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Hey, welcome everybody. Today is Monday, July 27th, the
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I've been thinking about tweaking it for a while now that
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Saturday. And what your your elevator
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Revivalist radio show. Please proceed.
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We are a veteran ministry geared towards moral injury, healing
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and recovery, and we are putting God as the true north on the
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compass for moral healing and recovery.
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And I get, I, I always get lots of like, wow, that is so needed.
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That is so needed. I, I'm bringing this up because
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I wanted to tell you about a divine appointment I had as I
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was leaving the conference where I was, where I was at, I was at
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the, the, the Department of Veterans Affairs was having a
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women veterans summit for the Southwest network in San
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Antonio, TX. So I, I, you know, I was
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Are you interested in participating?
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Right. One last one.
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And she said yes. And I said, oh, by the way, I'm
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also a radio show host. And I started going above this
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shows and when I talked about the revivalist radio show, she
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had tears of joy in her eyes. So this is a woman who is 70
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years old and she is still working full time.
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She's a traveling nurse and she has she participated in the
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Haiti hurt was earthquake recovery.
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She deployed and LED field, you know, nursing staff to Haiti.
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She's done a whole bunch of other things.
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And when I talked about the, you know, moral trauma side of
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things, the, you know, the, the very thing that we talk about
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with DSM 5 on the show and moving that needle towards
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healing and recovery, she goes, Eva, I needed, I needed to hear
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this, if if for nothing else, all weekend long.
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I needed to hear this because I've been carrying a lot with me
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all these years. She got goosebumps on her arms.
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It's like I got goosebumps on my whole body right now as I'm
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explaining this story. So there are a lot of people,
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males and females, who are holding a lot in.
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They're holding in that moral injury and they're searching for
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answers on healing recovery. But as you and I both know that
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the science side is not always going to move the needle on the
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healing and recovery. Great.
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We talked about it. That doesn't mean that you were
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able to seek some, you know, get some.
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What's up? Reconciliation, I think is a
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good word, you know, unless you've got a different word, but
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find some reconciliation and what you've been through and now
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being able to say I'm free from that.
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I'm it exists. I know that that history
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happened and and I think this is actually a great segue for what
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we're going to talk about today, because I was like, wow, you
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know, here we're we've been looking for the pinnacle.
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If you know, we've been climbing the mountain in Genesis and I
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think we're finally at that crescendo.
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And now what happens right now? What happens and?
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These people are us. Right.
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But Jacob gets to get his word in.
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That's what we're going to He, you know, he's been holding a
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lot of trauma in all these years.
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We're going to unpack it today. So I know you know this as a
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public administrator, as as a person who's going to have
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their, their forum, their platform and public
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administration. The the most common word people
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are using now. I heard it as a child, but it's
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unspooling. Unspooling.
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Yeah, instead of unpacking, it's unspooling.
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Oh, OK, OK, I like that. OK, there's my.
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Work today, even. We're going to unspool chapter
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49. I like it.
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I like it. Let's let's go.
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You want to drop us into lead us into prayer, please.
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Brother, in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit,
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Lord, we thank you. We thank you, Lord, for the
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aspect that you are our Father, God, Lord and Creator.
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We thank you for Christ Jesus, our Lord, Savior, demon King,
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the head of our lives. We thank you for the power of
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glory, essence of the Holy Spirit who provides us with
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wisdom, knowledge, understanding, insight, and
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discernment. So as we go into immersing
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ourselves into the world, Lord, we just understand what the word
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is. The word is you, the word is
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water. Water flows, water replenishes
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us. So Lord, we take the time again
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just to praise You and glorify you.
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We love you, Father, because you first loved us.
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And let chapter 49, Lord, not only just rejuvenate any of us,
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O Lord, but all of us, in the name of this Christ Jesus and
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the presence of the Holy Spirit, each of your sons, daughters,
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friends and servants, we say Amen, Amen and Amen, Amen,
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Father, son and Holy Spirit, Amen.
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So, you know, folks, Darrell and I were both traveling in
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different opposite directions, so we didn't discuss anything
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before the show, right? We knew we were doing this.
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In fact, this might be a 2 parter.
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We we didn't know, but we're here.
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True you know there is so much on this one.
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You might be right to thanks, Joel posted Hey we're on TikTok
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now too so. Thanks.
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All right, thank you. I, I, you know what, Eva, it'd
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probably be smart because, you know, we really want to capture
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the essence of the moral injury here too, because it that's it's
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going to take two parts just looking at it.
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It's. I think so.
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It's a really long chapter. I was surprised when I started
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reading it. But I think that, you know, we
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can get through reading and then kind of edge into what this
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moral injury context of things because he's got a lot of
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prophetic edicts in here. And yeah, I, I agree.
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We can finish it up Part 2 next. Week I'm I'm listening to you.
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Somebody's banging on my door like they the police.
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I'll be right. Oh, OK, well I'll start.
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I'll start the reading then I can.
