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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 Chris, Hey Jeffrey Man,

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I'm glad you're my friend. Oh, we're just a couple of friends.

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That's oh that's where that's where you
get that from from the intro.

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Okay, I just thought it was
a random thought. It was like,

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oh, yes, I am glad
you're my friend. Yeah, I'm glad

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you're my friend too. I'm on
public record now because normally when she calls

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us friends, you're like, that's
a bad assumption. Yes, uh,

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well hey today are we are like
a fungus? Just get it grows on

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you. I was trying to transition
nobody. Nobody's glad for a fungus.

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So uh, Anyway, what I
was going to say is, we have

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Genesis number nine today. But before
we get into that, we have a

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segment by Desiree who asks us to
come up with a bucket list draft,

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do it drafted bucket list items?
Do rock paper scissors? Who goes first?

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But we're only allowed to do three
items? Were only three items?

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Okay each? So so do we
have to do rock paper scissors three times?

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Or do we just do it one
to see you go first? Okay?

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Ready, ready, Oh, both
of us scissors. I got a

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rock, he got scissors. That's
like one of the first times I beat

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you. I know, I know. I was trying to think backwards of

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what I normally would do. That's
funny. Get you Okay, so I

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get to give my first one.
Yes, So I have a list.

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Do you have a bucket list?
I do not. I do not have

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an actual list, but I just
a moment ago, I was surprised to

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see that you actually made a list. I have fifty six things on my

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list that I made several years ago, and I've checked two of them off

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since I made them. So I
have fifty four things left. You better

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hurry, h No, I'll just
give you one here. I mean,

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you better hurt it. I know, I know. And these are all

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hard too, So I'm going to
age out of a bunch of these.

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I say, you're on the back
ninety. One of my top bucket list

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things is I want a trek to
Everestpace Camp. Okay, that's like a

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ten day hike. Yeah, from
LASA up to uh is it your birthday

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coming up? Yeah. Yeah,
just Friday, Yeah, Friday, Friday,

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in just a couple of days.
By the time that after they listen,

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I will have already turned fifty three. Yes, so I've only got

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a few more years on that.
And I got a knee. This kind

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of tricky, so I'm gonna have
to get that fixed and order be able

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to do that one. So there
you go, this one. I'll do

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that all right. So mine is
what we mentioned a few days ago.

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Shark cage diving. Yeah, that's
on there too. That's number four for

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me. Yeah, So I want
to I want to go into a cage

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and I want to see sharks.
I will be scared out of my living

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mind to be cool, though,
but I I as long as the cage

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was, you know, sturdy,
because there are no there are cages where

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sharks can slip through. Sometimes it
happens. Yeah, and so I do

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not want that, right It would
be like breaking into a happy meal box

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at that point, right, right? Okay, let me see. I

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want to ride the Orient Express.
Woh yeah, so you can still ride

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it. It only runs at one
time in the year on the original old

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system. So there was a sister
train to the Orient Express back in the

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twenties that still operates. It's been
completely renovated and they bring it over onto

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the old system that the original Orient
expresses. So it's essentially the same train

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but the same thing. So you
go from London to Istanbul and I'd love

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to do that, but it's like
fifteen grand. Fifteen grand yeah, yeah,

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yeah, you can spend more than
that, but yeah, it's super

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expensive. So wow, I'm going
to have to sell a kid or something

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to get that. Wow, that's
okay, less than a half Okay.

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I would like to ride and this
is a very simple one actually compared to

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that. I would like to ride
in a helicopter over the Grand Canyon.

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Oh, that's in one of mine
too. Yeah. Actually, I've heard

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of people going down into the Grand
Canyon with donkeys and things, and that

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sounds like not fun for me,
Like I've heard about Literally, I was

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like, well, tell me,
how was it, and people are like,

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no, not really, So I
just think I want to appreciate its

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beauty from an aerial view. Oh
yeah, wow, have you been in

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the helicopter before? Yes? Yeah, yeah, that's fun. I like

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those. Okay, so I had
that one on mine too. I'd also

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like to do a Route sixty six
road trip. Oh yeah, from Chicago

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all the way to It would be
fun. Yes, yeah, I'd like

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to do that. We should do
it. Let's get a cool car and

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let's just do like a man trip
for what it take us, it's what

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three or four thousand miles? Five. I would like to do that on

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a motorcycle. Yeah, yeah,
that'd be fun if we should do it.

