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The Issues About Women's Liberty pt. 12 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF. We're thrilled you're here.
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Make sure to stay with us till the end, where
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we'll share some great resources to deepen your
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faith. Now, let's dive into this week's sermon.
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Look at verse 15, Ephesians chapter 5, verse
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15. I want you to walk with your Bible. I mean,
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I want everybody to open his Bible because...
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I believe that you should be looking at your
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Bible. Don't just be walking. Don't just be walking.
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That's the essence of Bible teaching. That's
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the essence of Bible teaching, that to also study
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the Bible together. And so study means to pay
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attention, to pay attention to detail, to pay
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attention and be focused. Look at verse 15. See
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then that you walk circumspectly. That word means...
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to walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,
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redeeming the time because the days are evil.
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Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what
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the will of the Lord is. That word redeeming
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the time means make most of every opportunity.
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That means the time there is opportunities. You
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understand? Now, we're here in Cyprus. We have
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an opportunity. You are here in the church, you
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have an opportunity to study the Word, to pay
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attention to what you are taught. He said, redeeming
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the time, which means that the way to redeem
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the time, because when last year, if you were
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16, this year you are 17. And that means 17 will
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never come again. But how to redeem opportunities
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is to make most of the opportunities. I have
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talked to so many of us that are here. Some of
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you may not have liked the courses you are taking
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now in school, you are studying, because they
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forced it on you. Daddy and mommy said, if you
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don't study engineering, I will not pay your
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school fees. So you have no choice than to study
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what they have imposed on you. But one thing
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that... And not a lot of young people need to
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understand is that whether you are an adult or
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a young person, you have to understand that somebody
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will take decision for you. Oh, are you getting
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me? Are you getting me? Now, are you the president
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of your country? So that means somebody is taking
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decision on your behalf and is going to affect
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you. So don't always look at it as if, you know,
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the way we used to paint it in the sand. This
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is what I want to do. Yes, it's good that parents
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allow us to make our choices. But sometimes when
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you don't have a choice, what I'm trying to say
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is that in life, it's a reality. We're not saying
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that it's good for a curse to be imposed upon
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you. We're saying that is a reality. It happens
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in life. Some decisions are made, not without
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you. Whether you like it or not. He knew man
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would fall. Man would die. But he needs to be
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rescued. You do understand what I'm saying? We
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say that word Ezar means a savior, a rescuer.
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Ezar, E -Z -E -R. It's a rescuer. So when Jesus
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took on flesh, are we together? When he took
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on flesh, that is Ezar coming to help man. That
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is Ezar coming to help man. Did you understand
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what I'm saying? He rescued man from darkness.
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He rescued man. So that word means rescuer. It
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means a deliverer. One who saves you. One who
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takes you from darkness and from death. And we
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saw. That the woman is not man's Ezzah. Because
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the woman that is coming to a man's life, or
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a man coming to a woman's life, you know, we
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always describe it in the other way. But it's
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both coming to each other's life. Are we together?
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So, when they come to each other's life, when
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a woman comes to a man's life, she is not coming
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as a savior. You understand what I'm saying?
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She is not a rescuer. She's not coming to save
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the man from darkness. Except you are darkness.
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I know and I know. When I married my wife, I
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was in the light. And I'm still in the light.
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And I'll continue to be in the light. You understand?
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You remember Ephesians 5? It says you were in
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darkness, but now you are light in him. So my
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wife did not come to give me light. And God did
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not institute the marriage to bring... people
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into light. I know some people say, I am with
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him because I want to convert him. Thank you,
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Holy Spirit. God has not put marriage as a means
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to bring people into light. So the woman is not
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coming to rescue the man from darkness. No. There
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is nowhere, at no point, that the scripture teaches
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that the woman is man's Ezzah, is man's helper.
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So helper in that context, helper in this text
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is not literal. It's not saying that she is your
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house help. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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I know this teaching is spoiling some men's strong,
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strongest scripture in their arsenal in bringing
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their wives into subjection. When the wife want
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to complain and say, don't you know that? He
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say, I want to remind you what the Bible says.