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Hear you, I can hear you. OK, all right folks, we are you
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know, in case you don't know, we read from the New International
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Version. Both of us use the study
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version. So we have our own personal
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notes that are in the bound version of the Bible.
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But but for this sake on on the screen, we read it from NIV.
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It's just easier to read that way.
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Jacob blesses his sons. Then Jacob called for his sons
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and said, gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you
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in days to come. Assemble and listen.
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Sons of Jacob, listen to your father, Israel Reuben.
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You are my first born, my might, the first sign of my strength.
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Excelling in honor, excelling in power, turbulent as the waters.
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You will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father's
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bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
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Simony and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of
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violence. Let me not enter their counsel,
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Let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in
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their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.
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Curse it be their anger so fierce and their fury so cruel.
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I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.
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Judah, your brothers will praise you.
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Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
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Your father's sons will bow down to you.
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You are a lion's club, Judah. You return from the prey, my
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son. Like a lion he crouches and lies
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down like a lioness who dares to rouse him.
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The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff
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from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come,
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and the obedience of the nations shall be his.
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He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choices
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branch. He will wash his garments and
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wine his robes in the blood of grapes.
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His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than
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milk. Zebulun will live by the
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seashore and become a haven for ships.
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His border will extend towards Sidon.
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Issachar is a raw boned donkey lying down among the sheet pins.
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When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant
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is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and
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submit to forced labor. Dan will provide justice for his
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people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Dan will be a snake by the rogues roadside, a Viper along
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the path that bites the horse's heels so that its riders tumbles
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backward. I look for your deliverance.
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Lord Gad will be attacked by a band of Raiders, but he will
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attack them at their heels. Asher's food will be rich.
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He will provide delicacies fit for a king.
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Naftali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
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Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring
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whose branches climb over a wall with bitterness.
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Archers attacked him. They shot at him with hostility,
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but his bow remains steady. His strong arms stayed limber.
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Because of the hand of the mighty One of Jacob.
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Because of the shepherd, the rock of Israel.
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Because of your Father's God who helps you, because of the
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Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the skies above,
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blessings of the deep spring below, blessings of the breast
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and womb. Your Father's blessings are
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greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, then the
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bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head
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of Joseph, on the brow of the Prince.
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Among his brothers. Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
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In the morning he he devours the prey, in the evening he divides
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the plunder. All these are the 12 tribes of
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Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he
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blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him, the
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death of Jacob. Then he gave them these
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instructions. I am about to be gathered to my
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people. Bury me with my father's in The
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Cave of Ephron the Hittite. The Cave in the field of
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Machpelah near Mamre in Canaan, which Abram brought, sorry.
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Which Abram bought along with the field as a burial place from
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Ephron the Hittite. There Abraham and his wife Sarah
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were buried. There Isaac and his wife Rebecca
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were buried, and there I buried Leah.
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The field and The Cave in it were bought from the Hittites.
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When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he
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drew his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last, and was
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gathered to his people. These are the words of our Lord.
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So most of Jacob's thoughts were his life thoughts, but more
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importantly, most of what Jacob spoke about was God giving it to
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him to say, I don't, I don't believe anybody can make all of
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it up. God gave him that to say because
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he assigned the duties and responsibilities and the
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lifestyle that these sons would lead.
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And just because he also demonstrated, just because
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you're the oldest, the eldest, doesn't mean you're going to get
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the the blessing. That blessing was amongst
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everyone. Well, I think that was even a
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carryover from chapter 48 that he, he switched.
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Remember we discussed that last week and he switched.
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Hey, you know, Joseph, your son's, they're not getting what
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you thought right in the normal order because I'm calling it, he
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says. I'm calling it like it is.
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They are who they are. Yeah.
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Yeah. And you know, and I believe as
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as we get ready to segue right here into moral injury, because
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we're talking about a man's life, we're talking about what
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constitutes, right, his life at this point, right?
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We know the name Jacob means Trickster.
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That's why his name was changed. Israel, there's no more tricking
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involved. And so for us, those of us who
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believe, those of us who follow, here's here's one of the most
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perfect examples of how we should live when we've resolved
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ourselves to just really following and honoring God.
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Yeah, You know, I think, you know, up until this point, he
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hasn't really said too much. You know, he was introduced to
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the Pharaoh, he and he and and. He blessed Pharaoh.
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He he, he blessed Pharaoh, he blessed him right.
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Right. But but we haven't.
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Joseph hasn't really said much until this point.
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And I think he was really trying to make sense of all of this
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moral injury that had happened to him over the years because he
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was just as a much of a victim victim.
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We've talked about that before. He was just as much of a victim
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of what his sons did to them, right?
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The whole if, if they hadn't acted fools way back when and
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sold their brother, then none of this would have happened.
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I mean, it's brought blessings of beyond blessings, but the
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whole woulda coulda shoulda thing, it might not have
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happened at all if they hadn't sold.
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So, you know, it's just kind of this weird double edged sword of
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things. But he's finally having his say
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yes. And what he really thinks about
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his sons, The good, the bad and the ugly.
