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Genealogy of Jesus Part 10: The lost kings · The Living Freed Podcast

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What is up, everyone? Welcome back to the Living
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Free Podcast. I hope that you're doing great
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because I am, but I'm a little nervous that a
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migraine might be coming on. You know that thing
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that like, well, migraine girlies get it? You
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get this little thing in your eye, well, in your
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vision of eye, where it kind of circles around
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it, it starts off small and it gets bigger, and
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it gets bigger, and it gets bigger, and then
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you just can't see at all? That's kind of what's
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happening. It started about, ooh, 30 minutes
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ago, and now I'm getting nervous. So wish me
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luck because today is not a day that I can have
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a migraine. Today is a get things done type of
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day. Speaking of getting things done, we're going
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to be so productive because let's talk about
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what's in y 'all. My latest obsession is matcha.
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Okay, matcha is in. I went to my best friend
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Nikki's house and she made us matcha one day
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and I thought, wow, this is magical. I've really
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been trying to get on the matcha train because
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I know it's supposed to be good for you. I'm
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fully immersed in matcha TikTok now and I'm hooked.
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So matcha is 100 % in. Shout out to Nikki because
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I wouldn't be addicted without her, you know?
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The second thing that's in right now also is
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Pilates by Izzy on YouTube. Listen y 'all, I've
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always been a strength training type of girl.
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I love the gym. I love to lift weights. I love
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to get stronger. I like to see that I can add
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more weights onto the bar or whatever I'm doing.
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You know how it is. I'm not. I'm very far from
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like a cardio girl. I mean, I do the stair master.
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I'll do the elliptical if I have to and I'll
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do the treadmill. I love to go outside for an
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outdoor walk, but that's like fun for me. That's
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not like running. You'll never catch me running.
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I'm not a running girl. Anyways, so Pilates by
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Izzy, 110 % in. I'm on the 25 day challenge.
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Season one. Okay. Anyone who knows about this,
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trust me, I'm on season one. Nothing crazy, but
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this girl is kicking my butt. You guys, this
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has been by far one of the hardest workouts I've
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ever done. She gets me cursing. Okay. I be cursing
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in the gym when I do that. It's a small gym in
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my apartment community. It's fine. No one else
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is around. And then she'll be like, OK, don't
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stand up yet. And I'm like, baby girl, I'm already
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standing. I've been standing. I've actually been
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watching you work out for the last 10 seconds
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because I have to stand. I have to catch my breath.
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I can't do this. Anyways, yeah, Pilates by Izzy.
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So in for now. Watch next week. I'm going to
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tell you all it's out and be like, actually forget
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about it. We're done. Put that to the side or
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back to just lifting weights and cardio. But
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no, no, I'm loving it. It's so fun. It's been
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really, it's been a good time. I just wish I
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had someone to talk to about it because I'm also
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on that side of TikTok and nobody I know is doing
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it. So it's just me. I'm out here by myself,
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losing my mind and thinking, am I really this
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weak? I felt like I was strong. I've done a lot.
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I am a strong person. Okay. What is out? This
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is going to sound crazy. Okay. I know it's coming.
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It's going to sound crazy. Coffee is out right
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now. Am I still drinking it? Yes. Should I be
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drinking it? probably know we all know coffee's
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not good for female hormones but I've only had
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two cups of coffee in the last like week which
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is crazy I used to drink coffee every single
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day so coffee is out it's supposed to be like
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not fantastic for you and matcha is in and you
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know that's gonna change again because here's
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the thing with me I get addicted to coffee like
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have to have multiple cups a day addicted to
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coffee and then I have to wean myself off of
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that addiction because I don't want to be addicted
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to anything ever and then I am on tea for like
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a month or two and then I start to let coffee
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back into my diet and then I get addicted to
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coffee again it's a vicious cycle I put myself
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through so we'll see how long this matcha thing
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lasts you know let's catch up on life really
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quick I feel like I just went on a whole rant
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between health Let's not talk about health. Let's
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move on. Let's talk about the fun stuff. What
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have I been up to? You might be asking. Okay?
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I know you didn't ask. I'm gonna tell you anyways
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though. Wow, life has actually been low -key
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kind of crazy. So two weeks ago, I had surgery
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on my scars from my breast reduction from a year
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ago. And let me tell you, that kicked my butt.
