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Embracing the Lamb of God: Finding Daily Protection and Peace · Arise Women of God

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  What do you think about the names of Christ?
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  Have you ever heard of his title, the Lamb of God?
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  What does that mean to you and what does it mean to me, especially surrounding Easter?
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  Well, stay tuned.
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  We're going to talk about this today.
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  Hello and welcome to another episode of Bible Women in Bathrobes.
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  I'm your host, Tamara K.
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  Anderson and joining me today is one of our two of our amazing board members from Women warriors of Light, Amy Johnson.
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  Amy, thanks for being with us this morning.
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  Good morning.
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  And Jennifer Wright.
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  Jen, thanks for being here today too.
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  Of course.
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  We are so excited to dive into this new series.
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  We just finished wrapping up the Armor of Light, which is wonderful and I'm so thankful that we've been able to do that wonderful series.
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  And today we start the series talking about the different names of our Savior and there's no way we're going to cover them all because there are so many.
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  But today we get to cover the Lamb of God.
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  But before we do, I thought that I would kick us off with the Bible verse that talks about several of his names.
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  That is one of a favorite of mine and I'm sure one of yours.
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  And we recognize it from the Messiah and it is found in Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6 and it says for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his
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  shoulder.
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  And his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
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  And I'm so excited we get to speak about our Savior Redeemer, the Prince of Peace today.
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  But before we do that, we need to kind of turn back the pages of time and go back clear to the Old Testament, to the Passover.
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  And the reason I'm bringing this up is because the Passover is very, very symbolic of what Jesus is titled the Lamb of God is all about.
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  So Jen, since you are awesome and well versed and have taught Scriptures to youth for years, I thought we'd let you kick this off.
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  Thanks Tamara.
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  I appreciate it.
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  I love the Passover and I love the Old Testament.
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  I love this universal story about Christ that we get through the continuity of Scripture.
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  And something that I love about this idea of Christ telling his story way back with Moses at the beginning of the organization of his people as a whole, right.
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  Is that he's telling his own story that he's going to go ahead and fulfill.
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  And he's telling them in a way that they can remember through stories and symbols, which is really great.
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  So if you remember Moses, he is brought up in the time of Egyptians.
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  The Israelites have been enslaved and they are suffering.
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  So Moses is sent and he's already negotiated with Pharaoh at this time.
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  And Pharaoh has said no.
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  The plagues have come and Pharaoh has still said no.
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  And there is.
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  They get direction from God and Moses gives it out to the people.
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  And what they're meant to do is gather together as families or neighbors, right?
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  This is a family feast.
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  And they're meant to take, to make an offering, a sacrifice.
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  In this case, it's a lamb.
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  And not only a lamb, but an unblemished lamb.
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  And so this would be no broken bones, no obvious blemishes.
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  And they're meant to sacrifice it.
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  And when they sacrifice it, they're meant to take the blood, which is always a symbol of atonement.
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  And they're meant to mark their doorways.
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  And it is that the destruction of God will pass over them in the night.
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  And I love the symbolism of that.
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  There's a couple of other pieces of symbolism of the Passover that I love is the family gathering.
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  That this is remembering the promises that God's already made through the Abrahamic covenant, that he's going to save them, he's going to bring them out peacefully.
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  And that it is.
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  They are meant to be ready to go and to act after this atonement is made with the blood.
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  So I.
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  I love this idea.
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  And it's taken from this history.
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  And then they're admonished to do it yearly and that it's the start of their year, this Passover feast.
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  And we read about it occasionally through the rest of Scripture.
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  And then of course, in the New Testament, it's going to be.
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  Christ is going to celebrate and record three Passover feasts.
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  This idea of the lamb is so tender in that they would have been trusting this symbol of Christ as a lamb, that they would have gone to their shepherd.
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  This would not be like they had to chase it down.
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  They would have just called it to them, right?
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  And that they would have come peacefully.
