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Genesis chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 2, let us pray. Our Father who is in heaven,
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  holy is your name. Lord, May we keep your name holy
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  today. Lord, we acknowledge your
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  supremacy. We acknowledge, Lord, that you
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  are over all people groups, all over all continents, over all
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  languages. God, you are the only uncreated,
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  the Most high God. Lord, I pray for your Kingdom to
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  come upon this earth just as it is there in heaven.
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  We know that Jesus Christ went to prepare a place for us.
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  And Lord, we pray that you'll bring new Jerusalem, the holy
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  city, and set it upon a new earth, made new everything, made
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  new. Father, I pray, Lord, in the
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  mighty name of Jesus, for your will to be done.
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  Not our own, not our selfish desires, God, but help us to
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  pray the things that are on your heart.
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  God, help us to step in to what you have for us today.
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  Lord, I pray for fresh bread today.
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  Lord, I pray that we'll be able to eat sumptuously and dine with
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  you. God, we ask that you could come
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  in. Lord, dine with us, Sup with us.
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  God, we invite you in to our hearts.
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  We invite you in to the Hallows of our minds and our emotions.
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  God, nothing compartmentalized, Lord, nothing off limits or we
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  give you full access today. Come in Father, give us daily
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  bread, Give us your manna. God, give us the words of life.
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  Father, I pray that we will be forgiven for all the times we've
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  missed the mark. God, help us to be a forgiving
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  people. Help us not to live an offence,
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  Father, help us to not live offended, Father, help us to
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  forgive. Help us to extend forgiveness
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  out God, and not live in the past and not be fearful of
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  tomorrow. But God, live for today, for
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  such a time as this, we would let tomorrow worry about itself.
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  And so, God, I pray that you'll bind the enemy today from off of
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  us. Bind the enemy from off of our
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  houses. Bind the enemy from off of our
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  children. Bind the enemy from off of this
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  nation. God, bind the enemy from off of
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  the world, Father and I pray that we'll live in liberty.
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  God has liberated Saints marked by your goodness and grace and
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  mercy and love. Father, help us to be healed in
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  the mighty name of Jesus. Heal our minds and heal our
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  bodies. Today will we Thank you for life
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  and life abundant, for yours is the Kingdom and the power and
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  the glory, forever and ever and ever.
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  Father, for all of eternity, Lord, you are exalted, high and
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  lifted up. We love you Yeshua, I decrease
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  as you increase. Holy Spirit fill and teach and
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  correct. Convict us Holy Spirit, show us
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  or the heart of God, show us the mind of Christ and we love you.
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  And this in Jesus name that we pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Thus the heavens and the earth
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  were finished and all the hosts of them.
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  God created the domains and then He filled them with everything
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  and man was the pinnacle of it all, made in God's image in His
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  masterpiece verse 2. And on the 7th day God ended his
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  work which he had made, and he rested on the 7th day from all
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  his work which He had made. So here He is modeling for us
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  how we are to operate within our life.
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  And you know, if God rested on the 7th day, how much more
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  should we take the opportunity to give our bodies and our minds
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  a rest and not think that we can just continue to move through
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  life and do whatever we want to do?
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  And continue to spin our wheels and think that we are
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  inexhaustible. When in reality, we have to stop
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  and sharpen the saw so that when we get back after it, we're so
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  much more able and so much more sharper so that we can be
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  productive friends. And it's counterintuitive to
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  think that by stopping and resting, we could be more
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  productive. And if this is the opposite of
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  how the world works, there are cities that never sleep.
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  And there are people who try to get the most out of life by
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  never stopping. But they feel the noise of their
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  life. They fill their days with so
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  many different things, and they never stop and get quiet and
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  listen for that still, small voice.
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  And here you need to understand the model of God.
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  And we know that God is always at work.
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  We know that He's working even up to this day.
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  But here He modeled for us what we are to do.
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  And we were not created for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath was
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  created for us, and it is for our benefit.
