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The Book of Genesis Like You_ve Never Seen Before _ Adam and Eve _ Noah _ Abraham _ Jacob _ Joseph · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Imagine a time when nothing existed, no light, no sound,
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  Speaker 1: no life, just empty darkness stretching forever. This is where
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  Speaker 1: our story begins, not with people or places you know,
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  Speaker 1: but with the very moment when everything you see around
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  Speaker 1: you came to life. This is the story of how
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  Speaker 1: the world was born, how the first people lived, and
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  Speaker 1: how everything changed when they made one terrible choice. It's
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  Speaker 1: a story of beauty and tragedy, of love and loss,
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  Speaker 1: of beginnings that would shape every moment that followed in
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning, as Genesis chapter one, Verse one tells us,
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,
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  Speaker 1: but the earth wasn't like anything we know to day.
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  Speaker 1: Verse two shows us a picture of complete emptiness. Now
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  Speaker 1: the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the
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  Speaker 1: surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was
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  Speaker 1: hovering over the waters. Then something amazing happened. God spoke,
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  Speaker 1: just spoke, and when he did, light burst into existence.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis one three records his first words, and God said,
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  Speaker 1: let there be light. And there was light. Can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine that moment, the very first light piercing through endless darkness.
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  Speaker 1: God saw that the light was good, and he separated
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  Speaker 1: it from the darkness, calling the light day and the
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  Speaker 1: darkness night. This was the first day. On the second day,
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  Speaker 1: God looked at all that water and decided to make space.
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  Speaker 1: He created the sky by separating the waters above from
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  Speaker 1: the waters below. As verse seven explains, so God made
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  Speaker 1: the vault and separated the water under the vault from
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  Speaker 1: the water above it. And it was so He called
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  Speaker 1: this space sky. The third day brought even more wonders.
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  Speaker 1: God gathered all the water on Earth into seas and
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  Speaker 1: let dry ground appear. But he wasn't finished. The earth
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  Speaker 1: was still empty, so he covered it with life. Then
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  Speaker 1: God said, let the land produce vegetation, seed bearing plants
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  Speaker 1: and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed
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  Speaker 1: in it, according to their various kinds. And it was so.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis one eleven tells us Suddenly grass sprouted, flowers bloomed,
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  Speaker 1: and trees grew tall and strong. Day four was when
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  Speaker 1: God decorated the sky. He made the sun to rule
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  Speaker 1: the day and the moon to rule the night. As
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  Speaker 1: Genesis one sixteen describes, God made two great lights, the
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  Speaker 1: greater light to govern the day and the lesser light
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  Speaker 1: to govern the night. He also made the stars. Every
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  Speaker 1: twinkling star in the night sky was placed there by
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  Speaker 1: his hand. On the fifth day, God filled the waters
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  Speaker 1: and the sky with living creatures. Genesis one twenty one
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  Speaker 1: shows us the incredible moment. So God created the great
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  Speaker 1: creatures of the sea, and every living thing with which
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  Speaker 1: the water teems and that moves about in it, according
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  Speaker 1: to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.
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  Speaker 1: Fish swam in the ocean's birds soared through the air,
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  Speaker 1: and God saw that it was good. The sixth day
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  Speaker 1: was special. First, God made all the animals that live
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  Speaker 1: on land, But then he did something completely different. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: one twenty six records his words. Then God said, let
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  Speaker 1: us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so
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  Speaker 1: that they may rule over the fish in the sea,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds in the sky, over the live stock,
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  Speaker 1: and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures
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  Speaker 1: that move along the ground. This was the moment when
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  Speaker 1: the first human beings came into existence. After six days
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  Speaker 1: of incredible work, God did something that might surprise you.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis two two three tells us by the seventh day,
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  Speaker 1: God had finished the work he had been doing. So
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  Speaker 1: on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
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  Speaker 1: Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,
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  Speaker 1: because on it he rested from all the work of
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  Speaker 1: creating that he had done. Now let's look closer at
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  Speaker 1: how God made the first people. Genesis two seven gives
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  Speaker 1: us the beautiful details. Then the Lord God formed a
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  Speaker 1: man from the dust of the ground and breathed into
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  Speaker 1: his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became
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  Speaker 1: a living being. God didn't just speak Adam into existence
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  Speaker 1: like he did with light or stars. He got his
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  Speaker 1: hands dirty, forming Adam from the dust, then breathing his
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  Speaker 1: own breath into him. That's how special humans were to God.
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  Speaker 1: But God knew Adam needed a perfect place to live,
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  Speaker 1: so he planted a garden in a place called Eden.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis two eight to nine describes it. Now, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: God had planted a garden in the east in Eden,
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  Speaker 1: and there he put the man he had formed. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of
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  Speaker 1: the ground, trees that were pleasant to sight and good
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  Speaker 1: for food. This wasn't just any garden, It was paradise.
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  Speaker 1: Two special trees grew there, the Tree of Life and
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  Speaker 1: the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil rivers
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  Speaker 1: flowed through Eden, keeping everything green and beautiful. Adam had
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  Speaker 1: everything he could ever want or need. God gave Adam
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  Speaker 1: an important job, as Genesis two fifteen explains, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: God took the man and put him in the garden
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  Speaker 1: of Eden to work it and take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: Adam wasn't lazy. He was the world's first gardener, taking
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  Speaker 1: care of this amazing place God had made. But then
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  Speaker 1: God said something that shows how much he cared about
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  Speaker 1: Adam's happiness. Genesis two eighteen records the Lord God said,
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  Speaker 1: it is not good for the man to be alone.
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  Speaker 1: I will make a helper suitable for him. Even in Paris,
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  Speaker 1: Adam needed companionship. First, God brought all the animals to
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  Speaker 1: Adam to name them. Genesis two nineteen twenty tells us,
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  Speaker 1: now the Lord God had formed out of the ground
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  Speaker 1: all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: He brought them to the man to see what he
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  Speaker 1: would name them. And whatever the man called each living creature,
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  Speaker 1: that was its name. So the Man gave names to
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  Speaker 1: all the livestock, the birds in the sky, and all
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  Speaker 1: the wild animals. But for Adam, no suitable helper was found.
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  Speaker 1: So God did something amazing. He made Adam fall into
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  Speaker 1: a deep sleep, and from Adam's rib he created woman.
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  Speaker 1: When Adam woke up and saw her, his reaction was
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  Speaker 1: pure joy. Genesis two twenty three captures his excitement. The
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  Speaker 1: man said, this is now bone of my bones, and
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  Speaker 1: flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because
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  Speaker 1: she was taken out of man. The Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis two twenty five that Adam and his wife
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  Speaker 1: were both naked, and they felt no shame. They lived
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  Speaker 1: in perfect harmony with each other and with God. There
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  Speaker 1: was no fear, no embarrassment, no conflict, just pure innocent love.
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  Speaker 1: Life in Eden was perfect. But God had given Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve one rule. Genesis two sixteen seventeen records God's words,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord God commanded the man, you are free
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  Speaker 1: to eat from every tree in the garden, but you
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  Speaker 1: must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: good and evil, for when you eat from it, you
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  Speaker 1: will certainly die. One rule. In all of Paradise, with
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  Speaker 1: thousands of trees to choose from, there was just one
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  Speaker 1: tree they couldn't touch. It seemed simple enough, but then
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  Speaker 1: a serpent appeared. This wasn't just any snake. This was
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  Speaker 1: the craftiest creature God had made. Genesis three one introduces him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild
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  Speaker 1: animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman,
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  Speaker 1: did God really say you must not eat from any
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  Speaker 1: tree in the garden. Notice how clever the serpent was.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't start by telling Eve to disobey. He just
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  Speaker 1: asked a question that made her think about God's command
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  Speaker 1: in a different way. Eve corrected him, explaining that they
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  Speaker 1: could eat from every tree except one, and if they
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  Speaker 1: ate from that tree, or even touched it, they would die.
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  Speaker 1: But then the serpent made his move. Genesis three four
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  Speaker 1: five records his lie. You will not certainly die, the
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  Speaker 1: serpent said to the woman, for God knows that when
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  Speaker 1: you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and
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  Speaker 1: you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Those
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  Speaker 1: words changed everything. Suddenly Eve began to see the forbidden
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  Speaker 1: tree differently. Genesis three six describes what happened next. When
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  Speaker 1: the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was
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  Speaker 1: good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also
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  Speaker 1: desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
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  Speaker 1: She also gave some to her husband, who was with her,
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  Speaker 1: and he ate it. The moment they ate that fruit,
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  Speaker 1: everything changed. Genesis three seven tells us then the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of both of them were opened, and they realized they
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  Speaker 1: were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made
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  Speaker 1: coverings for themselves. For the first time, they felt shame
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  Speaker 1: and fear. When God came walking in the garden in
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  Speaker 1: the cool of the day, as he always did, Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve hid. Genesis three eight to nine shows us
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  Speaker 1: this heart breaking moment. Then the man and his wife
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  Speaker 1: heard the sound of the Lord God as he was
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  Speaker 1: walking in the garden in the cool of the day,
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  Speaker 1: and they hid from the Lord God among the trees
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  Speaker 1: of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man,
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  Speaker 1: where are you. God knew exactly where they were, but
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  Speaker 1: he was giving them a chance to come forward and
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  Speaker 1: admit what they had done. Instead, when Adam finally answered,
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  Speaker 1: he did something that showed how deeply sin had already
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  Speaker 1: affected him. Genesis three twelve records his response. The man said,
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  Speaker 1: the woman you put here with me, she gave me
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  Speaker 1: some fruit from the tree, and I ate it. Adam
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  Speaker 1: didn't just fail to take responsibility. He actually blamed both
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  Speaker 1: Eve and God himself for what had happened. When God
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  Speaker 1: asked Eve what she had done, she also shifted blame,
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  Speaker 1: saying in verse thirteen, the woman said, the serpent deceived
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  Speaker 1: me and I ate. God's response to their disobedience was
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  Speaker 1: both just and heart breaking. First, he dealt with the serpent.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis three fourteen fifteen records the curse. So the Lord
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  Speaker 1: God said to the serpent, because you have done this,
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  Speaker 1: cursed are you above all live stock and all wild animals.
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  Speaker 1: You will crawl on your belly and you will eat
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  Speaker 1: dust all the days of your life. And I will
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  Speaker 1: put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
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  Speaker 1: offspring and hers. He will crush your head and you
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  Speaker 1: will strike his heel. Then God turned to Eve. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: three sixteen shows the consequence for women. To the woman,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I will make your pains in child bearing
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  Speaker 1: very severe, with painful labor. You will give birth to children.
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  Speaker 1: Your desire will be for your husband, and he will
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  Speaker 1: rule over you. Adam's punishment was different, but equally serious.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis three seventeen nineteen records God's words to Adam. He said,
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  Speaker 1: because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from
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  Speaker 1: the tree about which I commanded you, you must not
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  Speaker 1: eat from it. Cursed is the ground because of you,
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  Speaker 1: through painful toil, you will eat food from it all
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  Speaker 1: the days of your life. It will produce thorns and
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  Speaker 1: thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of
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  Speaker 1: the field by the sweat of your brow. You will
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  Speaker 1: eat your food until you return to the ground, Since
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  Speaker 1: from it you were taken. For dust you are, and
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  Speaker 1: to dust you will return. Work which had been joyful
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  Speaker 1: in Eden would now be hard and frustrating. The ground
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  Speaker 1: would fight against them, and most devastating of all, death
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  Speaker 1: had entered the world. But even in judgment God showed mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis three twenty one tells us the Lord God made
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  Speaker 1: garments of skin to clothe them. He cared for them
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  Speaker 1: even after they had disobeyed him. Then came the moment
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  Speaker 1: they must have dreaded. God explained why they had to
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  Speaker 1: leave Eden. Genesis three twenty two to twenty four records
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  Speaker 1: his reasoning. And the Lord God said, the man has
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  Speaker 1: now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.
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  Speaker 1: He must not be allowed to reach out his hand
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  Speaker 1: and take also from the tree of life and eat
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  Speaker 1: and live forever. So the Lord God banished him from
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  Speaker 1: the garden of Eden to work the ground from which
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  Speaker 1: she had been taken. After he banished them, he placed
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  Speaker 1: on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim
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  Speaker 1: and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard
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  Speaker 1: the way to the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve
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  Speaker 1: found themselves outside Paradise, in a world that was broken.
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  Speaker 1: Because of their choice, they could never go back. Outside
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  Speaker 1: of Eden, life continued. Genesis four one to two tells
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  Speaker 1: us about the first children. Adam made love to his
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  Speaker 1: wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.
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  Speaker 1: She said, with the help of the Lord, I've brought
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  Speaker 1: forth a man. Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
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  Speaker 1: Now Abel kept flocks and Cain worked the soil. These
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  Speaker 1: two brothers grew up in a world very different from
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  Speaker 1: the one their parents had known. They had never seen Eden,
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  Speaker 1: never walked with God in perfect harmony, but they knew
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  Speaker 1: about God and brought him offerings. Genesis four three four
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  Speaker 1: describes there worship in the course of time. Cain brought
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  Speaker 1: some of the fruits of the soil as an offering
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord, and Abel also brought an offering fat
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  Speaker 1: portions from some of the first born of his flock.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
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  Speaker 1: but on Cain and his offering, he did not look
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  Speaker 1: with favor. We don't know exactly why God preferred Abel's offering,
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  Speaker 1: but we can see the difference in their hearts. Abel
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  Speaker 1: brought the best he had, the fat portions from the
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  Speaker 1: first born animals. Cain just brought some of his crops,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily the best. God's rejection of his offering made
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  Speaker 1: Cain angry. His face fell and jealousy began to grow
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  Speaker 1: in his heart. But God, in his kindness, tried to
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  Speaker 1: warn Cain. Genesis four six to seven records god 's words.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Cain, why are you angry?
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  Speaker 1: Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right,
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  Speaker 1: will you not be accepted. But if you do not
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  Speaker 1: do what is right, Sin is crouching at your door.
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  Speaker 1: It desires to have you, but you must rule over it.
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  Speaker 1: God was giving Cain a chance to make things right.
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  Speaker 1: He was warning him that sin was like a wild
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  Speaker 1: animal waiting to pounce, but Cain had to choose to
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  Speaker 1: fight against it. Sadly, Cain made the wrong choice. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: four eight tells us the tragic result. Now, Cain said
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  Speaker 1: to his brother Abel, let's go out to the field.
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  Speaker 1: While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother
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  Speaker 1: Abel and killed him. This was the first murder in
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  Speaker 1: human history. Brother killed brother out of jealousy and anger.
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  Speaker 1: When God asked Cain where Abel was, his response showed
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  Speaker 1: how deeply sin had corrupted his heart. Genesis four nine
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  Speaker 1: records his callous answer. I don't know, he replied, am
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  Speaker 1: I my brother's keeper? But God knew what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis four ten to twelve shows his response. The Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: what have you done? Listen? Your brother's blood cries out
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  Speaker 1: to me from the ground. Now you are under a
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  Speaker 1: curse and driven from the ground which opened its mouth
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  Speaker 1: to receive your brother's blood. I'll from your hand. When
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  Speaker 1: you work the ground, it will no longer yield its
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  Speaker 1: crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Cain's punishment was severe, but not as severe
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  Speaker 1: as it could have been. When he complained that his
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  Speaker 1: punishment was too hard and that anyone who found him
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  Speaker 1: would kill him, God showed mercy. Genesis four fifteen tells us,
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord said to him, not so, any one
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  Speaker 1: who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Lord put him on Cain so that no one
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  Speaker 1: who found him would kill him. Even in judgment, God
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  Speaker 1: protected Cain's life. After killing his brother, Cain left his
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  Speaker 1: family and went to live in the land of Nod,
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  Speaker 1: east of Eden. There, his wife had a son named Enoch,
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  Speaker 1: and Cain built the first city, naming it after his son.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis four point seventeen records this Cain made love to
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  Speaker 1: his wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.
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  Speaker 1: Cain was then building a city, and he named it
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  Speaker 1: after his son Enoch. Cain's descendants became the founders of
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  Speaker 1: civilization as we know it. They weren't content to live
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  Speaker 1: simple lives. They created new ways of living, new technologies,
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  Speaker 1: new forms of art. Genesis fourth, nineteen twenty two introduces
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  Speaker 1: us to some of Cain's most famous descendants. Lamech married
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  Speaker 1: two women, one named Arda and the other zillah Da,
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  Speaker 1: gave birth to Jabal. He was the father of those
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  Speaker 1: who live in tents and raise livestock. His brother's name
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  Speaker 1: was Jubal. He was the father of all who play
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  Speaker 1: the harp and flute. Zillah also had a son, Tubalcane,
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  Speaker 1: who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.
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  Speaker 1: These men were innovators. Jabbal invented nomadic life, living in
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  Speaker 1: tents and moving with herds of animals. Jubil created music,
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  Speaker 1: making the first harps and flutes. Tubalcane was the world's
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  Speaker 1: first metal worker, creating tools from bronze and iron. But
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  Speaker 1: with civilization came more violence. Lamech, Cain's descendant, became even
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  Speaker 1: more violent than his ancestor. Genesis four twenty three to
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  Speaker 1: twenty four records his boastful song. Lamech said to his
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  Speaker 1: wives Ada and Zillah, listen to me, wives of Lamek,
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  Speaker 1: hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me,
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  Speaker 1: a young man for injuring me. If Cain is avenged
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  Speaker 1: seven times, then Lamek seventy seven times. Lamek was proud
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  Speaker 1: of his violence. He killed not in a moment of
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  Speaker 1: jealous rage like Cain, but in revenge for a simple injury.
