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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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There you go. My name is
Chris. Episode four to twenty six.

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Is it really? It is?
That's what I says. We're here

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on the show notes. Oh wow, that's a big one. Never even

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looked at that, I know.
I'm so excited about it. I can't

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hardly stand it. That's gotta be
some kind of what's so special about four

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twenty six. I don't know it's
more than four twenty five. That's true.

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Wow, we're so grateful for every
day at this point, four hundred

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and twenty six in I'm just delirious. How about that? Hey, I

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talked to my father yesterday, who
was eighty five and U and he said,

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he goes, I woke up and
I have another day. And he

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goes, and I think to myself, oh, oh good, another day.

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He goes, Lord, just keep
them coming, that's what he said,

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Keep them coming, Keep them coming, Lord, all right? So

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and hey, that's what it is. Episode four twenty six. Oh Lord,

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thank you for four twenty six.
Our listeners are like there's another one.

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That's what that's hard listen. Yes, well, I would hope our

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listeners who love us say yay,
there's another one. Yeah, I kind

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of have it in my you know, my mind, they hate listen.

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Just what yeah, what you ever
do that? Like, like you just

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tune into like hate watch a football
game? No, watch football games against

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people you hate? You hate those
teams? Do you hate watch a baseball

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game? I do not know.
Sometimes sometimes you know there's nothing else on,

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the Tigers on on or whatever,
and I decide, Okay, I'm

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going to see how terrible this is
Cleveland's doing or whatever. I'm gonna watch

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women's basketball. No, no,
no, no, that's not it.

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I'm talking about, like you hate
the team so bad, you watch and

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see how bad they're doing, Like
the Lakers. I'll do that with the

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Lakers, Like I can't stand Lebron
James. But why would you do that?

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Sometimes sometimes I'll watch it. I
don't know. I'm just saying,

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Oh, I hate Chris and Jeff. Yeah, yeah, they're up to

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today. There was more. So
that's what I'm saying. Well, Jeff,

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we're going to get into a segment
called stump the pastor and this is

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written by Chris s. Hi.
Chris s yes, And here's what Chris

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s reads. And I'm assuming it's
a guy, but it could be a

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grow It could be either. But
Chris says, when Jesus was on the

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cross, why do you think he
gave John, his cousin, the responsibility

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of caring for Mary, his mother, rather than one of his brothers or

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sisters. It's a good question.
Well, Chris, it's none of your

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business. It's family stuff, and
Jesus knows best the end give you have

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the right choice, because it was
the right choice. So I think I

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know who Chris is. By the
way, So you don't think that's funny.

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Anyways, here's my take on it. I don't think that what he

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did was take his mother away from
his brothers. Yes, okay, from

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now I'm mom. You're not allowed
to talk to Jude and James. You

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can only talk to John, right
right. And so it was more like

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John was there and it doesn't mention
his brothers. He mentions his mother was

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there, but it doesn't mention his
brothers. So while he's on the cross,

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go oh hey, John, take
care of mom for me. Yeah?

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Is I think really what's happening there. I don't think that now all

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of a sudden, He's severed ties
with the family for mom and gave her

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only today, right, right,
And he also knows that John at this

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point in time is a fully devoted
follower of Christ. That's right, he

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is, he is. He is
a guy who and again Peter's not there.

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Peter, Peter denied Christ, and
Peter, you know, is ashamed,

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and Peter's wondering about his future.
At this point, the other disciples

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scattered. John had an inn.
We we we talked about that before in

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the last series. John was there
and uh. And so John is with

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Jesus to the very end. So
Jesus knows that that John has fully devoted

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to him. So somebody who cares
a lot about Jesus would then care a

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lot about his dying wish. I
can remember when I was early in ministry,

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my pastor we had a young man
die in the church and he was

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newly married. And the family of
the young widow wasn't from that town.

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They were quite a ways away.
They were, you know, within an

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hour or two, but still quite
aways a way. And I can remember

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that pastor hugging the dad of the
widow and shaking his hands and looked him

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in they and say, hey,
listen, I just want you know,

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our churches got her. We're going
to take care of her. Right,

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And that didn't mean, hey,
you don't have any responsibilities as a dad.

