202: Matthew Blewett – Meditations in Revelation

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Hi I’m Justin.
This week’s talk is the third

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out of five in a series by
Matthew blew it.

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The premise of the series is
that revelation Is a love letter

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from Jesus.
And the goal is to meditate on

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some of the words and symbology
used by Jesus without getting

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into historical or future event
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This particular class focuses on
our identity through.

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Jesus also, be sure to look for
the whole series on the good

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christadelphians talks extended
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Thanks and enjoy listening.
Well, good morning everyone.

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Good to see you all this
morning.

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Everybody recovered from their
dancing, very impressed in the

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skills you have over here at
West certainly got some of the

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frontier skills still there in
your blood so great to be here

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and see that.
So we’re going to carry on with

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our meditations and Revelation.
And what we going to be doing in

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the next three sessions is
really a sharing some

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meditations with you hope.
Through that process, may be

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sharing some spiritual insights.
Also just going over the

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approach that I’ve used.
And through example, hopefully,

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encouraging and inspiring more
people to want to use Revelation

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as a meditation book, book to to
gain these spiritual principles

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for today.
And what I’ve tried to also do

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in the next three sessions is to
is to group The meditations in

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to reveal the diversity of the
Book of Revelation that I’ve

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spoken to.
So you’ll see today we’re going

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to use Some examples of
meditations that refer to places

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and people.
So if you’re the kind of person

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that likes to think about
relationships and that talks

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your language then Revelations,
got something for you tomorrow

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we’ll look at numbers.
If you’re more of a spread sheet

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numbers person, then Revelations
got passages for you and the

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last day we’ll look at colors
colors and pictures so if you’re

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more of an IT person Revelation
can speak to you as well.

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And I think that’s the power of
a whole Bible but specifically

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said in the Book of Revelation,
it’s It’s diversity in the way

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that it’s expressing the
message.

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And I think that’s very powerful
for us to use in our own

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preaching that we’ve got to
realize, we’re talking to people

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from different backgrounds who
have different languages that

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they communicate, and we can’t
have only one method of doing

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that and I think it’s
beautifully summarized in the

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Book of Revelation.
So we’re going to start with a

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little Revelation, but very
small meditation.

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And then I’m going to go through
what I’ve caught in the past.

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I Revelation Parts where we’ve
got something that we’ve chased

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up a bit first.
Further and some interesting

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insights that have come from my
meditations.

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So starting with this passage
from very well-known passage,

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let’s go back where we can get
it in full screen or as best as

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we can and it’s from Revelation
chapter 14 and we have read this

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message, I guess many times
before it says.

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And another Angel followed
saying Babylon is Fallen is

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Fallen that great City because
she has made all nations drink

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of the One of the wrath of her
fornication.

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So, one morning that was my
meditation.

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A passage that you think, well,
what spiritual Insight can we

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get from this passage?
And so as I was thinking and

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focusing on it and trying to
focus on the detail of a passage

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that I’ve read so many times
before, and as I’ve mentioned

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before, it’s in passages that we
read so many times before that,

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we’ve got to work a bit harder
to to try and see perhaps a

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message for us.
And the thing that caught Caught

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my attention.
Is this phrase Babylon is Fallen

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is fallen.
In fact, it’s used like in that

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same way actually originally in
the book of Isaiah Babylon is

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Fallen is fallen.
And, you know, it comes over

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lips so easily, it doesn’t it.
And we know that in the New

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Testament, specifically often a
word is repeated for emphasis,

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Jesus would say truly, truly, I
say unto you, verily verily.

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In other words, what I’m about
to say is, is important.

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You need to concentrate But on
the morning that I was thinking

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about this, I thought a bit more
deeply about this idea.

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That Babylon is Fallen is
fallen.

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And what got me thinking, is it
is, as I was thinking about The

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Echoes of Babylon.
I mean, the obvious thought came

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to my mind here in the Book of
Revelation Babylon is such an

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important city.
It’s a big part of the narrative

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and yet, we know that Babylon
shouldn’t even be here.

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Because the Babylon that we have
met In the time of Daniel and in

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the Prophecies of Isaiah and
other Major Prophets has been

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destroyed, it was prophesied
that it would be destroyed.

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We all know this well, known
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So the echo that that obviously
is from our first principles, is

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this idea that Babylon us?
We can see the glory of the

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Kingdom’s.
The beauty of the Chaldeans

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Pride will be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Amore, it

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will never be inhabited.
And of course, we take this

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beautiful Prophecy from Isaiah
and we say there it is.

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It’s been four full bail on is
destroyed.

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You can go there and the fact
that it remains a rune, is a

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continuous proof of the power
that God has over the nation’s.