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  Speaker 1: Violence was growing worse in the world. Meanwhile, back with
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  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve, life continued. They had lost Abel and
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  Speaker 1: Cain had been banished, but God gave them another son.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis four twenty five tells us Adam made love to
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  Speaker 1: his wife again and she gave birth to a son
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  Speaker 1: and named him Seth, saying, God has granted me another
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  Speaker 1: child in place of Abel. Since Cain killed him. Seth
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  Speaker 1: represented a new beginning, a chance for humanity to choose
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  Speaker 1: a different path than the one Cain had taken. And indeed,
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  Speaker 1: something wonderful happened in Seth's family line. Genesis four twenty
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  Speaker 1: six records this important moment. Seth also had a son,
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  Speaker 1: and he named him Enosh. At that time, people began
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  Speaker 1: to call on the name of the Lord. This was significant.
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  Speaker 1: While Cain's descendants were building cities and creating technologies, Seth's
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  Speaker 1: descendants were seeking God. They remembered their creator and called
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  Speaker 1: on his name in worship and prayer. Genesis chapter five
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  Speaker 1: gives us the family line of Seth, and it's full
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  Speaker 1: of remarkable people. There was Enoch who walked faithfully with God.
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  Speaker 1: Then he was no more because God took him away.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis five twenty four tells us this amazing story. Enoch
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  Speaker 1: was so close to God that God simply took him
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  Speaker 1: to heaven without him dying. The ages of these early
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  Speaker 1: people were incredible. Adam lived nine hundred thirty years, Seth
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  Speaker 1: lived nine twelve years. Methuselah, the oldest man who ever lived,
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  Speaker 1: reached nine hundred sixty nine years. Genesis five twenty seven records. Altogether,
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  Speaker 1: Methuselah lived a total of nine hundred and sixty nine years,
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  Speaker 1: and then he died. These long lives show us how
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  Speaker 1: different the world was then. People lived for centuries, had
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  Speaker 1: time to accumulate vast knowledge and experience, and could see
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  Speaker 1: many generations of their families grow up. But even in
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  Speaker 1: Seth's godly line, we see the constant reminder of death
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  Speaker 1: again and again. Genesis five repeats the phrase and then
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  Speaker 1: he died. Death, which had entered the world through Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve's disobedience, touched everyone. As time passed and the
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  Speaker 1: population grew, something terrible began to happen. The godly line
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  Speaker 1: of Seth and the violent line of Cain began to mix,
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  Speaker 1: and the results were disastrous. Genesis six one to two
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  Speaker 1: describes the beginning of the end, when human beings began
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  Speaker 1: to increase in number on the earth, and daughters were
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  Speaker 1: born to them. The sons of God saw that the
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  Speaker 1: daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of
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  Speaker 1: them they chose. This mixing of the godly and ungodly
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  Speaker 1: lines led to spiritual disaster. The people who had once
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  Speaker 1: called on the name of the Lord began to forget him.
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  Speaker 1: Violence and wickedness spread like a disease across the earth.
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  Speaker 1: God saw what was happening, and his heart was broken.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis six five to six gives us one of the
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  Speaker 1: saddest verses in all the Bible. The Lord saw how
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  Speaker 1: great the wickedness of the human race had become on
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: the human heart was only evil all the time. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and his heart was deeply troubled. Can you imagine how
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  Speaker 1: God felt. He had created humans in his own image,
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  Speaker 1: breathed his own breath into them, given them a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: world to live in, and now they had become so
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  Speaker 1: wicked that every thought in their hearts was evil all
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  Speaker 1: the time. The violence that had started with Cain killing
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  Speaker 1: Abel had spread everywhere. Genesis six eleven tells us. Now
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  Speaker 1: the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full
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  Speaker 1: of violence. It wasn't just individual sins any more. The
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  Speaker 1: whole world had become a place of corruption and brutality.
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  Speaker 1: God made a heartbreaking decision. Genesis six seven records his words.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord said, I will wipe from the face
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  Speaker 1: of the earth the human race I have created, and
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  Speaker 1: with them the animals, the birds, and the creatures that
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  Speaker 1: move along the ground. For I regret that I have
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  Speaker 1: made them. The world that had begun with such beauty
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  Speaker 1: and hope had become so evil that God decided to
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  Speaker 1: start over. But even in his judgment, God's mercy would
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  Speaker 1: shine through. Genesis six eight gives us hope. But Noah
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  Speaker 1: found favor in the eyes of the Lord. The story
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  Speaker 1: of creation had led to paradise, then to disobedience, then
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  Speaker 1: to murder, then to civilization, and finally to complete corruption.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't over. A God had a plan to
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  Speaker 1: save humanity through one righteous man and his family. In
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  Speaker 1: a world drowning in violence and evil, one man stood apart.
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  Speaker 1: His name was Noah, and Genesis six x nine describes
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  Speaker 1: him this way. This is the account of Noah and
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  Speaker 1: his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the
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  Speaker 1: people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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  Speaker 1: While everyone around him had forgotten their creator, Noah remembered.
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  Speaker 1: While others chose violence and wickedness, Noah chose to follow
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  Speaker 1: God's ways. Noah wasn't perfect, no human being except Jesus
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  Speaker 1: ever was. But in a world wherever he thought of
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  Speaker 1: people's hearts was evil all the time, Noah's heart was different.
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  Speaker 1: He loved God and tried to live the way God
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  Speaker 1: wanted him to live. Genesis six' nine tells us he
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  Speaker 1: was blameless among the people of his. Time this doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean he never made, mistakes but that compared to everyone,
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  Speaker 1: else he was trying to do what was. Right god
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  Speaker 1: Noticed noah's faithfulness while he was planning to destroy the
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  Speaker 1: earth because of its. Wickedness he decided to Save noah
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  Speaker 1: and his. Family genesis six thirteen records the moment When
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  Speaker 1: god spoke To. Noah So god said To, NOAH i
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  Speaker 1: am going to put an end to all, people for
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  Speaker 1: the earth is filled with violence because of. Them i'm
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  Speaker 1: surely going to destroy both them and the. Earth can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine How noah felt When god told him this
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  Speaker 1: everyone he, knew his, neighbors, friends maybe even extended family,
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  Speaker 1: members was going to be. Destroyed the entire world as
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  Speaker 1: he knew it was coming to an. End it must
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  Speaker 1: have been terrifying and heartbreaking at the same. Time But
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  Speaker 1: god had a plan to Save noah and start fresh
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  Speaker 1: with the human. Race genesis, six eighteen nineteen Shows god's.
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  Speaker 1: Promise BUT i will establish my covenant with, you and
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  Speaker 1: you will enter The, ark you and your, sons and
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  Speaker 1: your wife and your son's wives with. You you are
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  Speaker 1: to bring into The ark two of all living, creatures
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  Speaker 1: male and, female to keep them alive with. You god
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  Speaker 1: was Giving noah an incredible. Responsibility he wasn't just Saving noah's,
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  Speaker 1: Family he was Making noah responsible for saving every kind
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  Speaker 1: of animal On. Earth this was going to be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest rescue mission in, history And noah was going to lead.
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  Speaker 1: It noah had three, sons Shem ham And. Jafith these
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  Speaker 1: four men and their wives would be the only humans
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  Speaker 1: left alive after the. Flood from their, families the entire
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  Speaker 1: world would be. Repopulated the future of humanity rested On noah's.
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  Speaker 1: Shoulders what's amazing is That noah didn't argue With god
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  Speaker 1: or ask for. Proof genesis six twenty two simply Says
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  Speaker 1: noah did everything just As god commanded. Him When god
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  Speaker 1: said build an, Ark noah started. Building When god said gather,
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  Speaker 1: Animals noah started. Gathering his faith was complete and. Immediate
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  Speaker 1: god Gave noah very specific instructions for building the. Ark
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  Speaker 1: genesis six fourteen sixteen records the. Details so make yourself
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  Speaker 1: an ark of cypress, wood make rooms in, it and
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  Speaker 1: coat it with pitch inside and. Out this is how
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  Speaker 1: you are to build. It the ark is to be
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  Speaker 1: three hundred cubits, long fifty cubits, wide and thirty cubits.
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  Speaker 1: High make a roof for, it leaving below the roof
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  Speaker 1: and opening one cubit high all. Around put a door
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  Speaker 1: in the side of the, ark and make, lower, middle
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  Speaker 1: and upper. Decks this wasn't going to be a small.
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  Speaker 1: BOAT a cubit was about eighteen, inches so the ark
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  Speaker 1: was about four hundred and fifty feet, long seventy five feet,
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  Speaker 1: wide and forty five feet. High that's longer than a
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  Speaker 1: football field and as tall as a four story. Building
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be, massive with three decks and
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  Speaker 1: rooms throughout for all the animals and supplies they would.
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  Speaker 1: Need building something this big would have taken. Years noah
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  Speaker 1: had to cut down countless, trees shape the, wood and
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  Speaker 1: put it all together without modern tools or. Machinery every
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  Speaker 1: day as he worked on this enormous, boat people probably
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  Speaker 1: laughed at. Him after, all they weren't near any, ocean
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  Speaker 1: and it had never rained enough to need such a huge.
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  Speaker 1: Boat But noah kept, building trusting That god knew what
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  Speaker 1: he was. Doing genesis seven five reminds, us And noah
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  Speaker 1: did all that The lord commanded. Him he was six
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  Speaker 1: hundred years old when the flood, came which means he
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  Speaker 1: had been working on this project for many, years never giving,
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  Speaker 1: up despite what others might have said about. Him as
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  Speaker 1: the ark neared, Completion god Gave noah another. Instruction genesis
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  Speaker 1: seven one to three Records god's. Words The lord then
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  Speaker 1: said To, noah go into the, ark you and your whole,
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  Speaker 1: family BECAUSE i have found you righteous in this. Generation
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  Speaker 1: take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean,
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  Speaker 1: animal a male and its, mate and one pair of
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  Speaker 1: every kind of unclean, animal a male and its, Mate
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  Speaker 1: and also seven pairs of every kind of, bird male and,
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  Speaker 1: female to keep their various kinds alive throughout the. Earth
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  Speaker 1: now came one of the most amazing parts of the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Story how do you get two of every animal on
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  Speaker 1: earth to come to one. Place how do you convince
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  Speaker 1: lions and, lambs elephants and, mice birds and repti to
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  Speaker 1: all walk peacefully into a. Boat you don't have to convince,
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  Speaker 1: Them god does it for. You genesis seven eight to
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  Speaker 1: nine tells us pairs of clean and unclean, animals of,
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  Speaker 1: birds and of all creatures that move along the. Ground
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  Speaker 1: male and female came To noah and entered The ark
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  Speaker 1: As god had Commanded, noah the animals came on their.
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  Speaker 1: Own god called, them and they. Responded lions walked next
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  Speaker 1: to sheep without. Attacking bears strolled alongside, Deer eagles flew
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  Speaker 1: next to. Sparrows it was like The garden Of eden
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  Speaker 1: all over, again with animals living in perfect. Harmony genesis
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  Speaker 1: seven thirteen to sixteen describes the final. Moments on that very,
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  Speaker 1: Day noah and his sons Shem ham And, jayfith together
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  Speaker 1: with his wife and the wives of his three, sons
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  Speaker 1: entered The. Ark they had with them every wild, animal
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  Speaker 1: according to its, kind all live stock according to their,
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  Speaker 1: kinds every creature that moves along the ground according to its,
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  Speaker 1: kind and every bird according to its. Kind everything with,
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  Speaker 1: wings pairs of all creatures that have the breath of
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  Speaker 1: life in them came To noah and entered the. Ark
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  Speaker 1: the animals going in were male and female of every living,
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  Speaker 1: thing As god had Commanded, noah then The lord shut him.
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  Speaker 1: In noticed that last. Sentence then The lord shut him.
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  Speaker 1: In god himself closed the door of the. Ark once
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  Speaker 1: that door was, shut there was no going. Back everyone
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  Speaker 1: inside was, safe and everyone outside was about to face the.
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  Speaker 1: Flood for seven, days after everyone was safely inside the,
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  Speaker 1: ark nothing. Happened can you imagine what those days were.
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  Speaker 1: Like noah and his family were locked inside this huge
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  Speaker 1: boat with thousands of animals waiting for something they had
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  Speaker 1: never seen. Before. Rain then Begin genesis seven eleven to
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  Speaker 1: twelve describes the moment when everything changed in the six
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  Speaker 1: hundredth year Of noah's, life on the seventeenth day of
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  Speaker 1: the second. Month on that, day all the springs of
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  Speaker 1: The Great deep burst, forth and the flood gates of
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  Speaker 1: the heavens were, opened and rain fell on the. Earth
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  Speaker 1: forty days and forty. Nights this wasn't just a heavy rain.
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  Speaker 1: Storm the springs of The Great deep burst. Forth water
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  Speaker 1: came shooting up from. Underground the flood gates of the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: opened water poured down from. Above it was like the
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  Speaker 1: whole world was being squeezed between two massive. Oceans the
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  Speaker 1: rain didn't. Stop day after, day night after, night water kept.
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  Speaker 1: Falling genesis seven seventeen tells us for forty, days the
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  Speaker 1: flood kept coming on The, earth and as the waters,
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  Speaker 1: increased they lifted the ark high above the. Earth at,
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  Speaker 1: first people outside probably thought it was just a bad.
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  Speaker 1: Storm they might have run for, shelter expecting it to.
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  Speaker 1: Pass but as the hours turned to days and the
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  Speaker 1: days turned to, weeks they must have realized something terrible was.
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  Speaker 1: Happening the water kept rising higher and. Higher genesis seven
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty shows us how complete the destruction. Was they
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  Speaker 1: rose greatly on The, earth and all the high mountains
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  Speaker 1: under the entire heavens were. Covered the waters rose and
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  Speaker 1: covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Cubits every mountain On earth was. Underwater even the highest
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  Speaker 1: peaks disappeared beneath the. Flood the whole world became one
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  Speaker 1: giant ocean with only one boat floating on its. Surface
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  Speaker 1: genesis seven twenty one to twenty three describes the tragic.
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  Speaker 1: Result every living thing that moved on land. Perished, birds,
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  Speaker 1: livestock wild, animals all the creatures that swarm over the,
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  Speaker 1: earth and all. Mankind everything on dry land that had
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  Speaker 1: the breath of life in its nostrils. Died every living
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  Speaker 1: thing on the face of the earth was wiped. Out
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  Speaker 1: people and, animals and the creatures that move along the,
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  Speaker 1: ground and the birds were wiped from the. Earth Only
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  Speaker 1: noah was, left and those with him in The. Ark
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine such complete. Destruction every person who
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  Speaker 1: had laughed At noah was. Gone every animal that hadn't
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  Speaker 1: made it to the ark was. Dead every, plant every,
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  Speaker 1: tree every living thing that needed air To breathe had.
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  Speaker 1: Drowned the earth That god had created with such beauty
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  Speaker 1: and filled with such, life was now a watery. Grave
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  Speaker 1: only eight people remained alive in the entire. World, noah his,
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  Speaker 1: wife his three, sons and their three. Wives they floated
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  Speaker 1: alone on an endless, sea carrying in their ark the
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  Speaker 1: future of all life On. Earth living inside the ark
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  Speaker 1: must have been unlike anything anyone had ever. Experienced genesis
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  Speaker 1: seven twenty four tells us that the waters flooded the
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  Speaker 1: earth for a hundred and fifty, days but the rain
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  Speaker 1: itself fell for forty days and. Nights during those first forty,
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  Speaker 1: Days noah and his family listened to the constant sound
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  Speaker 1: of rain pounding on the roof above. Them inside the,
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  Speaker 1: ark it was probably dark most of the. Time the
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  Speaker 1: only light came through the opening that ran around the
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  Speaker 1: top just below the. Roof the air was filled with
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  Speaker 1: the sounds and smells of thousands of. Animals lions, roared elephants,
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  Speaker 1: trumpeted birds, chirped and countless other creatures made their various.
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  Speaker 1: Noises but something miraculous was happening inside that floating. Zoo
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  Speaker 1: the animals weren't acting the way they normally, Would predators
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  Speaker 1: weren't hunting. Prey everything was, peaceful just like it had
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  Speaker 1: been when they all walked into the ark. Together god
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  Speaker 1: was supernaturally keeping order among all these different. Creatures noah
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  Speaker 1: and his family had to work hard every. Day the
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  Speaker 1: animals needed food and. Water waste had to be cleaned.
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  Speaker 1: Up with thousands of creatures living in one, space there
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  Speaker 1: was always something that needed. Attention they had to make
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  Speaker 1: sure the elephants had enough to, eat the birds had clean,
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  Speaker 1: water and the smaller animals weren't getting lost or. Hurt
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  Speaker 1: genesis doesn't give us many details about daily life in The,
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  Speaker 1: ark but we can imagine some of the. Challenges how
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  Speaker 1: do you feed a lion without letting it hunt other?