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  And it is also to our detriment whenever we do not take
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  advantage of a day to rest and to turn everything off and to
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  meditate upon God and to get still and listen to Him.
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  And you need to incorporate this into your daily life, not just
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  the one day, friends. You need to incorporate God's
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  presence in your life when you are at work and when you are at
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  play and when you are at leisure.
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  It is not just one day a week that we are invited into the
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  rest of God, but our physical bodies need to stop, our minds
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  need to be able to take a break. And we need to just trust God's
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  process that we take one single day a week and turn it all off
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  and focus our attention upon Him and rest and refuse to buy into
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  the lie that more is more because it is not.
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  Friends verse 3. And God blessed the 7th day, and
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  he sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his
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  work, which God created and made.
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  So God didn't have to take this rest, but He did it for our
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  benefit. He did it as a model, friends,
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  for us, for mankind, so that we could know that one day a week
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  we need to stop and we need to hit the pause button.
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  We need to let everything rebuild.
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  We need to sharpen the saw. We need to Polish the ice.
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  We've been out on the ice skating and we need to get off
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  the ice and allow the Zamboni to come and Polish it and to make
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  it able to engage and not burn out the rest of the week.
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  And that is where a lot of people are.
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  They're in perpetual state of burnout and they call it
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  productivity, but they're ornery and they have no joy.
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  And it is because they're refusing to step into the model
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  that God created for them. Four, these are the generations
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  of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the
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  day that the Lord God made the earth in the heavens.
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  So here we get to see another angle of the creation account,
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  and this is much like the Gospels being repeated 4 times
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  and from different angles. We're going to get to see
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  another angle. The first angle was from God
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  Almighty's viewpoint, and this angle is from Adam's viewpoint.
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  Five in every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and
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  every herb of the field before it grew.
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  For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
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  there was not a man to till the ground.
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  So prior to the flood, we can see from a biblical context that
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  it had not yet rained, but there was dew that would come and it
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  would water all of the plants of the earth.
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  And that is why when Noah was building this gigantic box in
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  the middle of dry land, he was ridiculed.
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  There was no rudder, there was no sail, there was no motor,
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  just a gigantic box. And it had never rained prior to
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  that 6. But there went up a mist from
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  the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
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  It is also surmised that it was a tropical environment during
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  this time. There was no caps on poles,
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  there was no ice, so everything was tropical and it would have
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  been a lush environment. 6 We see that the rain was not
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  necessary, and we see that the waters coming up from springs
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  out of the ground. Seven And the Lord God formed
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  man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
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  the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
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  So this is where we have the climax of all of creation, the
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  masterpiece. God never breathed into an
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  angel's mouth. He never breathed into an
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  angel's nostrils, friends, but here for mankind, He gave us
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  this ruach. He gave us the breath, He gave
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  us His life, and He breathed into us.
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  And that is the beauty of the masterpiece of mankind and that
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  is where we get our dignity. That is why we are such under
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  attack from the fallen angels. And they want us to distort our
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  genders and distort our image. Friends, That is why the angels
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  are the fallen angels are so obsessed with marrying human
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  image, Friends with all of the marks that we put upon our
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  bodies. That is why Friends, is because
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  we're made in God's image and they delight.
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  The fallen angels delight every time that a human being buys the
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  lie, and they do not realize that they are made in God's
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  image. When we buy the lie that we're
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  just animals. When we buy the lie that there
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  is nothing beyond the grave, When we buy the lie, friends,
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  that we are worthless, That is the greatest lie that the enemy
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  tells mankind. And you need to understand here
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  that we have the highest place in God's sight for all of the
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  things that He created. Mankind is higher than the
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  mountains, he's higher than the depths of the sea, he's higher
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  than all the planets in all of the galaxies, He's higher than
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  the angelic order, friends. And that is what you need to
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  know. And here we are in a body with a
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  soul, and we have a spirit, and the spirit is what goes on to be
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  with the Lord forever and ever. And we will be able to have
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  immortal, incorruptible bodies one day when we have to take off
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  this earthly tent. But in the meantime, and in
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  between time, we await expectantly of what God is going
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  to do. And we cannot buy the lie,
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  friends, that we are lesser. We cannot buy the lie that we
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  are worthless. And this is where so much
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  suicide and so much of the cutting and so much of the self
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  defecation, so much of all of the terrible things that mankind
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  does to itself comes from, is because we do not understand our
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  worth in light of God's creation and the fact that we are made in
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  His image. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in
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  Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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  So he put us in a perfect environment, friends. 9 and out
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  of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is
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  pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life.