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  And, um, I love thinking about him trying to show and reveal himself to people then, just as he tries to show and reveal himself to people now so that we can access his power.
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  I really love that.
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  What are the questions you have about the.
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  About Passover or observations do you guys have?
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  Oh, this is so, so good.
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  And I love the innocence of lambs.
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  My daughter has had the chance to work with some animals over the last six months, and just this last couple months, they've had some baby goats and some baby sheep born.
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  And she brings me home videos, like, every day that she's up there, and we sit and watch them.
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  And yesterday I was just with her and she was showing me the cute little baby sheep, and I just thought, here I am talking about the Lamb of God on a podcast tomorrow, and I can't even imagine taking
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  something so sweet and innocent and sacrificing it, and yet that is the symbol of Christ.
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  It just.
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  It's.
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  It's so touching to my heart and soul to see the symbolism of purity and innocence and that he had done nothing wrong, you know?
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  Amy, any thoughts as we're kicking this off?
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  That's over is one of my favorite stories ever.
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  It's.
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  It.
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  I.
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  I believe that every day of our lives, we have an opportunity to relive the Passover in essence.
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  I love how the Lord works symbolically.
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  I love how he loves his rights and he loves his rituals.
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  He loves his ordinances, and he knows that in the doing of those rights and rituals, it becomes permanently impressed upon our hearts.
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  And.
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  And we have.
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  We have the opportunity daily to look for ways to stand up and stand out like they did, because they were more intermingled than we believe.
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  I think with.
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  It wasn't like, oh, all the children of Israel live over here and all the Egyptians live over here.
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  It was just like we live now.
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  My neighbor is or isn't Christian.
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  I am Christian.
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  And so we have the privilege every day to stand up and stand out and put the emblems of Jesus Christ around us and forth, just like they did in the Passover.
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  And by doing those things, we receive heaven's help to prevent destruction upon our household.
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  And I just.
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  I just know that's real.
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  I just know that's real.
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  I've lived it too many times.
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  I just know that's real.
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  When you raise children in this crazy world, the emblems of Jesus Christ that you put forward protect them and watch over them.
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  And that doesn't mean everything's going to go perfect all the time, but it does mean that the Destroying angel passes by a lot of times where he would have had a foothold if I had just not put emblems
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  forth.
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  Love what you talked about in this protection that we can offer routinely and regularly in the directions for the Passover.
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  He talks about how none of it shall be saved for the next day.
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  And it just reminds me of that, that this is daily and it we're going to see it again in mana.
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  That you can't save these spiritual offerings that we make it.
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  It won't carry through that these are daily offerings and these are regular ways for us to remember and come unto God.
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  And I really love that idea of protecting our families daily that you brought up, Amy.
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  I think that's really beautiful.
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  I think the other thing it does that I think sometimes it's easy for me to forget is it brings out God's role in the atonement as far as the sacrifice of his son in that completion.
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  When you think about what's happening at the Passover, the thing that was passed over was that they wouldn't lose their firstborn sons.
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  And it's done through the offering of God's firstborn son, right?
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  And there's this beautiful element of starting to understand the love of God.
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  Not only the condescension of God through Christ, which is a big concept to understand in him coming to the earth as the Lamb of God, but the sacrifice of God and the love of God in Jesus Christ as
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  that symbol is something really beautiful to consider too, I think.
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  Wow, this is so, so beautiful.
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  And I love how you reminded us that because God gave his only begotten son, we don't have to lose ours.
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  Do you know what I mean?
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  Our children.
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  And, and that's tying in Amy's comment as well there.
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  And as a mother, that is so overwhelming to me almost to think about because there's few people on earth I love more than my kids.
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  But what I also love about this Passover story is the mercy of God that is portrayed through the.
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  Here's a plague.
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  Okay, you guys can go.
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  No, you can't go.
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  How many chances God gives, not only the Egyptians, but us.
