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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. Welcome to the Bible Guys.

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My name is Chris and I'm Jeff, and we're glad to be here.

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Yes, and everybody can be a
Bible guy or a Bible girl,

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Bible gal, babbel gal. Does
it have to be that way? Guy

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and gal to be guy and girl? Sure it can, Chris, whatever

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you want it to be. So
I was just offering an alternative. It's

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usually ladies and then a couple of
young gentlemen. And then if it's if

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it's guy. Yeah, you're probably
right. It's probably probably guy and gal,

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isn't it. Huh? Whatever.
Anyway, we are going to open

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up with a very interesting segment because
we are committed to bring you the best

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news, only the finest news,
from the finest sources that you can trust.

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Yes, and so, by the
way, this source is a satire

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source and we consider it just as
trustworthy as any other news source that is

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out there. It's called the Babylon
b Maybe you've heard of them before.

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So here's the headline today. It's
forty year old man pulls hamstring while thinking

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about going for a run. It's
hilarious. Hendersonville, Tennessee. A local

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forty year old man was forced to
put his fitness aspirations on hold indefinitely today

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after he pulled his hamstring while thinking
about going for a run. The incident

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reportedly occurred as the man sat motionless
on the couch and thought about how he

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needed to get into better shape.
Though he had not engaged in any physical

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activity, the mere thought of going
for a run resulted in a sudden and

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debilitating injury. You know, I
should start working out. I should go

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for a run today. Ah oh, the man's wife heard him say.

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She went to the living room,
where she reportedly found him crumpled in a

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heap on the floor in front of
the couch. Emergency personnel were called to

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the scene, where they determined the
man to be in critical condition before rushing

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him to the hospital for medical intervention. He was in rough shape, the

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attending physician said. At his advanced
aage, it appears the mere thought of

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exercise was enough to cause a devastating
terror to his hamstring. I don't think

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he'll be doing any running or anything
physically active for that matter for a significant

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amount of time. He is forty. After all, a man of his

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age should not be putting himself through
such exertion. At publishing time, the

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man had returned to the comfort of
his home under the care of his wife,

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and was back on the couch adhering
to his doctor's prescribed treatment of eating

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chips and watching Tombstone. That's so
good now, By the way, this

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is way funnier for a man who's
over forty. Yes, because we know

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that that's just around the time where
anything starts to breaking. Everybody starts experiencing

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the hard reality that your body isn't
going to do what you think it does.

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That's right, and it really does. I mean, everybody has that

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experience. By the way, can
I just share this. I was in

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Florida and I was down there with
a good friend of mine, Kevin,

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and he's a pastor down there,
and he said, Hey, let's go

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play tackle football. And so I'm
like great, And then he throws the

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ball and I said, I said, hit me at go long. I'm

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just I'm known to be a fast
runner. I was a safety, you

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know, wide receiver, and I'm
like, just hit me. I'm just

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gonna sprint and he's like, all
right, so hut. I run down

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and I have this guy beat by
at least, I'm not even kidding twenty

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yards, right, he bombs it
and I bet you it's a thirty yard

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bomb probably, which you know,
for us, that's pretty good, and

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i'd catch it, and I'm thinking, oh my goodness, all I have

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to do is just run straight to
the end zone. And nobody's even near

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me. And as I'm running,
my body just said, you're going to

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fall down. Yeah, I know
I've done that, ye, And it

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says you're just going to fall,
and I just literally just fell and so

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for no reason, for no reason. And then they came back and say,

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Chris, did you hit something?
Did you step in a hole?

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I'm like, no, no,
my body just collapsed. And then it

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happened again where I was running again
and I had the ball. I was

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ready to break away, and my
body just said you're going to fall,

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and it just fell. And I
thought to him myself, what is happening?

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And you know what it was?
I turned forty. Yeah, it

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just happened. I was in my
mid forties when I discovered that we were

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We had a softball team I was
playing on, and I used to be

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that guy that hit it into the
right field corner and score right right,

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So I was always looking for extra
bases. I've never got up the bat

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thinking I'm going to hit a single
ever, Not never in my life.

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Not from the time I was five
years old and te ball until I was

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forty five, always going for you
know, doubles and triples and always stretching

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it. And I came flying around
first base. I look over my shoulder,

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it is in the right field corner
and then suddenly I'm on the ground

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and I could not It's like my
legs just quit going right. So it

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was, you know, I had
my happy feet. They were going really

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really really really really fast, and
all of a sudden, I'm not going

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anywhere. Bang I'm on the ground
and I just wiped out. And so

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then I couldn't get back up in
time. I couldn't figure out what was

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happening, right. My brain was
like, this isn't what was supposed to

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be happening, right. So when
I got I got back to first base.