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It just meant, hey, we're
leaning into this too. And I

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really, I really read that passage
as if Jesus is saying, hey,

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lean in, you know, take
care of my family, take care of

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excuse me, take care of my
mom. And I think that that's probably

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a lot of it. And then, you know, we don't know at

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this point John's situation either, right, So John might have been we know

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he was the youngest of the disciples. He could have been he could have

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still been a teenager at this point. And maybe Jesus was looking maybe John

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was an orphan at that point.
I don't know, And so it could

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have just been hey, you mutually
can help each other. But I don't

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think he's dismissing his brothers. Yeah, And then it's worse talking about just

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for a second that a lot of
theologians do believe that John perhaps was Jesus'

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cousin. So James and John because
because of the Uh. Yeah, and

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we've talked about that. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, because because it says

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the sister of Mary was at the
cross, and you know, just piecing

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those pieces of information appears to be
yeah, the the the wife of James,

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and John's mom or dad. Yeah, yeah, so that's interesting.

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So yeah, good question, Chris
suh. And I think it was more

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about making sure that John was included
in Mary's family as much as it was.

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I don't think he was taking her
away from her son. But as

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always, great question, but as
always I stumped. The pastor question ultimately

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ends with we don't. We don't
know. We don't because nobody really knows.

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But if we'd known, we would
have said it in the episode,

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right right, and none of that, but it would have been told to

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us. It would have said it
said he, It would have said behold

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thy mother, and then it would
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of this reason, right right?
That would be that that would be the

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only way to know, you know, it's it's it's most difficult to answer

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the questions why, you know,
why did Jesus do that? Well,

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how can you speak into his motivation? Right? And sometimes you know you

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can connect the dots where it says
he did the miracles so that they would

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know he's the son of God.
So you can connect those dots. But

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but oftentimes, you know, people
ask the questions why, and you're like,

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well you could, you could,
you give your best guess. So

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sometimes the other thing you can do
talking about connecting dots is the preponderance of

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evidence. It doesn't have to say
he did it. Because of this reason.

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Sometimes you can piece together these three
things together that there's there's they're very

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clearly there's a line of action happening, and then you can put two and

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two together from that. Right,
So that's how most court cases are solved

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is through a preponderance of evidence.
It's not usually one thing, it's a

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whole bunch of things stacked up that
go it sure looks like that guy's guilty.

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Or it's the same thing with regard
to the resurrection. Anything you ever

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read least Strobels books, the first
book, The Case for Christ did That's

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one of his things, right as
he talks about the preponderance of evidence.

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So it's when you build a case, it's you keep stacking evidences on top

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of each other. So sometimes it
doesn't have to be direct. Sometimes it

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can just be the evidence points that
direction. But in this case that there's

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no evidence one way or the other, I don't think at all. It

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just right. Yeah, so great
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right, we're going to jump into
finishing, well, not finishing, but

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almost finishing the story of Noah in
the flood because Noah at this point,

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if you remember last week, if
you were following by day, Noah was

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still in the boat. That's correct. And the floods are still you know,

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over the wall, over the earth
yep. And every once in a

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while somebody will say, wow,
you believe in the story of Noah.

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And I'm like, I only believe
in the story of Noah because Jesus did,

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right, So I believe Jesus I
do, and he quotes many times.

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So here we go at Genesis chapter
eight, verse one. It says,

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but God remembered Noah and all the
wild animals and livestock with him in

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the boat. He sent a wind
to blow across the earth, and the

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floodwaters began to recede. The underground
waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains

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from the sky were stopped, so
the flood waters gradually receded from the earth

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after one hundred and fifty days,
exactly five months from the time the flood

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began. The boat came to rest
on the mountains of air at two and

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a half months later. As the
waters continued to go down, other mountain

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peaks became visible. Another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made

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in the boat. He released a
raven. The bird flew back and forth

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until the flood waters on the earth
had dried up. He also released a

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dove to see if the water had
receded and it could find dry a dry

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ground, But the dove could find
no place to land because the water still

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covered the ground, so it returned
to the boat. Noah held out his

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hand and drew the dove back inside. After waiting another seven days, Noah

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released the dove again. This time, the dove returned to him in the

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evening with a fresh olive leaf in
its beak. Then Noah knew that the

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floodwaters were almost gone. He waited
another seven days and then released the dove

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again. This time it did not
come back. Noah was now six hundred

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and one years old. On the
first day of the new year, ten

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and a half months after the flood
began, the flood waters had almost dried

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up from the earth. Noah lifted
back the covering of the boat and saw

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that the surface of the ground was
drying. Two more months went by,

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and at last the earth was dry. Then God said that Noah leave the

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boat, all of you, You
and your wife, and your sons and

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their wives. Release all the animals, the birds, the live stock,

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and the small animals that scurry along
the ground, so they can be fruitful

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and multiply throughout the earth. So
Noah, his wife, and his sons

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and their wives left the boat,
and all of the large the small animals

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and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair. Then Noah built

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an altar to the Lord, and
there he sacrificed his burnt offerings the animals

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and birds that had been approved for
that purpose. And the Lord was pleased

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with the aroma of this sacrifice,
and said to himself, I will never

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again curse the ground because of the
human race, even though everything they think

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or imagine as bent toward evil from
childhood. I will never again destroy all

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living things. As long as the
earth remains, there will be planting and

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harvest, cold and heat, summer
and winter, day and night. There

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it is. And by the way, that still happens today, yes,

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yes, yes, because he says, as long as there is remains,

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there'll be these things, that's right. Yeah, and uh and of course

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there are those things. Thank you. That was deep Well, you know

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what, Jim, I am so
glad I tuned in for that one.

