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As veterans, we begin new lives when we leave our military
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together. Luke 923 Then he said to them,
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All, Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves,
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and take up their cross daily, and follow me.
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Here we go. I don't know what that was.
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Today is August 3rd, the year of our Lord 2026.
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We are live both here in person, in my Home, Office, studio,
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whatever you want to call this. Had some lunch.
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We, we, we. Good to go.
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Come on. Can I cook?
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Yeah, you can. Hey, I'm telling you, man, that
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that squash spaghetti was outstanding.
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Yeah, spaghetti squash. I don't.
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I try not to do. It was the IT was delicious,
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the. Pasta stuff, you know, clogged
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up. Yeah.
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I love spaghetti squash. I discovered it several years
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ago. Delicious.
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Yeah, I I like spaghetti. Squash.
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It's just to let you guys know who don't believe we actually
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have a show. I think it was some morph meta
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Meta can't do this Meta. Meta didn't go to Brooke Hay.
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So it's hot outside. Sorry I'm I'm fixing my makeup
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on camera right there. Very hot.
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It's hot outside. I've been working inside today
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because I spent those two days outside working on the RV and
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for those of you who follow me on the from pain to purpose show
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and you know, man, this, the heat for two days was enough and
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today I'm like, OK, I'm working inside today.
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So I've been cleaning up closets.
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You know, purging, purging stuff.
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You. Guys knew what I have to take
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back to to Carrollton in some areas, man, she's been hard at
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work. It sheds her too hard and hard
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and. Work.
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Come on. Here we go.
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Is that better? That's getting better.
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There we. Go now.
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I don't feel like my half of my face is cut off trying to figure
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this out. Is that better?
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It's getting there. All right.
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Sorry about that, folks. A little on air, you know?
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Yeah, well, I'm not used to having somebody else sit right
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here to do the show. Hey, I was invited.
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I'm just. We had some business.
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We had we had some business to do.
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Business. We had some business.
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I don't know. How have you been doing, Daryl?
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I'm good. You know what?
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So over the weekend we had a memorial for sister Isabella
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Gonzalez, who passed away over in Jordan.
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Wonderful. There wasn't a dry out in the
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house on on on Saturday nor Sunday.
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We did the program at Prestonwood Baptist Church in
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Plano, Carrollton and we did the memorial service at the DFW on
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Sunday morning. So it was a It was a wonderful
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opportunity to fellowship with friends and families and
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different civic and service organizations.
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But more importantly, it was an opportunity for people who had
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never been to a memorial service with the IT was very moving do.
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You think memorial or the fact that it's a military memorial
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service, is that part of? It so so most people in in that
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venue, they've never seen a memorial nor have they seen a
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memorial military service, military service.
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So it was a, a combination of both the people who spoke,
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particularly Saturday evening, we had all sorts of state
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senators, congressional leaders who came and spoke.
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The president sent a, a special letter to the family.
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And I must also note to everyone that President Trump, they, they
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think about him, He has never lied about assisting veterans in
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their families. He's always been #1 on it.
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So he said, whatever this family needs, they shall have.
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From what I understand, Justin, watching my social media that,
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you know, there was a lot of outpouring of love for her, for
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her family. Yeah, very young.
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And, you know, I think so many of us started our military
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service very young. And so you know when you've got
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young teenagers, I mean, let's face it, she was a teenager,
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still had so much to. Look forward.
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To in future, but you think about what it has done to bring
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community together. Is it right in a whole different
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way? I mean, I think in in the
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context of what you and I have seen with the veteran space,
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with veteran service organizations that they came
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together at that event 'cause you were American Legion.
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I mean, you're a member of BFW as well, but right, but that
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both BMW was there, American Legion was there, other veteran
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service organizations were there.
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So that's it's a critical to have something like that where
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politics got put aside and it was about serving the family,
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not being divided. Absolutely.
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In in the American Legion, the BMW, the Knights of Columbus,
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the DAV, the Ambitz, the motorcycle riders and and all
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the other organizations that may have failed to mention that I
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don't need any dishonor or disrespect.
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They were out in force. There was nearly well there was
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standing room on for the event. So we were certainly thankful
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for us not only to to have some sit, but to be honored.
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And the the color of the evening day on Sunday was her favorite
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colors. Sister Gonzalez's favorite
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colors were purple and black. So I did my portion to
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represent, you know, purple is the color of royalty.
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So, you know, as a king sitting next to a queen, but as a king,
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you know, I, I wear as much purple as possible.
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I do have AI have a rock in the Brookhaven today.
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But it was a nice opportunity for us to exhibit our patriotism
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and our love, care and compassion for the family.
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Family needs as much mourning and honor respect as as can be
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deemed appropriate because it is a a critical and an essential
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time for them to come together as a family.
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And when they're ready to speak, they will.
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Cameras were everywhere, of course, and there are people who
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had nothing to do with the family or the the aspect of what
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occurred. You know, they want to be on
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camera because of the opportunity to be on television.
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We know differently. So let us all take the time not
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only remember this family, but today.
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If you have not done it in days going forward, please call
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someone, please text someone. Please e-mail someone if their
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e-mail address, the alternate e-mail address, the alternate
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alternate e-mail address to let them know that you love and care
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even if they have made themselves an enemy to you.
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Say hello because we never know when.