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Remember that movie? The good, the Bad, the Ugly?
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Clint Eastwood. Yeah.
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That that made a mark on me when I was a young girl.
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Watching that right, you find out who the ugly what you find
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out who the ugly. Right.
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But but it's but it's not always ugly as in a you know, somebody
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can be pretty on the outside, but the ugly's on the inside.
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We've met those people. Yeah, I, I've met so many of
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them in my life. I, I, I forget count, but you
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know what? That's between them and God,
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not. It is OK.
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So Eva you as as we Segway into the moral injury, listen to
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this. That is their business.
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But when we have those encounters, it's ours too.
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Yeah, I'm just saying you can't dwell on it though, you know, I
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mean, it's, it's a lesson learned for us how not to
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behave. I mean, I've had bosses that I
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have worked before and, and recognize, you know, at least I,
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I, I always try to find something I can learn in people.
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And sometimes it's how do you learn not to do things?
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When someone enters our presence solicited or unsolicited, we
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know enough to no matter if it is good, bad, dysfunctional, or
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indifferent, we know enough to put God's stamp on it.
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Or we don't invite. We know we don't allow the
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invitation to occur because we know it's going to be chaotic
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mayhem full. Dysfunctional and toxic.
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We we know that so or God says stand where you are and just,
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you know, hear it out because whatever you say is going to
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come from him. It's not hope prayerfully it's
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going to come from him. You're the messenger at that
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point. You're either going to listen
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and interact or you're just going to listen and hear.
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That's it. Well.
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Even even his first, you know, couple of sentences say that he
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says assemble and listen sons of Jacob, listen to your father
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Israel. So he's talking to about himself
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in third person. That's right.
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Right. I mean.
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Look at the mistakes I've made, right?
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Right that. You don't have to yes that.
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But he's but he's. But he knows that his name,
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Israel is his God-given name, Jacob.
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His name is the world. From Isaac and Rebecca From
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Isaac and Rebecca but. But he but he says now I'm
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making that transition. This is stuff that's coming from
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Israel, from God. Yes.
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I'm trying to help that that when he, that third person
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reference to himself as Israel is that divine messaging that's
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really coming from God and his edict on OK, here's what I
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really think of you guys. You need to know the truth about
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who you are and what I think about you.
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The good, the bad, the ugly. I'm thinking that sprinkled
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throughout this, although Scripture is silent about it,
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these sons, they knew about Rebecca, they knew about Sarah,
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they, they knew about other people as the stories can't come
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down throughout the genealogy structure.
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So because I hear, I, you know, I heard stories this weekend
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about me and, and, and, and my mother, right?
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And and I'm saying like this, you know, my, my aunt told me my
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mother, my mother delivered me into the world when she was 17.
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So that means that she was pregnant around November,
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December of 1962. Just count forward, right?
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So she. Was a she was a baby having a
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baby. And so she asked my aunt on
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various occasions would she keep me, and my aunt says yes.
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So what my aunt was thinking was going to be for a few hours or
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an evening or so. It was 3 or 4 days, you know
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what I'm saying? You know what I said?
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That's my mother. Well, that would have been a lot
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of responsibility. Was a kid.
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Yeah. It was rediscovering life,
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whatever that meant, right? Well, that was a whole different
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time back then. And if she wasn't prepared to
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take care of you, whether she had parental support or not, you
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know, back then she probably was.
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You know, I don't know about your grandmother.
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But so my aunt says my grandmother would call and say,
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hey, have you seen? And she said no.
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But Daryl's over here. Yeah, but but but you know, I'm
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just saying that they would have maybe cast her out.
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Or oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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That's the easy thing to do, Eva.
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You know, we, we we have children.
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We understand that that level. Yeah, we do.
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We do. You know, sorry we made that
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mistake, but it ain't happen in my household.
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I'm not going to have you being a, you know, a, a black spot on
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my reputation. You did that.
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You go figure out what the solution is.
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So, you know, I was, when I grew up there, there was time that,
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you know, in East Saint Louis. Anyway, there's a phrase called
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laying up. So that means you, you
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cohabitating, you got the person there, y'all doing everything.
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You're not going to get married. You're doing everything under
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the sun as adults and married people do, right.
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So one time, you know, one of my relatives, they confronted their
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children because basically they were, they were squatting at
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home. And the uncle says you're not
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going to be laying up around here.
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You're either going to marry him or her or you getting out of
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here. But we don't want to get out.
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That was the end of. It well, that was that a lot of
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that impetus was about being responsible, you know, the
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responsibility of think take accountability for your actions.
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And I think this this whole, you know, chapter right here was him
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him wagging his finger at his son's.
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Listen here, youngins, you know, you think you may have
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experienced a lot in life, but let me tell you your behavior,
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it stinks. And I think he's probably been
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able to deduce who was the root cause of all of these issues in
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the 1st place and all of the trouble that they brought,
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though it brought the blessings, they brought a lot of trouble
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and moral injury on them. And he's kind of giving out his
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Peace of Mind, you know, before he dies because he wants to be
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able to rest, I think, finally rest, if that makes sense.