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It really genuinely did. I was so painful. I
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didn't know it was gonna be this painful. No
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one warned me that it was gonna be this painful.
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They didn't give me any pain medication for it.
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My mom had to beg them for pain medication and
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I am a tough cookie, okay? I'm a tough cookie.
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Anyways, so what did I do during this time of
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just laying in my bed? Well, just that. I just
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laid in my bed. I laid in my bed and then I binged
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Summer House. I'm almost done with all of the
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seasons. I'm on season nine, episode three. or
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four. But yeah, I'm obsessed with summer house.
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Like I did not know where this was missing in
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my life and I love it. So if I wasn't laying
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in bed watching summer house, I was laying in
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my bed asleep. And if I wasn't laying in my bed
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asleep, I was laying by the pool thinking, wow,
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the sunshine feels so nice on my skin, even though
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I'm trying to breathe through the pain. And that
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was it. That's all I did for like five days was
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sleep, watch summer house and lay by the pool.
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And it was not bad. I won't lie. It was the staycation
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that your girl needed. in a way of slowing down.
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But back to, I genuinely didn't think this surgery
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was gonna be that serious, so I made plans with
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friends. I was like, oh, you and me, let's get
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coffee. Oh, you and me, I'll come over to your
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house and we'll go for a walk. Oh, you wanna
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go shopping? I'm down. And then I got home from
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the surgery and I was like, oh, I can't do anything.
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I can barely shower by myself, much less go for
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a walk with a friend. That's not happening. So
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if you ever have to get that surgery done, I'm
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just warning you now. It's not gonna go well.
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Also, the thing just got even bigger in my eye.
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I'm definitely gonna get a migraine today. I
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am. Let's keep going. Let's keep catching up
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on life. You know, let's stay distracted till
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we can't be distracted anymore. Okay, so get
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through surgery. I'm Jay Chillin. I'm so anxious
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to be around people. We have Bible study Wednesday
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night and I look at Lauren, my co -leader, and
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I'm like, you and me. Coffee tomorrow because
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there's this new coffee shop that opens slash
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cafe. That's Christian based y 'all. It's so
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cute They have a prayer wall where you can put
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like prayer requests down and people can like
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take your prayer requests and pray over you They
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have Christian music playing the whole time,
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but not like annoying cheesy Christian music
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And it's just such a nice like energy in there.
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It's such a nice energy. I'm I loved it It was
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so cute. So is me Lauren and then Kaylin who's
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also in our Bible study. She joined us. She's
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super cool I wish y 'all could know her um anyways
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yeah so Thursday brunch I wish that could be
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a tradition because I'm off on Thursdays like
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hey you and me let's just get brunch let's just
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go read our bibles together let's just have girly
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time that would be a dream anyways 10 on 10 if
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you're ever in the Wilmington area of North Carolina
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message me and I'll tell you the name of this
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cafe it was just so cute um what else have I
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been up to oh y 'all the church hunt has been
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hard speaking of Bible study and stuff. I went
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to another church the other day, other Sunday,
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and it wasn't great. It just wasn't. Listen,
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I know where two or more are gathered, the Holy
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Spirit's there. I just didn't feel the Holy Spirit
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moving, much less moving in me. And I know that's
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a me problem. I'm very aware that that's a me
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problem. But churches are hard. Finding a church
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right now is so hard. I just wish I could settle
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at this point. But I can't, I know what I want
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and I know what I'm looking for. And I haven't
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found it. There were some cute guys at that church
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though. But my guess is that they were all military
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and I'm just not a military girl. Like I can't
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date a military guy. So churches have been very
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difficult, but to get me through it, I've been
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listening to the Passion City DC podcast and
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they've been going through the book of Acts and
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oh my gosh. Okay. So I did the book of Daniel
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with them like two years ago. The Book of Acts?
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So good. If you want something to like kind of
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break down a book of the Bible and follow along,
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Pastor Ben Stort with Fashion City DC has been
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by far one of my favorite studies to go through.
