under just as if
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likeness when he was buried, and
you're raised to walk just like the resurrection

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and so it's all completely symbolic to
remind us that we have new life and

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communion reminds us of the price that
was paid for us. And so you

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know, we observe those things,
and God commands us and says, hey,

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the purpose of this is to you
know, connect to something that happened

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a long time ago. Of course, you know this, this reflects my

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nature, This reflects my goodness,
This reflects my love and the price and

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the sacrifice that was paid for you. And it's really not that much different

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than these festivals, right. And
then it builds community, It builds family,

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and it builds community, it gives
it gave them something to really build

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around. A lot of times I
think, are you know, God does

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a transformative work in our lives,
and then we wonder what happens. How

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come it didn't transferred our children,
our teenagers or whatever. It's because we've

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let them live their entire life in
the Egyptian culture or in the worldly culture,

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right, and not reminding them and
pulling them into these these reminders within

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you know, the Christian worldview.
And so that's why he sets these up.

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And I think it's important for every
one of us to go all right,

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God, I'm going to set aside
a weekly time with you, a

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daily time with you. That's that's
that's one of those things Communion and baptisms

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I'm going to celebrate. And then
throughout the year when it comes to Christmas

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and Easter and some of these other
significant religious holidays, I'm going to make

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sure I'm going to speak up about
it. I'm going to talk about it,

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Thanksgiving being another one. So that's
great. Well, hey, that's

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a lot that we impact there,
just in in in those festival versus.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of
fun. Yeah, really fun. So

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that is our time and so hopefully
we will see you again next time.

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