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And then my last one I'm gonna
choose is I think I would like

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so A long time ago, like
ten years ago, maybe fifteen years ago,

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I saw an advertisement for you know
those those huts and like crystal clear

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blue waters like in the Maldives and
things like that. There was a hut

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where a guy, uh you know
the house. The little hut was on

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stilts and he actually swam into his
living room right where he actually can you

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know, swim and then just walk
right up into the commons area of the

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living room. Ye I thought,
I thought, I want to rent a

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hut where I could literally be in
my living room and then just right in

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the center of the living room go
swimming, go swimming, and then go

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out blue water and then come back
and walk into my living room. Yeah,

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yes, and I thought, I
want to do that. Okay,

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you have to do it all right, I have. I have minor weird

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ones too. I got I want
to ride a horse to sleep in a

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yurt in Mongolia. Wow, I
would never do you talk about the years

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that are really really high, you
know, the yurts are there? Those

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those round tents that they set they
carry around was a little uh sling shot,

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uh like like what do you call
them? The hammocks? Hammocks?

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Yeah, yeah, no kind that
you hook up against mountains. No,

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in Mongolia, they're famous for riding
on horses and their their homes are really

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really sturdy, but they they them
up and carry them and set them back

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up again. Yeah, you're tent
like that. He got a bunch of

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those. I want to sleep in
a tent with the Sahara and Mongolia.

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I want to Grand Tour of Europe, which I'm going to try to check

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that one off this year. Wow. So yeah, a lot of neat

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stuff. We want to track for
gorillas and Rwanda. Come on now,

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I'm not joking. It takes a
long time to get out there, but

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I want to. You can die. But I almost had that happen.

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So I was at a meeting with
the President of Rwanda and his chief estaff

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was sitting across the table from me, and she said, so, have

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you guys gone to see the gorillas? I said no, I wanted to,

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but it was so expensive we couldn't
do it. She goes, okay,

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hey, let me get a card. I'll just send you on my

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helicopter. She's gonna send me on
the president's helicopter out to me and Chad

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out to go see him. And
just as she was digging through her purse,

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the president walked up and called her
over and she went, I'm so

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sorry, and she left while her
hands were in her purse looking for her

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card to send us on her helicopter. So I missed it, and server

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since then now I'm just in agony
about it. Every time you think about

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I missed it by second, missed
it just the second. Wow, Well

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i'll tell you what that is.
That is your list is way more exotic

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than me. Well that's why I
was saying. I got a hurry.

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I'm going to be fifty three in
a couple weeks, so I've got a

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window here. I got too close
the gaps on some of these, so

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fifty four of those real quick thirty
seconds. So my brother Tommy wanted to

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grant wishes to my parents, who
are aging. They're in their mid eighties,

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and she said. He said to
my mom, what's one thing you

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want to do before you you know, before you leave the earth. And

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she said, I want to go
to Italy because we're Italian. So he

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took her to Italy. Well,
then he asks my father, because he

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went around and asked his stepmother and
all this, or his mother in law.

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Anyway, they all had something and
my father's request was he wanted to

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see the Statue of Liberty. Well, we've done Murieals thing, you know,

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tom did my mom's thing. Well, now my dad, we're taking

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a trip this summer with my dad. He goes, see Statue of Liberty.

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Cool, and my dad says,
I can't believe that everybody else asked

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for things out of the country and
I just chose New York. He goes,

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if have known, he said,
I would have chosen something more exotic.

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You know that three hour drive,
it's pretty great though. Yeah,

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it's a moving experience. You guys
can do that this summer. Yes,

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good for you. Yeah, it's
really cool for you. Okay, Well,

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here we are. You know,
we live on an amazing planet and

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there's a lot of things to go
see and do. So that's kind of

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God gave us the planet back.
That's right. He destroyed everything on it

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and then gave it back. That's
where we are, Genesis chapter nine.

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And so this is Noah receiving a
covenant from God. That's right. So

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we'll just start Genesis chapter nine,
Verse one. It says, then God

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blessed Noah and his sons and told
them be fruitful and multiply fill the earth.

