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Hello everyone everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 minute daily Bible walk for today.

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We're so blessed you're joining us as today.

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We're continuing now in our study of Genesis chapter 17.

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We left off last time with verse number eight, where God came down, renewed his covenant with Abram, inserted himself into the middle of Abram's name, making his name Abraham.

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So every time somebody called Abraham, they were saying God's name too, making sure that they, everyone understood the covenant relationship between Abram and God.

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Hallelujah.

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And he came down and reintroduced us.

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I remember 13 years went by since Ishmael was born, which coincides with the bar mitzvah and the age of maturity in Israel or Jewish traditions and stuff, that at 13, the boy is considered a man.

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Up till that time, he had to rely on dad.

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Now he can rely on himself, right?

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He's got dad could help.

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But in society's eyes, he's now able to take care of himself.

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And that's when God showed back up.

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He'd been waiting.

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God had stopped talking to Abram, gave him the silent treatment.

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Praise God.

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And verse one, he says, when Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him again and said, I am El Shaddai.

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I'm your provider, Abram.

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But your name's no longer going to be Abram, is now going to be Abraham.

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Right?

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So we left off in verse 8, verse 9, Genesis 17, verse 9.

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And God said to Abraham, you shall keep my covenant.

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Therefore you and your seed, your descendants after you, in their generations.

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This is my covenant which you shall keep.

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It's between me and you and your seed.

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Your descendants after you, your seed after you in their generations.

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This is my covenant.

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Every man child among you, every male child shall be circumcised.

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You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin.

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It shall be a token, a sign of the covenant between me and you.

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And he that's eight days old.

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A son of eight days shall be circumcised among you.

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Every man child in your generations.

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He that's born in the house bought with money from a stranger which is not of your seed.

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Every male child need he that's born a house.

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These bought with money must need be circumcised.

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And my covenant.

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See that colon means so that.

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So that my covenant shall be in your flesh.

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My covenant will be in your flesh.

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You don't have to remember doing the sacrifices out here.

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It'll be in your flesh.

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In other words, every time you go Wash.

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Every time you go to the bathroom, you're gonna see the sign of the covenant.

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Now, that may be a little blatant for some of you tenderhearted folks out there, but I'm just telling you the way it is.

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And.

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And it's a sign between God and you is what.

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This is an everlasting covenant.

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Because those that are circumcised, those that are not circumcised, you're out in the town, walking around, you don't know who's who or who what.

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Right?

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That's the point.

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It's not like you have to wear a fancy hat or wear a fancy garb of clothes or wear rings that symbolizes, you know, or cross necklaces or anything like that.

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This is a covenant that's between you and God alone.

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Only God knows.

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Put it like this.

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And only you know.

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So between the two of you, you have this covenant.

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It's a private covenant between you and the creator of the universe.

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If you're a male child.

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And that's the point of it.

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You don't have to advertise it.

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You're not going to go out showing it to people.

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We know what I mean.

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All right.

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So here God's saying, this is a private covenant just between you and me and those after you.

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Just between you, me and them.

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It's private.

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He that's born in your house, he's bought with you.

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The money needs to be circumcised.

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My covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

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Verse 14.

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The uncircumcised man, child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people, for he has broken my coat.

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They don't want to take part in the circumcision.

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They got no covenant rights whatsoever.

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Here, verse 15.

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And God said to Abraham, as for Sarai, your wife, now, she's the one who came up with the plan.

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She's the one who came up with the plan that ended up as a compromise in Ishmael.

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He says, as for Sarai, your wife, she doesn't have a foreskin to get circumcised with.

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He says, you will no longer call her name Sarai.

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You will call her Sarah.

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That's what her name shall be from now on, which is Princess.

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So you have princes, right?

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Prince is what you know, Kings come through their luck.

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Well, a princess is in the royal line, too.

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Amen.

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A princess is in the royal eye.

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That's where God established that with the women, through Sarai right there.

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Praise God.

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Verse 16.

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I will bless her.