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Well. You know what he knew, right?
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And so because he knew his time was nigh, this is something that
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needed to be said. And it was said in the midst of
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all the sons were there. Right.
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And it. Didn't say.
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I didn't know. No one told me.
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I didn't hear about it. Everybody was there.
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They knew whether their blessings or non blessings would
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lie. And it did need to come to
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Joseph because then they would have pointed fingers back at him
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and say, and we knew you were always his favorite, you know?
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They were all Joseph did. Joseph himself didn't get that
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blessing. His sons got the blessed because
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Joseph was already blessed and Jacob knew that God had already
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blessed him, but he did through his sons.
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Joseph got the blessed because there was not a tribe of of
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Joseph. Yeah.
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Joseph the the Joseph himself was grafted in via his sons.
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Isn't that amazing? Yeah.
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I know I make that connection now, you know, but he but it it,
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it was so critical for him to have played this role in Egypt,
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for them to all survive and be. Able to.
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If it weren't for him, if it weren't for God's intervention,
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if it weren't for Justin, we wouldn't be having.
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Any 12 tribes. Would have been gone yeah, they
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didn't die they. Would have perished.
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They would have perished with the famine.
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Yep. Isn't it interesting to think
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about? You scratch your head and you
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know, man, if this had happened, this wouldn't have happened.
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If you know, and go down that road, I think you and I have had
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personal discussions about what that road would look like.
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Man, things could have been different.
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Wouldn't have the car wreck wouldn't have had the same
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marriage or the the two sets of kids.
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Well, two marriages and two sets of kids.
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I mean, life could have been totally different.
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You know, I could have become some officer's wife or something
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at Walter Reed, Married a doctor.
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I don't know. Uh oh.
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I think you're froze or something.
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You're you're slow moving. You know what?
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I'm glad you brought that up because we don't hear about
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this. You I brought up you glad I
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brought up what? I think you froze again.
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Sorry guys. So wanted to get into this.
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So his first, first, first son that he starts lighting into is
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Ruben. You are my first born, my might,
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the first sign of my strength. And I think this is that section
29:09
where he says, you know, I had some really hope in you, right?
29:12
You're my first born. I poured into you.
29:15
I gave you, you know, you have the ability to be, you know, the
29:19
strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
29:23
Oh, but no, no more turbulent as the waters.
29:26
You will no longer excel for you went upon to your father's bed
29:31
onto my couch, and you defiled it.
29:33
He knew he knew that he had done wrong.
29:38
The. There was a note in here on this
29:42
chap in my. In my Bible, it says the oldest
29:46
son was supposed to receive a double inheritance, but Reuben
29:50
lost his special honor. Unruly and untrustworthy,
29:55
especially in his younger days, he had gone so far as to sleep
30:00
with one of his father's concubines.
30:02
We've discussed that in an earlier episode.
30:05
Jacob could not give the birthright blessing blessing to
30:09
such a dishonorable, dishonorable man.
30:12
So he knew that his son Ruben was not worthy of the double
30:19
blessing of, you know, sorry, here's you're going to you have
30:26
not lived up to what the expectations were.
30:31
And then he goes into Simeon and Levi are brothers.
30:35
Their swords are weapons of violence.
30:38
Let me not enter the council. I think I didn't see it.
30:42
Let me not enter their counsel. Let me not join their assembly,
30:47
for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen
30:50
as they please. Cursed be their anger so fierce
30:54
and their fury so cruel. I will scatter them in Jacob and
30:59
disperse them in Israel. This was a man who you know.
31:04
He did not respect these two at all.
31:07
He knew they were definitely Ites and had no grain of had no
31:16
grain of being good, nice people.
31:20
They no, they were not. I mean, he he even says that
31:25
they have killed men in their anger so they couldn't control
31:28
their anger. There's some they had some
31:32
definitions in some of these sections.
31:35
Let's see if I can find. Their swords, they said the
31:45
meaning of the word is uncertain.
31:47
So there's apparently there's a word in Hebrew that was used in
31:50
here. So they don't really go into it.
31:55
But other than their swords are weapons of violence, which is
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pretty tough. He know that they are not to be
32:03
messed with. They are heathens.
32:06
That's how I interpret that. He knows that they are
32:09
definitely not good people. I'm Darrell.
32:12
Thank you for coming back. I'm talking about Simeon and
32:16
Levi, who, you know, are just not good men.
32:22
They are violent men. I don't know what's I'm trying
32:26
to think of a good comparison. I'm kind of thinking about, you
32:32
know, what's a good word what we call modern day for.
32:41
I mean, they're criminals. I mean, he knows that they're
32:44
criminals. They just have no moral
32:46
standards whatsoever. Could be the mafia.
32:54
Can you hear me think we're still?
33:03
I can hear your background noise.