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He say, you are my helper. Did you realize that?
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Brother, don't you think you are wicked? That
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her father took her to school, pay her school
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fees. She went to the university, got degree.
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Her degree was not in Kuchino. And then you carried
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her and said she must continually cook for you.
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How about now? Don't you see that your heart
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is terrible? Okay, wait. Give birth to a child.
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Give birth to a daughter. Train her. Which one
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is it? Medicine. Train her in medicine. I think
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here we pay about 13 ,000 euros, right? Or thereabout.
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That's about 22 ,000, 22 million, probably thereabout
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in Nigerian, whatever, Naira. Are we together?
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A year. And you do that for five, six years,
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right? When you are finishing, that means you
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must have paid up to about 70 something thousand
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euros, right? Are we together? Doctors in the
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house, right? Imagine you paid that money, you
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understand? Some of you, even to help your roommates,
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you say, brother, the Lord will help us. Now,
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somebody trained his daughter with such money.
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And you will carry her and keep her in the house
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to be cooking for you. Didn't you see the way
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your heart is? And you will not do the same.
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So the point I'm trying to say is that there
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is nowhere in scripture because the water helper
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tells us of a message of salvation. Remember,
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he said, in the day you eat it, you will die.
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And he said, and the Lord said, the next scripture.
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I don't want a man to be in that position. He
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said, I have already made a provision for his
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rescue. And I am his helper. Are we together?
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I used to like that song. My, my helper. My.
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It's just that the other line, that's just the
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problem. Maybe you have to adjust that. That
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word. There is something that makes me come into
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your. Where have you been? That's just the line
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that is. Where have you been? You understand?
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Since the day we received him, we have come into.
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And we have been there. We will remain there
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forever. Glory to Jesus. You have not gone anywhere.
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Not there is something. You are already there.
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So adjust that line. But else, I love this song.
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You know what I'm trying to say? So the point
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I'm trying to point out is that marriage is a
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union. It's a mutual union. Oh, let me say it
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again. Marriage is a mutual union. It means a
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symbiotic relationship. It's not a commensal
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relationship where only one benefits. It's not
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also parasitic where one is harmed. No. It's
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a symbiotic relationship. So the man helps the
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woman. The woman helps the man. If you are using
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that word literally, it's not just one way. You
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come together to be a team, to be able to do
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greater things so that when you get married,
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you become better, both of you. You do that in
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business. When two people join hands to come
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together, they join thinking, they join energy,
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they produce a better thing than each one of
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them will have done it. Are we together? Marriage
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is a union where we both help each other. Are
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we together? Therefore, woman is not the help
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of man. Glory to Jesus. Now look at verse 21.
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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall
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on Adam, and he slept. And he took one of his
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ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then
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the rib which the Lord God had taken from man,
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he made into a woman. And he brought her to the
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man. I want you to pay attention, please. Note
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something in verse 21. Particularly, took one
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of his ribs. In verse 21. And then the rib which
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the Lord God had taken from man, he made into
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a woman. Verse, note that word. The reap which
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the Lord or which the Lord had taken. Verse 22.
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You know, people have used this verse also to
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take it very literal that and they call the woman
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the missing reap. Meaning that the man has one
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reap missing because God took it and from the
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woman. So the woman is one reap. The man is left.
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with 23 rips, that this one is missing. And I
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have checked. I had to go online again. I become
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foolish for just a few seconds. I said, let me
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check, you understand? I know this is, Pastor,
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anything is possible. Pastor Emma recently, he's
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had to become pharmaceutical, international relations.
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So there is nothing that you cannot create. Hallelujah.
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But paucococci is a red anatomy. You understand?