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  Speaker 1: Animals how do you keep thousands of different animals healthy
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  Speaker 1: in close. Quarters how do you deal with the smell
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  Speaker 1: and noise of such a crowded. Space yet through it
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  Speaker 1: All god was taking care of. Them The ark was
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  Speaker 1: perfectly designed for its. Purpose it was big enough to
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  Speaker 1: hold everything and. Everyone it was strong enough to survive
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  Speaker 1: the worst storm in, history and it was sealed well
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  Speaker 1: enough to keep everyone inside safe and. Dry noah's family
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  Speaker 1: must have spent time praying and talking. Together they were
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  Speaker 1: the only humans left, alive and they knew. It the
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  Speaker 1: responsibility they carried was. Enormous when the flood, ended they
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  Speaker 1: would have to start the world over. Again they also
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  Speaker 1: had to live with the knowledge of what was happening
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  Speaker 1: outside every day as they cared for the animals and
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  Speaker 1: maintained their floating. Home they knew that everything they had
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  Speaker 1: ever known was being. Destroyed every place they had ever,
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  Speaker 1: visited every person they had ever, met was gone. Forever
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  Speaker 1: yet they also had. Hope god had saved them for a.
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  Speaker 1: Purpose he had promised to establish his covenant With. Noah
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  Speaker 1: when the water went, down they would step out into a,
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  Speaker 1: clean fresh world and begin. Again after forty, days the
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  Speaker 1: rain finally, stopped but the ark didn't land. Immediately genesis
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  Speaker 1: ate tells us what happened. Next But god Remembered noah
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  Speaker 1: and all the wild animals and the livestock that were
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  Speaker 1: with him in the, ark and he sent a wind
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  Speaker 1: over the, earth and the waters. Receded now the springs
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  Speaker 1: of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been,
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  Speaker 1: closed and the rain From heaven had been. Restrained the
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  Speaker 1: water receded steadily from the. Earth god sent a wind
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  Speaker 1: to help dry up the. Water, slowly very, slowly the
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  Speaker 1: level began to go. Down it had taken forty days
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  Speaker 1: for the water to cover the, earth but it took
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  Speaker 1: much longer for it to go. Away genesis eight point
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  Speaker 1: four records an important. Moment on the seventeenth day of
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  Speaker 1: the seventh, month the ark came to rest on the
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  Speaker 1: mountains of. Aarorat, finally after months of, floating the ark
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  Speaker 1: touched solid ground, again but they still couldn't get. Out
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  Speaker 1: the mountains were still mostly. Underwater noah wanted to know
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  Speaker 1: what was happening, outside so he decided to send out
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  Speaker 1: some birds to. Explore Genesis ate six to seven tells
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  Speaker 1: us after forty, Days noah opened a window he had
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  Speaker 1: made in the ark and sent out a, raven and
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  Speaker 1: it kept flying back and forth until the water had
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  Speaker 1: dried up from the. Earth the raven could fly around
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  Speaker 1: and fine places to, perch but it didn't bring back any,
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  Speaker 1: news So noah tried a different. Bird genesis eight eight
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  Speaker 1: nine describes what. Happened then he sent out a dove
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  Speaker 1: to see if the water had receded from the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the. Ground but the dove could find nowhere to
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  Speaker 1: perch because there was water over all the surface of the,
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  Speaker 1: earth so it returned To noah in the. Ark he
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  Speaker 1: reached out his hand and took the dove and brought
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  Speaker 1: it back to himself in the. Ark the dove was
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  Speaker 1: looking for dry, land but there wasn't any. Yet noah
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  Speaker 1: waited seven more days and sent the dove out. Again
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  Speaker 1: genesis eight ten eleven tells us about this second. Trip
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  Speaker 1: he waited seven more days and again sent out the
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  Speaker 1: dove from the. Ark when the dove returned to him
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  Speaker 1: in the, evening therein its beak was a freshly plucked olive.
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  Speaker 1: Leaf Then noah knew that the water had receded from
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  Speaker 1: the earth an olive. Leaf it was the first sign
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  Speaker 1: of new, life the first proof that plants were growing
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  Speaker 1: again somewhere On. Earth noah must have been so excited
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  Speaker 1: to see that little green. Leaf it meant the world
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  Speaker 1: was coming back to. Life noah waited another seven days
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  Speaker 1: and sent the dove out a third. Time Genesis ate
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  Speaker 1: twelve records he waited seven more days and sent the
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  Speaker 1: dove out, again but this time it did not return to.
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  Speaker 1: Him the dove had found a place to. Live the
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  Speaker 1: earth was, ready But noah was a patient man who
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  Speaker 1: waited For god's. Permission Genesis ate the thirteen to fourteen
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  Speaker 1: shows his careful. Obedience by the first day of the
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  Speaker 1: first month Of noah's six hundred and first, year the
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  Speaker 1: water had dried up from the. Earth noah then removed
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  Speaker 1: the covering from the ark and saw that the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the ground was. Dry by the twenty seventh day
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  Speaker 1: of the second, month the earth was completely. Dry, finally
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  Speaker 1: after more than a year in the, Ark god Gave
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  Speaker 1: noah permission to. Leave genesis eight fifteen sixteen Records god's.
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  Speaker 1: Words Then god said To, noah come out of the,
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  Speaker 1: ark you and your, wife and your sons and their.
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  Speaker 1: Wives When noah and his family stepped out of the,
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  Speaker 1: ark they were looking at a completely different. World genesis
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  Speaker 1: eighth eighteen to nineteen describes the. Moment So noah came
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  Speaker 1: out together with his sons and his wife and his son's.
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  Speaker 1: Wives all the animals and all the creatures that move
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  Speaker 1: along the, ground and all the, birds everything that moves
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  Speaker 1: on land came out of the, ark one kind after.
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  Speaker 1: Another the first Thing noah did wasn't to build a
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  Speaker 1: house or plant a. Garden genesis eight twenty tells. Us
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  Speaker 1: Then noah built an altar to The, lord and taking
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  Speaker 1: some of all the clean animals and clean, birds he
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed burnt offerings on. It noah's first act in the
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  Speaker 1: new world was to Worship god and thank him for.
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  Speaker 1: Salvation this sacrifice was. Important noah took some of the clean.
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  Speaker 1: Animals remember he had brought seven pairs of these instead
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  Speaker 1: of just, two and offered them To. God he was
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  Speaker 1: giving back To god some of the very animals That
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  Speaker 1: god had used to save his. Family god was pleased
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  Speaker 1: With noah's. Sacrifice genesis eight twenty one Records god's. Response
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  Speaker 1: The lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his,
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  Speaker 1: heart never again WILL i curse the ground because of,
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  Speaker 1: humans even though every inclination of the human heart is
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  Speaker 1: evil from. Childhood and never again WILL i destroy all
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  Speaker 1: living creatures AS i have. Done this was an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: promise even Though god knew that people would still, sin
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  Speaker 1: that every inclination of the human heart is evil from.
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  Speaker 1: Childhood he promised never again to destroy the world with a.
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  Speaker 1: Flood he was giving humanity another. Chance genesis eight twenty
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  Speaker 1: two contains one of the most comforting promises in The.
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  Speaker 1: Bible as long as the earth, endures, seed time and,
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  Speaker 1: harvest cold and, heat summer and, winter day and night
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  Speaker 1: will never. Cease god was promising that the basic rhythms
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  Speaker 1: of life would. Continue there would always be, seasons always
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  Speaker 1: be day and, night always be time to plant and
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  Speaker 1: time to. Harvest Then god Gave noah and his family
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  Speaker 1: some important. Instructions genesis nine one to three records his.
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  Speaker 1: Blessing Then god Blessed noah and his, sons said to,
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  Speaker 1: them be, fruitful and increase in, number and fill the.
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  Speaker 1: Earth the fear and dread of you will fall on
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  Speaker 1: all the beasts of the, earth and on all the
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  Speaker 1: birds in the, sky on every creature that moves along the,
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  Speaker 1: ground and on all the fish in the. Sea they
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  Speaker 1: are given into your. Hands everything that lives and moves
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  Speaker 1: about will be food for. You just AS i gave
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  Speaker 1: you the green, PLANTS i now give you. Everything this
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  Speaker 1: was similar to What god had Told adam And, eve
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  Speaker 1: but with some important. Differences now humans could eat, meat
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  Speaker 1: not just, plants and the animals would fear humans instead
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  Speaker 1: of living in perfect harmony with them like they had In.
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  Speaker 1: Eden But god also gave them an important rule about.
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  Speaker 1: Life genesis nine four to six records his. Command but
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  Speaker 1: you must not eat meat that has its life blood
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  Speaker 1: still in. It and for your life, BLOOD i will
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  Speaker 1: surely demand an. ACCOUNTING i will demand an accounting from every,
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  Speaker 1: animal and from each human being. TOO i will demand
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  Speaker 1: an accounting for the life of another human. Being whoever
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  Speaker 1: sheds human blood by humans shall their blood be, shed
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  Speaker 1: for in the image Of god Has god made. Mankind
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  Speaker 1: god was making it clear that life was. Precious animal
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  Speaker 1: life had, value you couldn't just waste, it and human
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  Speaker 1: life was especially sacred because people were made In god's.
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  Speaker 1: Image murder would be punished. Severely Then god made a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful covenant With noah and his. Family genesis nine eleven
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  Speaker 1: to thirteen describes this, PROMISE i establish my covenant with.
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  Speaker 1: You never again will all life be destroyed by the
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  Speaker 1: waters of a. Flood never again will there be a
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  Speaker 1: flood to destroy the. Earth And god, said this is
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  Speaker 1: the sign of the COVENANT i am making between me and,
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  Speaker 1: you and every living creature with, you a covenant for
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  Speaker 1: all jena nations to. COME i have set my rainbow
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  Speaker 1: in the, clouds and it will be the sign of
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  Speaker 1: the covenant between me and the. Earth the rainbow Became
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  Speaker 1: god's promise written across the. Sky every Time noah and
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  Speaker 1: his descendants saw a rainbow after a, storm they would
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  Speaker 1: remember That god had promised never again to destroy the
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  Speaker 1: world with a. Flood it was a sign of, hope
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  Speaker 1: a reminder That god keeps his. Promises genesis nine fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen explains the full. Meaning WHENEVER i bring clouds
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  Speaker 1: over the earth and the rainbow appears in the, CLOUDS
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  Speaker 1: i will remember my covenant between me and you and
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  Speaker 1: all living creatures of every. Kind never again will the
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  Speaker 1: waters become a flood to destroy all. Life whenever the
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  Speaker 1: rainbow appears in the, CLOUDS i will see it and
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  Speaker 1: remember the everlasting covenant Between god and all living creatures
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  Speaker 1: of every kind on the. Earth after all the drama
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  Speaker 1: of the, Flood noah settled down to normal. Life genesis
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  Speaker 1: nine twenty tells Us, noah a man of the, soil
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to plant a. Vineyard he became a, farmer growing
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  Speaker 1: grapes and making. Wine it seems like a peaceful way
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  Speaker 1: to spend his later. Years but then something happened that
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  Speaker 1: shows us that even Righteous noah was still a flawed human.
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  Speaker 1: Being genesis nine twenty one records the incident when he
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  Speaker 1: drank some of its, Wine he became drunk and lay
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: uncovered inside his. Tent noah got drunk and passed out
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  Speaker 1: naked in his. Tent this was embarrassing and shameful, behavior
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  Speaker 1: especially for the man who had been chosen By god
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  Speaker 1: to save the human. Race it reminds us that even
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  Speaker 1: the best people can make serious. Mistakes what happened next
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  Speaker 1: reveals the different characters Of noah's. Sons genesis nine twenty
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  Speaker 1: two twenty three tells the Story, ham the father Of,
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  Speaker 1: canaan saw his father naked and told his two brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Outside But sherm And jayfith took a garment and laid
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  Speaker 1: it across their. Shoulders then they walked in backward and
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  Speaker 1: covered their father's naked. Body their faces were turned the
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  Speaker 1: other way so that they would not see their father.
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  Speaker 1: Naked ham saw his father's, shame and instead of quietly
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  Speaker 1: covering him, up he went and told his brothers about.
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  Speaker 1: It he seemed to find it amusing or, entertaining But
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  Speaker 1: shem And jayfath acted with respect and. Love they covered
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  Speaker 1: their father's nakedness without even looking at, him protecting his
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  Speaker 1: dignity even when he couldn't protect it. Himself When noah
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  Speaker 1: woke up and learned what had, happened his response was
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  Speaker 1: swift and. Serious genesis nine twenty four twenty seven records his.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Words When noah awoke from his wine and found out
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  Speaker 1: what his youngest son had done to, him he, said
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  Speaker 1: cursed Be, canaan the lowest of. Slaves will he be
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  Speaker 1: to his. Brothers he also, said praise be to The,
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  Speaker 1: lord The god Of. Shem May canan be the slave Of.
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  Speaker 1: Shem May god Extend japath's. Territory May jaffath live in
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  Speaker 1: the tents Of, shem and May canaan be the slave Of.
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  Speaker 1: Joffath this curse On Canaan ham's son and blessing On
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  Speaker 1: shem And jaffath would have huge consequences for the. Future
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  Speaker 1: the descendants Of shem would become The jewish, people through
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  Speaker 1: Whom god would work to bless the. World the descendants
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  Speaker 1: Of japith would spread out and become many, nations and
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  Speaker 1: the descendants Of canaan would face judgment for their ancestors disrespectful.
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  Speaker 1: Behavior noah lived three hundred fifty years after the, flood
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  Speaker 1: reaching the impressive age of nine hundred fifty. Years genesis
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: nine twenty eight to twenty nine concludes his. Story after the,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Flood noah live three hundred and fifty. Years noah lived
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  Speaker 1: a total of nine hundred and fifty, years and then he.
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  Speaker 1: Died as the years. Passed noah's sons and their wives
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  Speaker 1: had many, children and their children had, children and the
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  Speaker 1: human population began to grow. Again genesis ten to one
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  Speaker 1: introduces this new. Chapter this is the account Of, Shem,
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  Speaker 1: ham And, Jayphith noah's, sons who themselves had sons after the.
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  Speaker 1: Flood genesis chapter ten gives us what scholars call The
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  Speaker 1: table Of, nations a list of all the different peoples
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  Speaker 1: who descended From noah's three. Sons From shem came The semitic,
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  Speaker 1: peoples including Eventually abraham and The jewish. Nation From ham
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  Speaker 1: came Various african And Middle eastern. Peoples From jayphith came
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  Speaker 1: many of the peoples who would spread Across europe And.
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  Speaker 1: Asia but at first everyone stayed together in one. Place
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  Speaker 1: genesis eleven one to two tells us now the whole
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  Speaker 1: world had one language and a common. Speech as people moved,
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  Speaker 1: eastward they found a plane In shinar and settled. There
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  Speaker 1: having one language meant everyone could understand each other. Perfectly
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  Speaker 1: there were no communication, barriers no cultural. Misunderstandings they all
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  Speaker 1: worked together as one big human. Family but instead of
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  Speaker 1: spreading out across the, earth As god had commanded them to,
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  Speaker 1: do they decided to stay together and build something. Impressive
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  Speaker 1: genesis eleven three to four records their. Plan they said
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  Speaker 1: to each, other, come let's make bricks and bake them.
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  Speaker 1: Thoroughly they used brick instead of stone and tar for.
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  Speaker 1: Mortar then they, said, come let us build ourselves a
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  Speaker 1: city with a tower that reaches to the, heavens so
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  Speaker 1: that we may make a name for. Ourselves otherwise we
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  Speaker 1: will be scattered over the face of the whole. Earth
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  Speaker 1: this tower wasn't just about. Architecture it was a pride and.
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  Speaker 1: Rebellion they wanted to make a name for. Themselves instead
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  Speaker 1: of Honoring god's, name they wanted to stay. Together instead
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  Speaker 1: of filling the earth As god had, commanded they were
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  Speaker 1: trying to Reach heaven through their own efforts instead of
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  Speaker 1: depending On. God god saw what they were, doing and
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  Speaker 1: he knew where it would. Lead genesis eleven five six
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  Speaker 1: shows his. Concern but The lord came down to see
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  Speaker 1: the city and the tower the people were. Building The lord,
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  Speaker 1: said if as one people speaking the same, language they
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  Speaker 1: have begun to do, this then nothing they plan to
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  Speaker 1: do will be impossible for. Them when people work together
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  Speaker 1: in rebellion Against, god there's no limit to the evil
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: they can. Accomplish god had seen this before the, flood
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  Speaker 1: and he wasn't going to let it happen. Again So
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  Speaker 1: god did something that completely stopped their. Project genesis eleven
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  Speaker 1: seven to eight describes his, Action, come let us go
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  Speaker 1: down and confuse their language so they will not understand each.
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  Speaker 1: Other so the lords scattered them from there over all the,
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  Speaker 1: earth and they stopped building the. City, suddenly the construction
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  Speaker 1: workers couldn't understand each, other the architects couldn't explain their.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Plans families couldn't communicate with their. Neighbors confusion and frustration
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: replaced co operation and. Progress genesis eleven nine explains the.
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  Speaker 1: Result that is why it was called, babel because there
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  Speaker 1: The lord confused the language of the whole. World from,
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  Speaker 1: there The lord scattered them over the face of the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Earth the word babel sounds like The hebrew word for.
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  Speaker 1: Confused what had started as a proud human achievement became
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: a symbol of confusion and. Failure the tower was never,
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  Speaker 1: finished and the people were forced to spread out across the,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: world forming different nations with different. Languages this scattering wasn't just,
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  Speaker 1: Punishment it was also protection by dividing humanity into smaller
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: groups with different. Languages god was preventing them from uniting
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  Speaker 1: in rebellion against him. Again he was also fulfilling his
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  Speaker 1: original command to fill the, earth even though they had
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  Speaker 1: tried to resist. It story Of babel shows us that
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  Speaker 1: human pride and rebellion will always fail in the. End
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  Speaker 1: people may try to build their own way To, heaven
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: make their own names, great and Resist god's, plans But
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: god's purposes will ultimately be. Accomplished the earth would be
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  Speaker 1: filled with, people just as he had always, intended even
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: if it happened through judgment rather than. Obedience after the
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: confusion At babel scattered people across the, earth most of
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: humanity forgot about the one True. God they began worshiping
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  Speaker 1: idols made of wood and, stone serving false gods that
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see or hear or help. Them But god hadn't
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  Speaker 1: forgotten his plan to bless the world through a special.