33:07
So anyways, yeah, he has no respect for Simeon and Levi.
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Now, Judah, your brothers will praise you.
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Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
33:20
I mean, think about that. So this is he someone he knows
33:24
that is going to be a strong ruler, and your father's sons
33:30
will bow down to you. So that to me shows that he knew
33:36
that he was the leader of all of that unruliness with the boys,
33:41
right? Probably the very one who led
33:43
the pack against getting. And I think I think you
33:48
mentioned it way back when, when we were talking about Joseph
33:52
getting sold into slavery, that Judah was the one who was the
33:58
leader of the pack and all of this, you know, foolery of
34:03
everybody. And let's see the because the
34:11
notes, the notes in my Bible say that Judah had sold Joseph in a
34:16
slavery and tried to defraud his daughter-in-law.
34:20
So why did Jacob grant him the blessing?
34:23
God had chosen Judah to be the ancestor of Israel's line of
34:27
kings. That is the meaning of the
34:29
scepter will not depart from Judah.
34:32
This may have been due to Judah's dramatic change of
34:35
character in chapter 44. Judah's line would produce the
34:40
promised Messiah, Jesus. And that's important, right?
34:48
And I don't know about you, but you know, especially knowing
34:53
that a lot of our brothers and sisters, they go into war, they
34:58
make a lot of decisions about what war means and how they are
35:05
fighting lot, you know, fighting in life, trying to survive.
35:11
But when you get back home and you recognize, man, maybe maybe
35:17
I'm not the person really, you know, they show remorse.
35:21
They they own what they have done and they do have that own
35:27
personal reconciliation of things.
35:29
But he's a but I think he's acknowledging that he knew that
35:33
Judah was a strong man and was going to be able to lead the
35:36
people and but but yet have that that sound mind that came about
35:47
later and said, you know what, listen, I, I am, I'm going to
35:52
get on the right path now. I've been wrong and he got on
35:55
the right path with God. Did could you hear me?
36:07
I felt like I've been rambling. Darrell, we can see your video.
36:23
We can hear the background noise.
36:33
You, you still can't hear me 'cause my, my speakers, my, my
36:39
mic's working. Think he's going to have to go
36:44
back out and come back in, folks?
36:49
No, no, we can hear you now. Heard you there.
37:01
All of a sudden. Joel says he can hear me.
37:04
So not sure folks, sorry. So anyways, I'm going to get
37:14
back to, you know, so think about it.
37:18
This is, you know, he's talking about Judah and and you know,
37:26
this is really kind of the future of the tribe of Judah and
37:32
what can you hear me now and what's going to happen can hear
37:41
your background noise. I can hear you.
37:54
I think he's going to try to come back out and come back in
37:57
again. So, so anyways, but he said the
38:06
scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler staff
38:11
between his feet. So that scepter is going to say
38:15
there until he cut, until he comes to whom it belongs.
38:20
And that is a footnote C, footnote C says, or until Shiloh
38:26
comes, or until he comes to whom tribute belongs.
38:31
I don't know that I've ever looked up this phrase.
38:35
Can you hear me now until Shiloh comes?
38:39
So you know. Are you typing it in?
38:56
Yeah, yeah, 'cause I had it on the phone.
38:59
And so, as Genesis 4910, Judah will rule until Shiloh comes or
39:05
come to Shiloh, whichever whom it belongs to is a tribute, and
39:09
the nations and the people will obey him.
39:12
So the scepter will not depart from Judah.
39:18
There'll always be a man. There'll always be a descendant
39:22
of David on the throne, more or less.
39:29
He is a standard bearer. Judah, never mind.
39:33
See how God can use you. Never mind.
39:35
Judah. Judah did some terrible.
39:38
Things right, right. We were talking.
39:40
I was, that's what I was talking about.
39:41
He did, you know, he led the he led all of the brothers.
39:45
He led the revolt to avenge Dinah.
39:48
Right. But he was the one who led them
39:52
all to selling Joseph in the 1st place.
39:57
And you know, as he was doing that reconciliation with Joseph
40:02
and he didn't ever say, hey, it's me, I'm the one that did
40:04
it. But he did.
40:06
But I think he's the one that volunteered to stay in prison
40:09
while they went to go back and get Benjamin and talk to Dad and
40:14
you know. And maybe Joseph knew he was the
40:17
ringleader and that's why he had him stay behind.
40:20
Yeah, I mean it, it makes sense, but but he had that pivotal
40:25
moment life and said I have to own up.
40:29
You know, even I'm not not going to verbally tell them I'm sorry
40:34
and apologize. His actions spoke louder than
40:38
his words. I'm not going to tell Dad, but
40:41
Dad knew. Dad knew.
40:43
Dad knew. I mean, you can tell Dad knew
40:46
and and his blessing was the longest out of all of them,
40:52
right? He had the most to worry about
40:54
him because. God did that.
40:57
But he had the most to say, and he wasn't it.