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We just did chapter 13 and it was amazing. And
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then they do Further In that releases on Wednesdays,
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I think, where he goes in and he talks with like
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the people who work at the church and explains
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even more. in depth for questions that they might
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have or follow up. It's awesome. It's so, so
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good. Okay. Something I've started doing is Sunday
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prayer request and praise report. So if you follow
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me on Instagram, you'll see on Sundays that I
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am posting like, what's your prayer request?
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And it stays private between you and me and my
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DM. And then the praise report gets posted publicly
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so that Everyone, I just feel like we need to
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see more good in the world. We live in such a
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dark place right now. There's a lot of controversial
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stuff going on in our country and it's hard and
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I know where I landed on things. But I like to
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see some positivity happening and people DMing
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and telling me the good things happening in their
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life has been so fun. It's been very like life
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giving. Filling up my cup and getting to share
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it with others has been great. So if you need
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to do something in life. Taking people's prayer
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requests like why not pray over people that want
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you to pray over them, but also ask for the good
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Let's see what good is happening in your friends
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lives because you might not even know what's
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going down Anything else I want to oh y 'all
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y 'all I have an interview at the end of June
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in Florida So wish me luck. We will see Fingers
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crossed one can only help so if you're thinking
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about me pray for me because I'm still trying
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to figure that out just like if this is the spot
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to be pray that it is and if it's not pray that
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i get hit with a pound of bricks because like
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your girl is not i struggle to move without a
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job i've done it once when i moved to california
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without like a secure paying job in place and
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i'm not going to do it again like ever ever ever
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again and lastly i will tell you all i'm so excited
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for this weekend I am going to Olivia's baby
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shower. I can't believe that my baby is having
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a baby. I've known Olivia since she was 12 and
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she's having a baby and I'm so pumped to go to
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this baby shower. When she told me I was actually
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in Florida visiting Serena and I cried and I
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was like she's gonna be such a good mom but I
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forgot that she's not 12 and I forgot that she's
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married and for half a second I panicked like
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oh my god we have a teen pregnancy on our hands
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and then I remembered that she's a married woman
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who's graduated college like she's a grown up
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this is intentional like this is not this is
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actually a great thing so I'm really really excited
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to go to go to this and my sister's going with
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me which will be so fun um yeah and that's what
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I've been up to just a not quick but kind of
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quick catch up on what's going on and I hope
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that you enjoyed that because this migraine is
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actually starting to set in at the back of my
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head. So wish me luck because we are going to
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dive into this week's episode. Wow, I would love
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to do like a soft introduction into this episode,
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but quite honestly, I don't even know how I would.
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So we're going to just jump right physically
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into it. And I'm probably gonna botch a lot of
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names even though I've listened to the translations
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and the way that they're supposed to be pronounced
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like a million times. And I'm just warning everyone
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because you should just be warned. Yeah, so let's
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get into the tea of the genealogy of Jesus. Okay,
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so we have gone through a lot. A lot of people
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in the genealogy of Jesus. And where we are picking
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up is in Matthew obviously chapter 1 but we are
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now officially in verses 8 and 9 where it says
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Jerome which is the last guy we learned about
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the father of Ysa and Ysa the father of Jothram
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and Jothram the father of Ahaz and Ahaz the father
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of Hezekiah okay well um Just want to warn you
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that's actually not quite how the timeline goes
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Okay, and I know this is where the Bible gets
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confusing because if you were like me you read
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that and you said wow Where did use it come from?
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Where did he where did he show up because I just
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we just read about Jothram and that was not the
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son that he had um Well, we see the timeline
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jump here because use that is actually Jothram's
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great great grandson now How do I know this?
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Well, I had to Google because I spent an hour
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lost in my Bible, quite literally lost in my
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Bible, flipping back from pages here and pages
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there and this book to that book and back to
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Matthew. And then I read like three different
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translations and I was like WTF and none of these
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names match up what is happening. So I Googled
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it. And after Googling it, I found that's oh
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one second and then i translation well after
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the translations i was like wait maybe it's hebrew
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to greek or greek to hebrew and that's where
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it's getting confused and that's where i'm going
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wrong or am i just stupid that is a question
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so i just want to say thank god thank you jesus
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my lord and savior for google And your girl found
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her answer. And where did I find my answer? First
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Chronicles chapter three, verses 11 and 12. Okay,
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there we see, and this is where I'm about to
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really botch the names, you guys. There we see
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Ahaz, who is, Jerome? How was I saying his name?