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  Speaker 1: Family in the city Of ur of The, chaldeans there
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  Speaker 1: lived a man Named. Abram his father Was, terra and
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  Speaker 1: he had two, Brothers nehor And. Haran genesis eleven twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven to twenty eight tells us about their. Family this
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  Speaker 1: is the account Of terra's family. Line terra became the
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  Speaker 1: father Of abram neahor And. Haran And haran became the
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  Speaker 1: father Of lot while his Father terra was still. Alive
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  Speaker 1: haran died In ur of The. Chaldeans in the land
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  Speaker 1: of his. Birth herb was a, wealthy sophisticated city with
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: impressive buildings and advanced. Technology the people there worshiped the
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Moon god and other false. Deities abram grew up surrounded
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: by idle, worship just like everyone else in his. Culture
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: his family probably had their own household gods that they prayed.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: To it. Served but then something incredible. Happened The True,
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  Speaker 1: god the creator of heaven And, earth spoke directly To.
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  Speaker 1: Abram genesis twelve one to three records this life changing.
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  Speaker 1: Moment The lord had said To, abram go from your,
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  Speaker 1: country your, people and your father's household to the LAND
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  Speaker 1: i will show. YOU i will make you into a great,
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  Speaker 1: nation AND i will bless. YOU i will make your name,
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  Speaker 1: great and you will be a. BLESSING i will bless
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  Speaker 1: those who bless, you and whoever curses, YOU i will,
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  Speaker 1: curse and all peoples on earth will be blessed through.
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  Speaker 1: You think about What god was Asking abram to. Do
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  Speaker 1: leave everything, familiar his, country his extended, family his father's,
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  Speaker 1: house go to a Place god hadn't even named, yet
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  Speaker 1: trust completely in promises that seemed. Impossible abram was seventy
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  Speaker 1: five years old and his Wife, sarahi was. Barren how
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  Speaker 1: could he become a great nation when he didn't even have.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Children But abram Believed. God genesis twelve four to five
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: shows his immediate. Obedience So abram went as The lord
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  Speaker 1: had told, him And lot went with. Him abram was
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  Speaker 1: seventy five years old when he set out From. Haran
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  Speaker 1: he took his Wife, sarai his Nephew, lot all the
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  Speaker 1: possessions they had, accumulated and the people they had acquired In,
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  Speaker 1: haran and they set out for the land Of. Canaan
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: and they arrived there noticed That abram had already started this.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Journey his Father terror had begun moving the family Toward,
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  Speaker 1: canaan but had stopped In, haran where he. Died Now
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: god was Calling abram to finish what his father had.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Started the journey From haran Two canaan was long and.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Dangerous there were no, maps no, hotels no gas. Stations
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: they traveled with their flocks and, herds their, servants and.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Belongings moving slowly across unfor familiar. Territory they had to
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  Speaker 1: find water for their, animals grass for, grazing and safe
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: places to camp each. Night when they finally Reached, Canaan
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  Speaker 1: genesis twelve six seven tells us what. Happened abram traveled
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  Speaker 1: through the land as far as the sight of The
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  Speaker 1: Great tree Of more At. Shechem at that, time The
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  Speaker 1: canaanites were in the. Land The lord appeared To abram and,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: said to your, OFFSPRING i will give this. Land so
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  Speaker 1: he built an altar there to The lord who had
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: appeared to. Him this was the first Time god specifically
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: identified the promised. Land he pointed To canaan and, said
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: this is. It this is where your descendants will. Live
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: but there was a. Problem The canaanites already lived. There
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: the land was already occupied by other. People how Could
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: god give it To abram's. Offspring abram didn't argue or.
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  Speaker 1: Complain he built an altar and Worshiped, god trusting that,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: somehow some, Way god would keep his. Promise this act
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: of worship was also a public. Declaration anyone who saw
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: that altar knew That abram served The, lord not the local.
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  Speaker 1: Gods As abram continued living In, Canaan god spoke to
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: him again with even more specific. Promises genesis thirteen fourteen
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: to seventeen records this. Conversation The lord said To, abram
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  Speaker 1: After lot had parted from, him look around from where you,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: are to the north and, south to the east and.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: West all the land that you, SEE i will give
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  Speaker 1: to you and your offspring. FOREVER i will make your
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: offspring like the dust of the, earth so that if
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: anyone could count the, dust then your offspring could be.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Counted go walk through the length and breadth of the,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: land FOR i am giving it to. You god Told
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: abram to look in every direction, north, south, east. West
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: everything he could see would belong to his, descendants and
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: those descendants would be, countless like dust particles that no
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: one could. Number this was an amazing promise for a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: man who still had no. Children But abram was getting
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: older and he began to worry about How god's promises
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: could come. True genesis fifteen one to three shows his honest.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Concern after, this the word of The lord came To
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: abram in a. Vision do not be, Afraid, ABRAM i
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: am your, shield your very great. Reward But abram, Said Sovereign,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: lord what can you give? Me SINCE i remain, childless
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: and the one who will inherit my estate Is eliezer Of.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Damascus And abram, said you have given me no, children
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: so a servant in my household will be my. Heir
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: abram was being practical according to the customs of his.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Time if a man had no, sons his chief servant
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: would inherit. Everything abram's, Servant, eliezer was a good, man
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: but he wasn't the Child god had. Promised god's response
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: was immediate and. Clear genesis fifteen four five records his.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Words then the word of The lord came to, Him
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: this man will not be your, heir but a son
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: who is your own flesh and blood will be your.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Heir he took him outside and, said look up at
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the sky and count the. Stars if indeed you can count,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: them then he said to, him so shall your offspring
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: be standing under the star filled. Sky abram Heard god
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: promise that his own biological son would be his, heir
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: and that his descendants would be as numerous as the.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Stars genesis fifteen six tells Us abram's. Response abram believed
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: The lord and he credited it to him as. Righteousness
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: this verse is incredibly. Important abram wasn't made right With
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: god because of his good works or religious. Ceremonies he
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: was declared righteous simply because he Believed god's. Promise his,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: faith not his, actions made him acceptable To. God But
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: god wasn't. Finished he wanted to make a formal covenant With,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: abram so he told him to prepare a special. Ceremony
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: genesis fifteen nine to ten describes the. Preparation so The
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: lord said to, him bring me a, heifer a, goat
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: and a, ram each three years, old along with a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: dove and a young. Pigeon abram brought all these to,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: him cut them in, two and arranged the halves opposite each.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: Other the, birds, however he did not cut in. Half
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: this was how covenants were made in ancient. Times both
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: parties would walk between the pieces of sacrificed, animals essentially,
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  Speaker 1: saying MAY i be torn apart like these animals IF
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: i break this. Agreement but something amazing happened in this.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Ceremony genesis fifteen twelve seventeen to eighteen tells us as
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: the sun was, Setting abram fell into a deep. Sleep
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: and a thick and dreadful darkness came over. Him when
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the sun had set and darkness had, fallen a smoking
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the.
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  Speaker 1: Pieces on that, day The lord made a covenant With
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: abram and, said to your, DESCENDANTS i give this land
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  Speaker 1: from the wady Of egypt to the great river The.
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  Speaker 1: Euphrates Only god passed between the. Pieces abram was. Asleep
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: this Meant god was taking full responsibility for keeping the.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Covenant he was, saying even If abram, fails even if
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: his descendants, FAIL i will keep my. Promises the smoking
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: firepot and blazing torch Represented god's, presence and he alone
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: walked through the. Sacrifice, Later god would make this covenant
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: even more. Personal genesis seventeen three five records another. Conversation
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  Speaker 1: abram fell face, down And god said to, him as for,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: me this is my covenant with. You you will be
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  Speaker 1: the father of many. Nations no longer will you be Called.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Abram your name will Be, abraham FOR i have made
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  Speaker 1: you a father of many. Nations god Changed abram's name To.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Abraham abram meant exalted, father But abraham meant father of many.
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  Speaker 1: Nations every time someone called his, Name abraham would be
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: reminded Of god's promise he would be the father not
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: just of one, nation but of many. Nations years passed
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: And abraham still had no. Children, sarah whose name had
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: also been changed FROM, sarahi was well past child bearing.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Age she began to doubt That god's promise would come through,
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  Speaker 1: her so she came up with her own. Plan genesis
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: sixteen one two tells us About sarah's. Idea, Now, Sarai abram's,
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  Speaker 1: wife had borne him no, children but she had An
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: egyptian slave Named. Hagar so she said To, abram The
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: lord has kept me from having, Children go sleep with my.
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  Speaker 1: Slave PERHAPS i can build a family through. Her abram
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  Speaker 1: agreed to What sarai. Said this was a common practice
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: in their. Culture if the wife couldn't have, children she
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: could give her servant to her, husband and any children
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  Speaker 1: born would legally belong to the. Wife sarah thought this
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: might be How god intended to fulfill his, promise but
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: this plan created huge. Problems genesis sixteen forty five describes what.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: Happened he slept With, hagar and she. Conceived when she
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: knew she was, pregnant she began to despise her. Mistress,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: THEN sirrii said To, abram you are responsible for the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: WRONG i am. SUFFERING i put my slave in your,
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  Speaker 1: arms and now that she knows she is, pregnant she despises.
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  Speaker 1: Me may The lord judge between you and. Me hagar
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  Speaker 1: became proud and disrespectful Towards. Sarah once she was, Pregnant
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: sarah became jealous and. Angry abraham found himself caught in
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: the middle of a conflict between his wife and the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: mother of his. Child abraham's response wasn't very. Helpful genesis
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: sixteen six records his, words your slave is in your.
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  Speaker 1: Hands abram, said do with her whatever you think. Best
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  Speaker 1: sarah Treated hagar so harshly that she ran away into the.
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  Speaker 1: Desert But god cared About, hagar even though she was
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  Speaker 1: just a. Servant genesis sixteen seventy eleven tells us About god's.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: Intervention The angel of The lord Found hagar near a
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: spring in the. Desert it was the spring that is
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: beside the road To sher and he, Said, hagar slave Of,
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  Speaker 1: sarai where have you come from and where are you?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Going i'm running away from my, MISTRESS, sarahi she. Answered
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  Speaker 1: then The angel of the Law lord told, her go
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: back to your mistress and submit to. Her the angel,
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  Speaker 1: ADDED i will increase your descendants so much that they
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: will be too numerous to. Count The angel of The
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  Speaker 1: lord also said to, her you are now, pregnant and
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: you will give birth to a. Son you shall name Him.
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  Speaker 1: Ishmael for The lord has heard of your. Misery god
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Promised hagar that her son would also become the father
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  Speaker 1: of a great. Nation the Name ishmael Meant god, hears
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  Speaker 1: Because god had Heard hagar's cry for help in her.
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  Speaker 1: Distress genesis sixteen fifteen to sixteen concludes this part of the.
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  Speaker 1: Story So hagar Bore abram a, son And abram gave
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  Speaker 1: the Name ishmael to the son she had. Born abram
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: was eighty six years old When hagar bore Him. Ishmael
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: abraham finally had a, son but this wasn't the Son
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: god had. Promised ishmael was born through human planning and,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: effort not Through god's miraculous. Power abraham Loved ishmael and
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: probably thought this was How god intended to fulfill his.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Promise But god had a different. Plan thirteen years passed
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: After ishmael's. Birth abraham was now ninety nine years old
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: And sarah was eighty. Nine by any human, standard it
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: was impossible for them to have. Children But god appeared
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: To abraham again with an amazing. Announcement genesis seventeen fifteen
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to sixteen Records god's. Words god also said To, abraham
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: as For, sarai your, wife you are no longer to
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: call Her, sarai her name will Be. SARAH i will
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: bless her and will surely give you a son by.
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  Speaker 1: HER i will bless her so that she will be
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: the mother of. Nations kings of peoples will come from.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Her abraham's reaction shows how impossible this. Seemed genesis seventeen
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  Speaker 1: seventeen tells Us abraham fell face. Down he laughed and
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: said to, himself will a son be born to a
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: man a hundred years? Old Will sarah bear a child
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: at the age of Ninety abraham, laughed not from, joy
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: but from. Disbelief the idea seemed so ridiculous that he
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: couldn't help but. Laugh he even suggested To god That
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: ishmael could be the promised, son But god was clear
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: about his. Plan genesis seventeen nineteen records his. Response Then god, said,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: yes but your Wife sarah will bear you a, son
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: and you will call Him. ISAAC i will establish my
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Him the Name isaac meant, laughter which was perfect considering
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Both abraham And sarah's reactions To god's. Promise, later when
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: three visitors came To abraham's, tent they repeated this. Promise
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: genesis eighteen ten tells us the one of them, SAID
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: i will surely return to you about this time next,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: year And, sarah your, wife will have a. Son, Now
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: sarah was listening at the entrance to the, tent which
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: was behind. Him sarah's reaction was just like her. Husband's
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: genesis eighteen to twelve two to thirteen Records So sarah
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  Speaker 1: laughed to, herself as she, thought AFTER i am worn
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: out and my lord is, old WILL i now have this?
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Pleasure then The lord said To, abraham why Did sarah
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: laugh and? Say WILL i really have a child now
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  Speaker 1: That i'm? Old when confronted about her, Laughter sarah was
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: afraid and denied, it but the visitor knew she had.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Laughed genesis eighteen fourteen contains one of the most powerful
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: questions in The, Bible is anything too hard for The?
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  Speaker 1: LORD i will return to you at the appointed time next,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: year And sarah will have a, son exactly As god had.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: Promised sarah became. Pregnant genesis twenty one one describes the. Miracle,
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  Speaker 1: now The lord was gracious To sarah as he had,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: said and The lord did For sarah what he had.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: Promised sarah became pregnant and bore a son To abraham
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  Speaker 1: in his old, age at the very Time god had promised.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: Him abraham gave the Name isaac to the Son sarah bore.
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  Speaker 1: Him isaac's birth was completely. Miraculous sarah was far too
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: old to have children. Naturally this baby was born entirely
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Through god's, power proving that nothing is impossible With. God
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  Speaker 1: genesis twenty one sixty seven Shows sarah's. Joy sarah, Said
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: god has brought me, laughter and everyone who hears about
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: this will laugh with. Me and she, added who would
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: have said To abraham That sarah would nurse? Children YET
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: i have borne him a son in his old. Age
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: the laughter that had once expressed doubt and disbelief expressed
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: pure joy and. Amazement god had done the, impossible And
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: sarah couldn't contain her. Happiness isaac grew up as the
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  Speaker 1: beloved son of. Promise he was Everything abraham had hoped
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: for and. More but Then god Asked abraham to do
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: something that seemed to contradict everything he had. Promised genesis
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: twenty two one to two records this shocking. Command some time,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Later god Tested. Abraham he said to, Him, abraham HERE i,
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  Speaker 1: am he. Replied Then god, said take your, son your only,
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  Speaker 1: son whom you, Love, isaac and go to the region Of.