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  Also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of
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  good and evil. So we saw that tree of life pop
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  back up in the Book of Revelation towards the end
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  whenever the new heaven and the new earth is created.
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  And he says, behold, I make all things new.
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  And you need to know that this tree of life is going to be
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  available to all of the saved and we'll be able to eat from
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  it. And it sustains life and it
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  gives us the immortality, friends.
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  And here you can see that in the Garden of Eden it is there.
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  And this also He has the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
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  friends. And that is the reality is that
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  God put it there and He put it there on purpose.
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  He didn't make a mistake by putting it in there.
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  And He gave us free will, and we have to make a choice for God.
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  And here Adam is told to make a choice if he was to obey God or
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  not. Tan and a river went out of Eden
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  to water the garden, and from there it was parted and became
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  foreheads. So here is an illustration of
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  the actual literal geographical topography of the Garden of
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  Eden. And we can see that Adam was
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  placed there and it was perfect and beautiful, but it was a real
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  place. And he's going to describe for
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  us all the rivers that were there. 11 The name of the first
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  is Pison, and it it is which compasses the whole land of
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  Havilah where there is gold. So he even goes into detail of
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  the fact that there was gold there in Havilah. 12 And the
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  gold of that land is good. There is bedlam in the Onyx
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  stone. So he even goes into not only
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  the gold that's there, the river that flows through there, but
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  also the stones that can be found in that land.
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  So you know that this is a real, true, trustworthy account before
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  the fall of mankind, that this was a place that Adam had seen.
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  13 In the name of the second river is Guihong.
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  The same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia, So
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  it flowed down into Africa. This is the land of Cush 14 and
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  the name of the third river is Hidekel.
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  That is it which goes toward the east of Assyria.
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  So this is flowing up and towards Assyria.
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  And the fourth river is Euphrates.
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  So here we're getting to see an account of this actual place
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  that Adam lived in this perfect abode, the Garden of Eden. 15
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  And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of
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  Eden to dress it and to keep it. So here Adam is all by himself,
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  the highest order of God's creative act, and he is told to
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  work the ground. And this is a beautiful picture,
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  friends, and we actually got to see it in the Book of Revelation
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  where it says the servants will serve him.
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  There's work to do, but God invites us into this work.
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  And if you look and see that Adam was told to work, this is
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  prior to the fall. It was only that God, after the
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  fall, which we will see, he increased the work to where it
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  was laborious. And it was from the sweat of the
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  brow, and it was from thorns and thistles trying to scratch a
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  living out. And here you need to understand
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  that this tilling of the ground and the serving of God is
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  beautiful and it is a wonderful time of fellowship with God.
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  And that is available to us today if we will step into the
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  reality that God is with us in the work.
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  We do not need to think that heaven will be a place where we
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  just float around on clouds singing hymnals all day.
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  It will be a place of purpose and God will have things for us
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  to do. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying of
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  every tree of the garden you may eat freely.
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  So this is the beauty of how God operates.
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  He creates this abundant paradise for Adam to live in,
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  and he's filled it with all of the different kinds of plants
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  and trees and animals. And he gave Adam the domain.
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  He gave them the dominion over all the creatures that he had
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  created. And he told him that he could
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  eat from any of the trees, except for this. 117 butt of the
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  tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  You shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat of it, you
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  shall surely die. So here is where Adam has to
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  make a choice. And notice that Eve is not in
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  the picture yet God is giving this commandment to Adam in this
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  moment. 18 And the Lord God said it is not good that the man
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  should be alone. I will make him a help meet for
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  him. So here you can see that out of
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  all of God's creation, he said. It is good and it is good and it
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  is. Good.