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You're right. Well, you know, I know that even
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for my own personal life experiences between car wrecks
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and just living, like you just can't ever tell when you know
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when your time is. I got to turn the span off, but
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it's drying my eyes out. Sorry folks, I don't like to
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reach over like. That.
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Well, it is warm in here, but the air is blowing right in my
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eyes and it's drying my eyes out.
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So. It's dry.
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I'm bleeding you're why isn't she blinking so much Dad, I
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can't keep my eyes high graded. It's hey, that's part of you
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got. Tea over there.
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I brought my tea in. Go get your tea.
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Why don't you? If you would please go ahead and
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lead us into prayer. And then the Father, Son and the
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Holy Spirit, Lord, we thank you in the name of Christ Jesus, in
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the presence of the Holy Spirit for another wonderful day of
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life, strength, more importantly, the aspect of
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serving you. So Lord, as we go into this
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program speaking about Jacob's family and the impact that Jacob
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had on his family, but the moral injury that's associated within
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his work, we just ask the Lord to be with us God and protect us
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and give us the words, O Lord, not only the scriptural words,
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but the words, O Lord, you want us to present to your people.
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We love you Lord, because you first loved us.
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It's a wonderful name that is Christ Jesus and the presence of
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the Holy Spirit that your daughter, son, strength and
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servants. We say Amen, Amen and Amen,
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Father, son, Holy Spirit, Amen. This is what I actually look
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like, in case y'all didn't forgot OK.
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Hey, you know, Daryl, part of I think the thing that I that I've
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been reflecting on with this whole story with with these
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generations, right? But now that we've reached this
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end of life for Jacob slash Israel and and we're discussing
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in chapter 49 here in Genesis these blessings that he gave his
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sons. And, you know, I think we talked
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a lot last week about the moral injury that Jacob had an
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experience because of all of this, you know, these years that
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he missed his son's life. But then, you know, getting this
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last, I think it was 12 or so years that I'm just kind of
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going off the top of my memory that, you know, he had 12
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blessed years with his son but missed all of these great
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formative years from the time his brother sold him off and,
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you know, sold Joseph off into slavery.
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And then and then the sweeping mechanism that Joseph came back
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into their lives. But this impact, this gets into
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this diabolical to some degree. You know this.
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We're both parents and we have kids, but we've also been
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children ourselves, right? I'm still, my father is still
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alive. I think your family, your.
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Parents are all gone, but. But there's still those family
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dynamics, right? We've had experiences with
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family members that we must say, with our mothers, right.
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So while this is not quite so much because it's the father
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side, because Rachel had passed away early and Joseph and, you
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know, and Benjamin especially did not get the mothering.
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They would have been mothered by the concubines that were in, you
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know, Yeah, the ice in Joseph's in his family for lack of better
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work family. And it's probably we're getting
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some some downright disgusting advice.
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Ike Schooling. Ike Schooling.
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Yeah, Ike Schooling. So no wonder they were way
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right. Tipsy topsy topsy turd.
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But but there's this whole, you know, dynamic when you know, you
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have these he, he. So let's look at it from from
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Joseph's perspective. In many ways, he has gone
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through life without his father too.
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Not just not having his mother because Rachel passed away, but
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his brothers took away his father as well.
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So he grew up in a father's, you know. 13 years gone.
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Yeah. And and yet he still had this
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resilience to get through what he has gone through the forced,
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you know, labor to work for the prison.
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Was he not the you know what that the the original guy that
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where his wife turned on. Yeah, Yeah, that, you know, she
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turned him and and he ended up going to prison.
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So he went down this trail of some very bad situations and was
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fatherless. You.
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See, like every time something went up, warm it it.
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It went down right, Right. But he but he grew up without
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his father. And I think in some ways we
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think about military life and how many that the military is
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apparent, right? The military is apparent.
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But you think about a lot of the kids who grew up without their
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fathers being present deployed. And so in some ways we could
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even think about Joe Joseph was deployed.
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He was deployed to this foreign land doing all these foreign
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things. So he grew up without, you know,
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the guidance and and he didn't suck at it.
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He didn't inhale deeply about the about about the direction
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God impacted his life, absent apparent, being present but
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forgotten. In in the aspect of what you
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just said, when Zelika, that's her extra biblical name that's
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been found in extra biblical sources.
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Zelika's part of his wife tried to seduce Joseph relentless
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every single day she. Thought he was the pool.
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Boy, she was, she was. Hey, it says Joseph was handsome
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and well built and the leaker wanted some of that.
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So. Yeah, that's what it.
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Says so. So what we understand is this.
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Joseph spoke out and said basically, how could I sin
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against God with you? He's telling her you're already
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married. Have someone, which indicates to
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me also that this wasn't Zelika's first attempt in any of
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this. And Potiphar knew he Potter was
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an older man, right? And he was just married for the
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sake of being married because, you know, he was an older guy
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gone that. Was that was the cultural
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society what it was? That's what it was, gave her
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name, gave her status and such. So we understand it.
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But the person who suffered through this, but God allowed
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with Joseph. Joseph spent, if you are not
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aware of this, he spent thirteen years in prison for something he
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didn't do. When he met with the cupbearer
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and the Baker and explained the dreams to them, they forgot
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about him because he asked them when you see Pharaoh, would you
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tell him I'm in here for something I didn't do?
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I, I don't deserve to be here. They forgot all about him.
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Until Pharaoh had a dream, nobody could interpret it.
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They all knew what that meant. Because if you can't interpret
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the King's dream, you're going to get executed.