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Anyways, when I got back to
the dugout after that inning, one

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of the guys in his fifties,
went, is that the first time this

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happened to you? And miss what? And he said, your brain was

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saying you're running, and your body
said no, we're not right. That's

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exactly right, that's exactly right.
And that's really the only way to describe

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it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, my body rebelled. So

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anyways, that's what that's about,
right there. So only the finest information.

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Sometimes we bring you real news and
other times the special interest things that

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are useful to people. We thought, Hey, we just want to caution

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all the guys hitting forty this year, be careful not to tear your hamstring

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thinking about working out, right,
thinking about working out? That's so funny.

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Well, hey, today is the
third day in our new series.

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And get this, this makes the
first series, or the first one and

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the third one. We're only reading
one verse. Yes, so this is

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the second time we're only covering one
verse. So Genesis chapter two, verse

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number seven is what we're doing today. That's correct. I can't find it,

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can you? I have it?
It's separated by this purple thing.

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I think. Yeah, Hey,
would you be mad if I went ahead

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and just read a few of these
verses? Would I be mad? Yeah,

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Yeah, Am I allowed to get
mad at more Bible? Well,

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I don't know. That was kind
of a trick question, wasn't it.

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Yeah right, I don't think I
can get mad. You know, I

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think I'm gonna read. I know, we chose two seven and I did

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that, But the more I look
at it, I just think, hey,

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let's cover this whole thing. There's
so many important elements for setting up

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the next piece. Yeah, for
the next couple days, and so let

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me just read it. So we're
gonna read Genesis chapter two, verse four.

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It says, this is the account
of the creation of the heavens and

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the earth. So this is like
a rehash of Genesis chapter one. It

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says, when the Lord God made
the Earth and the heavens, neither wild

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plants nor grains were growing in the
earth, for the Lord had not yet

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sent rain to water the earth,
and there was no people to cultivate the

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soil. Instead, springs came up
from the ground and watered all the land.

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And then the Lord God formed the
man from the dust of the ground.

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He breathed the breath of life into
the man's nostrils, and the man

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became a living person. Another translation
says a living soul. Then the Lord

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God planted a garden in Eden in
the east, and there he placed the

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man he had made. The Lord
God made all sorts of trees grow up

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from the ground, trees that were
beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In

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the middle of the garden, he
placed a tree of life, in the

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Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil. A river flowed from the land

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of Eden, watering the garden and
then dividing into four branches. The first

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branch, called the Pishon, flowed
through the entire land of Havla, where

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gold is found. The gold of
that land is exceptionally pure. Aromatic resin

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and onyx stone are also found there. The second branch, is called the

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Gihan, flowed around the entire land
of Kush. The third branch, called

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the Tigris, flowed east of the
land of Asher. The fourth branch is

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called the Euphrates. Lord God placed
the man in the garden of Eden to

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tend and watch over it. But
the Lord God warned him, you may

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freely eat of the fruit of every
tree in the garden, except the Tree

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of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If you eat its fruit, you

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are sure to die. Then the
Lord God said, it is not good

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for the man to be alone.
I'll make a helper who's just right for

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him. So the Lord God formed
from the ground all the wild animals and

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all the birds of the sky,
and he brought them to the man to

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see what he would call them.
The man chose a name for each one.

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He gave names to all the livestock, and all the birds of the

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sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no help or

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just right for him. So the
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a deep sleep. While he slept, the Lord God took out one of

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the man's ribs and closed up the
opening. Then the Lord God made a

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woman from the rib, and he
brought her to the man. At last,

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the man exclaimed, this one is
bone from my bone, and flesh

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from my flesh. She will called
woman because she was taken from man.

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And this explains why a man leaves
his father and mother and is joined to

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his wife, and the two are
united into one. Now, the man

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and his wife were both naked,
but they felt no shame. It could

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just cover so many elements for what's
coming up next. I felt like we

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should read that whole chunk. Yeah. Well, tomorrow is supposed to focus

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on the verses you just read fifteen
through seventeen, just to let you know

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so. And that's fine if we
cover it twice or at least mention it

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twice. Yeah, yeah, we'll
read it twice for contexts. And yeah,

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I made that mistake. Yeah,
it's okay, but I've done that

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before. By the way, I've
made a mistake. Yeah, I remember

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one time in nineteen eighty one.
It was very uncommon. Yeah. Uh.

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Genesis uh two seven is sort of
the focus, uh you know,

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sort of the central focus for this
one where we're basically talking about, uh,

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a living soul. Yeah, and
then the Lord formed the man out

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of dust from the ground. He
breathed the breath of life into the man's

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nostrils, and the man became a
living soul holy cow, right, and

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he he created everything else afterwards,
and uh, and that's just incredible.