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  And it is good. And it is.
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  Good and it is good. And here we see for the first
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  time God says it is not good for man to be alone.
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  And by and large, in the vast scheme of all of humanity, it is
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  much better for us to have a helper, for man to have a
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  helper. But there are some who are
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  called, and there are few that are called into celibacy and are
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  called into mission work. But in the grand scheme of
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  things, it is much better for a man to have a helper, to have a
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  helpmate, to have a wife, and to produce children and procreate
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  and fill this world with men and women who love the Lord God
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  Almighty and who serve Jesus Christ. 19 And out of the ground
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  the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of
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  the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call
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  them. And whatsoever Adam called every
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  living creature, that was the name of it.
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  So here you can see Eve is not made and God does an object
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  lesson where he brings the animals in pairs and there's a
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  male and a female and a male and a female and a male and a
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  female. And Adam goes through, and he
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  names every single one of them, noticing that he himself does
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  not have a pair. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, the
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  fowl of the air, every beast of the field, But for Adam there
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  was not found to help meet for him. 21 And the Lord God caused
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  a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, And he took one of
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  his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
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  So here we see that God put Adam to sleep.
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  He sedated them, and then he took one of his ribs out, 22 And
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  the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, he made a woman
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  and brought her to the man. So you could see that God did
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  not make woman from the foot of Adam so that he could be over
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  her. And God did not make woman from
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  the head of Adam so that she could be over him.
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  But God wisely took her from his side so that they could be side
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  by side and he could protect her, and that they would be 1
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  And that this is the purpose of it all.
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  God could have just spoke Eve into existence.
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  He could have done the same with Eve that he did with all the
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  animals and just caused her to be made and created and appear,
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  but he did not. He chose to take her from Adam's
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  side, from under his arm, and that is the beauty of the woman.
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  23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
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  flesh. She shall be called woman,
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  because she was taken out of man.
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  So here you can see that there is not another more beautiful
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  creature in all of creation than the woman.
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  The woman is the most beautiful out of every single thing that
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  God had created. And here Adam waxes eloquently
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  when he sees her. He breaks out into poetry and
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  you can see that she is his. Help me.
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  She is compatible, and they are one. 24 Therefore shall a man
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  leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they
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  shall be 1 flesh. This speaks of marriage.
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  This speaks of a supernatural union that happens when a
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  husband and a wife come together, friends and only God
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  can knit them together as one. And 2 is better than one,
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  because if one falls down, the other can help the other one up.
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  But three is even better than two.
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  A triple braided cord, which God in the center of it all,
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  friends, that is the purpose. And they are 1 flesh.
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  And we'll end on 25. And they were both naked, the
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  man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
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  We are naked and bare before a holy God.
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  Naked we came into this world and naked we will leave.
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  We brought nothing in, we'll take nothing out, but we can
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  sure send it ahead. Friends, look at how amazing
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  God's creation story is. This is unparalleled to any
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  creation story that any other people group try to put
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  together. This is the actual creation
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  account. There is none that could even
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  come close to these first couple chapters in Genesis.
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  And the things that are omitted are omitted on purpose, and they
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  are for us to take by faith and believe that this is exactly the
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  way that it happened and this is a miracle from God.
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  But it's no more of a miracle than God speaking it all into
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  existence. And you could see Adam being
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  formed from the dust and God breathing into him.
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  You could see Eve being formed from Adam's rib.
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  And this is the beginning of all mankind, all civilizations, all
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  people groups, for all time's sake.
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  This is the beauty of how God works.
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  And He invites us in to this relationship with Him, and He
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  reveals Himself to mankind. And it's up to us to respond and
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  to choose Him. And I pray that you have hope.
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  You've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have many times over.
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  I'm praying for you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.