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You know what the You know what the cup Barrett did?
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He went to Pharaoh's a dude God. Somebody but the.
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Baker already. Baker was already.
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Gone. And he explained that the
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federal, he said he gave, he told us what was going to happen
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to both of us. And Federals did not hesitate,
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sent for him, right? They went down to the printer,
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got Joseph, cleaned him up, shaved him, brought him before
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Federal and now we know he. Got promoted that day.
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That not the next day, not that night, same day.
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And and he gave him the ring. Gave him the singing ring and he
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got him away. Yeah, and all the best clothes
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and everything. He was Egyptian after that
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Egyptian leather. He was that guy.
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So it's, I, you know, it's funny thinking about that moral injury
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side of things because that's really what happened.
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And I think a lot of our military veterans especially
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and, and to even some degree their families, because they got
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deployed and a lot of these, you know, a lot of veterans, they
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grew up. I grew up in, I mean, I mean,
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not that I didn't still have my parents, but I went in when I
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was 19. And the military did to some
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degree very much shape the way I am right now.
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I mean, the Army motto said be all you can be.
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And I don't think I've ever stopped being I all I can be.
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I mean, you look at my life, it kind of it kind of looks like
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that, you know, that my life, my life just works out that way.
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So I don't know. Is there is there any impact
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that you've seen in your life or maybe the military did that for
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you? It it happened on a day that I
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was standing watch. So in the Navy you stand
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watches. So on your on your day that you
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stand watch, you stand 4 hour watches.
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So on this particular watch there was a senior chief, he was
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an EA. He says, hey partly can I ask
19:48
you a question? Say yes Sir.
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He said why are you in debt? So debt was the the division
19:55
that tied up the ship. We did underway replenishments,
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we got mail. We all this stuff right?
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Without us, nothing happened. You don't get tied to the ship,
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you don't go on liberty or anything, right.
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So he says he asked me a question.
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I said I had nothing but disdain.
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What face? I dropped my head.
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He said, what's wrong? I said I I didn't do good on the
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ASVAB. He says what's what?
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What happened? I said.
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Well, the recruiters came in one day saying all you got to do is
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take the exam, you can go home. I'm trying to go home, man.
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And so in my I didn't go retake the Advair, he says, So what was
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your AFQTI said 35. I said, man, yeah, I can help
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you with that. Was it math?
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Probably. And so this man took the time
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with me. He was there nine months until
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he went to his next duty station.
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He took the time for me with 0 + 0 all the way to Boolean
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algebra, geometry and trig walk me through every aspect of the
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of the ASVAB. He was the father for me that my
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parents, my stepfather or my biological father was not
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because they didn't know any of this math so or know my mother.
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So when I was able to transfer to the USS Missouri some years
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later, I determined I was going to go take the ASVAB, got up,
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took the ASVAB with the point where I need me.
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Took the ASVAB at 5:30 in the morning and I could do anything
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in the Navy outside of intelligence because you needed
21:34
a 1 something to do. I got an, I got an 85.
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And so I can do anything I basically wanted to be able to
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do. Here's the point I'm making,
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everybody. You never know the time or the
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day that God has an appointment for you to be at.
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See, your team Stark was my divine appointment that day.
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Now then, the guy who was getting us, hey, man, let me get
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it too close. But at the same time, he cared
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enough because he wanted to see me out of this position to do
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something else. God wants you to be out of your
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position to do something else. But you can't be out of position
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serving him. You can't be your own God.
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You have to be a godly, have a godly mentality to serve God.
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And even I talked about this earlier, because when you're
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your own God, you have nothing but turmoil in your life and you
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wonder why these things are happening to me because you
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don't recognize the true God well.
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It's like being on the merry go round and thinking that, hey,
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I'm on the roller coaster of life.
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No, you're on the merry go round thinking something's going to
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change, but you're just, you're just doing circles.
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And is that? Working for you?
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No, it's not working. For all of us who can attest to
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that, you'll know that that's true.
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It's not working and it won't work.
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So I wanted to kind of go in and look at some of the other, you
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know, sense we talked about the blessings that I think we've
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gotten through Judah last week and was going to start with
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Zebulon, who is supposed to he lives.
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He said you will live by the seashore become a haven of ships
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and his border will extend his side on.
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I mean, you think about the interpretation of that you're
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going to you're going to live in a pretty decent place.
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You're not doing. That.
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There, right. There's blessings there.
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Blessings. I mean, you got some, you got
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some geography and and you got ships.
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Sound like Darrell at the lake house.
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And haven for ships means, Hey, you're going to make some money
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too. You you're going to be doing
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right. You're going to be doing good.
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Is the car is a raw boned donkey.
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Now let's look at raw bone meant.
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Let me go back to what it said or strong.
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So never. I've never heard that phrase
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before. We have no it means what to us?
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I don't know. I mean, he says you're going to
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be a strong donkey lying down between two saddlebags and
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saddlebags means or campfires. That's a new phrase that I
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haven't heard before. When he sees how good in his
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resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his
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shoulder the burden and submit to forced labor.
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I mean, I kind of read that man, you're strong and you're going
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to work hard. You're.
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Going to work hard. In fact, he's going to work hard
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in the Jacob. I mean that that to me does not
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bode well about what his daddy dearest thought about him.
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Because so he was caught. Up in mischief too.
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Huh. Yeah, I mean that's.