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So as we talk about, uh, you know, manu being a living

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soul. I was always taught that
there are three parts of a man,

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or three parts of every person.
There's the body, Uh, there's the

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spirit, and then there's the soul. Were you taught the same thing.

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Yeah, so it goes down.
Yeah, explained those What are the difference

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between those three? Obviously we know
the body. The body is your physical

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physical body. Your soul is that
thing that is alive in you, right,

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that your your awareness, your your
living essence, whatever that is.

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Did you know that a body after
it dies weighs less than before it dies.

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Isn't that weird? Wow? Yeah? Yeah, and you know who

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knows maybe that's maybe that's part of
the soul part, but it's it's your

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consciousness, your awareness, who you
are. You are a soul is what

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the Bible says, right. And
then there's the spirit. The spirit is

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that which is able to communicate and
connect to God. Right. And so

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in the same way that God is
a trinity, father, son, and

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Holy Spirit, He made us in
his image, and we have these three

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elements to how how we are designed
and we are made. And so in

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this instance, you know, the
New Living Translation says, and the man

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became a living person, that person
and soul. You can't separate your personhood

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from your soul, right. And
then your spirit is that which is able

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to commune and connect with God.
Yeah, which is really interesting. So

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when a person dies, what part
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Yes, that's what I thought.
Yeah, that's what I thought you

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were going to say. I get
it predicted you're gonna say. Yes.

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Well, here's why, man,
this is this is why I wanted to

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read that next piece too, because
in a couple days we're going to talk

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about sin, and he says,
yesterday, or I just read that passage

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just now, he says, if
you sin, you will die. If

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you eat of this tree, you're
going to die. Yeah, but they

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didn't die physically immediately. They died
a long time later. Yeah, the

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death process started, even though it
took nine hundred years, right, But

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they died spiritually immediately. And then
the New Testament says, you were once

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talking to Christians, you were once
dead in your sins, but now you're

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made alive in Christ. Well,
they were physically alive, but they were

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spiritually dead. Righthysically alive, having
a soul in their body, but they

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were spiritually dead. And then in
Christ you made a live in Christ.

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So only those souls that have been
made alive in Christ, he reawakened their

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spirit, are the ones that will
go to heaven. Right, So when

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you ask which goes to heaven.
It's your soul and your spirit. Yeah,

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it's a respirited soul goes to heaven. And by the way, while

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we're at it, let's go ahead
and toss in there that some people believe,

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or at least I've heard groups of
scholars say when the Bible mentions that

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we will have perfect bodies in heaven, some people say that it's the physical

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remains, the dust, you know, because after all, our bodies stay

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on earth and it's ashes to ashes, dust to dust, So all the

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dust will somehow physically get to Heaven
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Or then some people would say,
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well, the resurrection mentioned in the
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a weird spot for Genesis chapter two, I know. But the resurrection in

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the New Testament is a physical resurrection. So the rapture is a physical rapture.

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But then he says he gives them
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and so it's interesting. The first
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body of flesh and bone, the
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the first is flesh and blood,
the second one's flesh and bone is how

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he describes it. So I don't
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that we know anyways, there's a
whole bunch of weird. It is a

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weird tangent for Genesis chapter two,
except for the fact that we're talking about

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this idea. Yeah, a living
being. So it's totally applicable because it's

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the beginning of you and me.
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Your body is not who you really
are. Yeah, your body is your

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vehicle, right, It's a vehicle
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that body, because of sin,
that body is going to run out of

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gas, it's going to rust out, it's going to stop working. But

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you don't. You will live for
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know is going to spend eternity somewhere. So the vehicle that you're riding around

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in your body is important, but
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lot of people worship their bodies,
right, and others of us could work

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harder at taking care of the vehicle
God gave us. But you, there's

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more to you than just what people
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people know that deep inside, but
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yeah, a lot of times they
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at this point of the game,
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So God created a perfect paradise and
so it is there's no announcement about

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death, yet there's no consequence of
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did warn them about the consequence of
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no consequence you know, applied.
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on if you couple all the books
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story together, it is believed that
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h you know, purpose was to
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without sin forever and and and to
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what I made in relationship with him. So there's a paradise that's a physical

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planet, uh. And it is
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to be without sin. And yet
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sin exists because there's free will,
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then you know, people ask,
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and That's why I wanted to read
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We know where the Tigris is,
and we know that where the Euphrates

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is. And yeah, and he's
mentioning the the land of cush and he

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mentions the around Havlo where the gold
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to be this middle eastern North Africa
chunk is where the garden would have been,

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which is consistent with what we know
about where life began anyways, which

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is interesting. So he puts them
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this job, maintain the space and
don't eat from that tree. Right,

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those are the two big ones.
But can we go back to that he

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made us in his image? The
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this? This is amazing? It
says from the dust of the ground,