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  Because I think sometimes we worry that, oh, I've made that mistake too many times.
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  I'm beyond redemption at this point.
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  Or maybe our kids feel that way, or a friend feels that way.
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  And I love the symbol of this, that it's okay because of the blood of the Lamb, we can all be delivered just like the Israelites were delivered from Egypt.
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  That, that, that is a symbol of the Lamb being Sacrificed to save us, you know?
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  Yeah.
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  That's really beautiful, Tamara.
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  I really love that.
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  Well, and I love that too.
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  And I love that the Savior had to be submissive enough to be sacrificed, which the scripture in Isaiah talks about that.
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  Isaiah 53 talks about that he was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.
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  He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shares is dumb.
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  So he opened not his mouth.
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  And my mom has a picture of a lamb all bound, laying hands and feet bound.
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  And he had to be submissive and willing enough to do that.
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  But we have to be submissive enough to get out of Egypt to go.
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  Yeah, we have to shut our mouths, stop murmuring, and get out of Egypt.
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  Well, and sometimes I think we have to close the door.
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  Right.
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  We have to mark the blood of the atonement on our door post, and then we have to close the door on whatever chapter that is, whatever thing is going on.
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  And we have to keep people close.
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  Right.
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  But it's always on the inside.
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  It's protected by.
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  And I think sometimes we want to go ahead and stand guard outside.
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  We want to still be there, and we're more comfortable in that position than in surrender to God and close the door and trust that nothing is coming through that door, that where we are is safe and protected, you
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  know?
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  Yeah.
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  I, I, I have walked away many times because God said walk away, trusting that he will protect all that I left behind and it would all be for my good.
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  I think we have to have the strength to say God doesn't want me in Egypt anymore.
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  Not because it's bad necessarily, or good, but God doesn't want me in Egypt anymore.
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  God takes great interest in where his people live, and I think we need to understand that and that by doing so, it allows us to further worship him, further, love him further, become like him.
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  I think that's super powerful, what you're saying as far as sometimes God needs us somewhere else and sometimes it's going to be in Egypt.
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  Right.
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  Sometimes.
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  Right.
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  Egypt is the place where Christ returns as a child for protection.
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  Right.
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  And it's the Egyptians who take him in as an immigrant.
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  Right.
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  So it's not the Egypt of a thing.
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  Right.
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  Sometimes it's the practices that are going on.
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  Sometimes it's what's happening to you, sometimes it's the situation.
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  But I love what you said about going and walking away and trusting that they're following.
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  God is the place where you're going to learn and grow, and it it doesn't mean ease.
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  Right.
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  That ease doesn't mean righteousness or it doesn't equate to holiness for us.
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  He wants our growth in our hearts.
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  Absolutely.
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  Absolutely.
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  So how do we teach this symbol of the Lamb, Especially with Easter coming up again?
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  Here we are, 2025.
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  How do we teach this symbol of the Lamb in our Easter celebr today?
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  I just thought I'd throw that out there because it's.
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  It's a difficult challenge, especially with this commercialized disease.
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  There is now.
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  How do we teach this and be reminded of it ourselves as we approach Easter?
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  Amy, let's kick it off with you.
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  Sometimes I think we get too focused on how do we exhort, teach.
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  Not that we shouldn't, but instead of how do we live.
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  Like I said, my mom has a picture on her wall of a lamb representing this whole story of the Lamb of God being bound and quiet and silent.
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  And that that is huge for me because I know when my mom saw that, she told me I had to have it.
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  I had to have that understanding that I could be like the Lamb of God, that I could to bind my own will and give it to the Lord and be silent.
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  And my mom's a firecracker.
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  She is 5 foot 4 and full of fury.
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  If you get it in the right place.
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  She is.
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  And she was exactly the mom I needed because there is just no way anybody else probably could have done what she did.
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  She taught me the gospel.