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That little nugget you're bringing it today. By the way, we're about to

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see. Tomorrow's episode is one of
my favorite episodes because because it's the origin

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of the rainbow and everything else that's
really cool. It's the covenant. It's

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the covenant that God makes with Noah, and and that's also a connection point

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that we still see today. Yes, so so that's really why my brain

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went there. My brain went there, like God declares this shall be,

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and then from that day to this
it still is okay. And so anyway,

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so he's on the boat for about
what seven and a half months,

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it seems like right, because it
says he was well longer than that.

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It was ten and half, ten
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What it said five months after five
months? Yeah, I'm sorry,

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I don't think you were listening no, it says after one hundred fifty days,

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exactly five months from the time the
flood began, it came to rest.

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Let's go to thirteen. Noah was
now six hundred one years on the

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first day of the new year,
ten and a half months after the flood

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began. And then and then it's
two more months went by in verse fourteen.

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Oh, so you're you're thinking it's
five plus ten. That's twelve and

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a half months. And then he
sends a bird out, it comes back.

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He waits seven more days. Uh, seven more days, he sends

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it out, it comes back.
He waits seven more days, and then

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he waits what two more weeks,
two more months, two more months.

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Yeah, so so either way,
so now it's over a year. Yeah

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yeah, he's yeah, misttle piece
of information. That's the biggest gap,

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which is ten months. It's okay, so so, holy cow, imagine

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being in that boat for one year. Holy Christmas. Well just you and

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your it was ripe. I bet
in the in the in the windows were

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eighteen inches all the way the way
round. But holy cow, that that

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is that is something there. But
he lived. Keep it clean, keep

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it cleaning, You'll be okay,
right, so so Noah is uh,

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you know, it reminds me that
song as a kid. It goes,

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then Noah sent a bird out to
take a peaky peaky. Noah send a

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bird out to take a peaky peaky
came back with twig in his peaky peeky

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Children of the Lord, So rise
and shine, ye give God the glory,

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glory ye. So anyway, it
reminds me of that every single time,

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because you know, he sends out
a dove and a dove comes out

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with with with a twig, and
you know what, the twig is a

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very hopeful moment, isn't that It
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in the arc for a year?
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the bird out and then you know, the first raven, it doesn't even

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say that it came back and said
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then the then the dove came back
and you could imagine, like I was

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just waiting for that ray of hope, like it's around the corner. It's

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it's, it's you know, it's
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tunnel. And it sort of reminds
me of you know, the storms that

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we go through, right, and
we just we wonder when it's going to

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end, and would it have been
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you're going to be in the boat
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had been like, Okay, I'm
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mentally prepare for that. I'm gonna
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know, it's like, oh,
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it's just gonna be three more months, right, But when we're in the

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storm, we don't know what it's
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we're in these seasons and sometimes you
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for a better day, you know, Like I I I had a you

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know, I have a son who
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and he's and he's doing so well
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it's been quite a while and had
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you know, felt this good I
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have been discouraged, but at least
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but you know, you sort of
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going to get better tomorrow, and
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on God, you know factor there
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is going to bring, and so
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every single day, not knowing when
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Yeah, So it doesn't mention here
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even that he was frustrated or just
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when we say wouldn't it be better
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you know, like God's like,
oh shoot, I should have thought of

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that, right man? If only
I had Zaraba up here advising me on

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the decisions I make. That's that's
like that George Burns movie Oh God,

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Remember the book too, where she
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make the drafts next hotel? And
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to eat the leaves off the trees, and she goes, why didn't you

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just make the tree shorter? And
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you what I needed you? As? If we can inform that just helping

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him out, I think I think
we helped God out a lot by the

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way, we tell him exactly what
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of it as bad. So Noah
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and you know, there's no evidence. I mean, he's building an inland

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boat at this point, there's no
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point, certainly not boats that were
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field and a half long four and
fifty foot long boats. I'm guaranteeing you

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he'd never seen an ocean liner before, right, And yet he started building

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a boat and it took him over
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him, and he did whatever he
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it would happen. So at that
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lean to go. Okay, after
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everything happened exactly the way God said
it would happen. You know, I

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can wait another year. Dude was
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so I'm guessing he can wait one
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like a couple of weeks for you, years or nothing. Nothing, It's

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only fourteen fifteen months. Whereas my
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that was one eighty fifth of my
life. Yeah, there was one six

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hundredth of his. So yeah,
yeah, what's one six hundredth of an

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eighty five year old person's life.
It's a lot. It's a little eighty

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five if ide have buy six hundred
point one four point one four oh wow?