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implies that there is nothing fancy about
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The body is a lifeless shell until
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of life. When God removes his
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returned to dust. Our life and
worth therefore come from God's spirit. Many

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boasts of their achievements and abilities,
as though they where the originators of their

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own strengths. Others feel worthless because
their abilities do not stand out. In

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reality, our worth comes not from
our achievements, but from the God of

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the universe, who chooses to give
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Value life as he does. Isn't
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fabulous note. So there's nothing special
about our bodies. It's just dust until

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God breathes life into it, right, and then when that breath is taken

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away and you just go back to
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So while he leaves his breath in
you, you have purpose. Yeah,

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that's the only reason why he's leaving
his breath in you. Right.

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Contrast that with people who reject to
God. There is zero purpose for your

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life, right, It's just zero
value for your life. This is one

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of the reasons why quite honestly,
you know, you can you can point

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out all of the things that have
done and been done in the name of

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religion, the wars have been fought, all those things, and some bad

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things. Let's contrast those bad behaviors
with the atrocity he's committed by atheist regimes

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like Stalin and Lenin like Mao,
like polepot, like, I mean,

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we just going down the line.
You're talking hundreds of millions of people been

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murdered in the name of atheism only
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right they they were, they were
they were just obliterating human life.

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And then we've we've killed millions and
beyond millions upon millions of babies. We've

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we've done so many things as humans, and it's because of a lack of

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an understanding of the intrinsic value of
a life. Right, Yeah, that's

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incredible. Yeah wow. So anyways, I wanted to mention that. So

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we talked about the Garden of Eden
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I want to I wanted to point
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there that because because we read ahead, I'm tempted to talk about marriage.

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Are we are we covering marriage?
That that is tomorrow? Okay, good,

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okay, okay, So we'll get
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idea that God gives us life and
gives us purpose. Not only do we

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realize that we have purpose because God
gave us life and gave has put his

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breath into us, but also every
individual is created for sort of a different

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purpose. They're they're gifted with different
gifts. And so one of the things

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that we teach in our in our
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cute little acronym called shape, right, and so S stands for spiritual gifts.

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H stands for heart, A is
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is experience. And so if you
figure out and you piece together your shape

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your spiritual gifts. What is a
spiritual gift? Well, God, God,

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you know makes people differently. And
so my highest spiritual gift is faith.

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That's my strongest. Uh. My
wife's highest spiritual gift is giving?

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Right? Giving? Can I just
say that out loud? Can I complain

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about that? She gives away everything
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uh yeah, So, I mean
she's the type of person where if we're

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driving down have you ever seen the
people on the side of the road,

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right, She's like, whatever you
have, And I'm like, I have

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three hundred dollars in my wallet.
She said, give it to me.

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I'm like, no, God better
speak loud enough for me. Yeah,

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if it's gonna be three hundred bucks, we better both hear it out loud

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right now. Now, that doesn't
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remember one story I told It was
sixty dollars, I think, is what

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is what actually the most we've ever
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and that was in the nineties,
though sixty dollars might as well been one

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hundred and fifty right back in the
nineties. But anyway, the point is

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is we're all different, and so
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different gift. And then what's so
beautiful about it is is that later on

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we're fast forward and you know to
the day we're living in the age of

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the Church. Jesus creates the church, calls us to live together as believers,

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and then says, we're all gifted
differently, and we're all lived,

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you know, where we live to
fill our purpose. And so in the

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Kingdom of God and the movement of
God, when we discover how we're wired,

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and we when we discover that we're
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it helps us find our niche.
You know, this is how God

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made me. This is what excites
me. This is this is how I'm

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gonna you know, you know,
move the Kingdom forward. And I think

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that that's important to understand that not
only did God create us with purpose.

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But you know, clearly Adam had
a job that his children did not,

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Right, So Adam was given the
responsibility of the garden to take care of

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it and all these kind of things. And yes, the others inherited it,

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but they didn't have the same responsibilities
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that all of us have a different
purpose and we have to find that and

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lean into it. Yeah, and
while you're on that journey, that can

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be frustrating for some people. Yeah, oh man, you know, looking

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for this very precise purpose in life, and that's a part of the excitement

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of living for years and years and
years is discovering and unraveling what your purpose

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is. But but don't be frustrated
by that journey. Instead, understand,

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when they came to Jesus said,
what's the most important thing we need to

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know? Right, Love God,
love people? That right, those are

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your two core purposes is love God
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to unpack the specifics of that,
just demonstrate your love for God every day,

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demonstrate your love for people around you
every day, and you're fulfilling a

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lot of God's purpose for your life
there. So that's great. Yeah,

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well, hey, that looks like
it's our time and so we will see

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you next time on the Bible.
Guys,