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  Speaker 1: Mariah sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: MOUNTAIN i will show. You this was the ultimate test
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: Of abraham's. Faith god was asking him to sacrifice the very,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: sun through whom all the promises were supposed to be.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: Fulfilled If isaac, died how could he become the father
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: of many? Nations how Could abraham's descendants be as numerous
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: as the? Stars but notice How god Described, isaac your,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: son your only, son whom you. Love god knew how
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: Much isaac meant To. Abraham this wasn't a casual. Request
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: it was Asking abraham to give up the most precious
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: thing in his. Life abraham's response is. Incredible genesis twenty
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: two three simply, says early the next, Morning abraham got
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: up and loaded his. Donkey he took with him two
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: of his servants and his Son. Isaac when he had
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: cut enough wood for the burnt, offering he set out
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: for the Place god had told him. About abraham didn't
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: argue or. Delay he got up early the next morning
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: and prepared to Obey, god even though it meant sacrificing
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: his beloved. Son this shows the depth of his faith
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: and trust In. God the journey To Mount mariah took three.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Days can you imagine what those three days were like For.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Abraham every step took him closer to the moment when
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: he would have to Sacrifice. Isaac every conversation with his
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: son must have been, painful knowing what lay. Ahead when
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: they reached the, Mountain abraham made his. Preparations genesis twenty
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: two six eight describes the. Scene abraham took the wood
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: for the burnt offering and placed it on his Son,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: isaac and he himself carried the fire and the. Knife
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: as the two of them went on, Together isaac spoke
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: up and said to his Father, Abraham, father, yes my,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: Son abraham, replied the fire and wood are. Here isaac,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: said but where is the lamb for the burnt? Offering abraham,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: Answered god himself will provide the lamb for the burnt
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: offering my, son and the two of them went on.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Together isaac's innocent question must have Broken abraham's, heart But
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: abraham's answer showed his Faith god himself will. Provide he
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: believed that, somehow some, Way god would work everything. Out
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: at the top of the, Mountain abraham built an altar
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: and arranged the. Wood then came the hardest moment of.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: All genesis twenty Two sad nine to ten tells us
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: when they reached the Place god had told him. About
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: It he bound his Son isaac and laid him on
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: the altar on top of the. Wood then he reached
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: out his hand and took the knife to sacrifice his.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: Son abraham was actually going to do. It he had
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: tied Up isaac and placed him on the. Altar he
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: raised the, knife ready to plunge it into his son's.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: Heart this wasn't just a show of. Faith abraham was
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: completely committed to Obeying. God no matter how much it cost.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Him but at the last possible, Second god. Intervened jenesis
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: twenty two eleven to twelve records the dramatic. Rescue but
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: The angel of The lord called out to him from. Heaven, Abraham,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: abraham HERE i, am he, Replied do not lay a
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: hand on the. Boy he, said do not do anything to.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: Him NOW i know that you Fear, god because you
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: have not withheld from me your, son your only. Son
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: god Stopped abraham just in. Time this had been a,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: test And abraham had passed with flying. Colors he had
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: proven that he loved and Trusted god more than anything
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: else in the, world even his beloved. Son genesis twenty
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: two thirteen Shows god's. Provision abraham looked, up and there
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: Horns he went over and took the ram and sacrificed
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: it as a burnt offering instead of his. Son god
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: had provided a, substitute just As abraham had said he.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: Would the ram died instead Of, isaac Showing god's mercy and.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: Provision because Of abraham's incredible, Faith god renewed his promises
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: with even stronger. Language genesis twenty, two sixteen and eighteen
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: Records god's, OATH i swear by, myself declares The lord
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: that because you have done this and have not withheld your,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: son your only, SON i will surely bless you and
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: sky and as the sand on the sea. Shore your
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: descendants will take possession of the cities of their, enemies
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: and through your, offspring all nations on earth will be
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: blessed because you have obeyed. Me after the dramatic events
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: At Mount, moriah life returned to normal For abraham's, family
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: but as the years, Passed sarah grew old and eventually.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: Died genesis twenty three one two records this sad. Moment
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: sarah lived to be one hundred and twenty seven years.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Old she died At Kiriath, arbor that, Is hebron in
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: the land Of, canaan And abraham went to mourn For
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: sarah and to weep over. Her sarah had lived an incredible.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Life she had Seen god's miraculous power When isaac was.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: Born she had watched her son grow up strong and.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Healthy she had been part Of god's great plan to
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: bless all. Nations Through abraham's. Family but Now abraham faced
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: a practical. Problem he needed a place to bury his,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: wife but he was still a foreigner In. Canaan he
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: didn't own any land except What god had promised, him
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: and that promise was for the, future not the. Present
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: genesis twenty three three four Shows abraham's request to the local.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: People Then abraham rose from beside his dead wife and
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: spoke to The. Hittites he, SAID i am a foreigner
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: and stranger among. You sell me some property for a
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: burial sight here SO i can bury my Dead The
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: hittites Respected abraham and offered to give him any burial
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: sight he, wanted But abraham insisted on paying full price
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: for a field that contained a. Cave genesis twenty three
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen describes the transaction So ephron's field In machpela Near.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Mamree both the field and the cave in, it and
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: all the trees within the borders of the field was
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: deeded To abraham as his property in the presence of
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: all The hittites who had come to the gate of the.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: City this cave became the family burial Place, Abraham, Isaac,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: jacob and their wives would all be buried. There it
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: was the first peace of The Promised land That abraham actually.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: Owned After sarah's, Death abraham realized he needed to find
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: a wife For, isaac but he didn't Want isaac to
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: marry one of the Local canaanite women who worshiped false.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: Gods genesis twenty four one to four Shows abraham's Conc
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: abraham was now very, old and The lord had blessed
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: him in every. Way he said to the senior servant
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: in his, household the one in charge of all that he,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: had put your hand under my. THIGH i want you
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: to swear by The, lord The god Of heaven and
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: The god of The, earth that you will not get
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: a wife for my son from the daughters of The,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: canaanites among WHOM i am, living but will go to
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: my country and my own relatives and get a wife
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: for my Son. Isaac abraham sent his trusted servant on
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: a long journey back To, mesopotamia where his relatives still.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: Lived the servant took ten camels loaded with gifts and
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: set out to find the right woman For. Isaac when
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: the servant reached the city Where abraham's relatives, lived he
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: prayed For god's. Guidance genesis twenty four twelve to fourteen
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: records his. Prayer then he, Prayed Lord god of my Master,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: abraham make me successful to day and show kindness to
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: my Master. Abraham SEE i am standing beside this, spring
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Water may it be that WHEN i say to a young,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: woman please let down your jar THAT i may have a,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: drink and she, says, drink And i'll water your camels.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Too let her be the one you have chosen for your, Servant.
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  Speaker 1: Isaac before he had even finished, praying a beautiful young
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: woman Named rebeccah came to the. Well genesis twenty four
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty describes what. Happened she, said, drink my,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: lord and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: gave him a. Drink after she had given him a,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: drink she, Said i'll draw water for your camels, too
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: until they have had enough to. Drink so she quickly
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: emptied her jar into the, trough ran back to the
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: well to draw more, water and drew enough for all his.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: Camels this was exactly what the servant had prayed. For
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: rebecca not only gave him, war but also volunteered to
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: water all ten, camels a huge job that showed her
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: kind and generous. Heart when the servant learned That rebecca
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: Was abraham's great, niece he Knew god had answered his.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: Prayer after explaining his mission to her family and receiving their,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Permission rebeccah agreed to return with him to Marry. Isaac
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: genesis twenty four sixty two sixty seven describes their first. Meeting,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: Now isaac had come from beer Lahi, roi for he
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: was living in The. Negev he went out to the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: field one evening to, meditate and as he looked, up
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: he saw camels. Approaching rebecca also looked up and Saw.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: Isaac she got down from her camel and asked the,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: servant who is that man in the field coming to meet?
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: Us he is my, master the servant, Answered so she
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: took her veil and covered. Herself then the servant Old
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: isaac all he had. Done isaac brought her into the
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: tent of his, Mother, sarah and he Married. Rebeccah so
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: she became his, wife and he loved, her And isaac
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: was comforted after his mother's. Death isaac And rebecca were happy,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: together but for many years they had no. Children like
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: his father before, Him isaac had to wait and Trust god's.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: Timing genesis twenty five twenty twenty one tells Us isaac
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: was forty years old when he Married, rebeccah daughter Of
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: bethuel The aramian From, Paddan aram and sister Of laban The.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: Aramian isaac prayed to The lord on behalf of his
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: wife because she was. Childless The lord answered his prayer
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: and his, Wife, rebeccah became, pregnant but this pregnancy was
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: different from. Most jenesis twenty five twenty two Describes rebeccah's unusual.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: Experience the babies jostled each other within, her and she,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: said why is this happening to? Me so she went
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: to inquire of The. Lord the babies were fighting inside the.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: Womb this Troubled rebecca so much that she went to
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: Ask god what was. Happening god's answer was. Startling genesis
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: twenty five twenty three records his. Prophecy The lord said to,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: her two nations are in your, womb and two peoples
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: from within you will be. Separated one people will be
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: stronger than the, other and the older will serve the.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: Younger god was Telling rebecca that her twins would become
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: the fathers of two different, nations and that these nations
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: would always be in. Conflict even more, surprising the younger
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: son would become greater than the older, son the opposite
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: of what usually happened in those. Days when the twins were,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: born they were as different as could. Be genesis twenty
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: five twenty four to twenty six describes their. Birth when
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: the time came for her to give, birth there were
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: twin boys in her. Womb the first to come out was,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: red and his whole body was like a hairy, garment
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  Speaker 1: so they named Him esau after. This his brother came
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: out with his hand Grasping esau's, heel so he was Named.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: Jacob isaac was sixty years old When rebecca gave birth to.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: Them esau came out, first covered with red. Hair his
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: name meant. Hairy jacob came out holding on To esau's
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: heel as if he was trying to pull his brother
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: back and be born first. Himself jacob meant heel grabber or,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: supplanter someone who takes another person's. Place as the boys grew,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: up their differences became even more. Obvious genesis twenty five
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: to twenty, seven twenty eight tells us the boys grew,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: up And esau became a skillful, hunter a man of
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: the open, country While jacob was content to stay at
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: home among the. Tents, isaac who had a taste for wild,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: game Loved, esau But rebecca Loved. Jacob esau was an
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: outdoorsman who loved hunting and. Adventure jacob preferred staying home
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: and was probably more intellectual and. Thoughtful, unfortunately their parents
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: each had a favorite, son which created tension in the.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Family this favoritism led to a shocking incident that would change.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Everything genesis twenty five twenty nine thirty four records what
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: happened once When jacob was cooking some, Stew esau came
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: in from the open. Country, famished he said To, jacob,
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: quick let me have some of that red. Stew i'm.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: Famished jacob, replied, first sell me your. Birthright, LOOK i
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: am about to. Die esau, said what good is the
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: birthright to? Me But jacob, said swear to me, first
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: so he swore an oath to, him selling his birthright To.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: Jacob Then jacob Gave esau some bread and some lentil.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: Stew he ate and and then got up and. Left
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: So esau despised his. Birthright the birthright was incredibly. Valuable
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: as the first, Born esau was entitled to a double
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: portion of his father's inheritance and would become the head
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: of the family After isaac. Died but when he was
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: hungry and tired from, hunting he traded it all away
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: for a bowl of. Stew this shows us the different
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: values of the two. Brothers esau lived for the moment
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: and didn't think about the. Future jacob understood the importance
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: of spiritual things and was willing to plan and scheme
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: to get. Them years past And isaac grew old and,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: blind according to, custom it was time for him to
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: give his special blessing to his firstborn. Son this blessing
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: was more than just nice. Words it was believed to
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: have real power and would determine the future of both.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: Sons genesis twenty seven one four discs Scribes isaac's. Plan
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: When isaac was old and his eyes were so weak
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: that he could no longer, see he called For, esau
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: his older, son and said to, him my, son HERE i.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: Am he Answered isaac, SAID i am now an old
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: man and don't know the day of my. Death, now
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: then get your, equipment your quiver and, bow and go
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: out to the open country to hunt some wild game for.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: Me prepare me the kind of tasty FOOD i, like
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: and bring it to me to, eat so THAT i
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: may give you my blessing BEFORE i. Die isaac wanted
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: to eat his favorite meal before Giving esau the, blessing
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: But rebecca overheard this conversation and she had other. Plans
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: genesis twenty seven six to ten shows her. Scheme rebeccah
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: said to her Son, jacob, LOOK i overheard your father
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: say to your Brother, esau bring me some game and
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: prepare me some tasty food to, eat so THAT i
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: may give you my blessing in the presence of The
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: lord BEFORE i. Die, now my, son listen carefully and
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: do WHAT i tell. You go out to the flock
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: and bring me two choice young goats SO i can
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: prepare some tasty food for your, father just the way
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: he likes. It then take it to your father to,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: eat so that he may give ee you his blessing
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: before he. Dies rebecca Remembered god's prophecy that the older
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: would serve the. Younger she Believed jacob was supposed to
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: receive the, blessing and she was willing to use deception
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: to make sure it. Happened jacob was worried about getting.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: Caught genesis twenty seven eleven to twelve shows his. Concern
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: jacob said To, rebeccah his, mother but my Brother esau
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: is a hairy, man WHILE i have smooth. Skin what
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: if my father touches, ME i would appear to be
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: rather than a. Blessing But rebeccah had thought of. Everything
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: she put goat skins On jacob's hand and neck to
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: make them feel hairy Like. Esau's she dressed him In
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: esau's clothes so he would smell like his. Brother then
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: she prepared the meal and Sent jacob to his. Father
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: the deception, worked but. Barely genesis twenty seven twenty one
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: twenty three describes the tense. Moment Then isaac said To,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: jacob come near SO i can touch, you my, son
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: to know whether you really are my Son esau or.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Not jacob went close to his Father, isaac who touched
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: him and said the voice is the voice Of, jacob
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: but the hands are the hands Of. Esau he did
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: not recognize, him for his hands were, hairy like those
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: of his Brother, esau so he blessed. Him isaac was
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: suspicious Because jacob's voice sounded, wrong but the hairy hands convinced.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Him genesis twenty seven twenty seven to twenty nine records the.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: Blessing so he came near and kissed. Him When isaac
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: caught the smell of his, clothes he blessed him and, Said,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: ah the smell of my son is like the smell
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: of a field that The lord has. Blessed May god
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: give You heaven's due And earth's, richness an abundance of
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: grain and new. Wine may nations serve, you and peoples
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: bow down to. You Be lord over your, brothers and
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: may the sons of your mother bow down to. You
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: may those who curse you be, cursed and those who
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: bless you be. Blest jacob had received the blessing meant
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: for the first, born but almost immediately disaster. Struck genesis
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: twenty seven thirty thirty two tells us After isaac finished blessing,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: him And jacob had scarcely left his father's, presence his
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: Brother esau came in from. Hunting he, too prepared some
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: tasty food and brought it to his. Father then he
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: said to, him my, father please sit up and eat
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: some of my, game so that you may give me your.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: Blessing his, Father, isaac asked, him who are? YOU i
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: am your, Son he, answered your first, Born. Esau the
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: truth came out. Immediately isaac realized he had been, tricked
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: And esau discovered that his blessing had been. Stolen genesis
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: twenty seven thirty four Shows esau's. Anguish When esau heard
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: his father's, words he burst out with a loud and
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: bitter cry and said to his, father bless me me,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: too my, Father but it was too. Late in those,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: days a blessing couldn't be taken back once it was.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: Given isaac could Give esau another, blessing but the most
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: important one was gone. Forever esau was furious and began
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: planning his. Revenge genesis twenty seven forty one records his.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: Intention esau held a grudge Against jacob because of the
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: blessing his father had given. Him he said to, himself
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: the days of mourning for my father. Near THEN i
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: will kill my Brother. Jacob esau was planning to wait
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: Until isaac, died then Murder. Jacob When rebeccah heard about this,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: threat she Knew jacob had to leave. Immediately jenesis twenty
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: seven forty two to forty three shows her urgent. Warning
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: When rebecca was told what her older Son esau had,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: said she sent for her younger Son jacob and said to,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: him your Brother esau is planning to avenge himself by killing. You,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: now then my, son do WHAT i. Say flee at
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: once to my Brother laban In. Haron But rebecca was.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: Clever instead of just Telling isaac That jacob was running
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: for his, life she gave a different reason for the.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: Journey genesis twenty seven forty six records her. Complaint, Then
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: rebeccah said To, Isaac i'm disgusted with living because of
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: These hittite. Women If jacob takes a wife from among
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: the women of this, land From hittite women like, these
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: my life will not be worth. Living this was a smart.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: Approach isaac was already concerned About jacob marrying local women
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: who didn't Worship, god just As abraham had been concerned
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: About isaac's. Marriage So isaac Called jacob and gave him
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: instructions for the. Journey genesis twenty eight one four Records
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: isaac's blessing and. Command So isaac called For jacob and blessed.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: Him then he commanded, him do not marry A canaanite.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: Woman go at once To Padan, aram to the house
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: of your mother's, Father. Bethuel take a wife for yourself
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: there from among the daughters Of, laban your mother's. Brother
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: May God almighty bless you and make you, fruitful and
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: increase your numbers until you become a community of. Peoples
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: May he give you and your descendants the blessing given To,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: abraham so that you may take possession of the land
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: where you now reside as a, foreigner the Land god
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: gave To. Abraham isaac was passing on the covenant promises To.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: Jacob despite the deception involved in getting the, Blessing isaac
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: recognized That god's plan was For jacob to carry on
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: the family line and inherit the promises made To. Abraham
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: So jacob left, home fleeing from his angry brother and
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: heading toward an uncertain future in a foreign. Land he
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: had gotten what he. Wanted the birthright and the, blessing
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: but now he had to pay the. Price he was
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: leaving behind everything familiar and didn't know if he would
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: ever see his family. Again jacob left his family home
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: with nothing but the clothes on his back and his father's.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: Blessing he was running for his, life heading Toward, haran
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: where his Uncle laban lived hundreds of miles. Away as
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: he walked alone across the, wilderness he must have won
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: if he had made the right. Choices he had the
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: blessing he, wanted but at what. Cost on his first
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: night away from, home something incredible. Happened genesis twenty eight
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: ten eleven tells Us jacob Left biersheba and set out For.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: Harn when he reached a certain, place he stopped for
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: the night because the sun had. Set taking one of
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: the stones, there he put it under his head and
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: lay down to. Sleep jacob was completely alone in the,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: wilderness using a rock for a. Pillow he had no,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: tent no, servants no, comfort just the hard ground and
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: the night sky above. Him he must have felt abandoned and,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: afraid wondering what the future. Held But god met him
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: in that lonely. Place genesis twenty eight twelve to fifteen
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: describes the amazing Dream he had a dream in which
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: he saw a stairway resting on the, earth with its
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: top reaching to, heaven and the angels Of God god
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: were ascending and descending on. It there above it stood The,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: lord and he, SAID i am The, lord The god
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: of your Father, abraham and The god Of. ISAAC i
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: will give you and your descendants the land on which
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: you are. Lying your descendants will be like the dust
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: of the, earth and you will spread out to the
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: west and to the, east to the north and to the.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: South all peoples on earth will be blessed through you
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: and your. OFFSPRING i am with you and will watch
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: over you wherever you, go AND i will bring you
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: back to this. LAND i will not leave you UNTIL
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: i have done WHAT i have promised. You what a
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: sight that must have, been a stairway stretching from earth to,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: heaven with angels constantly moving up and, down and at
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: the Top god himself speaking words of promise and comfort
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: to this frightened young. Man god was confirming that Despite jacob's,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: deception the covenant promises made To abraham And isaac now
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: belonged to. Him the land would be, his his descendants
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: would be, countless all nations would be blessed through his,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: family and most, Importantly god would be with him wherever he.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: Went When jacob woke, up he was overwhelmed by what had.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: Happened jenesis twenty eight sixteen seventeen shows his. Reaction When
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: jacob awoke from his, sleep he, thought surely The lord
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: is in this place AND i was not aware of.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: It he was afraid and, said how awesome is this?