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Why? I read and that you've got up.
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In mischief too, you've got up, there are consequences.
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Consequences. That's what I read is there's
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some consequences for the things that you've done and you're
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going to have to, you're just going to have to toil.
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And how does Jacob know all of this?
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He was an observant father. Well, of course, yeah.
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He knew his. He knew these boys.
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I mean, they were all living together with him.
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He saw them even when they had this opportunity for a restart
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in Egypt. And apparently, none of that
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changed. Moving did not change their
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behavior great opportunity for do over just like for a lot of
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military families. I think every time you PCs, so
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they PCs from where they were to Egypt and nothing changed.
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Nothing changed, you know, except for Judah did have a
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change. He had to come to Jesus in.
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The aftermath of the other things.
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Right. He and his father.
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Yeah, he had. He had a, you know,
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reconciliation with God that, you know, he was going to do
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better. When we get to.
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Dan will provide justice for his people, one of the tribes of
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Israel. Dan will be a serpent by the
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roadside, a Viper along the path that bites the horse's heels so
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that it's riders, so that it's riders tumble backwards.
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That does not sound good. He said Dan here means he
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provides justice. That's the name Dan.
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His name means that he will provide justice.
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Not that he's going to provide justice what the name means, but
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that's what the name means. But he's man to be treated like
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or be told you're like a serpent along the road.
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You're going to be snapping at whoever you can snap at.
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That doesn't sound too bad. No, that's not a.
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Compliment. There's no justice there.
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That is not a compliment at all. Jacob knew his sons.
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But then he says, I look for your deliverance, O Lord, you
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know, to me, I'm reading that. And I thought, he's like, take
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me from this, right? He's ready.
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I mean, it's there's got to be something different than what
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he's been around. And he knows that this, these
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boys that he raised were not what he would have done.
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You know, I mean, I think if he knew he'd be had a choice and it
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was Rachel, it would have been him, Rachel, Joseph and
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Benjamin. But he got, you know, stuck with
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Leah and all the ice, the concubines, because that's how
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society was. He wasn't invested with them.
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And I think his parenting reflected as well.
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We can chuckle because even I really have.
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We shuffled about, Jacob and Leah and Bill, Bill high and
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Rachel like on the sidelines, like watch watches, all
27:55
uncovered, right? But I don't think Jacob, outside
28:01
of having a righteous, holy choice, he didn't have a choice
28:04
because he had no idea what Laban was going to do to him,
28:06
right? So he, his line, right was what
28:12
his line was. It was not the line God wanted.
28:17
What he got was what he got that was righteous and holy in terms
28:22
of Scripture was Benjamin and Joseph and a little bit of Judah
28:28
and a little bit of the gentleman we we spoke of
28:31
earlier. I was about Zebulon.
28:33
So when, when, when Jacob goes down the line talking about his
28:39
sons, he knows them, but he also knows that each of them is a
28:44
part of him of the mischief that he did growing up as well.
28:49
That's why he he knows them because he knows him.
28:52
But he more importantly, he knows who God is.
28:55
And God is speaking. This isn't Jacob just talking.
28:58
This is God speaking to outline the outcome of these children.
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Well, he knows that his time has come.
29:05
But it was, I had this this thought in my head that came up
29:09
when you were speaking. And, and it was what he had
29:14
learned along the way was to go along is to get along or get
29:19
along is to go along, right? I mean, how many people you got
29:23
to think about it, no matter which organization you're in,
29:27
whether it's the military could be a veteran service
29:30
organization. And there's this inclination.
29:34
Well, to go along is to get along.
29:36
How many people roll into perpetuating what everybody else
29:43
is doing instead of saying, no, that's not right?
29:48
And I'm, I'm going to refrain from that.
29:52
I mean, there's lots of temptation out there to not be
29:56
strong. And that in itself is a moral
30:00
injury, right? And how do we as revivalists
30:06
start bringing people back to the right path and say, listen,
30:11
you don't have to go along to get along.
30:14
You know, one of the things sterile that I think is very
30:19
common in our culture is the amount of alcohol, you know, at,
30:25
at, at the different. Here, wine spirits.
30:29
Yeah, I mean, that's what is, that is what you know, Those
30:34
posts are a bar. Water.
30:36
Hole, and it it is, it's not really feeding the soul.
30:41
And and we know we ain't making this up.
30:44
We we know, yeah. There are very few posts that I
30:48
know that are really about serving the people and they are
30:54
a bar in and of itself, and that's really.
30:57
But the bottom line is making a profit.
30:58
Yeah, and I get it. You know, I get it.
31:02
I'm not saying that you shouldn't drink, but it's not
31:08
the answer. And I think people are looking
31:11
into the bottle as if it's the answer.
31:14
When she's saying this and she got an addictions counselor,
31:17
right? Yeah, but.
31:20
I I hear. You but people.
31:22
But people need to recognize that, right?
31:25
And how? Do we help?
31:26
Them you got to recognize it first, yes.
31:29
Are you looking at your post? What is its mission?
31:33
Is, is the post mission to provide services that are
31:37
helping people or is it about that you know, the liquid, the
31:44
the liquid answer. And you know what we as revivals
31:49
are trying to say? Listen, I was telling you about
31:52
this spiel, right? I went, I've gone on the summit
31:56
and I'm giving this spiel about the radio show.