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  She was relentless and she has ever been relentless in pursuing after her children and bringing them to Christ.
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  And so I love that she has that symbol because I know what that means to her.
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  It's about following Jesus Christ.
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  It's what it's about.
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  And I think sometimes we get a little distracted in the celebrations and forget that every day is where they see it.
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  It's.
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  It's where I see it.
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  It's in my everyday getting on my knees and saying to God, can you just come and be with me for a few minutes?
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  Which is going to be a little hard today because I do that in my closet.
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  And today there was a mouse in my closet staring at it.
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  I don't know exactly where I'm going to have my time with God today, but not in the closet here with us.
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  I think that that's one of the beautiful parts, right.
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  Of the Passover is saying a spiritual experience is not a solitary experience, that the lessons we have of God are meant for the congregation.
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  The lessons we have of God are meant for the congregation.
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  Yeah, they are meant for our neighbors.
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  Yeah, they are meant for all of us.
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  But I will tell you something that I did read.
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  It's in First Corinthians chapter.
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  It's chapter five, verse seven, I think.
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  Seven.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  So I read this, and he said, and it says, purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump.
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  And I actually paused and laughed and I was like, don't you want to be a new lump as ye are unleavened for even Christ?
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  Our Passover is sacrificed for us.
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  So sweet.
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  My husband looked at me, he goes, how does that even make sense?
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  How can you get the leaven out of dough that's already made?
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  And I do not know what possessed my soul, but I said, oh, Nicodemus.
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  And we were both laughing so hard because he was like, how can I?
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  And then my husband kept it going right with the words of Nicodemus dying, laughing.
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  But it.
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  If you really, if you.
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  If you're looking for a way to teach how to become like the Lamb of God, how to become submissive like him, this Scripture is awesome because purge out there for the old leaven, that those people had been following
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  this Levitical law for years, but not understanding why.
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  And so what he was saying is, you gotta get out the old leaven so that you can be unleavened.
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  No preconceived things.
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  No, this is the way it's always been done.
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  We do this because this is what we do.
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  My favorite movie, almost everybody knows is, well, one of them is the Fiddler on the Roof.
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  Yeah.
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  And Tevia is like, why do we do all these things?
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  I'll tell you.
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  I don't know.
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  That's what he's saying.
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  He's like, you don't even know why you are following this Levitical law anymore.
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  You don't see that it points to Jesus Christ.
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  So get out this old leaven.
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  This old law that used to lift the children of Israel to a higher plane, come down, be totally humble and submissive.
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  And then he says, for even Christ, our Passover is sacrificed for us.
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  And so to answer Nicodemus, how do we get the leaven out of the dough?
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  Only through Jesus Christ.
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  That is the only way we come down, become submissive, become humble, and become unleavened.
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  And I think that would be a beautiful principle.
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  And if my children live near me still, we would get together this year, we would have unleavened bread and we would talk.
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  I'm sorry, I'm really emotional about my children not being nearby.
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  Yeah, I think that is so, so beautiful, Amy.
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  There is so much beautiful symbolism, both in Jesus Christ being the paschal lamb and also in applying his blood in our lives.
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  And it's interesting that there.
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  If we fast forward to the New Testament times, Jesus then introduced the sacrament on that last Passover that his body would be broken, that unleavened bread would be broken and torn.
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  And that is the Lamb of God applying himself in our.
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  This is what we do now to remember him, to show the world that we follow Jesus Christ.
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  And different faith traditions do that differently.
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  But I just love the symbolism of that.
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  That that is how we get that.
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  Those old habits and patterns out of us.
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  And we do it regularly so we can remember him and teach our children.
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  Jen, you look like me something.
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  I totally do.
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  So Paul, going back to 1 Corinthians 5, in the very next verse, he says the same thing you're talking about, Tamara.
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  He says, therefore, right after we get that unleavened out, let us keep the fe with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness.
