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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. Welcome back. We are picking up our in our

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series, which is Highlights of the
Old Testament. Okay, Yes, that

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flowed really nice, thank you.
Yeah, because we've been struggling to name

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this well, and I feel like
you adopted the name I suggest. Yes,

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yes, I don't like the word
highlights. Highlights. You don't like

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it. It seems so casual to
me, So highlights because you're not a

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casual guy at all. Yeah for
me. For me, this feels like

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the fundamental milestone pillars, building blocks
of the Old Testament that flows right off

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your tongue. That's just that flows
so much better than just the highlights.

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No, no, highlights flows better, which is why I said it.

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Yeah, but I don't think that
it does it justice. Oh, I

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see you see what I'm saying.
Well, keep working on that other one.

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Maybe maybe come to it to Highlights
the Old Well, Hey, we

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have a very important public service announcement. Do the same thing is funny?

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Okay, So from the Bible Guys, we have a very important public service

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announcement by way of the Babylon By
has brought us this and here it is

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doctors remind you to arrive early so
you can wait even longer. It's just

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hilarious and a helpful message regarding your
upcoming a doctor's appointment. Your doctor has

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reminded you to be sure that you
arrive early so you can wait even longer.

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The reminder follows a protocol established by
the American Medical Association that urges physicians

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to stress to their patients the importance
of getting to the doctor's office as early

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as possible so they could sit in
the waiting room for a longer period of

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time. Just quick heads up from
your doctor. The voicemail you received begins

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tomorrow is your scheduled appointment, and
we want to remind you to get there

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early. If you arrive on time, you run the risk of only having

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to sit in the waiting area for
a short amount of time. To avoid

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the assle, please arrive fifteen minutes
before your scheduled appointment time so you can

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wait even longer. Thank you.
When reached for comment, your doctor's receptionists

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provided further clarification. The patient's appointment
will not start at the scheduled time,

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she said, So if they arrive
when they're scheduled to arrive their appointment,

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they'll be seated in the waiting room
area for only fifteen to twenty minutes tops.

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We want them to spend as much
time waiting as possible so a larger

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chunk of their day can be thrown
out a whack. So please arrive early

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so you can wait at least a
half hour or longer. At publishing time,

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your doctor's office also wanted to advise
you to be sure to go online

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through your patient portal fill out your
information online so that you could just fill

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it out again in person with a
pen and paper when you get there.

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That is true, by the way, isn't it. It makes me so

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mad? I refuse? Yeah,
I tell no, I already filled it

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out online. Well we need you
to fill it out here in person,

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go on line and print it off. That's say, oh yeah, what

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makes me mad? Do two things? My time is worth more than your

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doctor's time, so stop it,
right, Yeah, well stop it,

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just stop it, is it though? Is your time worth more than the

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doctor's time? Yes, I'm quite
certain, yes, very very Your doctor's

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terrible. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, worthless. Huh No. I

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love my doctor. My doctor's great. He's a blast, Like we just

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laughed the whole time. And then
I have to tell him what I want

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him to do, write these prescriptions, do that stuff. And you just

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sent me to a specialist, because
your family doctor mostly sends you to specialist,

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right. Uh, I would say, yeah, if there's a big

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problem, right, I mean,
as all that looks bad, I don't

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know what to do, go to
this guy. Oh that looks bad.

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I don't know if you go to
that guy, but make sure you're here

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in our early I'm joking. If
he's listening right now, he told him

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about this podcast. I'm joking,
dude, I busted jobs. So my

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family doctor, my my primary I
know him outside of the office. So

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I did his wedding and he's a
good friend. And so I found out

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it was his birthday, and so
I literally went in just Friday today is

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what Wednesday? So this was a
couple of days ago, and I found

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out it was his birthday. So
I was like, oh, So I

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called the office and I said,
hey, I said, what kind of

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Starbucks does John like? And they
said, oh, that's why you're calling.

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Let me put you on hold.
Put me on hold. They're really

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busy. I get disconnected after like
fifteen minutes of waiting, so I was

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like, oh, I'll Texas wife. So I ended up finding out I

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go through all this trouble, I
bring it in and come to find out

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I'm his third Starbucks. That said, we brought in this third Starbucks.