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Anyways, you know what I'm saying. The first
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guy. The first guy, and we're safe. His son is
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Ahaz. which is also the father of Joash, which
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is the father of Ameza, which is the father of
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Azariah, which is Yuza. Okay, are we all tracking?
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So a brief rundown of everybody in between that
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we would have missed. Ehaza reigned for a year.
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He was bad. Just straight to the point, y 'all,
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he was bad. He started a war, he had no business
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being in, and then he died. And let's just say
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he died because of that war, so actions do have
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consequences, okay? Joe Ash? I think it's Joe
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Ash. Being the king's son was sought to be put
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to death. His auntie though saved his life, hit
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him and his nurse. and they put him in the house
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of the Lord for six years. So basically a baby
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put him in the house of the Lord. He lived there.
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And then in his seventh year, they sought him
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out and made him king. So little homie became
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king at seven years old. He reigned 40 years
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because he did what was right in the eyes of
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God and was instructed by the priest that worked
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there and the house of the Lord. So he had close
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ties to our Heavenly Father in that sense. But
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because there's always a but in these stories,
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but he didn't get rid of the high places that
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were really just places of worship for idols
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and other gods. He wasn't a bad king, but he
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wasn't a great king. His servants planned to
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murder him and followed through with it so that
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his son took his place. So his son, Emmaus, was
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25 when he became king and reigned 29 years.
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It is said that he did what was right in the
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eyes of God, but not like David. So not great.
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He was good, not great. He was sacrificial like
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David, but just alright like his father. And
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God was okay with that. God was like, we'll take
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that. This is a good ground to sit in for now
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with the people sitting on the throne. But he
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got a little big for his britches and went to
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war with Israel. Crazy, I know. Israel won and
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the king took him captive along with all of his
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money and treasure That's so embarrassing for
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him and eventually people plan to murder him
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and they did and that was that so Yeah Okay,
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so now we are all caught up from Matthew 1 verse
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8 and where it picks up with you as as we also
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know as Ahaz which is again the great -great
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-grandson of the episode prior, where we ended.
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Our man became king at just 16 years old, y 'all,
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and he reigned a whopping 52 years. He also did
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what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but can
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you guess what he didn't do? That's right, he
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didn't get rid of the high places. People were
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still worshiping idols. So what did God do since
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these guys apparently couldn't follow through
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like they just did not get the memo of hey Let's
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not worship idols. Let's not have any other gods
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before me You know, we've all heard it a million
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times so after raining and seeing His ancestors
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rain and still not getting rid of the idols in
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the high places God gave poor you as leprosy
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till the day he died He had to stay in a different
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house from all his people and all his family
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and his son Jothram governed his people in the
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land. Jothram kept the brokered record playing.
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Why? We don't know. He just was not picking up
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any of the hints that God had been dropping,
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and so he also didn't get rid of the high places.
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I know, shocking for all of us to see history
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continue to repeat itself. He began his reign
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at 25, and only lasted 16 years on the throne
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until he died it seems like no one gets to just
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retire from being king everyone just dies when
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they're king i'd be like david i'd be like listen
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i'm old i'm in bed someone just put my son on
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the throne i'm done that would be me like david
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kind of had it he died peacefully i guess kind
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of I don't know. I just would not want to be
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like, someone take me out so that the next person's
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king. I would just want to retire from being
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in charge of a whole country. I really would.
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Thank God I'm not in charge of anything, honestly,
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except for the things that work. Anyways, back
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to the story. Okay, so he died. All right. And
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then Ahaz, his son, took the throne at 20 years
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old and was king for 16 years. But the kid did
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not do what was right in the eyes of God. He
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was a follower of the kings of Israel. He even
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burned his own son as a sacrifice. Yeah, he made
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offerings to the idols on hills and under every
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green tree. The Bible literally says under every
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green tree. OK, that's crazy. He burned his own
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child. Sorry, this is probably like trigger warning
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for someone. Sacrifice some burnt his own child
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and then also meet sacrifices under every green
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tree, but couldn't serve God. Like that's crazy.