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  But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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  And what he's talking about is what we're bringing.
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  Like, Amy, you're saying this humility.
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  What are we bringing to the table?
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  What are we bringing to the sacrificial table or to the altar of God or the sacrament table or whatever offering that we're going to make to him.
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  And what Paul admonishes is sincerity and truth.
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  It's that broken heart, right, that we're going to be honest.
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  I think, tying back in this Lamb of God and this family and neighbor and communal experience of worship.
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  I think sometimes we are reticent to share our experiences of being saved in a way that's relatable.
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  We can become very good at telling things.
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  And I think he wants us to share what that experience of being saved is with our kids.
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  Tamara, you were asking, how do we teach about the Lamb of God?
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  And I think it's through this kind of sharing that can grow with different conversations and grow with age and maturity, but it's just sharing about how the Lamb of God has saved me, how he literally has saved me,
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  how I see him as that symbol where that symbol, like Amy, you said your mom, sharing about where that symbol shows up for her and how it shows up for her.
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  I do think it's just creating opportunities of sharing in our communities and with our families about who he is and what he means to us.
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  Yeah, I know that.
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  As I pondered approaching Easter, one of the thoughts I had was to we have a family text chain.
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  And I thought, wouldn't it be great if we each just shared maybe each day coming up to Easter, a verse or maybe a thought or how Jesus has showed up for us today.
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  And I think it can be something as simple as that, because not all my kids are in my house.
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  Do you know what I mean?
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  Like.
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  Like Amy or like Jen, Kids grow up, they.
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  They stretch their wings, they fly.
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  And how neat it is that we have technology, that we can still share thoughts and emotions and feelings and.
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  And how, like you said, Jen, the Lamb of God has saved us.
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  Well, can I just say it's interesting that as we talk about becoming, I've thought about the unleavened bread year after year, but I've never thought about it quite the way I'm seeing it today, that Jesus Christ died of
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  a broken heart.
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  And I've.
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  I've thought about that.
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  And therefore, if we want to receive what he did for us, we need to have a broken heart.
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  Thought about that.
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  But I've Never really thought of that leaven.
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  The reason we want to be like unleavened bread is so that he can then come in and lift us higher.
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  And that by getting rid of that leaven.
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  That is total humility.
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  That is total humility.
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  And also leavening is also kind of a preservative.
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  And so that's another thing why we need to remember as unleavened bread, we need to do it daily.
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  There's no preserving this day to day.
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  It doesn't last for weeks on end without we need to be an unleavened bread and need Jesus Christ daily, every hour.
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  So good.
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  So, so good.
• 28:59
  Jen, you look like you wanted to say something.
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  Well, it's just really interesting about unleavened bread, right?
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  It's to the Passover.
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  They're going to go ahead and add later this feast of unleavened bread.
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  Old Testament loves a feast, right?
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  But don't we.
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  Right.
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  We love a barbecue anyway.
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  No, they love it.
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  And I love that they tie these symbols to it.
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  But the unleavened bread is seven days, right?
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  Where there is no leaven in the house.
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  It isn't just not in their bread.
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  It is cleaned from the house.
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  It's a spring cleaning ritual, right?
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  Where there is none for seven days.
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  And I just think of that a lot of that idea of seven being complete and whole and holy and trying to get us there, right?
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  And how we treat Sabbath day.
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  Right.
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  It starts on a Sabbath day, it ends on a Sabbath day.
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  And that idea of le is interesting.
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  It is meant to be on, on the road like it is.
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  This is traveling bread, right?
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  Unleavened bread is, is meant to be moving.
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  And I like that idea.
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  It's really cool.
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  It's definitely representative of all that Jesus Christ asks of us and did for us.
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  I well, and the symbols are so great.
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  The symbol, the symbol of the lamb and of the shepherds being the first to witness the son of God.
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  Like I think Christ loves shepherds.
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  Like, I think he sees this symbolism and this story through.