41:01
This was that gentle reminder. Remember where you've been and
41:06
what your future could look like because you don't want to
41:10
backtrack going. Going back on the trail is not
41:13
any fun. You know you're going to trip
41:16
over a different rock. You already got through that
41:17
path the first time. Don't.
41:19
Don't trip going backwards. You know what, you just said
41:23
something that's that's really incredible because it is, right?
41:29
There have been people in eBay. I say this because it's true for
41:33
you, for me, for for most folk, When you conjoin, it means you
41:41
all in. When you conjoin yourself with
41:44
someone and then at the end they act out like you've done nothing
41:50
for them, right? You gave them all the extras.
41:55
We can go down the list of what that could be.
41:58
When you give them all the extras, you were present.
42:00
You, you, you were a mainstay in their lives.
42:03
No, no matter what the relationship was, you were
42:06
present, right? And then when they check out,
42:10
male or female, both. When they check out, you're the
42:14
villain. For sure.
42:17
Well, I talk about in that book. I talk about that and welcome to
42:22
my people garden. 3 signs of a toxic person.
42:27
The ones that bark the loudest are the ones that are the most
42:29
guilty. They always make somebody else
42:32
look bad to make themselves look good.
42:35
And they always telling themselves if somebody exhibits
42:39
at least two of those things, sometimes even just one thing,
42:44
they're just a point. I'm pointing at you.
42:46
Yep. Right.
42:47
I mean, if, if they're you have to watch and know who you're
42:51
dealing with. If, if, if one happens.
42:55
All right. You've been fair warned.
42:57
You know that they're barking too loud.
43:00
Why? You know, it's that old.
43:04
What's his name? It said it.
43:06
Methinks how it does protest too much.
43:09
Shakespeare. Right, Right.
43:12
Think about it. Methinks how it does protest too
43:15
much. Well, that's what barking is.
43:18
And if people are barking, pay attention to that because #2 and
43:23
#3 you're probably just around the corner.
43:26
But if you're not cognizant and aware about what's happening and
43:31
paying attention to their words, what they're really saying or
43:36
sometimes not saying maybe some things that they're doing, then
43:41
that you have to know that you're dealing with what I call
43:46
like Poison Ivy. You you know poison oak, right.
43:51
You know a scorpion. I I get it.
43:55
God put them on this planet doesn't mean that they had to
43:58
stay in your people guarded that's.
44:00
Right, That's right. We are responsible for tending
44:04
the garden like Adam and Eve. We're responsible for doing that
44:08
right? So where we don't get into the
44:11
place where we're heaping hot coals on people because God is
44:15
the expert of doing that if he if He so desires, We are tenders
44:19
of the garden. We are the people who walk
44:22
around with imbued wisdom, knowledge, understanding,
44:25
discernment, and insight. Because we have not.
44:29
Because we ask not, and we perish for a lack of knowledge.
44:32
If you know no more scripture, know those too, because those
44:36
will carry you along in life in such a way you become a a godly
44:42
magnetic personality. No, you're not him, you're not
44:46
close, but he's ennobled you enough to where the message of
44:51
hope is clear for people where again, they can never say.
44:54
I didn't know. No one told me.
44:57
Because those people who would say that are their own gods.
45:03
But I think the importance of reading the blessing that he
45:08
gave to Judah was though, I think as although he, you know,
45:14
it was that twisted, it's kind of it's kind of a passive
45:19
aggressive approach, right? Hey, you could put your boot on
45:24
the neck of your enemy. You're strong enough to do that.
45:28
I give that to you, but you're also, I think a very kind you're
45:34
going to be a strong ruler. You are going to be kind.
45:37
You are going to get some blessings.
45:39
So he need he he sowed some hope in there for Judah to say all's
45:44
not lost. You have a future.
45:47
Just remember, this is what your future looks like and you're,
45:52
you're going to get, you're going to get something positive
45:55
out of it because you chose to, to contribute to moral healing
46:01
and recovery for, for him, for him.
46:04
You know, you know, he contributed to the moral healing
46:08
and recovery for daddy dearest, for his brother Joseph.
46:15
And he's setting the standard for the rest of the follow.
46:19
I mean, I think it's really important for folks to
46:22
understand that he, he was, he was weaving some very positive
46:29
things in here for Judah, that he was going to become something
46:34
because he was leading that healing and recovery side,
46:39
whether he knew it or not. He owned up to the
46:42
responsibility and accountability of his prior
46:45
actions, but he wasn't taking away from the strong man that he
46:50
knew he was. And you see how that dream
46:54
sequence was transferred from Joseph to a realized action to
46:59
Judah. He's ruled.
47:02
He's ruling over. Right.
47:05
Yeah, well, but they, but even Joseph was pretty much ruling
47:10
over the number 2 under Pharaoh. So, you know, they it, it's just
47:16
a parallel. But now Judah is going to be
47:21
this great Kingdom as well. And it's kind of, it's kind of
47:27
neat. You know, you think about it
47:28
historical wise, the coming of these countries, these great
47:35
nations and, and what the foundings of them were, because
47:40
these were Ites right there. They were Ites that only Joseph
47:47
and Benjamin were. They were the only right.