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And by the way, the other
two were people working in the office.

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If it had just taken a second
to say that, I would have brought

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him something else, right, But
instead I gave him, you know,

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the third cup of caffeinated machiato.
That's right, So show up earlier so

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you can wait longer, right,
and then make sure you fill out the

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online form so that you can fill
them out again in person when you get

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there. Yeah, that is pretty
irritating. Yeah, the fact that we

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can laugh at that and all of
us roller outd and go, we know

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that's true. Maybe the general practitioner
doctors have an issue that they could collectively

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address, right, Right, it's
not everybody else's perception that's wrong. You

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know, we're not wrong. Maybe
there's an opportunity there for you to set

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yourself apart from some of the other
local doctors. If you do what everybody

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else does, you're going to give
us the same results you give everybody else.

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It's so good, okay, all
right, well that's almost what made

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Jeff and Chris mad this week moment. Yes, yes, although that's cutting

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up so everybody double dipped. Yes, they got both a very important public

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service announcement from the Babylon Beat and
what made Chris and Jeff man this week.

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Man, this is a bonus episode. We should charge twice as much

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for this one. Wow, don't
you think? Wow? That's just yeah,

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yeah, well it's big value today, big big value. And you

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know what, not only will we
charge twice as much, but whatever your

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salary is from the Bible, guys, I'm doubling it right now, twice

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as much of nothing. There's a
bunch of zeros. So hey, we

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are skipping all the way to Genesis
chapter twelve because we had just finished talking

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about the Tower of Babel, and
then it's really the scriptures in between that

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what there's just a bunch of babbel
isn't that true? So well, I

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wouldn't say that about the Bible necessarily. All the words in the Bible matter,

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but it gives us another list of
from Shem all the way to Abram.

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The family line, which in the
Jewish culture, the Hebrew culture,

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was incredibly important to be able to
know where did you come from, who

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were you related to, you know, for the bloodline, because ultimately it

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becomes extremely important for us to be
able to trace back that Jesus was exactly

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who the Bible said he would be. Yes, son of David, son

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of Abraham, Right, sounds like
extremely important, babbyl It's yes. Well,

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I'm sure all those people who got
honorable mention in the Bible they feel

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like Heaven their name. They're like, yes, I got my name in

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the Bible. And you're like,
it's just Babbel. It means nothing to

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me. You're gonna get to have
it, and you have like six hundred

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You're gonna have like six hundred apologies
to make you know that, right.

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You're like, hey, Aaric fat
said, I'm sorry I said that about

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you. Hey, Lud Aaron right, Bieber Right, there's some funny names

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in there. Jock ten has our
Mabbith. Did you see that one?

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No, I've never heard that one. Yeah, Obel yeah, Sheba,

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oh fear Havla. There's a bunch
of names, but hey, it's just

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babbel. When you get to have
it, you're gonna to apologize these people.

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One of the worst is a wife
named Gomer Gomer. Oh, it's

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right here. Descendants of j Fith
were Gomer Magog had I, j Van

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Tubo, and tearsh ashkan As.
So there's all kinds of names in there,

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and it's just babbel to you.
They got honorable mentioned the Bible.

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You did not get. Okay,
I want to point out there is no

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Christ in the Bible, no Christara
in the Bible. Joke and hence the

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word joke. When you get the
heaven, so we we find ours.

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I'll just take you around. I'll
take you and say, hey, have

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you seen airfaxide yet? Because Chris
Chris says something he wants to say.

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No, you know what they're it's
not gonna happen. You know why,

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because the same little prideful meanness that's
in you right now want to take me

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around. It's not going to exist
in heaven. Oh it's not prideful meanness.

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Yeah, it's like it's like,
it's not it's my desire to help

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you be better. It's no,
it's it's not gonna exist in heaven.

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We're gonna get to have it.
You're gonna say, I can't believe I

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said that on the Bible. Guys. I'm so sorry, Chris, okay,

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apologizing? Oh okay, all right, all right, Hey, this

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needs to stop being about me.
It was all about you. So let's

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move on. So Genesis chapter twelve, we're to now all through. After

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we got through Chris's bibble, we
now are Abram is being called, who

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will be caught? Abraham? Well, you just gave away the secret.