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Now you understand that first and foremost, I
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check to find whether there is any normal human
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being. You understand? First, any normal man
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that has an incomplete rib. You understand? And
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I have found none. Then I check, okay, let me
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check any woman. Any normal woman that has only
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one rib and I couldn't find. Okay. And then I
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check, I discover that every, regardless of sex,
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every person, male, female, have 12 pairs of
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ribs. That's 24, right? 24. The exception is
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abnormal. What is abnormal? Maybe you had an
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accident and then some, the curse just broke
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someone's. Or? You went for cosmetics these days.
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Hey, Jesus. There is a cosmetic surgery they
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do these days that they remove your lips to make
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your waist align. You know what I'm saying? I
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saw one woman, she removed six of her lips. What
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is it? That she wants to make herself happy.
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She's on YouTube. That she wants to look... Oh,
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Jesus. She wants to look like a cartoon. That's
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what will make her happy. You see this place
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very thin. If it is that one, that's artificial.
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It's not normal. Or a side accident, or you have
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a genetic disease, you understand. Or sometimes
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even can be removed surgically for any kind of
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maybe disease, when maybe you have discomfort
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around this area there, so they have to remove
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it to help you feel, I mean, to relieve you from
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the pain. But besides these cases I've mentioned,
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normal human beings come with complete rifts.
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Then that means, how did it happen? Is it mutation?
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When God removed that of Adam, and then over
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there they give birth, then there's mutation,
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and then the other one grows back. Or what? I
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don't understand. So what I'm trying to say,
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I want you not to throw away your brain when
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you are reading the scripture. Do you understand
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what I'm trying to say? Yes, don't throw away
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your brain. You need to ask questions. Remember,
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don't forget. When you are reading. That Adam
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didn't read anatomy. And I mean Moses did not
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read anatomy. Moses is a prophet. And the goal
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of Moses is not to give you a textbook of anatomy.
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That's not his goal. Because you know Moses is
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a prophet. And you know his goal. What God called
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him. Then you have to be careful how he writes.
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You have to pay attention because you can't just
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assume that's what he meant. No. Just like I
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gave you an example with Jesus. You know why
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he's here or not. You know what he's about to
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do. So when he was teaching and he uses parables
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and he writes in that pattern, you don't think
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that he's teaching people how to do business
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when he gave the parable of the talent. He said,
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this is the business secret of the Bible. The
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business secrets from Jesus himself. However
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now, that is not how to study the Bible. Go back
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to that verse. Look at that verse. Let me just
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do some things in that verse. Verse 21. Are you
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there? And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to
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Adam. I mean to fall on Adam. To fall on Adam.
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What is that reap? And he slept and he took one
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of his reaps. What is this reap then? If it is
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not biological, if he's not talking about literature,
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what is it? What is Moses trying to communicate?
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Now, the first thing, you know, every teaching
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we teach you, we also teach you how to read Bible.
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When you encounter this kind of a thing, all
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the first thing, I think I taught you during
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the catatismus, one of these catatismus, I think,
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no, the last, no, not this last, the 2024, the
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2023. When Pastor Olu was here, you understand.
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I say, how to know that you have accurately divided
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the word of truth? You have to subject it through
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some certain principle. You understand? One of
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the principles, when you are juggling, you are
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trying to understand the meaning of the word.
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We just did that in the cell with the issue of
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water and the spirit. Are we together? One of
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the things we did was to follow through John.
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And look, how did he use water? Are we together?
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From chapter 3, we look at the context of discussion,
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and the context includes a number of things.
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One is to look at the immediate context. What
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is the major theme discussed there? The theme
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discussed is being born again, which means being
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born of what? Of the Spirit. And how will you
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do that? How will you be born by the Spirit?
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By faith. Did you understand what I'm saying?
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That is the theme. nowhere physical water is
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mentioned. Then that means, and that's the only
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place he said water and the spirit. And John
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was writing it to say to us that Jesus was saying
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it as a further explanation. Because in verse
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3, he told him that except you are born again,
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you will not see the kingdom. And the man didn't
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understand and took it literally. Although he
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was a Pharisee, although he was a teacher of
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the law, he never understood what born again
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means. He thought that a man would be born twice,
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meaning he has to go back to his mother's womb.