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All the animals and of the earth, and all the birds of the

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sky, and all the small animals
that scurry along the ground. All the

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fish in the sea will look on
you with fear and tear. I've placed

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them in your power. I've given
them to you for food, just as

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I've given you grain and vegetables.
But you must never eat any meat that

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still has the life blood in it. And I will require the blood of

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anyone who takes another person's life.
If a wild animal kills a person,

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it must die. Anyone who murders
a fellow human must die. If anyone

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takes a human life. That person's
life will also be taken by human hands.

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For God made human beings in his
own image. Now be fruitful and

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multiply and repopulate the earth. Then
God told Noah and his sons, I

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hereby confirm my covenant with you and
your descendants, and with all the animals

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that were on the boat with you, the birds, the livestock, and

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all the wild animals, every living
creature on earth. Yes, I am

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confirming my covenant with you. Never
again will floodwaters kill all living creatures.

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Never again will a flood destroy the
earth. Then God said, I'm giving

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you a sign of my covenant with
you and with all living creatures for all

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generations to come. I've placed my
rainbow in the clouds. It is the

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sign of my covenant with you and
with all the earth. When I send

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clouds over the earth, the rainbow
will appear in the clouds, and I

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will remember my covenant with you and
with all living creatures. Never again will

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the floodwaters destroy all life. When
I see the rainbow in the clouds,

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I remember the eternal covenant between God
and every living creature on Earth. And

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God said the Noah, Yes,
this rainbow and this is the sign of

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the covenant. I'm confirming with all
the creatures on the earth. Yeah,

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and it's one of the It's one
of my favorite moments in the Old Testament

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when God gives the rainbow, because
again, we we look at the rainbow,

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and I don't think that too many
people connect. I mean, unless

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you went to Bible college and you
preach and you know, and you're you

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live in church world very heavily.
I would venture to say ninety nine point

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high decimal point of percentage of people
when they see the rainbow, they don't

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think, Oh, that's God,
you know, reminding himself and reminding us

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that even though it rained just now
and then here comes a rainbow, don't

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worry. I'm not going to I'm
not going to let it continue to rain

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right, I'm not going to destroy
the earth. It's not it's not going

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to be like it once was.
And so and so every single time we

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see rainbow, it's a it's a
it's a promise of God's covenant. And

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God still remembers it today. And
it's so funny. We always look at

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rainbow all the cup pretty there's a
scientific reason for rainbow. The water droplets

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and the lights they formed this blah
blah blah blah blah. But that's not

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the reason for the rainbow. That's
just the scientific explanation for it. The

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reason is God is reminding us from
this moment until now that he keeps his

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promises. And that's exactly what it
is. So when I hear that,

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I think the same things, right, just how great it is God keeps

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his promises. That He's given us
this promise for now thousands upon thousands of

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years. Yes, and how many
gajillion times has a rainbow been in the

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sky, you know? I mean, but there's a few interesting things.

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You remember when I was talking about
how I believe back in the day before

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the flood that the world was protected
with a canopy of water. Yeah,

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that's a good theory. This is
the first time God ever mentions clouds,

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right, So that if that theory
was true, that canopy is gone.

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And now the atmosphere is much than
it used to be. Our lifespan goes

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down to one hundred and twenty years, which makes total sense. And now

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there's clouds. Clouds with direct sunlight
are going to create rainbows. Before this

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time, there was no system for
creating rainbows because the light couldn't get all

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the way through the canopy in the
same way. Right, Yeah, so

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it works, it fits in that. But this is the first time that

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God mentions clouds, and he mentions
them like three or four times in this

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thing like it's a new thing.
Hey, those are clouds, right,

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that's kind of how he's talking to
them in this. And then the other

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thing that God does here is he
establishes the first law. Right, so

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this is the law for humanity.
Before it was individuals that he talked to

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Caine, if you kill anybody else, I'm gonna write, right, if

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anybody tries to hurt you, I'm
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he establishes some laws. He says, you can eat everything, but don't

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eat meat that has blood in it. Still drain drain the blood out of

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it because the blood's unhealthy for you. By the way, technically he's still

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talking to an individual, but he's
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's
this is a generic law for everybody he's

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talking to, because he wasn't only
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to Hamshem and Jafith, their wives
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and be fruitful and multiply right,
So he's not talking to the six hundred

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year old guy right right, right, right right, So first go and