31:59
And we are a veteran ministry geared towards helping with the
32:07
crisis of moral injury into healing and recovery, putting
32:11
God as the true north on the moral compass.
32:16
And when we have God as the true nor, then we can actually start
32:22
finding our way again, You know, and I think that that's where we
32:27
look at this, you know, these verses.
32:31
And I think in some ways, Joseph or sorry Jacob had had maybe
32:40
wandered away from recognizing where things were, you know,
32:45
where he where his heart was. He got so him, you know, I want
32:51
to say stuck in his mourning for Rachel and for losing Joseph out
32:58
of his life, that he lost some of that that true north side of
33:03
things. He lost way on his moral compass
33:06
and and this reconciliation with Joseph has helped him to find
33:14
his path back and recognize wow, now I'm really seeing my kids
33:21
for who they are, that they are the acts that they have been
33:25
lost from God. But I'm not lost.
33:29
I mean, this is to me when I'm reading that I look for your
33:32
deliverance, O Lord, that he's having this aha moment and he's
33:39
not lost of where his heart and soul is 'cause it's like
33:44
something I was telling you about a while ago about the soul
33:47
repair. That's really what I mean.
33:53
I think soul repair is something that I heard when they were
33:57
originally talking about moral injury from Richmond College
34:04
here in Fort Worth, the TCU. So it was they, they, they had
34:13
presented that moral injury was really about soul.
34:20
It's, it's an injury to your soul.
34:22
We keep saying moral injury, but they were really referring to it
34:28
as a your soul is injured, right?
34:32
And I think as I've read this and gotten to know both Joseph
34:37
and Jacob through, you know, through these chapters that
34:42
there was some soul injury with what had happened.
34:46
Joseph was able to rise above and not get into the I mean he
34:53
because he could have been very worldly and want revenge on his
34:59
brothers. He's going to proceed.
35:00
And he, he would have been justified in doing so, right?
35:05
Right. But not by God.
35:07
And he didn't, you know, he has given them the best opportunity
35:11
ever. And, and, you know, there is a
35:14
certain justice that he received.
35:16
See, my, my getting his position wasn't so bad after all, was it?
35:21
You know, but he doesn't have to say that, but he knows that.
35:25
But he didn't have to. He's not boasting about it.
35:30
And you know, I think Jacob, even though he has missed his
35:35
son all of these years, recognizes that that original
35:41
dream that he was told by his son Joseph, right?
35:48
And he was like, wow, wow. You know, that's a lot to.
35:53
That's a lot even. God could have made him #1 but
35:59
it wouldn't have for us today. It wouldn't flow with the actual
36:03
narrative of who Joseph was, who he is, and who he's become.
36:09
So #2 is not shabby at all. You know?
36:12
You know, actually, many organizations, you'd rather be
36:14
the number 2 than the number one.
36:18
We talked about it today, you know, because God has a plan for
36:21
you. The God.
36:22
God's plan is this. If you walk through this door,
36:26
you're going to get everything you think you're going to get,
36:29
but I'm trying to shield you from something because there's
36:31
something better I'm going to something greater I'm going to
36:34
have for you. We have to listen to what the
36:37
Lord our God wants. Joseph's in prison, 13 years.
36:41
He's still walking with God. He's still doing everything he's
36:45
supposed to do with more in that prison.
36:47
In fact, the Bible tells us the sacred Scriptures that I love to
36:51
say is that the, the, the head jailer had him doing it.
36:57
Joseph was running the prison basically, right?
37:01
And so he wasn't just chained to some cell and he, he was
37:04
actually moving about doing things.
37:06
That's how he was able to speak with the Baker and the cupbearer
37:11
because if he was just chained to a cell, that actually God
37:14
would have made it happen. But realistically, God needed
37:16
this timeline to, to develop and be exposed to us.
37:20
It is realistic, plausible, it's amenable, all those things to
37:25
make sure that we get the message of hope, faith and love
37:28
here and all that occurred with Joseph in the Lord thy God.
37:34
Absolutely, absolutely getting into Gad, he said.
37:39
He will be attacked by van der Braiders.
37:42
He will, but he will attack them at their heels.
37:46
I mean, to me, I read that. Yep, you're you're just, you're
37:51
bad and you're going to get attacked.
37:56
But God. But God, but you're going to be
37:58
able to attack back. I mean, he's going to, you know,
38:01
you, you get what you. You do, you sow what?
38:04
You read That's right. That's what that's what I read
38:07
out of that one. Careful what you dish out
38:10
because it will come back. Amen.
38:12
Asher's food will be rich. He will provide delicacies, spit
38:16
for king. So by the way, my future son in
38:21
law's son is Asher. That's his name.
38:26
So when I read this, you know when I read this and saw about
38:30
the name. Asher, you forgot.
38:32
You forgot all about Joseph. Now I know you know.
38:37
She never got all about Jacob Benjamin, and Joseph is Asher
38:42
now. He will provide delicacies fit
38:52
for a king. So funny thing about Asher
38:54
though, he is a picky eater and yeah, he's not going to eat it
38:58
if it's not right for his and. Now he has Grandma Ma who's
39:03
going to always tell him he's going to always have Nana.
39:08
Shame with how great Asher is because she going to take in the
39:10
scripture. I understand him more that you
39:18
know. Names do mean.
39:19
Names do mean something. You know, that was kind of neat
39:22
to read that. Just the personal reflection on
39:24
the side of things. Now, Naphtali is a doe set free
39:28
that bears beautiful farms. That means that, you know that
39:33
to me. He's going to get around and
39:35
he's going to have lots of girls.