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I'm gonna bless her, Abram.

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I'm gonna bless Sarai, who is now known as Sarah, as a princess.

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I'm gonna bless her as a princess.

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A kingly princess is who she is now.

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I mean, that's gotta be exciting.

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Hey, man.

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He says, so from this point forward, you're gonna say, sarah, here's a princess.

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Princess of the nations.

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You know, the mother of these nations that are.

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Oh, praise God.

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She's calling him.

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Hey, Abraham, father of many nations, time to come to dinner.

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Yes.

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Princess, mother of many nations, right?

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Oh, praise God.

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Praise God.

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Praise God.

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Don't shut me down.

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I'm preaching.

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Good.

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I hope you're getting this.

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I'm praying that you're getting this here.

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We're going through this verse by verse.

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Verse 16.

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I will bless her.

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And here it comes as a sign of this covenant, if you remember.

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Walk before me and be upright.

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Be sincere as you're walking before me.

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He says, you do this, and you start by giving me a covenant sign.

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Circumcision.

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Changing your name.

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Changing her name.

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You do this, I'm gonna make my covenant with you.

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And I will bless her and give you a son also of her.

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Yes, I will bless her.

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And she shall be the mother of many nations.

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Kings of people shall be of her.

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Now, this is too much for Abraham says he fell on his face and laughed.

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Ah, God, That's a good one, man.

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You.

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You're.

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You need to go on the Jay Leto show there.

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God.

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Praise the Lord.

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I tell you what, you're so funny sometimes.

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God, I didn't think that was funny.

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He's being serious.

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He said in his heart, can a child be born to someone that's a hundred years old?

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Come on, God, give me a break here.

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That's what he's telling God.

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He says, can a child.

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Can someone 100 years old father a child?

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Sarah, she's 90 years old.

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She hadn't been pregnant yet.

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How's she gonna have a baby?

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Verse 18.

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And Abram said, abraham said unto God, God, look, I appreciate the offer, and I know your intentions are good here, but why don't you just bless Ishmael?

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Let him live before you forever.

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Words out of his mouth are haunting the Jewish people to this day.

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Verse 19.

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And God said, sarah, your wife will bear you a son indeed, and you shall call his name Isaac.

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Isaac means he laughed.

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He laughed.

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You're going to remember that.

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You laughed at what I just said.

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I will establish my covenant with him.

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For an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

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Now, verse 20.

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As for Ishmael, I've heard what you said.

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I've heard what you requested.

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I have.

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Well, he says, behold, I have blessed him.

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In other words, God heard what Abram said.

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He said, okay, I will bless him.

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I will make him prosperous, I will make him fruitful, I will multiply him exceedingly.

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According to what you just said, 12 princes shall he beget, and I will make of him a great nation.

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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto you at this set time in the next year.

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And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

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God left.

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He said, all right, you can.

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You want to laugh at what I'm saying here, Abraham?

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I'm calling you Abraham.

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You want to laugh at what I'm saying here?

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Tell you what, okay, you want me to bless Ishmael, I'll do it.

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I'll make of him a great nation also.

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It'll be a thorn in your side and his side and Isaac's side forever.

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But let me tell you something here through Isaac, I'm telling you right now, you'll call his name Isaac, because you laughed at what I've just promised you.

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So every time you call him, you're gonna remember you laughed at what I just promised.

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And I'll talk to you later.

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He's gone.

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Went up from Abraham.

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And we'll leave it right there till next time.

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Amen.

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Till then, tell me what you thought about today's episode.

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This is good stuff.

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I.

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I just enjoy going through the Bible on a verse by verse basis.

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I hope you're getting it too.

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All right, let's pray.

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Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we just praise you for opening the Scriptures to us and speaking to us in plain language.

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Lord, we don't have to read Elizabethan English and go look up what all these words mean.

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Lord, just share with us by your holy spirit right now.

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And we just praise you for all that you do in Jesus name, Amen.

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And Amen until next time is Pastor.

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By reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.