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Everybody knows. Everybody listens, that's
right, okay. Genesis chapter twelve is

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where the call of Abram comes from, and it's says the Lord had said

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to Abram, leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family,

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and go to the land that I
will show you, and I will

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make you into a great nation.
I will bless you and make you famous,

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and you'll be a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless

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you, and curse those who treat
you with contempt. All the families on

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earth will be blessed through you.
So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed,

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and a lot wet with him.
Abram was seventy five years old when

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he left Horan. He took his
wife Sarah, his nephew Lot, and

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all his wealth, his livestock,
and all the people he had taken into

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his household at Haran and headed for
the land of Canaan. When they arrived

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in Canaan, Abram traveled through the
land as far as Shechem. There he

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set up camp beside the Oak of
Mora. At that time, the area

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was inhabited by Canaanites. When the
Lord appeared to Abram and said, I

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will give this land to your descendants. And Abram built an altar there and

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dedicated to the Lord who had appeared
to him. After that, Abram traveled

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south and set up camp in the
hill country, with Bethel to the west

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and Ai to the east. There
he built another altar and dedicated to the

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Lord, and he worshiped the Lord. Then Abram continued traveling south by stages

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toward the Negev Okay, is that
what we're done? Well, Yeah,

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that's where we're supposed to read too. Yeah, And so there's a little

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note in my life. Application of
study Bible, which we love, and

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it talks about Abraham. Of course
he's going to become Abraham, but God

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promises a nation to Abram. At
this point, his name is Abram,

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and it talks about his strengths and
accomplishments, and it says his strengths and

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accomplishments are his faith pleased God.
He became the founder of the Jewish nation.

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That's what's happening right here. And
he was not only a caring father

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to his own family, but he
practiced hospitality to others. He was a

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successful and wealthy rancher. He usually
avoided conflicts, but when they were unavoidable,

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he allowed his opponent to set the
rules for settling the dispute. Yeah,

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and so we're about to find out
some other things. His weaknesses are

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coming up. His lessons that he
learns come from those things. But basically,

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yeah, he is the father of
the Jewish nation. That's what's happening

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right here. So his father,
his name was Tara, right, and

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Tara had three sons, Abram,
Nehor, and Haran. And Haran was

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the father of Lot right. So
we can read all that beforehand. And

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they were getting ready to head towards
Canaan, so you know er and Haran.

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That area is in what is modern
day Iraq, not far from Baghdad.

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As a matter of fact, I'll
be in Iraq again in just a

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couple of weeks. And so it's
between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. It's

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very fertile area. You know,
we have called historians paleontologists would call that

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area the fertile Crescent. So in
all of the Middle East, it was

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just able to back in those days, the floodplain could create so much food.

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That and the Nile Delta, right, those would be the two areas

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that created so much food. And
wasn't that near the Garden of Eden perhaps,

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yeah, yeah, very much could
have been the outer edges of the

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garden. It listed those those rivers
the in that expos Yeah, and from

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a driving standpoint, if you just
got in a car and drove, it's

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maybe only like maybe eight or ten
hours from air Rat. You know,

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the mountains of Ararat, so where
the where Noah's boat settled. So you

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know, they kind of resettle here
in the Middle East like this. So

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now God calls Abram and say,
hey, I want you to pick back

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up. I want to take.
I want you to take all ever your

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wealth, and I want you to
go to the land of Canaan. Canaan

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is modern day Israel now. So
he goes up through the Fertile Crescent through

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what would probably be portions of Syria. Damascus was up in that area,

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and Ninevo is up in that area, and then down through probably portions of

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Lebanon and Jordan maybe somewhere in there, and then finally pops into Canaan.

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And he shows up now to the
east of Jerusalem, down in that plain,

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down near the Jordan River. You've
been in like Jericho, I have,

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yeah, yeah, yeah, So
Ai is just outside of Jericho and

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he's east of Ai. So he's
right near the Jordan River, to the

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north end of what is the Dead
Sea. So it's really rugged space,

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but that area, again floodplain for
Jordan, could grow a lot of food.