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And yet, we sort of Ghibli
coming to Revelation and we find

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this Babylon and it’s there and
it’s alive.

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And of course, the way we
reconcile that is quite simply

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we say, well, that that’s the
physical Babylon.

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Was destroyed in here in the
Book of Revelation.

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We are being taught that there
is a spirit of Babylon which is

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an interesting Insight because
often we spend more time trying

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to identify a particular city
that has Babylon.

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Whereas the fact that physical
Babylon remains destroyed is

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screaming at us that what we
have in Revelation is the spirit

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of Babylon, brought to life, not
necessarily in one city, but in

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a way that demonstrates all that
Babylon stood for and will

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actually see that a bit later in
another, one of my meditations.

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So that’s an interesting Echo
and so this idea that Babylon is

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Fallen is Fallen is perhaps
making us also think that in

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fact, Babylon has to be
destroyed twice.

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And and that’s an interesting
idea.

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When we view sin itself, we
understand as Jesus said that,

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we’ve got to be very careful in
our view of sin that sin

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actually has to be dealt with on
the Outside and the inside, we

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can live lives.
Like the Pharisees were living

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where it looks like.
They’ve dealt with all the

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outside manifestations of this.
And as he said, you’ve made the

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outside, look, very clean, but
you haven’t dealt with the, the

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inside, the thoughts, and
intents of your heart, have not

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been dealt with.
And really, in this sense, we’re

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taught that sin requires a
double blow, it needs to be

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dealt with twice as it were
David.

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A summarizes this beautifully in
Psalm 51, he says, hide your

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face from my sins, and blot out
all my iniquities.

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Okay.
That’s I need forgiveness for

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the things that I’ve done wrong,
but that alone doesn’t deal with

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my problem.
You know?

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You can you can, you know, kill
the tree.

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But if you haven’t dealt with
the roots, or take out the weed,

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but if you haven’t taken out the
roots, it’s coming back.

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I need to also have my heart
cleaned.

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This is what David understood.
I need.

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I need you to come in and change
my very way of thinking Because

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even though today, I didn’t do
that thing that I didn’t want to

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do tomorrow.
It’s coming back.

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So sit in a way, needs to be
destroyed.

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Obviously in the outside, we
need to work and stop ourselves

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from doing the things that we
ought not to do.

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But the way that ultimately
takes place is by the inside

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also being cleansed.
So perhaps there’s this idea

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that Babylon is Fallen is Fallen
teaching us.

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That we need to understand that
certain our Labs requires the

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double Oh, that David I think is
referring to.

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So there’s a quick thought, just
from the idea of Babylon is

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Fallen is Fallen a little tick
but in that same little passage,

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is the idea that Babylon is
always referred to as great

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Babylon in, in the, in both
actually in Revelation.

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And in many of the texts that we
find in Isaiah and you might

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want to think about why, what’s
the reason for that Echo, the

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word great.
By the way, in Greek is the

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word, Mega.
We still use that word today.

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So I’ll leave you with that
thought for yourself.

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I want us not to go to this
passage which is the passage if

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you’ve got your Bibles open
because that’s not very clear.

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Still battling with resolution.
Yep.

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If we go to Revelation chapter 7
you might want to open your

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Bibles, thanks for that
Revelation chapter 7 and there

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is the the passage that deals
with the sealed of God.

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Very well-known.
Beautiful passage describing

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what we call the 144,000, these
have been washed.

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Had their clothes washed in the
blood of the lamb and have been

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sealed with the name of God on
their foreheads.

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And what morning when I was
considering this passage, what

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caught my attention, what caught
my focus is the way when this

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this multitude are described, I
heard how many there were, who

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were marked with the Seal of the
Lord 144,000 from all the tribes

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of Israel.
All right and I think in another

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version it says from the
children the tribes of the

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children of Israel were going to
highlight that in the moment and

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then he goes on to say, I’ll
tell you how those hundred and

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forty-four thousand were made up
and he then mentions each of the

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tribes and gives us the the
number twelve thousand for

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Judah, 12,000 for Ruben, 12,000
for Levi, and I won’t go through

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all the lists, what caught my
attention and this is what often

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catches, your attention when
you’re meditating is the level

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of detail again.
I mean, he could have stopped by

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saying, you know, I saw a great
crowd 144,000 of the tribes of

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the children of Israel and we
would have had a good picture,

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but he goes specifically to
mention each of the names of the

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tribes and to tell us that each
of them is allocated 12 hours.

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So I think, you know, again from
a from a high-level point of

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view there we go.
Just need to press the button

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and it would have got nice and
clear from a high-level point of

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view.
What we’re seeing is is this

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beautiful idea that Amongst the
sealed of God amongst the

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reveal.
The redeemed is a place for all

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of us.
There’s a place for everyone.