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You understand? And then he asked Jesus, what
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do you mean? And then Jesus said, no, no, no,
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no, no, no. This is what I mean. And then he
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reiterated himself. In verse what? Verse 5. That
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means whatever he's saying in verse 5 is not
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different from what he was saying in verse 3.
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And then he further verse 6, verse 7, and then
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continues. When you move to chapter 4, you saw
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Jesus with the Samaritan woman, right? And then
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they were talking about there was literal water
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there. But he uses that also figuratively. He
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said, I will give you the living water. Will
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you mean? Jesus is talking about that. The woman
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also did not understand. She has to begin to
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ask, you don't have the, you don't have anything
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to draw the water. How are you going to give
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me? Then Jesus began to explain further. When
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you read chapter 7, again he talks about water.
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He calls it the living water. What we are trying
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to say is that if you follow the author, you
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will know what he means. Now again, what we will
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do, we will follow Moses. How did he use the
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word reap? Are we together? Are we ready? Okay,
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let's follow Moses. Let's look at how did he
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use the word reap in his writings. Hallelujah.
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Exodus chapter 25. Exodus 25. So just follow
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me quickly. Exodus 25 verse 18. Sorry, verse
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8 to 14. Exodus 25. Verse 8. And let them make
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me a sanctuary, that I might dwell among them
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according to all that I saw you. That is the
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pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of
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all furnishing, just so you shall make it. Verse
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10. And they shall make an ark of acacia wood,
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two and a half cubits. Shall be its length. A
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cubit. And a half. Its width. And a cubic. And
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half its height. Verse 11. And you shall overlay
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it with pure gold. Inside. And outside you shall
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overlay it. And shall make on it. A molding.
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Of gold. All around. Look at verse 12 please.
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And you shall cast. Full. Of the gold. That word
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sight is the same word as rip. The word there
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in Hebrew is selah. S -E -L -A. Selah. S -E -L
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-A. That's the word in Hebrew. So that word sight
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is the same word selah. Let's continue. He said,
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and two rings on the other side. And you shall
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make pole of acacia wood and overlay them with
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gold. You shall put the pole into the rings on
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the side of the ark. That the ark will be carried
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by them. Now look at that word. He said the rings,
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verse 14. That word sides. Sides is also means.
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The rip. What can you see here? That means we
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see now here in this text, rip. Rip as what?
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Side of an ark. The rip here is what? The sides
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of what? An ark. Look at Exodus 26. Exodus 26.
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Look at verse 20. And for the second side of
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the tabernacle. Now look at that what side again.
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Is the word to reap. Which is selah. Side of
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the tabernacle. The north side. There shall be
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20 boats. Look at verse 26. Verse 26. So Exodus
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26. We read verse 20. Now 26. And you shall make
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bars of acacia wood. Five of the boats of one
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side. That word side again. Is the word what?
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Reap. Selah. Look at verse 27. What do you see
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again here? That means here, reap is what? The
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site of what? The tabernacle. Are we together?
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Oh, are you with me? Sight of what? The tabernacle.
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Look at chapter 27. Chapter 27. Chapter 27, verse
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7. The pole shall be put in the rings, and the
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pole shall be on the two sides of the altar to
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bear it. Two sides of the altar. That was sight
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again. That was sight again. Here we see is a
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sight. of the altar. Side of the ark, side of
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the tabernacle, side of the altar. Look at chapter
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30 verse 4. Chapter 30 verse 4. Chapter 30 verse
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4. We're still in Exodus 30 verse 4. Two gold
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rings you shall make for it. On the molding on
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both sides you shall place them on it. two sides.
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Now that word side, again, both its sides. Sides.
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You shall place them on its two sides and they
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shall be holders for the poor witch to bear it.