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: Place this is none other than The house Of. God
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: this is the gate of. Heaven jacob realized he had
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: been In god's presence without knowing. It the place that
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: had seemed so ordinary and lonely was actually sacred. Ground
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: god wasn't just in temples or holy. Places he was,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: everywhere even in the. Wilderness jenesis twenty, eight eighteen to
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: nineteen describes What jacob did. Next early the next, Morning
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: jacob took the stone he had placed under his head
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: and set it up as a pillar and poured oil
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: on top of. It he called that Place, bethel though
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: the city used to be Called. Loose jacob turned his
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: stone pillow into a, monument marking the place Where god
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: had spoken to, Him bethel meant house Of. God this
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: simple stone pillar would remind him forever of the night
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: When god promised to be with, him But jacob wanted
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: to make Sure god would keep his. Promises genesis twenty
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: eight twenty to twenty two records his. Vow Then jacob
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: made a vow, saying If god will be with me
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: and will watch over me on this JOURNEY i am,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: wear so THAT i returned safely to my father's, household
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: then The lord will be My, god and this stone
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: THAT i have set up as a pillar will Be god's.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: House and of all that you give, ME i will
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: give you a. Tenth jacob was making a deal With.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: God If god would take care of him and bring
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: him home, safely Then jacob would serve him and give
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: him a tenth of everything he. Received this shows That
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: jacob still had a lot to learn about faith and.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: Trust he was Treating god like a business partner instead
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: of the sovereign lord of the. Universe encouraged By god's,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: Promise jacob continued his journey Toward. Haran when he finally
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: arrived in the region where his mother's family. Lived he
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: stopped at a well where shepherds watered their. Flocks genesis
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: twenty nine two three describes the scene. There he saw
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: well in the open country with three flocks of sheep
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: lying near. It because the flocks were watered from that,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: well the stone over the mouth of the well was.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: Large when all the flocks were gathered, there the shepherds
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: would roll the stone away from the well's mouth and
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: water the. Sheep then they would return the stone to
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: its place over the mouth of the. Well jacob asked
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: the shepherds if they Knew, laban and they told him
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: That laban's Daughter rachel was coming with her. Sheep genesis
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: twenty nine nine to eleven describes their first. Meeting while
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: he was still talking with, Them rachel came with her father's,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: sheep for she was a. Shepherd When jacob Saw, rachel
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: daughter of his Uncle, laban And laban's, sheep he went
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: the well and watered his uncle's. Sheep Then jacob Kissed
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: rachel and began to weep. Aloud jacob was so excited
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: to meet his cousin that he single handedly moved the
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: heavy stone that normally required several men to. Move he
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: was showing off his strength and probably trying to impress
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: this beautiful young. Woman when he Told rachel who he,
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: was she ran to tell her. Father laban Welcomed jacob
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: warmly and invited him to. Stay genesis twenty nine fourteen
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: Records laban's. Words then Lay babon said to, him you
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: are my own flesh and, blood And jacob stayed with
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: him for a whole. Month during that, Month jacob worked
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: hard For, laban helping with the flocks and other. Tasks
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: laban was impressed With jacob's work ethic and wanted to
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: formalize their. Arrangement genesis twenty nine point fifteen Shows laban's.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: Offer laban said To, jacob because you are a relative of,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: mine should you work for me for? Nothing tell me
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: what your wages should. Be this is where things get.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Interesting laban had two, Daughters leah the Older Unnan rachel
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: the younger. One genesis twenty nine sixteen to seventeen describes. Them,
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: Now laban had two. Daughters the name of the older
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: Was lea and the name of the younger Was. Rachel
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: lea had weak, eyes But rachel was, lovely in form and.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: Beautiful jacob had fallen in love With rachel at first.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: Sight genesis twenty nine eighteen rec lords his proposal To.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Laban jacob was in love With rachel and, Said i'll
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: work for you seven years in return for your younger Daughter.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: Rachel seven years was an incredibly long time to work
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: just to marry. Someone most people paid money for a,
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: bride But jacob had arrived with. Nothing he was willing
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: to give seven years of his life for the woman he.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: Loved laban agreed to the, arrangement And jacob began his
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: long period of. Service genesis twenty nine twenty shows how
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: love made the time pass. Quickly So jacob served seven
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: years to Get, rachel but they seemed like only a
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: few days to him because of his love for. Her
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: when the seven years were, Up jacob was ready to
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: claim his. Bride genesis twenty nine twenty one shows his.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: Eagerness Then jacob said To, laban give me my. Wife
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: my time is completed AND i want to make love to.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: Her saban prepared a wedding feast and invited everyone in
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: the area to, celebrate but he had a trick planned
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: that would change. Everything on the wedding, night something terrible.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Happened genesis twenty nine twenty three twenty five describes the.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: Deception but when evening, came he took his Daughter leah
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: and brought her To, jacob And jacob made love to,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: her And laban gave his Servant, zilpah to his daughter
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: as her. Attendant when morning, came there was wu 't.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: Leah So jacob said To, laban what is this you
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: have done to? ME i served you For, rachel DIDN'T
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: I why have you deceived? Me jacob had been. Tricked
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: in the darkness and confusion of the wedding, Night laban
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: had Substituted lea For. Rachel, jacob who had deceived his
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: own father to steal his brother's, blessing now found himself
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: the victim of. Deception laban's excuse reveals the local. Custom
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: genesis twenty nine twenty six records his. Explanation laban, replied
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: it is not our custom here to give the younger
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: daughter in marriage before the older. One this was probably,
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: true But laban should have mentioned this important detail seven years,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: earlier When jacob asked For rachel. Instead he had Let
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: jacob work for seven years under false. Pretenses But laban
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: had a solution that would benefit him even. More genesis
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: twenty nine twenty seven twenty eight shows his, proposal finish
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: this daughter's bridal, week then we will give you the younger,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: one also in return for another seven years of. Work
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: So jacob did. So he finished the week With, lea
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: and Then laban gave him his, Daughter, rachel to be his.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: Wife jacob now had two, wives something that would create
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: enormous problems for the rest of his. Life he had
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: to work another seven years For, rachel meaning he would
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: spend fourteen years total just to marry the woman he.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: Loved the family dynamics were difficult from the. Beginning genesis
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: twenty nine thirty thirty one describes the. Situation jacob made
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: love To rachel, also and his love For rachel was
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: greater than his love For, lea and he worked For
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: laban another seven. Years when The lord saw That lea
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: was not, loved he enabled her to, conceive But rachel remained.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: Childless jacob clearly Favored rachel Over. Lea everyone could see
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: That lea was unloved and. Unwonted But god Saw lea's
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: pain and gave her something her sister didn't have. Children
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: lea's first four sons came, quickly and each birth reflected
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: her desperate hope that her husband would finally love. Her
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: genesis twenty nine thirty two to thirty five records their.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: Births lea became pregnant and gave birth to a. Son
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: she named Him, reuben for she, said it is because
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: The lord has seen my. Misery surely my husband will love. Me.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: Now she conceived, again and when she gave birth to a,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: son she, said because The lord heard THAT i am not,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: loved he gave me this one, too so she named Him.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: Simeon again she, conceived and when she gave birth to a,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: son she, said now at last my husband will become
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: attached to, me BECAUSE i have borne him three, Sons
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: so he was Named. Levi she conceived, again and when
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: she gave birth to a, son she, said this TIME
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: i will praise The, lord so she named Him. Judah
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: then she stopped having. Children each name told the story
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: Of leah's. Heartbreak reuben meant see a, Son Surely jacob
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: would love her now that she had given him a.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: Son simeon meant one who Hears god had heard that
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: she was. Unloved levi meant. Attached Now jacob would be
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: attached to. Her, finally With, judah whose name meant, Praise
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: leah seemed to find some peace by focusing on Praising
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: god instead of trying to win her husband's. Love, Meanwhile
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: rachel remained barren and her jealousy grew. Unbearable jenesis thirty
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: one shows her. Desperation When rachel saw that she was
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: not Bearing jacob any, children she became jealous of her,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: sister so she said To, jacob give me children Or i'll.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: Die rachel's demand Made jacob. Angry jenesis thirty two records his.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: Response jacob became angry with her and, said AM i
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: in the place Of god who has kept you from having?
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: Children unable to have children, Herself rachel decided to follow
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: the same plan That sarah had used With. Hagar jenesis
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: thirty three to four describes her. Solution then she, said
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: here Is, bilhah my, servant sleep with, her so that
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: she can bear children for, me AND i too can
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: build a family through. Her so she gave him her,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: Servant bilhah as a. Wife jacob slept with Her bilhah
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: became pregnant and gave birth to two. Sons jenesis thirty
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: five to eight tells Us bilha conceived and Bore jacob a.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: Son Then rachel, Said god has vindicated. Me he has
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: listened to my plea and given me a. Son because of,
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: this she named Him, Dan rachel's. Servant bilhah conceived again
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: and Bore jacob a second. Son Then rachel, SAID i
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: have had a great struggle with my sister AND i have.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: Won so she named Him. Naftali dan meant judge or.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: Vindicate rachel Felt god had judged in her. Favor naftali meant.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: Struggle rachel felt she was finally winning her competition With.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: Lea But leah wasn't about to be. Outdone when she
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: saw that she had stopped having, children she decided to
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: use her servant. Too jenesis thirty ninety eleven describes her.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: Response When lea saw that she had stopped having, children
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: she took her, Servant, zilpa and gave her To jacob
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: as a. Wife lea's, Servant, zilpa Bore jacob a. Son
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: Then leah, said what good, Fortune so she named him
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: Gad zilpah also had a second. Son jenesis thirty twelve
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: thirteen tells Us lea's Servant, zilpa Bore jacob a second.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: Son Then leah, said how HAPPY i? Am the women
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: will call me, happy so she named Him. Asher gad
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: meant good fortune And asher meant. Happy leah was trying
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: to present herself as blessed and, joyful even though she
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: was still. Unloved the rivalry between the sisters reached a
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: bizarre climax over some mandrakes plants believed to help with.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: Fertility jenesis thirty fourteen to sixteen describes the. Incident during wheat,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: Harvest reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: plants which he brought to his Mother. Leah rachel said To,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: lea please give me some of your son's. Mandrakes but
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: she said to, her wasn't it enough that you took
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: away my? Husband will you take my son's mandrakes? Too very,
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: Well rachel said he can sleep with you tonight in
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: return for your son's. Mandrakes the sisters were literally bargaining
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: over who would get to sleep with their shared. Husband
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: this shows how dysfunctional their family had become because of
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: polygamy and. Favoritism that, Night lea conceived again and had
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: two more sons and a. Daughter genesis thirty seventeen to
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: twenty one records these. Births god listened To, lea and
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: she became pregnant and Bore jacob a fifth. Son Then lea,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: Said god has rewarded me for giving my servant to my,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: husband so she named Him. Isakar leah conceived again and
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: Bore jacob a sixth. Son Then lea, Said god has
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: presented me with a precious. Gift this, time my husband
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: will treat me with honor BECAUSE i have borne him six.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: Sons so she named Him. Zebulun some time, later she
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: gave birth to a daughter and named Her. Dinah isaka
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: meant reward And zebulun meant. Honor even after all this,
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: Time leah was still Hoping jacob would finally honor and respect. Her,
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: Finally god Remembered rachel's longing for. Children genesis thirty twenty
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: two to twenty four describes the answered. Prayer Then god Remembered,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: Rachel he listened to her and enabled her to. Conceive
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: she became pregnant and gave birth to a, son and
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: Said god has taken away my. Disgrace she named Him, joseph,
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: saying may The lord add to me another. Son joseph,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: meant may he. Add rachel was so happy to finally
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: have a, son but she immediately wanted another. One this,
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: son born To jacob's beloved, wife would become his favorite,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: child setting up more family conflict in the. Future jacob
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: now had eleven sons and one daughter from four different.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: Women the twelve sons would eventually become the Twelve tribes Of,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: israel but their births were marked by, jealousy, competition and family.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: Dysfunction After joseph was, Born jacob began thinking about returning.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: Home he had fulfilled his obligation To laban and wanted
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: to take his large family back to the Land god
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: had promised. Him genesis thirty twenty five twenty six shows his.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: Request After rachel gave birth To, Joseph jacob said To,
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: laban send me on my way SO i can go
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: back to my own. Homeland give me my wives and
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: children for WHOM i have served, you AND i will
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: be on my. Way you know how much Work i've
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: done for. You But laban didn't want to Lose jacob
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: the man had brought prosperity to everything he, touched And
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: laban had become wealthy because Of jacob's hard. Work genesis
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: thirty twenty seven Records laban's. Plea But laban said to,
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: him IF i have found favor in your, eyes please.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: STAY i have learned by divination that The lord has
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: blessed me because of. You jacob agreed to stay, longer
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: but he negotiated a deal that would allow him to
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: build his own. Wealth genesis thirty thirty one to thirty
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: two describes the. Arrangement what SHALL i give, you he.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: Asked don't give me, Anything jacob, replied but if you
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: will do this one thing for, ME i will go
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: on tending your. Flocks let me go through all your
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: sheep every dark colored, lamb and every spotted or speckled.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: Goat they will be my. Wages this seemed like a
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: good deal For, laban since most animals were solid, colored
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: But jacob had a. Plan using his knowledge of animal,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: breeding he managed to produce many speckled and spotted. Animals
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: genesis thirty forty three tells us the result in this,
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: large flocks and female and male, servants and camels and.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Donkeys laban's sons began to complain That jacob was getting
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: too wealthy at their. Expense genesis thirty one to one
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: to two describes the growing. Tension jacob heard That laban's
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: sons were, Saying jacob has taken everything our father owned
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: Father And jacob noticed That laban's attitude toward him was
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: not what it had. Been Then god Told jacob it
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: was time to. Leave genesis thirty one to three Records god's.
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: Command then The lord said To, jacob go back to
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: the land of your fathers and to your, relatives AND
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: i will be with You jacobcob decided to leave secretly
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: While laban was away shearing. Sheep genesis thirty one seventeen
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: to eighteen describes their. Escape Then jacob put his children
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: and his wives on, camels and he drove all his
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: live stock ahead of, him along with all the goods
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: he had accumulated in Padan aram to go to his
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: Father isaac in the land Of. Canaan they had been
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: traveling for three. Days When laban discovered they were, gone
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: he pursued them with his, relatives angry and ready for a,
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: confrontation But god Warned laban in a dream not to Harm.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: Jacob When laban caught up with, them he Accused jacob
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: of stealing away secretly and taking his daughters like, captives
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: But jacob defended, himself Reminding laban of twenty years of faithful.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: Service genesis thirty, one thirty eight to forty Shows jacob's.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: FRUSTRATION i have been with you for twenty years. Now
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: your sheep and goats have not, miscarried nor HAVE i
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: eaten rams from your. FLOCKS i did not bring you
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: animals torn by wild. BEASTS i bore the loss, myself
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: and you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: by day or. Night this was my. Situation the heat
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: consumed me in the daytime and the cold at, night
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: and sleep fled from my. Eyes after some tense, Negotiations
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: jacob And laban made a covenant of. Peace they set
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: up a stone pillar as a witness that neither would
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: harm the. Other genesis thirty one forty nine records part
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: of their. Agreement it was also called mizpah because he,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: said may The lord keep watch between you and me
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: when we are away from each. Other with this conflict,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: Resolved jacob continued toward, home but now he faced an
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: even bigger, problem his Brother, esau who had threatened to
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: kill him twenty years. Earlier As jacob approached the land
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: Where esau, lived his fear grew. Overwhelming he sent messengers
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: ahead to announce his, return hoping to make peace with his,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: brother but the messengers came back with disturbing. News genesis
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: thirty two six records their. Report when the messengers returned To,
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: jacob they, said we went to your Brother, esau and
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: now he is coming to meet, you and four hundred
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: men are with. Him four hundred. Men this sounded like
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: a war, party not a welcome. Committee jacob was. Terrified
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: genesis thirty two seven describes his. Reaction in great fear and,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: Distress jacob divided the people who were with him into two,
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: groups and the flocks and herds and camels as. Well
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: jacob's plan was. Simple If esau attacked one, group maybe
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: the other could. Escape but he also did something more.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: Important he Prayed genesis thirty, two nine twelve records his desperate.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: Prayer Then jacob, PRAYED, O god of my Father, Abraham
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: god of my Father, Isaac, lord you who said to,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: me go back to your country and your, relatives AND
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: i will make you. PROSPER i am unworthy of all
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: the kindness and faithfulness you have, shown your. SERVANT i
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: had only my staff WHEN i crossed This, jordan but
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: NOW i have become two. Camps save, ME i pray
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: from the hand of my Brother, esau FOR i am
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: afraid he will come and attack, me and also the
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: mothers with their. Children but you have, SAID i will
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: surely make you, prosper and will make your descendants like
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: the sand of the, sea which cannot be. Counted this
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: was one Of jacob's most honest. Prayers he acknowledged his,
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: unworthiness admitted his, fear and Reminded god of his. Promises
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: then he prepared an enormous gift For. Esau hundreds of, goats, sheep, camels,
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: cattle and donkeys sent ahead in separate groups to impress
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: his brother with his wealth and. Generosit after sending his
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: family across The Jabbok, River jacob spent the night Alone
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: this was when the most important event of his life.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: Happened genesis thirty, two twenty four to twenty six describes
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: the mysterious. Encounter So jacob was left alone and a
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: man wrestled with him till. Daybreak when the man saw
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: that he could not overpower, him he touched the socket
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: Of jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: he wrestled with the. Man then the man, said let me,
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: go for it is, daybreak But jacob, REPLIED i will
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: not let you go unless you bless. Me all night,
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: Long jacob wrestled with this mysterious. Figure the man was
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: strong enough to Dislocate jacob's hip with a, touch showing
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: that he was more than, human But jacob refused to give,
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: up even when he was. Injured he held on, desperately
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: demanding a. Blessing then came the moment that changed Every
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: genesis thirty two twenty seven twenty eight records the. Transformation
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: the man asked, him what is your? Name? Jacob he.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: Answered then the man, said your name will no longer Be,
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: jacob But, israel because you have struggled With god and
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: with humans and have. Overcome jacob's name was changed To,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: israel which meant he struggles With god Or god. Strives
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: the man he had wrestled with Was god, himself appearing
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: in human. Form jacob had literally wrestled With god all
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: night and had prevailed through persistent. Faith genesis thirty, two
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: twenty nine thirty one concludes this incredible. Encounter jacob, said
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: please tell me your, name but he, replied why do
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: you ask my? Name then he blessed him. There So
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: jacob called the Place, peniel saying it is BECAUSE i
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: Saw god face to, face and yet my life was.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: Spared the sun rose above him as he Passed, penniel
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: and he was limping because of his. Hip peniel meant
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: face Of. God jacob had Seen god base to face
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: and lived to tell about, it but he carried a
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: permanent reminder of this, encounter a limp that would stay
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: with him for the rest of his. Life this wrestling
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: match was more than a physical. Struggle it Represented jacob's spiritual.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: Journey he had spent his whole life struggling with his
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: brother in the, womb With esau for the, birthright and
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: blessing With laban for his wives and. Wealth now he
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: had struggled With god himself and had been. Transformed he
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: was no Longer jacob the, supplanter But, israel the one
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: who had prevailed With. God When jacob finally Met, esau
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: the reunion was peaceful and. Emotional the brothers embraced and,
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: wept And esau showed no sign of the murderous anger
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: he had Harbored twenty years. Earlier jacob settled in the
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: land Near, shechem where he bought a piece of property
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: and built an. Altar but living among The canaanites brought
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: new dangers For jacob's. Family genesis thirty four one to
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: two describes a terrible. Incident Now, dinah the Daughter leah
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: had borne To, jacob went out to visit the women
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: of the. Land when She, kem son Of, hamor The,
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: hivite the ruler of that, area saw, her he took
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: her and raped. Her dinah was probably a teenager when this. Happened,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: shekem the son of the local, prince saw her and violated.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: Her this was not just a personal, crime but an
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: attack On jacob's entire family. Honor but then something unexpected.