47:53
They were the right. They were the only two who were
47:55
not Ites. No, Rachel was an ITE, wasn't
47:59
she? OK, we're we're OK.
48:01
But as it's attached to that right, they were.
48:06
Yeah, they were not. Right.
48:08
See, Rachel's sister and handmaids and such, they were
48:14
all in. That's why that was all that
48:16
dysfunction. Also because these are the same
48:20
women who are waiting on Jacob to come from the fields for
48:23
their turn at night or whatever, because all they wanted was
48:25
babies, right? But we need, we need to make a
48:28
drama series on all of this. Could you imagine?
48:33
This is not like the days of our lives and as the world turns,
48:36
this is as the ice evolve. Or something else?
48:39
You know what? The day of the ice, right?
48:43
So. We.
48:44
We we really need to you know what, even we're on the sun.
48:48
I don't think it's ever been done.
48:50
It's probably been done like secularly, but not historically
48:55
biblically right. So we probably should do that
48:57
because Can you imagine my man come home, he tired and anyway
49:01
they waiting for their turn. Yeah, but to wait for your turn.
49:06
And Dad says gather around. I I mean, so the way he was
49:11
talking at the very end, Dad is sitting at the end of his bed,
49:15
right? Or at the edge of his bed, feet
49:17
are down on the floor. So he's having some prominence.
49:22
He's not sitting in his throne like you are, right?
49:25
I mean, he's, he's a very humble man representing God, speaking
49:32
through him and issuing this edict about all of his kids.
49:39
I I, and it bodes well for us even because we're just taking
49:44
the aspect of what scripture teaches us.
49:47
Scripture teaches us that we are priests, you know, from a royal
49:51
line of priests and we're, we're kings and Queens.
49:55
Now you, if you want the excess that comes along with that, you
50:00
need to be able to impress yourself enough to say, you
50:03
know, there's going to be drama that's associated with this
50:06
because you look at the kingly reigns and the queen that reign.
50:10
A lot of that was not easy. Those are not easy reigns that
50:14
those people had, right? And so just looking at it from a
50:18
kingship or Queens ship, you know, because we're kings and
50:20
Queens, Eva, that's what we are. And if people want to dispute
50:23
that, I welcome them. You know, me, I always want
50:25
somebody to retort. So for me, I just want people to
50:29
understand that when Jacob is doing this, this was a long time
50:34
coming, but he's at the very end of his life and he has just
50:40
enough, just enough heavenly power to express themselves to
50:48
where there are blessings shared here.
50:51
Now, Reuben. Reuben didn't want to kill
50:55
Joseph. In fact, he was going to go.
50:58
He was trying to go tell him he was going.
51:00
To he was going to go get Joseph and hide him and take him back
51:04
home, that's what. He was going to go do he didn't.
51:07
Yeah, he didn't. He didn't act fast enough.
51:09
So we can see again how God can use anybody he wants to.
51:15
Judah was evil. He did some other things.
51:20
You know he's spilling his seat all sorts of stuff he did right
51:24
the the the the woman of ill repute all of this stuff right,
51:27
but God still used him that the line of David would come that
51:33
Christ would come in that. Right, right.
51:37
That is amazing. I just was reading, you know,
51:41
even this part in the section about Judah, that he will tether
51:47
his donkey to a vine, his colt to a choice, his branch.
51:51
He will wash his garments and wine his robes in the blood of
51:54
grapes. His eyes will be darker than
51:57
wine, his teeth whiter than milk.
52:01
And from that, I'd take that, you know, he's letting him know
52:05
he's coming. He's getting the best.
52:07
He's he's going to have a great area, right?
52:11
I mean, I took that wine appreciation class several weeks
52:16
ago and you know, the the best fertile lands it takes the
52:22
grapes for the grapes to grow takes a certain type of land.
52:28
You know, the the structure of the soil and the nutrients on
52:32
it. Everything have to be at a
52:35
certain level for those grapes to be able to grow and and not
52:43
just the quality of the wine, but the quantity as well.
52:47
So that would have been important for him to know where
52:51
he was going to rain the the location of where he's going to
52:56
reign over. This is good land, Judah.
53:00
You are getting the best because it's going to be able to
53:04
produce. But then there was this also
53:06
this part of me that was reading and and talking about the color
53:10
of his robes are going to be wine.
53:12
We use that in royalty lineup, right.
53:16
You know, you think about the robes of the British and you
53:21
know, some you and I are Catholic.
53:23
The robes at the priest where some of them it you know, it is
53:29
it is that wine color? It is it.
53:32
Is. Purple, right?
53:34
It is designed to represent royalty, yes.
53:38
That's important for us to recognize that as we understand
53:43
the context of things. So before we get in to, I mean,
53:49
we still haven't even gotten halfway through this chapter.