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So he goes from you know,
the populations in those days didn't get

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out in the difficult places and try
to figure out how to live and staid.

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They stayed where it was possible to
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he's at. Is he's along the
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River. Bethel and east of Ai
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it's interesting when you look on this
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to Canaan, Right. Yeah,
you would just think to yourself, why

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don't you just do a straight line
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Because right, that's the answer.
The answer is they they couldn't do

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that. They were smart enough to
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why you mentioned it, right,
and go up and all the way down.

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But holy cow, was because you
didn't have refrigeration. Right, It's

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not like you throw everything in your
yetty coolers, right and hop in the

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back of your toyotas and just shoot
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It would take them months and months
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town to town that had food.
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that wrapped around to the north and
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imagine, uh, traveling back then. Everything was You know, you're sort

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of reminded that it's that way when
you know you've been to Africa and you've

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seen people who they have to walk
for miles just to get water. Yeah.

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Yeah, and so every day.
I've done that. Have you ever

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done one? I've not done an
the water walk, it's never done.

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Brutal, brutal. You get two
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and dig a hole in the sand
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for the water to bubble up,
scoop it out, try to keep the

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sand out. Fill a five gallon
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great until you put forty pounds because
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and then walk back three miles back
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in the heat of the dirty water, it is so hard. Yeah,

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and that's how a huge portion of
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back home every day. Yeah.
And by the way, so I went

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off on a tangent. Now this
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I remember going to this is a
good episode. This is what we

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said, this is a bonus episode. We're gonna charge twice as much for

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this one. So I remember going
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we had to park and walk for
an hour, and I remember there's you

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know, a bunch of overweight,
out of shape white people who are just

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sweating to death in one hundred and
twenty degree heat, you know, just

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walking through the bush. And we
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this is We're just like slugging along
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left is a woman who is super
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her back, right, and she
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her head with a little like a
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two right, and she's like sort
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she goes walks down into a dry
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the drive riverbed, and then just
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speed that we're walking. And I
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at each other and said, okay, now we're the worst. That's right,

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Like we are not we are so
swell. They did that to us

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when we were doing it. I'm
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I can barely do this work.
I'm thinking I'm going to find somebody

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to carry my bucket. Right,
and all of a sudden, the ladies

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start passing me and they start singing. So they're singing, laughing, having

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a big time. It's a big
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and I'm just huffing and puffing,
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into this hike back to the water
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just remember thinking, man alive.
So I look at it as being brutally

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hard for them. It was a
social hour, right right. Yeah,

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So, anyway back to my first
tangent, which was that a lot of

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the world still lives this way absolutely, where whereas whereas like you and I,

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we take for granted it's so sometimes
hard to relate to the Bible just

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because of the modern conveniences that we
face. And so when Jesus would say

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like persecution, for instance, the
people around the world receive that word differently

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than we do, right, yeah, and so and when they talk about

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you know, uh, just just
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and and even even the comparison of
shepherds and sheep, all that stuff we

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have a hard time relating to.
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he is, you know, taking
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on his journey. And uh,
and so we're talking like months and months,

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relate to this anyway. Yeah.
Yeah, So Abram grows up and erv

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the Keld's, which we still refer
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whole population group from within Iraq and
uh in Er growing up there. He

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probably grew up fairly educated. It
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I was talking to a Jewish rabbi
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driving out into the Arabian desert and
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can you tell me what is the
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a he's a pretty famous rabbi here
in the US, and he said,

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he said, so, there's a
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said, the general consensus for many
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tradition is that when the rest of
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you know, in the Chldean area, they looked at the stars and the

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earth and the mountains, and they
worshiped the gods that they believed came from

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those things. But he said that
the Hebrew tradition is that Abram looked at

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the stars and said, there must
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So instead of looking at all the
gods, he looked to the God,

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the creator. And so when he
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then God reached out to Abram as
opposed to all the others. Right,

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And it's consistent with the Bible when
it says, draw near to me,

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and I'll draw near to you,
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were without excuse because of the sun
and the moon and the stars, creation,

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right, all those kind of things. So he says that that is

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the deep Hebrew ancient tradition is that
Abram looked to the creator of the universe

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as opposed to adopting all of the
gods, and then God said, hey,

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you're drawn near to me. I'm
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you, and so chose him,
and the said, I'm going to make

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a great nation from you, and
all of the people of the world will

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be blessed because of you. And
that was a hint at Jesus. Right,

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then Mesiah would come from your family. An interesting note on verse seven

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that we read when it said that
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It says Abram built an altar to
the Lord. And altars were used for

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many religions, but for God's people, al were more than places of sacrifice.