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: Happened genesis thirty four three to four tells us his
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: heart was drawn To, dinah daughter Of. Jacob he loved
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: the young woman and spoke tenderly to, her And shacham
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: said to his, father hamor get me this girl as my.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: Wife shechem had fallen in love With dinah after assaulting,
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: her and he wanted to marry. Her his, Father harmore
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: came To jacob to arrange the marriage as if the
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: rape had never. Happened When jacob's sons heard what had
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: happened to their, sister they were. Furious genesis thirty four
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: seven describes their. Anger, Meanwhile jacob's sons had come in
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: from the fields as soon as they heard what had.
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: Happened they were shocked and furious Because shakeum had done
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: an outrageous thing In israel by sleeping With jacob's, daughter
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: a thing that should not be. Done the sons Of
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: jacob pretended to agree to the, marriage but they had a.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: Condition genesis thirty four fourteen sixteen records their deceptive. Proposal
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: they said to, them we cannot do such a. Thing
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: we cannot give our sister to a man who is not.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: Circumcised that would be a disgrace to. Us we will
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: enter into an agreement with you on one condition, only
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: that you become like us by circumcising all your, males
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: then we will give you our daughters and take your
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: daughters for. Ourselves we'll settle among you and become one
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: people with. You hammer And shechem agreed to this. Condition
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: they convinced all the men of their city to be,
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: circumcised promising that it would lead to profitable relationships With
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: jacob's wealthy. Family But jacob's sons had no intention of
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: keeping their. Agreement genesis thirty four twenty five twenty six
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: describes their brutal. Revenge three days, later while all of
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: them were still in, pain two Of jacob's, Sons simeon And,
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: Levi dinah's, brothers took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting,
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: city killing every. Male they Put hamor and his Son
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: shechem to the, sword and Took dinah From shechem's house and.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: Left while the men were recovering from circumcision and unable
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: to defend, Themselves simeon And levi slaughtered them. All then
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: the other brothers joined, in looting the city and taking
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: all the women and children as. Captives jacob was horrified
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: by his son's. Actions genesis thirty four thirty shows his. Fear,
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: Then jacob said To simeon And, levi you have brought
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: trouble on me by making me obnoxious to The canaanites And,
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: perizites the people living in this. Land we are few in,
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: number and if they join forces against me and attack,
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: ME i and my household will be. Destroyed jacob was
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: worried about retaliation from the Other canaanite. Tribes his sons
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: had made enemies of everyone in the, region But simeon
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: And levi were. Unrepentant genesis thirty four thirty one records
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: their defiant. Response but they, replied should he have treated
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: our sister like a? Prostitute This this incident showed the
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: ongoing problems In jacob's. Family his sons were capable of
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: terrible violence when they felt their honor had been. Attacked
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: the favoritism and dysfunction that had marked their births continued
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: to create conflict and. Pain after these, Troubles jacob moved
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: his family away From. Shechem god appeared to him again
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: and confirmed his new name and the covenant. Promises genesis
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: thirty five eleven twelve Records god's, words And god said to,
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: HIM i Am. God, almighty be fruitful and increase in.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: NUMBER a nation and a community of nations will come from,
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: you and kings will be among your. Descendants the LAND
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: i gave To abraham And ISAAC i also give to,
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: you AND i will give this land to your descendants after.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: You but tragedy struck the family When, Rachel jacob's beloved,
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: wife died giving birth to her second. Son genesis thirty,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: five sixteen eighteen describes her. Death then they moved on From.
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: Bethel while they were still some distance From, Ephrath rachel
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: began to give birth and had great. Difficulty and as
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: she was having great difficulty in, childbirth the midwife said to,
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: her don't, despair for you have another. Son as she
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: breathed her last she named him Ben, oni but his
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: father named Him. Benjamin rachel died giving birth To, benjamin
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: whose name meant son of my right. Hand her dying
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: wish was to name him Ben, one meaning son of my,
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: trouble But jacob changed it to something more. Hopeful jacob
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: now had twelve, sons but his favoritism continued to cause.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: Problems genesis thirty, seven three to four describes the situation
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: Now israel Loved joseph more than any of his other
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: sons because he had been born to him in his old,
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: age and he made an ornate robe for. Him when
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: his brothers saw that their father loved him more than
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: any of, them they hated him and could not speak
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: a kind word to. Him joseph Was rachel's firstborn, son
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: born When jacob was, old And jacob couldn't hide his
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: special love for. Him the ornate, robe often called a
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: coat of many, colors was a visible symbol Of jacob's.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: Favoritism it was the kind of robe worn by royalty
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: or someone who didn't have to do manual. Labor joseph's
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: brothers already hated him for being their father's, favorite but
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: Then joseph made things worse by telling them about his.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: Dreams genesis thirty, seven five to eight describes the first
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: Dream joseph had a, dream and when he told it
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: to his, brothers they hated him all the. More he
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: said to, them listen to this DREAM i. Had we
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: were binding sheaves of grain out in the, field when
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: suddenly my sheaf rose and stood, upright while your sheaves
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: gathered around mine and bowed down to. It his brother
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: said to, him do you intend to rain over? Us
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: will you actually rule? Us and they hated him all
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: the more because of his dream and what he had.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: Said joseph's dream showed his brother's grain bundles bowing down
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: to his, bundle a clear picture of them serving. Him
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: this was the last thing his brothers wanted to hear
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: from their already favored younger. Brother But joseph had another
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: dream that was even more. Provocative genesis thirty seven ninety
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: eleven tells us then he had another, dream and he
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: told it to his. Brothers. Listen he, SAID i had another,
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: dream and this time the sun and moon and eleven
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: stars were bowing down to. Me when he told his,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: father as well as his, brothers his father rebuked him and,
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: said what is this dream you? Had will your mother
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: AND i and your brothers actually come and bow down
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: to the ground before. You his brothers were jealous of,
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: him but his father kept the matter in. Mind in
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 1: this second, dream the, sun, moon and eleven stars bowed To,
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: joseph representing his, father, mother and eleven brothers all bowing
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: down to. Him Even jacob was disturbed by this, dream
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: though he wondered if it might be From. God joseph
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: was only seventeen years, old and he didn't have the
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: wisdom to keep these dreams to. Himself he may have
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: been sharing them, innocently not realizing how much they would
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: anger his. Brothers But god was already revealing his plan
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: For joseph's. Future even though it would take many years
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: and much suffering before those dreams came, true the stage
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: was set for the next great chapter in the story
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: Of god's. People joseph's brother's hatred would soon lead to
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: actions that would change the course of, history taking the
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: family Of israel down To egypt and setting up the
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: events that would eventually lead to The exodus and the
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: birth of the nation Of. Israel one and, Day jacob
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: Sent joseph to check on his, brothers who were pasturing
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: the flocks In. Dothan when the brothers Saw joseph approaching
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: in his special, robe the anger they had harbored for
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: so long finally. Exploded genesis thirty seven eighteen to twenty
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: records their conspiratorial. Words but they saw him in the,
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: distance and before he reached, them they plotted to kill.
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: Him here comes that, dreamer they said to each. Other come,
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: now let's kill him and throw him into one of
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured. Him
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: then we'll see what comes of his. Dreams But, reuben
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: the oldest, brother tried to Save joseph's. Life he suggested
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: they Throwed joseph into a cistern without killing, him planning
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: to rescue him. Later When joseph, arrived his brothers stripped
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: off his ornate robe and threw him into an empty.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: Cistern while they were eating their, meal a caravan Of
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: ishmaelite merchants appeared heading Toward. Egypt judah had an idea
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: that would solve their problem without. Bloodshed genesis thirty seven
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: twenty six twenty seven shows his. Proposal Then judah said
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: to his, brothers what will we gain if we kill
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: our brother and cover up his. Blood, come let's sell
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: him to The ishmaelites and not lay our hands on.
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: Him after, all he is our, brother our own pleasure.
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: Blood his brothers, agreed so they Sold joseph to the
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: merchants for twenty shekels of. Silver genesis thirty seven twenty
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: eight records the. Transaction, so when The midianite merchants came
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: by his brothers Pulled joseph up out of the cistern
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to The,
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: ishmaelites who took him To. Egypt to cover up their,
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: crime the brothers killed a goat and Dipped joseph's robe
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: in its. Blood they brought the bloodied robe to their,
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: father letting him draw his own. Conclusions genesis thirty seven
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: thirty two thirty five Describes jacob's heart. Break they took
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: the ornate robe back to their father and, said we found.
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: This examine it to see whether it is your son's.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: Robe he recognized it and, said it is my son's.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: Robe some ferocious animal has devoured. Him joseph has surely
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: been torn to. Pieces Then jacob tore his, clothes put on,
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: sackcloth and mourned for his. Son many. Days all his
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: sons and daughters came to comfort, him but he refused
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: to be. Comforted, no he, SAID i will continue to
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: mourn UNTIL i join my son in the. Grave so
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: his father wept for. Him, Meanwhile joseph was being taken
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: To egypt as a, slave sold To, potiphar an officer
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: Of pharaoh and captain of the. Guard everything had changed
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: in a single day from favored son to foreign. Slave
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: despite being a slave in a foreign, Land joseph didn't
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: give up. Hope genesis thirty nine two to four tells
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: us About god's blessing on his. Life The lord was
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: With joseph so that he, prospered and he lived in
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: the house of His egyptian. Master when his master saw
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: that The lord was with, him and that The lord
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: gave him success in everything he, Did joseph found favor
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: in his eyes and became his. Attendant potiphar put him
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: in charge of his, household and he intrusted to his
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: care everything he. Owned joseph's character and competence were so
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: evident That potiphar promoted him to oversee his entire. Household
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: genesis thirty nine five six shows the extent Of joseph's
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: authority from the time he put him in charge of
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: his household and of all that he. Owned The lord
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: blessed the household of The egyptian because Of. Joseph the
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: blessing of The lord was on Everything potiphar, had both
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: in the house and in the. Field So potiphar left
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: everything he had In joseph's, care With joseph in. Charge
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: he did not concern himself with anything except the food he.
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: Ate But joseph's success created a new. Problem he was,
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: handsome And potiphar's wife began to notice. Him genesis thirty
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: nine seven describes her. Proposition and after a, while his
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: master's wife took notice Of joseph and, said come to
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: bed with. Me joseph refused her, advances repeatedly explaining his
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: reasoning In genesis thirty nine eight to. Nine but he
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: refused with me in, charge he told, her my master
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: does not concern himself with anything in the. House everything
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: he owns he has intrusted to my your. Care no
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: one is greater in this house THAN i. Am my
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: master has withheld nothing from me except, you because you
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: are his. Wife how then COULD i do such a
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: wicked thing and sin Against. God joseph's refusal was based
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: on three, principles loyalty to his, master respect for, marriage
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: and reverence For. God even though he was far from
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: home and no one would, know he wouldn't compromise his.
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: Integrity day after, Day potiphar's wife persisted in her attempts
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: to Seduce. Joseph, finally she tried to force herself on.
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: Him genesis thirty nine eleven to twelve describes the. Confrontation one,
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: day he went into the house to attend to his,
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: duties and none of the household servants was. Inside she
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: caught him by his cloak and, said come to bed with,
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: me but he left his cloak in her hand and
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: ran out of the. House humiliated By joseph's, Rejection potiphar's
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: wife decided to destroy. Him she used his cloak as
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: evidence and accused him of attempted. Rape genesis thirty nine
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: seventeen to eighteen records her. Lie then she told him
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: this story That hebrew slave you brought us came to
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: me to make sport of, Me but as soon AS
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: i screamed for, help he left his cloak beside me
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: and ran out of the. House potiphar believed his wife's
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: story and Had joseph thrown into. Prison genesis thirty nine
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: twenty tells Us joseph's master took him and put him
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: in prison the place where the king's prisoners were. Confined
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: but While joseph was there in the, prison The lord
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: was with. Him even in, Prison god's favor remained On.
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: Joseph the warden soon put him in charge of all
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: the prisoners because of his trustworthy character and administrative. Skills
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: while in, Prison joseph met two Of pharaoh's, officials the
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: chief cupbearer and the chief, baker who had been imprisoned
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: for offending the. King one, night both men had troubling
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: dreams that they couldn't. Understand genesis forty six to wait
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: describes their. Distress When joseph came to them the next,
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: morning he saw that they were. Dejected so he Asked pharaoh's,
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: officials who were in custody with him in his master's,
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: house why do you look so sad to? Day we
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: both had, dreams they, answered but there is no one
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: to interpret. Them Then joseph said to, them do not
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: interpretations belong To. God tell me your. Dreams the cup
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: bearer told his. Dream, first he had seen a vine
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: with three branches that, budded, blossomed and produced. Grapes he
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: squeezed the grapes Into pharaoh's cup and gave it to.
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: Him joseph interpreted this as good. News in three, days
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: the cup bearer would be restored to his. Position the
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: baker's dream was. Different he carried three baskets of bread his,
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: head but birds ate the bread from the top. Basket
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: joseph's interpretation was grim in three, days the baker would be.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: Executed both interpretations came true exactly As joseph. Predicted genesis
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: forty twenty twenty two, confirms now the third day Was pharaoh's,
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: birthday and he gave a feast for all his. Officials
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: the chief baker in the presence of his. Officials he
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: restored the chief cupbearer to his, position so that he
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: once again put the cup Into pharaoh's. Hand but he
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: impaled the chief, baker just As joseph had said to
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: them in his. Interpretation before the cup bearer left, Prison
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: joseph made a. Request genesis forty fourteen to fifteen records his,
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: plea but when all goes well with, you remember me
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: and show me, Kindness mention me To, pharaoh and get
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: me out of this. PRISON i was forcibly carried off
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: from the land of The, hebrews and even HERE i
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: have done nothing to deserve being put in a. Dungeon
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: But genesis forty twenty three tells us the disappointing. Result
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: the chief, cupbearer, however did not Remember. Joseph he forgot.
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: Him joseph remained in prison for two more, years forgotten
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: by the man whose life he had saved through. Interpretation
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: two years, Later pharaoh himself had troubling dreams that none
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: of his wise men could. Interpret in his first, dream
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: seven fat cows were devoured by seven lean. Cows in
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: his second, dream seven healthy heads of grain were swallowed
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: by seven thin heads of. Grain, finally the cupbearer Remembered.
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: Joseph genesis forty one nine thirteen shows his testimony To.