39:36
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think that one you know
39:43
needs further explanation. When Josiah became king at 13,
39:47
it was nice to be king. But but Joseph is a fruitful
39:52
vine, a fruitful vine near a spring whose branches climb over
39:56
a wall with bitterness. Archers attack him, They shot at
40:00
him with hostility, but his bow remains steady.
40:04
His strong arms stayed limber because of the hand of the
40:08
Mighty One of Jacob. Because of the shepherd, the
40:11
rock of Israel, because of your Father's God who helps you,
40:15
because of the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of
40:18
the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below,
40:22
blessings of the breast and womb.
40:24
Your Father's blessings are greater than the blessings of
40:28
the ancient mountains, then the bounty of the age-old hills.
40:32
Let all of these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of
40:37
the Prince, among his brothers. I mean to me that just the
40:41
volume of what Jacob spoke about Joseph says a lot.
40:49
And he didn't have a tribe. He would just grab his his
40:53
tribe, Joseph his he was grafted in because Ephraim and.
41:01
But none of those other tribes would have existed without
41:04
Joseph. Without Joseph doing what he was
41:08
supposed to. Do.
41:10
Right. I mean, I just was like, man.
41:14
The family would have killed all of.
41:15
Them exactly. We wouldn't even have.
41:18
We wouldn't be. Having.
41:19
We'd be talking about Joseph. We wouldn't, yeah.
41:22
I mean, OK, we would have barely one chap, you know, one book
41:27
almost. 3 pages. Almost one book.
41:30
You know, this is most of Genesis.
41:33
You know, we would only have up to here for now if it hadn't
41:37
been for Joseph. Yeah.
41:40
And Pharaoh still had to say yes.
41:43
Right there was still dependent, but but that lets you know
41:46
something about Pharaoh had some faith in what Joseph was doing
41:51
that trust was there. That means that his, he, he, he
41:57
knew that Joseph was responsible, he was accountable.
42:01
He, the credibility was there. You know his character.
42:06
His character rose above. Everything else, his character,
42:10
I mean, there's everything else that we have been seeing.
42:13
I mean, I haven't really, you know, you look at people and,
42:18
you know, even in the context and we're not saying that Joseph
42:21
probably didn't have some bad days, that he probably.
42:24
Human and mortal. Right.
42:27
But he didn't. He didn't sink to the brothers
42:30
levels. These days, it's not.
42:34
Written the scripture said it'll tell you be evil, it'll it'll
42:37
put it in there. Yeah, none of none of that was
42:40
there. I mean, even when Jacob spoke
42:44
just now about Joseph was his character was nearly flawless.
42:53
Nearly. I mean, we're not saying he
42:56
didn't have a bad moment here or there.
42:58
And the reason why he's not the reason why it's not perfect,
43:03
it's because he is human. Immortal, right?
43:06
Right. He was not Jesus.
43:07
He was not he was not not close even today.
43:10
And we talk about when we go down and we get to the the
43:14
southern Kingdom and the northern Kingdom, we'll see who
43:16
the godly kings and the non godly kings were.
43:19
There were only a few. And we take, we take us being
43:23
revivalists from 4, ASA, Hezekiah, Josiah and
43:30
Jehoshaphat, they were The Revivalists in the Southern
43:33
Kingdom. In fact, they had a revival,
43:36
we'll get to it when they had a revival where the northern and
43:39
southern Kingdom came because they were still family members
43:42
throughout, right? And some came to the southern
43:45
Kingdom with the revival and state and others, they went back
43:48
to reverting back with what they're doing.
43:50
So there's always hope when we choose God first, when we choose
43:55
not to be our own God, we see the benefits of serving him.
44:00
No, you're not going to have spectacular days on you're going
44:03
to have some subpar days. You're going to take one for the
44:05
team a lot. But at the same time, we know
44:08
God is the he's the coach, he's the owner.
44:12
He's more than Jerry Jones could ever be.
44:15
He he, we know that when we, even I, it's proven when we pray
44:20
to the Lord our God in earnest, we're bless you because he, he,
44:25
he shows us things that we're supposed to see and demonstrates
44:29
other things that we're supposed to know.
44:31
So if we fail, we fail because we fail, not because he failed
44:35
us. Right, right.
44:38
Absolutely. And Joseph had that same mantra.
44:41
So The funny thing when you read, you know, like going into
44:44
Benjamin. Benjamin is a ravenous wolf.
44:48
In the morning he devours the parade.
44:51
In the evening, he divides the plunder.
44:54
So to me, you know, there's that.
44:57
I think, you know, this is where he's he's analyzed each of his
45:01
kids and found a different animal.
45:05
Maybe you know, this is where that personality thing which
45:08
which animal? Are you a warrior though?
45:10
Even you got to go in and sack and plunder, right?
45:14
But and then it says he. But then he goes and divides.
45:18
So he he, he's not afraid to get out there and be the wolf that
45:23
he needs, because what he's not going to be selfish, he's going
45:27
to share with everybody else. I mean, that's a pretty comp,
45:31
you know, pretty big compliment. But but it was like, you know,
45:33
as I was reading this and looked at the different animals and
45:37
mentions, you know, you, you have that office, you know, you
45:43
know, where you're having a meeting and you know, the
45:46
icebreaker. If you were an animal, what
45:49
animal would you be? I mean, is this where they
45:51
really get the, you know, we're both, you know, doctorate level
45:57
students? Is this where some, you know,
46:01
mental psychiatrist or whatever, you know, decided where they
46:06
mentioned it here in Genesis, Maybe we should do a mental
46:09
study and see which animal do people recognize themselves as?