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be fruitful, multiply, subdue the
earth, manage it, just like I

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told Adam and e if I want
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I want you to be careful how
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and unhealthy things, so be careful
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meat. And then he says,
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another person's life. So now he's
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he's establishing capital punishment as the consequence
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somebody murders, then you have to
execute them. And that's a really big

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one. If anyone takes a human
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taken by human hands, for God
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I said, I value human life
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life, they have to be eliminated, right right, And that's a big

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one. And then he says the
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animal kills a person, you have
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same thing. So he establishes this
these two basic laws. Be careful with

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what you eat, or be fruitful, multiply and manage the earth. Be

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careful what you eat. Don't kill
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when I was in Bible College,
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And there's the title that's great,
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did the rainbow, and I talked
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cool, but we don't really think
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this big, huge promise. And
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American flag, where I actually had
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I said, think about every single
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symbolizes. You know, and we
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every star represents some thing. The
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blue, it all represents something.
And I talked about just the history and

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you know, every time you look
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symbol. It represents something that's so
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took the cross and I said,
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and it used to be it used
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this. It used to be death
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we as Christians look at it as
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it was really cool and and it
always stuck with me, and I've actually

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repackaged that sermon that I originally wrote
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times over the years because I just
love this idea. So God's promises,

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he makes it with a covenant.
You know, that definition of a covenant

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is a promise until death. That's
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so that's why we call it when
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with words like till death do us
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covenant. And that's why it's so
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his people because he will. In
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eternal covenant because God never dies.
So whenever God makes the covenant with his

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people, that's pretty significant because God's
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And so that's pretty cool. If
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remember when he gave the communion and
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this is the new covenant that I
established with you. And he makes

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a covenant that you know that Jesus
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of humanity. That is an eternal
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will forever be until there is no
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the New Earth. So it's kind
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does destroyed at the end. Right, So Jesus does destroy it. He

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won't do it with water, right, It will happen one day, that's

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right. And so we have this
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to play out so that everybody who
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everybody will have an opportunity to either
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But he's going to keep this promise. I think that's significant. Hey,

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by the way, before I forget, I've thought about it like five

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times during this podcast. I said
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or not God gave extra animals for
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case. So your joke was right. Your joke said, up, he

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couldn't sacrifice more than five, right, because you got to have two sheep?

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Right, no more than five sheep
or five? Do? Right?

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Couldn't sacrifice more than twelve? Actually? But yes, yes, And actually

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I was looking at Genesis chapter seven
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I thought it was. And he
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and female, and then he says, of each animal, I have approved

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for eating and for sacrifice. And
so I thought I was picturing in my

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mind he's setting aside animals for sacrifice
that are extra but he's saying, no,

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of those seven, I have approved
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Yeah, well they could eat the
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was that was legally allowed, both
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time. So yeah, anyways,
I thought that was that was interesting.

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We went back after the episode was
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tried to figure it out. Yeah. Yeah, I don't I don't want

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to say that was right, because
that would be what ever, dude,

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I don't do that when I'm right. I don't want to take credit at

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all, because you know, that
would just it would lack humility, and

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if anything, I'm nothing if I'm
not humble. And so I'm the best

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of you know, I think I'm
the most humble person I know. Maybe

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maybe so so so yeah, so
this is this is a great moment for

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humanity. Is it is? Uh? You know, God being patient,

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extending his grace, not being willing
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humanity just because, after all,
he did say we bend toward evil,

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our sinful nature bends toward that way. And yet God is saying, okay,

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I'm now going to establish this rainbow, saying hey, I'm not going

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to do this again. And then
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son and so again I talked about
last time when when when God built the

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altar and made the sacrifice. How
is a foreshadowing of Jesus. You can

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connect the dots in some ways,
I would, I would, I would

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venture to say that the rainbow,
you could, you can connect it right

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now. He also attaches the seasons
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see the leaves change, that's also
that's the same promise as the rainbow.

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When you see the snow come,
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right right, So he attaches the
seasons to the rainbow as well. Yeah,

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that's really cool. Yeah, well, I think that that looks like

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almost our time. Is there any
any other application that we can take away

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from? There's nothing else in there. We've mind it thoroughly, We mind

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it thoroughly. All right, very
good, all right, Well, that

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looks like our time and we will
see you hopefully tomorrow on the Bible, guys,