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh then the chief cupbearer said To, pharaoh to, DAY
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: i am reminded of my. Shortcomings pharaoh was once angry
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: with his, servants and he imprisoned me and the chief
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: baker in the house of The captain of The. God
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: each of us had a dream the same, night and
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: each dream had a meaning of its. Own now a
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: Young hebrew was there with, us a servant of The
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: captain of The. Gud we told him our, dreams and
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: he interpreted them for, us giving each man the interpretation
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: of his, dream and things turned out exactly as he
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: interpreted them to. Us pharaoh immediately Summoned joseph from. Prison
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: after quickly shaving and changing, Clothes joseph stood before the
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: most powerful man In. Egypt genesis forty one fifteen to
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: sixteen records their. Conversation pharaoh said To, JOSEPH i had a,
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 1: dream and no one can interpret. It BUT i have
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: heard it said of you that when you hear a,
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: dream you can interpret. IT i cannot do. It joseph
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: replied To. Pharaoh But god will Give pharaoh the answer he.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: Desires even in this moment of, Opportunity joseph gave credit
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: To god rather than claiming the ability for. Himself after
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: hearing both, Dreams joseph provided the, Interpretation the dreams Of
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: pharaoh are one and the. Same god has revealed To
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: pharaoh what he is about to. Do the seven good
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: cows are seven, years and the eye jade seven good
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: heads of grain are seven. Years it is one and
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 1: the same. Dream the seven, lean ugly cows that came
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: up afterward are seven, years and so are the seven
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: worthless heads of grain scorched by the east. Wind they
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: are seven years of. Famine joseph explained That egypt would
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 1: experience seven years of abundance followed by seven years of severe.
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: Famine but he didn't stop with. Interpretation he also provided a.
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: Solution genesis forty one thirty three thirty six records his wrecks.
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: Commendation and now Let pharaoh look for a discerning and
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: wise man and put him in charge of the land Of.
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: Egypt Let pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: a fifth of the harvest Of egypt during the seven
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: years of. Abundance they should collect all the food of
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: these good years that are, coming and store up the
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: grain under the authority Of, pharaoh to be kept in
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: the cities for. Food this food should be held in
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: reserve for the country to be used during the seven
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: years of famine that will come Upon, egypt so that
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: the country may not be ruined by the. Famine pharaoh
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: was so impressed With joseph's wisdom that he immediately appointed
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: him as his second in. Command genesis forty one thirty
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: nine to forty one describes this dramatic. Promotion Then pharaoh
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: said To, joseph Since god has made all this known to,
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: you there is no one so discerning and wise as.
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: You you shall be in charge of my, palace and
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: all my people are to submit to your. Orders only
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: with respect to the, throne WILL i be greater than,
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: You So pharaoh said To, JOSEPH i hereby put you
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: in charge of the whole land Of. Egypt in a single,
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: Day joseph went from prisoner to prime. Minister pharaoh gave
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: him his signet, ring fine linen, clothes a gold, chain
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: and his own. Chariot at age, thirty The hebrew slave
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: became the most powerful man In, egypt After pharaoh. Himself
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: during the seven years of, Abundance joseph efficiently organized the
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: collection and storage of grain Throughout. Egypt genesis forty one
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: forty seven forty nine describes the incredible harvest during the
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: seven years of. Abundance the land produced. Plentifully joseph collected
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: all the food produced in those seven years of abundance
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: In egypt and stored it in the. Cities in each,
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding.
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: It joseph stored up huge quantities of grain like the
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: sand of the. Sea it was so much that he
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: stopped keeping records because it was beyond. Measure during this prosperous,
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: Time joseph Married, asanath daughter of An egyptian, priest and
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: had two. Sons genesis forty one fifty fifty two tells
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: us about his family before the years of famine. Came
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: two sons were born To joseph By, asanath daughter Of
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: potiphar Priest. Devon joseph named his Firstborn, manasse and, said
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: it is Because god has made me forget all my
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: trouble and all my father's. Household the second, son he Named,
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: ephraim and, said it is Because god has made me
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: fruitful in the land of my. Suffering the names Reflected
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: joseph's emotional. Journey manasse meant causing to. Forget god had
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: helped him move past the pain of his brother's. Betrayal
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: efray meant. Fruitful god had blessed him, abundantly even in
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: a foreign. Land when the seven years of abundance, ended
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: the famine began exactly As joseph had. Predicted genesis forty
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: one fifty four fifty seven describes its, severity and the
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: seven years of famine began just As joseph had. Said
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: there was famine in all the other, lands but in
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: the whole land Of egypt there was. Food when All
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: egypt began to feel the. Famine the people cried To
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: pharaoh for. Food Then pharaoh told all The egyptians go
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: To joseph and do what he tells. You when the
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: famine had spread over the whole, Country joseph opened all
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: the storehouses and sold grain to The. Egyptians for the
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: famine was severe Throughout, egypt and all the world came
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: To egypt to buy grain From. Joseph because the famine
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: was severe. Everywhere the famine wasn't limited To, egypt affected
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: all the surrounding, regions Including, canaan Where jacob and his sons.
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 1: Lived egypt became the only source of food for. Survival
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: When jacob heard that there was grain available In, egypt
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: he sent ten of his sons to buy, food keeping
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 1: Only benjamin at home because he was afraid something might
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: happen To rachel's other. Son genesis forty two three to
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: six describes their. Arrival then ten Of joseph's brothers went
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: down to buy grain From, egypt But jacob did not Send,
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: Benjamin joseph's, brother with the, others because he was afraid
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: that harm might come to. Him So israel's sons were
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: among those who went to buy, grain for there was
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: famine in the land Of canaan. Too Now joseph was
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: the governor of the, land the person who sold grain
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: to all its. People so When joseph's brothers, arrived they
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: bowed down to him with their faces to the. Ground
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: the Moment joseph had dreamed about as a seventeen year
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: old boy had finally come. True his brothers were bowing
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: down to, him but they didn't recognize. Him twenty years had.
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: Passed he was dressed as An egyptian, official and they
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: thought he was. Dead joseph recognized them, immediately but decided
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: to test them before revealing his. Identity genesis forty two
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: seven to nine shows his. Strategy Although joseph recognized his,
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 1: brothers he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to.
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: Them where do you come, from he, asked from the
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: land Of. Canaan they replied to buy. Food Then joseph
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: remembered his dreams about them and said to, them you are.
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: Spies you have come to see where our land is.
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: Unprotected joseph accused them of being spies and demanded proof
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: of their. Story he insisted that one brother return home
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 1: to Bring benjamin while the others remained in. Prison after three,
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: days he modified his. Demand one brother would stay in
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: prison while the others returned home with, grain but they
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: must Bring benjamin back to prove their. Honesty the brothers
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: were terrified and began talking among themselves In, hebrew not
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: knowing That joseph could understand. Them genesis forty two twenty
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: one to twenty two records their guilty. Conversation they said
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 1: to one, another surely we are being punished because of our.
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: Brother we saw how distressed he was when he pleaded
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: with us for his, life but we would not. Listen
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: that's why this distress has come on. Us reuben, replied
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: DIDN'T i tell you not to sin against the? Boy
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: but you wouldn't. Listen now we must give an accounting
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: for his. Blood hearing his brothers express remorse for what
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: they had done to, Him joseph had to turn away to.
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: Weep their guilt had haunted them for twenty. Years he
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 1: Kept simeon as a hostage and sent the others home with,
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: grain secretly returning their money in their. Sacks when the
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: brothers Told jacob everything that had, happened he was. Devastated
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: genesis forty two thirty six shows his. Anguish their Father
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: jacob said to, them you have deprived me of my.
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: Children joseph is no more And simeon is no, more
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: and now you want to Take. Benjamin everything is against.
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: Me jacob refused to Let benjamin go To, egypt even
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: though it Meant simeon would remain. Imprisoned but as the
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: famine continued and their food ran, out they had no
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: choice but to return To. Egypt when their grain was almost,
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: Gone jacob reluctantly agreed to Send benjamin To, egypt along
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: with double the money and gifts for The egyptian. Governor
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: genesis forty three eleven fourteen shows his. Resignation then their
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: Father israel said to, them if it must, be then do.
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: This put some of the best products of the land
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: in your, bags and take them down to the man
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: as a. GIFT a little balm and a little, honey
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: some spices and, myrh some pistachio nuts and. Almonds take
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: double the amount of silver with, you for you must
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: return the silver that was put back into the mouths
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: of your. Sacks perhaps it was a. Mistake take your
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: brother also and go back to the man at, once
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: and May God almighty grant you mercy before the, man
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: so that he will let your other brother And benjamin
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: come back with. You as for, me IF i am,
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: bereaved i am. Bereaved When joseph Saw benjamin with his,
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: brothers he was overwhelmed with. Emotion he invited them all
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 1: to dine at his, house seating them in birth, order
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: something that amazed, them since This egyptian official couldn't possibly
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: know their. Ages genesis forty three thirty three thirty four
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: describes the. Meal the men had been seated before him
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: in the order of their, ages from the first born
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 1: to the, youngest and they looked at each other in
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: astonishment when portions were served to them From joseph's. Table
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone, else's
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: so they feasted and drank freely with. Him joseph was
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: testing his brothers, again showing special favor To, benjamin to
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 1: see if they would be jealous as they had been of,
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: Him but this time the brothers seemed genuinely happy For
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: benjamin's good. Fortune the next, Morning joseph sent his brothers
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: away with, grain but he had his silver cup planted
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: In benjamin's. Sack when the brothers were overtaken and, searched
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: the cup was, found and they were all brought back
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: to Face joseph's. Wrath genesis forty, four sixteen seventeen shows their.
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 1: Despair what can we say to my? Lord judah, replied
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: what can we? Say how can we prove our? Innocence
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 1: god has uncovered your servant's. Guilt we are now My lord's.
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: Slaves we ourselves and the one who was found to
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: have the. Cup But joseph, said far be it from
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 1: me to do such a. Thing only the man who
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: was found to have the cup will become my. Slave
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: the rest of you go back to your father in.
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: Peace this was the ultimate. Test would the brothers Abandon
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 1: benjamin as they had Abandoned, joseph or had they truly?
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: Changed judah's response revealed their. Transformation genesis forty four eighteen
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: thirty three thirty four records his passionate. Plea Then judah
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: went up to him and, said pardon your, servant my.
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: Lord let me speak a word to my. Lord do
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: not be angry with your, servant though you are equal
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: To pharaoh. Himself, now then please let your, servant remain
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: here as my lord's slave in place of the, boy
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: and let the boy return with his. Brothers how CAN
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: i go back to my father if the boy is
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: not with. Me, no do not let me see the
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: misery that would come on my. Father, judah who had
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: once suggested Selling, joseph was now willing to become a
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: slave himself to Save benjamin and bear their father's. Grief
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: the brothers had truly. Changed unable to contain himself any,
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: Longer joseph dismissed all his attendants and revealed his. Identity
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: genesis forty five three to four describes the dramatic. Moment
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: joseph said to his, BROTHERS i Am. Joseph is my
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: father still? Living but his brothers were not able to
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: answer him because they were terrified at his. Presence Then
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: joseph said to his, brothers come close to. Me when
• 2:35:31
  Speaker 1: they had done, so he, SAID i am your, Brother,
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: joseph the one you sold Into. Egypt the brothers were
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: shocked and, terrified But joseph quickly reassured. Them genesis forty
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 1: five five eight shows his perspective on their past. Actions
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: and now do not be, distressed and do not be
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: angry with yourselves for selling me, here because it was
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: to save lives That god sent me ahead of. You
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: for two years now there has been famine in the,
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: land and for the next five years there will be
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: no plowing and. Reaping But god sent me ahead of
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: to save your lives by a great. Deliverance so then
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: it was not you who sent me, here But. God
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: he made me father To, pharaoh lord of his entire,
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: household and ruler of All. Egypt joseph Saw god's hand
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: in everything that had. Happened what his brothers meant for,
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  Speaker 1: Evil god had used for good to save many lives
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: during the. Famine joseph told his brothers to bring their
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: father and all their families To, egypt where they could
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  Speaker 1: survive the remaining years of. Famine When jacob heard That
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: joseph was alive and ruling In, Egypt genesis forty five
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  Speaker 1: twenty six twenty eight describes his. Reaction they told Him
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  Speaker 1: joseph is still. Alive in, fact he is ruler of All.
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  Speaker 1: Egypt jacob was. Stunned he did not believe, Them but
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: when they told him Everything joseph had said to, Them
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: and when he saw the Carts joseph had sent to
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: carry him, back the spirit of their. Father jacob, revived
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: And israel, Said i'm convinced my Son joseph is still.
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  Speaker 1: ALIVE i will go and see him BEFORE i. Die
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: god appeared To jacob in a vision At, beersheba encouraging
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  Speaker 1: him to go To. Egypt genesis forty six three to
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  Speaker 1: four Records god's. PROMISE i Am, god The god of your.
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  Speaker 1: Father he, said do not be afraid to go down To,
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  Speaker 1: egypt FOR i will make you into a great nation.
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  Speaker 1: THERE i will go down To egypt with, you AND
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: i will surely bring you back, again And joseph's own
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  Speaker 1: hand will close your. Eyes genesis forty six twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: tells us the total number who went To egypt with
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: the two sons who had been born To. Joseph In,
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: egypt the members Of jacob's family which went To egypt
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: were seventy in. All the reunion Between jacob And joseph
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  Speaker 1: was emotional beyond. Words genesis forty six twenty nine to
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  Speaker 1: thirty describes the Moment joseph had his chariot made ready
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 1: and went To goshen to meet his Father. Israel as
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: soon As joseph appeared before, him he threw his arms
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: around his father and wept for a long. Time israel
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  Speaker 1: said To, joseph NOW i am ready to, die SINCE
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: i have seen for myself that you are still. Alive
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: pharaoh Welcomed jacob's family and gave them the best land In,
• 2:38:32
  Speaker 1: egypt the region Of, goshen where they could raise their
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: flocks and. Herds what had begun as a temporary refuge
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: during famine would become a four hundred thirty year sojourn
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: that would Transform jacob's family into the nation Of. Israel
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: jacob lived In egypt for seventeen, years seeing his family
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: prosper and. Multiply as his death, approached he Called joseph
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: to make a special request about his. Burial then he
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  Speaker 1: Bless joseph's two, Sons manassah And, ephraim adopting them as
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 1: his own sons and giving them equal inheritance with his other.
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: Sons in a prophetic move that Surprise, Joseph jacob gave
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 1: the greater blessing To, ephraim the younger, son rather Than,
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: manassah the. Firstborn genesis forty, eight nineteen Records jacob's, explanation
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 1: but his father refused and, SAID i, know my. SON
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: i know he too will become a, people and he
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: too will become. Great, nevertheless his younger brother will be
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 1: greater than, he and his descendants will become a group of. Nations,
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: Finally jacob called all his sons together to give them
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 1: prophetic blessings before his. Death genesis forty nine records these
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: detailed prophecies about each tribe's. Future some blessings were, positive Like.
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  Speaker 1: Judah's the scepter will not depart From, judah nor or
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 1: the ruler's staff from between his, feet until he to
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: whom it, belongs shall come and the obedience of the
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 1: nations shall be. His others carried consequences for past, actions
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: Like simeon And levi's curse for their violence At. SHECHEM
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: i will scatter them In jacob and disperse them In.
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: Israel genesis forty nine thirty three Describes jacob's peaceful. Death
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: When jacob had finished giving instructions to his, sons he
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: drew his feet up into the, bed breathed his, last
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 1: and was gathered to his. People joseph mourned deeply for
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: his father and had him embalmed according To egyptian. Custom
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: With pharaoh's, permission he Took jacob's body back To canaan
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: to be buried in the cave Of machpela With, Abraham
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: isaac and their. Wives After jacob's, Death joseph's brothers worried
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 1: that he might finally take revenge on. Them genesis fifty
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 1: fifteen shows their. Fear When joseph's bred saw that their
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: father was. Dead they, said what If joseph holds a
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: grudge against us and pays us back for all the
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: wrongs we did to? Him But joseph's response revealed the
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: depth of his forgiveness and spiritual. Maturity genesis fifty nineteen
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: twenty one records his famous. Words But joseph said to,
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: them don't be, afraid AM i in the place Of.
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: God you intended to harm, me But god intended it
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: for good to accomplish what is now being, done the
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: saving of many. Lives so then don't be. AFRAID i
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: will provide for you and your. Children and he reassured
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: them and spoke kindly to. Them joseph lived to be
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten years, old seeing his great great
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: grandchildren before his. Death genesis fifty twenty four twenty five
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: tells us his final words to his. Brothers Then joseph
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 1: said to his, BROTHERS i am about to, die But
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: god will surely come to your aid and take you
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: up out of this land to the land he promised
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 1: on oath To, Abraham isaac And, jacob And joseph made
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: The israelites swear an oath and, Said god will surely
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: come to your, aid and then you must carry my
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: bones up from this. Place even in, Death joseph's faith
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: remained fixed On god's. Promises he knew That egypt was
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: not their permanent. Home god would eventually bring his people
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 1: back to the Promised. Land genesis fifty twenty six concludes
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: the book With joseph's. Death So joseph died at the
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: age of one hundred and, ten and after they embalmed,
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: him he was placed in a coffin In. Egypt the
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: book Of genesis ends With god's people In, egypt far
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: from The Promised, land but positioned for the next great
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: chapter in his. Plan what began with, creation continued through The,
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 1: fall and developed Through god's covenant With, Abraham, isaac And.
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: Jacob now set the stage for the formation of the
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: nation Of israel and their eventual exodus back to the
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 1: Land god had promised their. Fathers through all the stories Of,
• 2:43:07
  Speaker 1: genesis From adam's disobedience To joseph's, forgiveness we see the
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: consistent theme Of god's faithfulness to his, promises his ability
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: to work through flawed human, beings and his ultimate plan
• 2:43:21
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• 2:43:25
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