46:14
And you know, if they identify, what does that mean about them?
46:20
And and and just so I need to note this for the record going
46:23
forward, I identify as a Jaguar. OK, what is that supposed to
46:31
mean? I have No Fear.
46:33
I have No Fear that you will know about.
46:35
Oh, OK, OK. But then we get into, you know,
46:40
oh, so before I moved into the death of Jacob, we don't have a
46:43
whole lot of time left. So, you know, you think about
46:50
the description in both Benjamin's and Joseph's, you
46:56
know, character things. I think that's where a lot of
47:00
military veterans are going to find themselves in.
47:04
And I say that because they they are not afraid to serve, knowing
47:13
that they are serving other people, not of themselves And I.
47:17
And I, I'm not trying to make everybody out into a hero, but
47:23
the character of what these, you know, these two sons, I think
47:32
falls in line with a lot of military veterans.
47:36
And, and if we're trying to look at the moral injury, healing and
47:39
recovery side of things, the reason why we have done what we
47:44
have done, we, we have done it not in and of for ourselves, but
47:49
for the greater good. I don't know.
47:52
How do you take that? Does you just say understand
47:55
what I'm saying? When we elected to enlist, what
48:00
was explained to us, we even took the harder we did.
48:05
Those of us who are sitting here right now, we took it to heart.
48:08
We understood the risks. You know, Sister Isabella
48:12
Gonzalez, she understood the risk.
48:14
We don't know when, where or how and we went forward.
48:18
It's the same thing in life. It's a life partner with your
48:21
husband, your wife, your children.
48:23
We understand the UPS, the downs, the indifferences.
48:27
We understand the risks involved in things.
48:30
So, but we understand that there's no risk in serving God,
48:33
right? That's what we really
48:36
understand. There's no risk in serving him.
48:38
Why? Because he doesn't make us serve
48:42
him anywhere else. You, there's, there's a
48:43
commitment. You, you.
48:44
We volunteered to be voluntold by being in the military, but we
48:49
know that it's not God. God is in the midst of all of
48:53
that. But the Lord our God doesn't
48:55
make us do anything. We have a choice to serve him or
48:59
not. Joseph had a choice to serve him
49:02
or not, and he made the right choice in the right decision.
49:06
No matter the hardships, follow him and it bears out in the
49:09
scripture. And I think it's the choice of
49:13
how he chose to rise above the circumstances, not being stuck
49:18
in the circumstances. And I think it's the biggest
49:21
thing if you're looking at how do we move that needle, Darrell,
49:26
on the DSM 5 from moral injury. I mean, this is the biggest
49:30
thing I keep seeing. A lot of, you know, great
49:34
professionals talk about moral injury, but they don't move.
49:39
They don't talk about the healing in the recovery side.
49:43
Well, that's why I said the spiel that I said is, is we're
49:47
putting God as the true nor back in the moral compass.
49:52
And that's how we start moving the needle on the moral healing
49:56
and recovery. So, I mean, you know, we hear
50:01
people talk about, well, I I'm a whatever abuse victim, OK, how
50:08
about being the victor? I mean, that's this is meant to
50:12
help move that needle on being a moral in the go from moral
50:19
healing injury into healing into recovery.
50:23
So your moral victor over whatever trauma that you have
50:29
succumbed to, you are recovering from it.
50:35
There is a character on television, his name is Victor
50:38
Newman. His name was something else,
50:41
right? And he ran away from an
50:43
orphanage and he changed his name to Victor Newman.
50:47
He was victorious being a new man.
50:51
So that's him. That's his story.
50:54
He's sticking to it. We all can become victorious new
50:58
people if we choose to. Joseph chose to be a victorious
51:03
new person not because of his promotion from Pharaoh.
51:06
He lived that life out. It bore out.
51:08
For we can witness it. And we too can be Josephs.
51:13
We too can be Deborahs. We too can be Edos.
51:16
We too can be Solomon's. Before he committed the the
51:20
sins, but he repented. We too can be David before,
51:24
yeah, you know, during and after he repeat because the Bible
51:27
tells us he was a man after God's own heart.
51:29
So we took and beat these people if we decide to do that
51:35
properly. Did I ever tell you the story
51:37
about I had AI met a guy I was no, I'm not a guy.
51:43
He was an older man, but I was into doing some multi level
51:51
marketing stuff and and so I'm meting to giving the products.
51:57
He paid for it and he said what is your greatest power?
52:02
I was like, what do you mean? What's my greatest power?
52:06
You know, stood there, where are the in the gravel parking lot
52:09
because Justin is well, you know, it's not out of the
52:12
country. And I said, you know, I think
52:17
prayer is my greatest power, the power of prayer.
52:20
He goes, you know, that's that's a good answer, pretty good
52:23
answer. I'm not going to, you know, I'm
52:25
not going to take that away from you, But but he says that's not
52:31
the right answer. And I was like, and he goes,
52:36
it's the power to choose. It's not, it's not, you know,
52:42
selecting an option. It is actually choosing the
52:46
power to choose. He goes because your power of
52:51
prayer meant that you had to choose to pray it.