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He basically went out of his way to avoid serving
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God, which had been so much easier to go to the
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house of the Lord, go to one place and have a
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priest do most of the work for you than to go
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to every green tree. Anyways, he did not have
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the fear of God and him. That is for sure. Like,
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I'm telling you now, this man did not fear the
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Lord. He was not scared one bit. He had no respect.
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This fear of the Lord means to respect God. He
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ain't got no respect for the Lord. And I'll tell
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you what, after someone, after my grandpa had
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leprosy and had to live in a different house
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from everybody else and then died, I would have
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a lot of fear. I would have a lot of respect
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for God. And I would definitely not be sacrificing
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under every green tree, much less burning my
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own child alive. That's crazy. Um, sorry. He
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just did a lot of terrible things in his short
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time as king, you guys. He did a lot of terrible
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things. And then God literally said to him, time's
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up. He was like, bro, you're done. Get out of
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here. It's over. Because you only reign 16 years.
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Let's face it, if you're reigning for a short
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amount of time, it means God's done. He's like,
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no more. It's over. So then his son, Hezekiah,
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takes his place. And we see that in 2 Kings.
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verse 16 or not verse chapter 16 verse 20 and
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that is where we will pick up next time so i
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know brief overview quick overview i just wanted
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y 'all to get a gist of what has been going down
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and the genealogy of jesus because there was
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that little timeline jump Matthew and I wanted
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you to know what was happening before we get
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really back into it. So that is the tea on the
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previous kings leading up to Hezekiah. So what
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we see through these kings is whether you are
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worshipping on the high places or just allowing
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them to have a place and go unused it literally
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doesn't matter. Allowing the idols to have a
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place in general, even if you aren't using them,
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still allows them to have a foothold in your
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life or other lives. Because if they had taken
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the high places away, think about this. If they
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had taken the high places away years and years
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and years ago to like their great grandfather
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of everybody else avoiding it, then Aza would
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not have sacrificed his own child or under every
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green tree. He just wouldn't have. So when we
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don't get rid of the idols in our lives, and
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we allow them to have a foothold in our life.
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Again, whether we're using them, acknowledging
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them, worshiping them or not, they can have an
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effect on our children for generations. We saw
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three generations not use the idols, but those
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three generations led up to the day of a burnt
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human sacrifice of their own bloodline. It wasn't
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even like it was a servant. Not that that would
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have been better. It's not like it was a stranger.
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Again, not that that would have been better.
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but still of their own bloodline? Crazy. That's
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like when we don't get rid of our idols we're
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sacrificing our own bloodlines generations down.
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And I remember my aunt said this once to me because
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we were talking about um what is it called we're
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talking about generational curses and she was
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telling me she's like you know the demons I didn't
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fight the chains I didn't break the things I
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didn't heal from When I was young, I see showing
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up in my children's lives and I see them fighting
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the same demons. Obviously not physical demons,
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but you get the gist. Like she sees her own children
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fighting those curses, those generational curses,
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those chains that are holding them down. So if
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we are not getting rid of the idols in our lives
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or the things that are holding us back from living
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free in God and free with God, we're going to
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see our future children fighting those battles
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and it could get even worse like we just saw
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with Ahaz. So let's deal with them. When we don't
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deal with things and clear them from our lives,
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we see future generations struggle with the same
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things. And like I said, or worse, but God, we
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always see God's grace. Just remember God's grace
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is there. We see God's grace even with David.
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He keeps David's descendants on the throne even
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after all of this. And we see that God is a promise
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keeper because of all that and all we see, we
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see him rectify the wrongs at some point and
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we see his love for David and again his follow
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through and his promise. And I know this sounds
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super repetitive, but I want to get the point
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across. I want to get the point across that David
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was faithful. And his promise just like Abraham
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was faithful in his promise and his side of the
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deal Solomon was faithful in his promise so even
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though things got so bad that has Sacrificed
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his own child and worshipped under every green
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tree, and I don't know why the green tree thing
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is the thing I'm stuck on I'm sorry, but it is
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because I just imagine there were a lot of green
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trees God Still had grace and he kept his promise
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Even though clearly some of these people were
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not following through on their end, okay? That's
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all for today. Thank you for joining and Please
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join us for part 11 next time and I hope you
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found this encouraging in some way because I
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just found the whole thing crazy Yeah, anyways
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