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So what would that be like a
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Wow? Look at you something like
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something like that. Wow. So
you know, for a guy who's lived

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six hundred years waiting another years?
Not right? Although I don't know,

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you know, when I'm in Florida? Have you ever noticed you've ford comedians

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talk about drivers in Florida? Why
do they drive so slow? Wouldn't you

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think they'd be driving fast? Right? Right? I mean, you don't

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have much time left. You should
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when you're six hundred years old,
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boat. Hey, My thinking is
a day is still a day, right,

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it's still twenty four hours. It's
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and right, yeah, no,
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read this just now. I never
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Then Noah built an altar to the
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burnt offerings the animals and birds that
have been approved for that purpose. Yeah,

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he couldn't from the very beginning.
Yeah, but he couldn't have sacrificed

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all of the sheep and all of
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no sheep and no doves, right
right, that's a full blown extinction event

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right there, because they're only seven
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remember though, when they boarded the
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said was load the sacrificial animals first, and then besides that grab but I'm

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guessing the sacrifice was only limited the
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you need to in order to have
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understand, Wait a minute, My
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animals besides, so in other words, like let's just say seven sheep,

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he would have had seven sheep plus
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or how many there were, because
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to gather the animals, like I
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said was grab these animals that are
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the other animals twos and by twos
and sevens. All right, I'm going

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to permit that. I'll allow it. I'm not sure I believe it,

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but well, you're going to make
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all right, it's in the Bible
somewhere. Well, you you talk for

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a minute, I'm gonna look at
it. I'll talk. Yeah, that's

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the reason why you assigned me to
talk. I can talk about thinking like

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right now, I'm not I don't
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or just Kevin about nothing nothing.
It's about Jerry Seinfeld's show. It's a

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show about nothing. Yeah, this
could be the show. You don't have

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it? Okay, Hey, we're
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I'm going to give that one to
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that seems that you think extra.
I'll look it up and I'll mention that

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next podcast. So you think he
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So so yeah, so in the
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a sort of obscure passage. You
don't hear a sermon just about Noah sending

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out a bird and then and then
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do hear sermons about the gratitude of
of of people building altars. Right,

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so that's probably the most significant portion
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So so God comes or Noah comes
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to the Lord, and it's in
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the there's only one kind of sacrifice, uh that that was actually uh that

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gave an aroma. And and I
don't know if you remember this. We

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we included this on our Palm Sunday
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Jesus was connected to that type of
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when Jesus offered his life, it
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and so but there, but there's
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of the world. And and and
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and he offered his life during the
passover. There's all sorts of different types

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of sacrifices, but only one is
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and that was the one that had
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sacrifice. It was called something I'm
trying to remember, but there's a name

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for it. Uh, it's a
it's a Hebrew name. But anyway,

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the the point is is that this
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times in the Old Testament, you
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killed uh the animals to cover the
sins for Adam and Eve, that was

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a that was that was a foreshadowing
of Jesus. Right, So you know

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this you could argue and say that
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know, there's a there's a sacrifice
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right and this be course, this
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much like you know, for instance, remember the plagues that we're about to

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talk about with Moses. Uh,
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that was a physical rescue. Uh. You know, the passing over of

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a physical death. Uh. And
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for spiritual rescue. So yeah,
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that that there's a foreshadowing sermon that
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Absolutely absolutely, So you know,
ultimately it comes down to this idea right

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here that I will never again curse
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And then this is funny for all
the new moms out there looking at your

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darlings, God says, and though
everything they think or imagine is bent toward

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evil from childhood, right right,
He's not saying it used to be that

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way. He's saying right now,
after the flood, it's still that way,

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right yeah, And and and so
you know it's combatsmen. He's such

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a good boy. Yeah, yeah, Yeah. We're all little sinners from

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the very beginning we're born. We're
born in the sin from the day that

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we are born, and we need
a savior, right, That's what that's

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all about. So all right,
well, hey, I think we've pulled

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out of that passage just about everything
we can today today. Yeah, so

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we will pick up tomorrow with God's
Covenant. So hopefully we'll see you next

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time on the Bible. Guys,