52:56
The power of choice comes before everything else that you do.
53:02
And when he said that, I was like, oh.
53:09
Both are correct answers, but it is the power to choose because
53:13
we can choose otherwise. Yeah, but when we choose to
53:17
pray, often it's because it's the calamity, it's the following
53:21
us, and we want God to get us out of the triple.
53:23
Jump Yeah, yeah, anyways. This is true.
53:27
It is. And I'm certain that Joseph felt
53:30
as though that he was going to stay in that Pitbull jaw forever
53:33
and, and God showed him that No sign.
53:37
All right, we got to we got to jump into the death of Jacob.
53:41
So he said. Then he gave me these
53:43
instructions. I'm out to be gathered to my
53:45
people very much. So We I'm not going to read all
53:48
of that, but you want me to read?
53:49
OK, bury me with my father's in The Cave in the field of Ephron
53:53
the Hittite, The Cave in the field of Mac Macphila near Mamre
53:59
and and Canaan, which Abraham bought as a burial place from
54:04
Ephron the Hittite along with the field.
54:06
There Abraham with his wife Sarah were buried.
54:10
There Isaac and his wife Rebecca were buried, and there I buried
54:14
Leah. The field and The Cave in it
54:16
were bought from the Hittites. When Jacob had finished giving
54:20
instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed,
54:24
breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
54:27
This was all this happened in one session.
54:30
He knew he was. He knew these were his, his last
54:35
words, the blessings that he gave.
54:38
And here's my final instructions about how to bury you.
54:43
Don't bury me in Egypt, bury me in Canaan, right?
54:45
Indicate, indicate I don't want you to spend any more money.
54:49
That's right. I want you to make this journey
54:52
for me. I mean, that's, you know.
54:55
He was precise. He was precise.
54:57
That was very thought out. Very, I want to say historical
55:05
too, right? Because I think he wanted
55:08
everybody to remember where you came from.
55:12
And don't forget everybody, Jacob was in the line of all the
55:19
others who came before him, but particularly Abraham, Isaac and
55:23
his father Jacob, right, Jacob to to his twelve sons.
55:27
So let us not forget the lineage here.
55:30
The lineage is going to come back in Exodus.
55:35
He's going to come back in Numbers and Leviticus and
55:39
Deuteronomy. It's, it's, it's, it's going to
55:41
be all of that because everything is is listed that you
55:45
don't lose sight on where we come from.
55:48
Yes, we were perhaps grafted in, but I'll tell you this, being
55:52
grafted in is better, not being in at all.
55:57
Well, you know, I think to have this kind of, I mean, how many
56:05
people have you ever put together what your plan is,
56:08
where you're going to be buried, what's going to happen to you
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with you? I have.
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It's probably going to change. Well, somebody might change it
56:15
for instead of them buried in my cremate.
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No, no. I mean, I, I have a binder down
56:23
here where I started some of that and I'm like, you got
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bullet. Points.
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No, I got the book and I never, you know, you kind of think it's
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not going to happen to me. We have to do it y'all, because
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we don't know. We don't know Wayne, but I mean.
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Your children of mine are going to be in the hey.
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Did she leave us? Something I know they're going
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to. I'm with the house.
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I'm with the house, you know. There'll be a war, there'll be a
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war. Well, so we made it through
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chapter 49 and next week we'll we'll do 50 and that will finish
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us up with with with Genesis. But I think we had talked about
57:06
doing another maybe S or episode or two to just kind of unpack
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the highlights and what we've learned from Genesis.
57:17
So we're not going to try, you know, we're not going to try to
57:20
just immediately. We're not hurting.
57:22
We're. I'm going to jump into Exodus
57:26
right away, OK? We're going to finish these
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thoughts about what the lessons from Genesis.
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I think there's a lot to learn and so much, Darrell, I think is
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that we have, I mean, we've both agreed that we as humanity have
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not changed very much even since the beginning of Genesis Zero.
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I mean, let's be real. But it gets back to the choices,
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our will. And, you know, there's always
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room to do better. There's always room to remember
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where we started and say, all right, today's a new day.
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Evil's going to be in heaven with the Lord our God.
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Asking this particular question. Father, is there anything else I
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could have done better? Whether he has an answer or not,
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you know what I'd say, girl, you're here.
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That's all we need to know. You're you're here.
58:24
All the Q&A is over. You're here.
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You're here. Right.
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Hey, so just remember to put out my application for being a St.
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right St. Eva.
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See, we we try to incorporate humor here because I'm telling
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you it's going to be somebody in heaven asking a question you.
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Want me to read I'll? Pre fill it out to you.
58:45
Pre fill it out, It's going to be it's going to be.
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Stapled to her scroll of questions.
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Oh man. So Yep, Chapter 50 next week,
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folks. Thank you for joining us.
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing us together.
59:07
Thank you for allowing us to break bread.
59:09
It's nice to know when we have brothers and sisters who can
59:13
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59:16
opportunity to not only share your work, but to break bread
59:22
together as well. Thank you for the opportunity
59:27
that we have to serve our diverse community.
59:30
And we pray that anybody who is listening to this, whether or
59:35
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59:40
gather your friends. And we hope that you are finding
59:45
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59:51
finding some warm healing and recovery in the discussions
59:56
around. In your name we pray, Father.
59:59
Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Amen. Amen.
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