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They symbolized communion with God, and
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Built of rough stones and earth,
altars often remained in place for years as

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continual reminders of God's protection and promises. He built altars for two reasons.

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Number one for prayer and worship,
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God's promise to bless him. Even
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and his loyalty to God, so
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So that's why so many times in
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altar there, and then that place
was known as the place where God will

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provide or you know, which is
about to come up, right, Because

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sometimes they would build altars and they
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They would be made out of stone, and they would take a long

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time, and it was also sort
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what God did in that place,
that encounter or the promise that God gave,

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and that's really important because that's it's
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that highlights is sort of like a
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milestones or you know, just markers
or you know, like you know,

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pillars moments of time and history that
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Jesus through the Old Testament. Because
it's sort of that way. You know,

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there's probably times in your life,
I bet where you can look back

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and you can say that these are
the pivotal moments in my life and you

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may not have built a physical alter
there, but they're the milestones in your

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life experiences. Right. Yeah.
For a long time I carried a stone

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in my pocket that reminded me of
a very specific thing. For a long

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time, I carried a challenge coin
in my pocket that every time I see

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my hammapocket, I feel it reminded
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same idea as they build these altars, so that when they saw them,

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it reminded them. So hey,
maybe that's it. Maybe maybe we need

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to change the name to mile Markers
of the Old Testament. Yeah, maybe

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so mile markers. Yeah, just
just just uh markers along the way that

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tell you where you're at, where
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that are grounded. Uh, you
know that gives you direction. This is

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all those words just make it hard
to type it in the line on the

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right. So maybe my mile markers
uh of the in the in the Old

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Testament, right, yeah, mile
markers, Yeah, whatever. I don't

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know. It's a good one though, I like it. So that's essentially

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what he's doing is he's building this
altar. He makes a sacrifice, but

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he also builds it so sturdy and
substantial that his family, his children can

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see it. And there's something about
that for us as Christians, as parents

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that you know, it's not just
about us and in our individuality, it's

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about the generations and the people that
coming behind us. He's that that altar

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was pointing others to the fact that
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Yeah. Yeah, forever, you
know, you know, tell your kids

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about this story, to share with
your kids about what the Lord has done

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here on this mountain, because that's
that's really what it is. We should

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we should have our faith you know, broadcast in our family, that they

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would know our story, that they
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know God's faithfulness. And I think
that sometimes as parents we forget to be

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open with our kids because it makes
us vulnerable sometimes because a lot of our

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stories is about or about our failures, or about our doubts, or about

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what we were rescued from, right
our struggles, and and you know,

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to have our kids reach a certain
age, you know, we have to

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be able to be authentic, genuine, so that God can be glorified in

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our weakness, even with these kinds
of stories with our kids. Yeah,

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and eventually God actually makes it a
law for the Hebrews don't remove the old

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landmarks, right, And so God
wants these things to be retold for us

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in our families. Maybe it's the
family stories. We need to talk about

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the struggles, sure, but we
need to also talk about the high water

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marks when God blessed, God showed
up, We struggled, we prayed,

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God answered prayer. We need to
keep retelling those stories where we came from,

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and it gives roots, right,
we're not removing those old landmarks.

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A lot of times we forget to
put roots down for our kids. And

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then wonder why they don't have a
lot of depth when they get older or

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whatever. So we have to put
those roots down deep, keep retelling the

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stories. And that's essentially what an
altar like this would do for a culture,

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for a community that's great. All
right, Well, that's a good

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place to end and hopefully we will
see you tomorrow on the Bible. Guys,