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  He introduces it to his people, they're gonna witness of him.
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  He's gonna return to the imagery over and over again.
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  I think of Mary and Joseph sharing that story with him about his birth right, who the first people are.
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  And I think he's gonna hold on to that.
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  And I there's something really tender about this initial story he tells with this identity of whom he is and who he is that he is gonna learn from his parents and from God and just these sheep and this
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  shepherd and this how encompassing it all is.
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  You know what the symbolism is.
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  It's very cool.
• 31:28
  Yeah.
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  So, so good, you guys, let's wrap it up.
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  I know we could probably talk about this ages and ages, but what are your favorite takeaways from today's episode?
• 31:41
  Jen, let's start with you.
• 31:43
  I actually have this quote.
• 31:44
  Let me see if I can find it.
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  Because it talks about kind of what happens when we're filled with the love of God.
• 31:53
  It's by John Groberg, but it says, when filled with God's love, we can do and see and understand things that we could not otherwise do or see or understand.
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  Filled with his love, we can endure pain, quell fear, forgive freely, avoid contention, renew strength, and bless and help others in ways surprising even to us.
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  And when I think of the Lamb of God, it is the blood of the Lamb of God that is the thing that saves me.
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  And it is the good shepherd who shows me the way and makes me to lie down in green pastures.
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  This is a symbolism of peace.
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  And it's the offering that is asked of me, which is life changing, which is to bring peace in a world where peace isn't to be found.
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  That is beautiful.
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  Thank you for sharing that, Amy.
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  For me, I think that my takeaway is we always talk about how Jesus Christ is the example, but he is literally the perfect example of letting go and letting God.
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  He literally gave his entire everything and said, I trust God to make it right.
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  I trust God to make it work.
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  I trust God.
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  This the best way.
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  He was the ultimate example of letting go and letting God.
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  And I want to be as a lamb, bound, letting go of my own need to fight back and kick against the pricks.
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  And I want to be unleavened bread.
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  And I want to just let go and let God take over my life, no matter what it looks like, so that I can be one of the many in Revelation that says, worthy is the Lamb.
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  That's what I want.
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  That's all I've ever wanted.
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  And he makes that possible.
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  He's the one who makes it possible for me to let go and let God, because he did first.
• 34:28
  That is so beautiful.
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  Thank you so much for sharing that.
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  I too hope that I can live worthy of that.
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  That quote in Revelation where in that eternal home we can shout worthy the Lamb.
• 34:40
  My favorite takeaway from today is just remembering that sweet, innocent lamb.
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  It is.
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  It is hard for me to wrap my mind around his sacrifice for me.
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  And I felt his strengthening power when I've had to go through hard things.
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  I felt his redeeming power when I've made mistakes and felt broken and needed help to start again.
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  And I know he lives that he was innocent.
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  And yet so humbly and willingly he submitted to God.
• 35:32
  He paid the price so that the destroying angel would pass over each of us and that we have a chance to return to that heavenly home.
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  And I'm so thankful for that.
• 35:53
  My heart kind of feels overwhelmed every time I think about everything that Jesus Christ has done for me, for my children, my spouse, for every single one of us.
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  And I am thankful and testify that that Easter morning that tomb was empty and that although he died, he does live today.
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  And I'm so thankful for that.
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  That the blood of the Lamb redeems each and every one of us.
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  And I love his invitation so many times throughout all Scripture.
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  Come unto me, Come unto me all ye that labor and are having lamen.
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  Come this is this.
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  The Paris has already been paid.
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  What will you do with it?
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  Will you accept it and move on with your life?
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  Will you wallow in misery?
• 36:49
  You have a choice, right?
• 36:51
  We all have a choice.
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  And it doesn't matter where we've been or what we've done.
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  That blood has been paid and you are redeemable, right?
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  May the goodness of this Easter season and of the Lamb of God be yours and your families as you turn to Him.
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