53:52
We only have about 5 minutes before we need to close.
53:56
You know what, I recommend we do this even because, you know, we,
53:59
we have our technical difficulties.
54:02
We, we, we've got part, we can do Part 3 because we got to get
54:05
to 50, but we really need to, we really need to unload, unspool,
54:13
unpack Jacob's moral injury here.
54:16
Jacob, Jacob was no, Jacob was no, no sleep in most of this
54:22
stuff, right? Nor were his sons.
54:25
His sons learned from the mothers and from him or what to
54:30
do, but in the end he did he no despite how he felt and what he.
54:38
Knew that he was a he was a single parent raising them.
54:43
Yes. Yeah.
54:45
Because when Rachel died, I think a part of him went with
54:50
her. Oh, I think so too for sure.
54:53
And I think he knew that these concubine wives were not the
54:58
same as his spouse, so he wouldn't have trusted.
55:03
I mean, I've lost both of my ex husbands and that's probably why
55:07
I have not remarried because, you know, I think you have a
55:14
certain expectation about what am I going to get in another
55:18
relationship? What do I want in another
55:20
relationship? And the.
55:21
Man and the man. Too right?
55:24
And he's going to, you know, he's, he probably didn't find a
55:30
woman who could replace what he felt with Rachel, that trust.
55:35
He didn't want Leah. He didn't want Bill Hot.
55:37
He didn't want Miss, but he didn't want he he he didn't want
55:40
them as a wife. Right, right.
55:44
Yeah, the concubine sleeping partners.
55:47
Gratifying the worldly side of things is one thing, but.
55:53
Can you imagine Eva dude coming home?
55:57
He ain't he ain't he. He he, he he's he's dusty, he's
56:00
dirty. He smells like the great
56:02
outdoors and looks probably chest is worse.
56:05
They don't care. They waiting their turn.
56:08
Right, but I but I bet you it's not like they probably didn't
56:12
try to fight for his attention. I mean, you watch some of the TV
56:15
shows, sisters, wives or whatever, and they're all trying
56:21
to, you know, garner his attention.
56:24
But that void in his heart that was with Rachel, you know, And
56:29
is anybody ever going to feel that?
56:31
Apparently not, you know. 20 years, Eva.
56:35
Yeah, so he, he, he, he not saying he probably didn't have
56:40
sex. He was a man.
56:42
But if he was getting up in age, probably not happening in that
56:45
area anyways. They they were hey, they worked
56:48
it out. Sis didn't.
56:49
They but but he but but he you know, this whole this is, you
56:54
know, you got to think what has happened?
56:57
We had a what's the 10 thousand 20,000 foot level is he's he's
57:03
reunited with his son and figuring out, well, here's the
57:09
rest of the story and how do I make a connection and that and
57:15
he's had a little bit of time over in, you know, Egypt to
57:20
reconcile. So who, what, when, where, why,
57:22
how in order to be able to get to this point and and God speak
57:28
with him and, and and here's the edict on everybody.
57:34
I mean. That's just.
57:35
That's to me a lot of reconciliation of things.
57:38
And I think for a lot of veterans, you know, they missed
57:42
a lot of home life being gone and deployed in military
57:47
service. So whether it's with their own
57:50
kids, with their parents or neighbors or whatever, coming
57:55
back home, you got to make sense of, well, what has happened
58:00
here? Where do I fit back in?
58:02
And now he's aged to this point. And where do we go from here?
58:08
I think what's important is we, we, we leave it here today is
58:12
knowing that no matter how much we address the moral and the
58:17
spiritual injury, there's spiritual injury here too.
58:21
There's still work to do for the remainder of our lives.
58:24
We can be healed, we can be all stitched up, we can be bandaged,
58:28
we can, we can total, we can do rehabilitation, all of that.
58:32
But there's a, there's some aspects somewhere in that trail
58:36
that's going to reappear that you did not address.
58:40
That's why when we talk about being revivalists and such, we
58:43
still need to be on our knees with our, our arms extended to
58:46
heaven, praying that the Lord remove those barriers that exist
58:51
in our lives that we can go forward, continue to pronounce
58:56
the the great news of hope, faith and love and make sure
59:00
that we connect with people. And Eva, I believe this.
59:04
We don't have to be around everybody to demonstrate how
59:07
much we love and care for them, because everybody around us is
59:10
not good for us and it's sometimes not good for them.
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Well, we're both the extroverted introverts, so we plan when
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we're around. Other people don't believe that.
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They do not know they do. Not believe that.
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I get it. Could you pray?
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US out today, please. Yep.
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing us together today.
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Thank you for the many blessings that we both have experienced
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this past weekend. Thank you for the travels, the
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good travels that we've had, being able to get back to our
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respective homes and families and moving forward.
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Our health is good and we are doing your work out on the road
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here at home, here on the waves. Thank you.
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Lord, for everything you do in nourishing and healing our
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bodies, in your name we pray. Amen.
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Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Amen. All right, everybody.
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