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So we see side. Reap a side, O Selah. Chapter
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36. Chapter 36. Verse 25. And for the other side,
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that word side is Selah, of the tabernacle. Move
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to verse 31 of that. Exodus 36. And he made bars
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of acacia wood, five for the boat on one side
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of the tabernacle. One side of the tabernacle,
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verse 32. Five bars for the boat on the other
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side of the tabernacle. Now, you could see that
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in all these verses, verse 31, verse 32, verse
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25. Again, what do we see? Reap of Selah. As
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what? Sides of the tabernacle. Sides of the tabernacle,
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verse 37. Sorry, chapter 37. Next is chapter
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37, verse 3. And he casts for it four rings of
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gold, for gold to be set in its corners, in two
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rings on one side. That word side again is rip.
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And two rings on the other side of it. Again,
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we see sides. Look at verse 5 of that chapter
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37. Are you there with me? He said, and he put
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the pole into the rings at the side of the ark
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to bear the ark. That side again. 27, verse 27.
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Verse 27 of chapter 37. He made two rings of
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gold for it under its molding. By two corners.
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By two corners. On both sides. As holders for
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the pole. With which to bear it. Look at chapter
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38. 38 verse 7. 38 verse 7. Then he put the pole.
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Into the ring. On the side of the altar. With
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which to bear it. He made the altar hollow. With
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both sides. Of the altar. That word sight again.
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What can we see here? That means Selah. As all
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we are. This is. They enter in all Moses writings.
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You understand. These are places Moses used the
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same word. With that word he used in Genesis.
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We see it as the sight of a building. Of a tabernacle.
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The sight of an ark. Sight of the altar. Sight.
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So in all these instances, Moses taught rips
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in reference to building. Moses taught what?
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Rip in reference to what? Building a tabernacle.
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Because all these things we talk about is about
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the building of a tabernacle. Are we together?
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The building of a tabernacle. Now, I want you
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to note something again because we are trying
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to look contextually. Why will Moses be using
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this same word? That's the question I want to
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ask now. Why would Moses be using this same word
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in reference to a tabernacle? Why would Jesus
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be using a lot of parables with agriculture?
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Are you together with me? Are you together with
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me? Because the choice of Christ to use more
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of agriculture to speak about what he wants to
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speak is in reference to his audience. Oh, are
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we together? Oh, are we together? Amen. I want
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you to note Moses' choice of what? Moses' choice
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of even the issue of tabernacle was because of
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the experience of the Israelites. The issue of
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tabernacle is not a strange thing to Israel.
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Are we together? The children of Israel are conversant
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with tabernacle, with temples in Egypt because
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that is where idol worship takes place. Are we
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together? Idol worship takes place where? In
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a tabernacle. So when Moses was using to build
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a tabernacle, he didn't choose that because he
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just wanted to choose that to communicate the
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gospel. Because I think we did hypodigma, right?
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When we are dealing with Leviticus, the gospel
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in Leviticus. We even studied the issue of in
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Hebrew and we saw that the tabernacle. was a
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hypodigma, was an example, was a pointer. Are
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we together? To the building that God will do.
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Are we together? Amen. So when Moses make a choice
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to build the tabernacle and to describe it, he
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is speaking from a point to make his audience
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have a connection to what he's saying. So note
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this one, that the deliverance. Let me tell you
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one thing. Tabernacle, the knowledge of the tabernacle
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or temple emanates from Egypt because Egypt is
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a place of idol worship. That's where they knew.
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So most times when we describe the exodus of
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Israel from Egypt, we describe it as if God is
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just saving them from oppression. But it's not
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just oppression. Yes, it's oppression. But equally,
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God was saving them from idol worship. Because
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when he told Moses, he said, go and tell Pharaoh
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that I want my people to go and serve me. Are
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we together? Hallelujah. So God was not just
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only saving Israel from oppression in Egypt,
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but he was saving them also from idol worship,
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from idol worship. Hallelujah. He was saving
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them from idol worship. Now, let me give you
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just an introduction of something. Look at Exodus
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12. I want to just show you that Egypt, about
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tabernacle and idol worship, Israel lent it from
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where? From Egypt. So when Moses was speaking
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using tabernacle, they understood what Moses
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was communicating. They understood what Moses
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was communicating. Exodus chapter 12, verse 12.
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For I will pass through the land of Egypt. On
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the night, and I will strike all the firstborn
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in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and
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against all the gods of who? The gods of Egypt.
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And I will execute the judgment. I am the Lord.
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The gods of Egypt. The gods of Egypt. The gods
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of Egypt. Look at Joshua 24. Joshua 24. Joshua
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24. Look at verse 14. 24 verse 14. Now, therefore,
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fear the Lord. Serve him in sincerity and in
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truth. And put away what? The goat which your
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father served on the other side of the river.
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In where? Oh, talk to me. In where? In Egypt.
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That's where they learned it. That's where they
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learned it. Look at Ezekiel 20. That's where
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I will stop. Look at Ezekiel 20. Ezekiel 20.
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And we shall continue from there. All glory to
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Jesus. What I'm trying to say is that when you
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see Bible writers use things, it is not accidental.
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They don't just choose what have hazardly. They
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choose it deliberately. Are we together? That's
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what we're trying to communicate. Are you in
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Ezekiel? Ezekiel 20. Look at verse 5. Let me
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read quickly here because I want you to see.
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so much here before we close excuse me verse
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five say to them so says the lord on the day
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when i choose israel and raise my hand in an
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oath to the descendants of the house of jacob
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made myself known to them in the land of egypt
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i raise my hand in an oath Verse 7. With the
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idols of Egypt, I am the Lord your God. But,
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verse 8, they rebel against me and will not obey
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me. They did not all cast away the abominations
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which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake
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the idols of Egypt. Then I said, I will pour
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out my fury on them and fulfill my anger against
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them in the midst of the land of Egypt. But I
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acted for my name's sake, that I should not be
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profaned before the Gentiles, among whom they
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were, in whose side I had made myself known to
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them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
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made them to go out of the land of Egypt and
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brought them into the wilderness and I gave them
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my status and showed them my judgment which even
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man does he shall live by them moreover I also
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gave them my sabbath to be a sign between them
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and me that they might know that I am the Lord
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whom sanctified them. Yet the house of Israel
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rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did
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not walk in my status. They despise my judgment,
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which if a man does, he shall live by them, and
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they greatly defile my Sabbath. Then I said,
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I will pour out my fury on them in the wilderness
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to consume them, but I acted. For my name's sake,
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that it shall not be profane before the Gentiles,
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in whom side I had brought them out. So I also
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raise my hand in an oath to them in the wilderness,
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that I will not bring them into what? Into the
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land which I had given them flowing with milk
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and honey, the glory of all the lands. Verse
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16. Because they despised my judgment and did
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not... But I said to them, to their children
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in the wilderness, I said to their children,
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he said, do not walk in the status of your father,
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nor observe their judgment, for nor defile yourself
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with their what? With their idols. Now, when
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Moses make a choice to build a tabernacle and
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to use the word to reap and to describe, sorry,
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he was not describing anatomy. He was describing
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and using things familiar to his audience. using
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things familiar to his audience to communicate
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something. Are we together? So even the Israelites
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were delivered from Egypt. Even though they were
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delivered from Egypt, they were still not free
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from what? For their idols. They were not free.
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They were not free. That thing they have imbibed
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was following them. When we come, we will see
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some of the trouble that they had in the wilderness.
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And then the idea is that we are following gradually.
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to come to understand what was Moses communicating
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when he used that the Lord took a rip, took a
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rip and built into a woman. What did he mean
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by that? But one thing I want you to understand
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is that at this moment, that Moses was not communicating
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by logic. Are we together? That that word rip
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is a term in building and the building is about
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the tabernacle. And he... The tabernacle is about
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what they are familiar with. And he's using that
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to communicate the plans of God for their life.
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