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It’s an entry of abundance is an
abundant injury often, we

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obviously look with fear and
uncertainty, will there be a

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place for me?
But the message in Revelation

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and certainly In this passage,
is this a place for everyone.

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There’s 12,000 for every tribe
and I think the reason every

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tribe is named is in a way.
Yes, we’re no.

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The allusions to at the Israel
and and Becky each of the

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tribes.
And we’ll look at that in a

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moment.
But the point is each trop also

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represented.
I’ve been talking about

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diversity different
characteristics and all of them

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are there all of your cultural
backgrounds, all of your

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heritage, all of your
personality traits.

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God has a place for every one of
you and your Equity treat it

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12,000 for each.
And of course that message is

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coming out strongly because when
we go back to look at the tribes

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as they recorded in numbers,
when the numberings were done,

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they were certainly not.
Equal in size, some of the

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tribes were two times the volume
in terms of population.

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The number then other traps had
some very fertile woman in their

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tribes.
So but when we come to the

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message of of the sealed of God,
every tribe receives 12,000.

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Abundant entry space for
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us.
But then of course we do know

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just a little detail, a little
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this detail.
Here is the, the tribes of the

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children of Israel and he goes
through each of them and names

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them.
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Well there’s a list of
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back to Genesis chapter 29 where
we have a list of the children

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of Israel.
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list in Revelation chapter 7 is
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Now you’ll know that a Numbers
Chapter 1, when the tribes are

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listed in terms of the way that
I camped around the Tabernacle

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Ephraim and Manasseh as a part
of the double portion coming to

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replace Joseph.
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a tribe was not one of the
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encampments the the three
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of the compass.
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comparison between Revelation
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the children of Israel, that’s
the difference, it’s made in

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Revelation chapter 7 the missing
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What’s happened is Levi’s, been
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and then Joseph is brought back
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children and in replace of Dan
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Who, in fact was the first born
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there because of the double
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discussions about that but the
missing tribe is that you know I

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thought about it.
I thought imagine this you know,

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it’s this beautiful scene is
painted.

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Imagine if you A part of the
tribe of Dan and you come to

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this Revelation chapter 7 and
you come to imagine the picture

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and you know like when we all
look through photograph albums

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If we’re honest we looking
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Look at the photos and suddenly
we were looking for one of our

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selfie.
Sonny’s double there I am we we

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drawn to ourselves.
We might not want to show it we

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put but if you are of the tribe
of Dan and you were reading

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Revelation chapter 7, you
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we’re not there.
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about why, why would in this in
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In this picture of God, making
place for every trap,

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specifically one trap is left
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So, let’s take a while just to
think about what spiritual

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lesson we can take from missing
Dan.

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Now, this idea of of one being
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Echo, definitely in the life of
Jesus.

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Remember when Jesus said in John
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twelve and one of you is a
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So there’s a lovely Echo there.
12 chosen one has turned Twelve

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Tribes, 12 children of Israel.
One is not there, of course, in

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the case of of Judas, we know he
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He was not prepared to wait for
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purpose, he wanted to force the
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to why he portrayed Jesus.
So that’s quite clear but but

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Dan is it the same spirit and
Dan that that will not allow us

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to be a part of those redeemed?
It’s an important question.

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So let’s think a bit more about
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Let’s go in search of Dan.
Now, typically people will say

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to you and I’ve certainly heard
it that Dan is missing from this

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list and I’m sure some of you
thought about it because his

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name means to judge And this
list of people that we have in

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Revelation chapter 7 of the
redeemed, Mercy, we’ve been

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talking about that throughout
this week, triumphs over

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judgment.
So, in a sense from just, the

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meaning of his name, we
shouldn’t expect to find them

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there because these are the ones
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So, I guess there’s some Merit
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and we understand and we look
for The Echoes, I think there’s

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a greater spiritual principle
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Why someone Might be missing,
despite the availability of

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mercy.
So, so yes.

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Dad’s name does mean to judge to
contend to vindicate?

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The question is, what is meant
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What do we mean by that
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And the way to answer the
question, of course, is what

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we’ll do just now is to go back
to Genesis and to try and

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understand what was the very
jeans that you re very DNA of

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gas before.
We do that some interesting

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things.
Dan as a name, both referring to

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the individual.
Rap is about 60 times in the

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Bible.
This surprised me, he’s the

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fifth most reference son of
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So you got the obvious guys that
you would think are in the in

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the top spot Judah.
Levi obviously being mentioned

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quite a lot of times but here is
Danforth in line.

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He’s mentioned a lot more than
some other quite famous.

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I think Ruben, for example, is
mentioned far less times and

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Dan.
He was the first one.

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So he becomes quite an important
trap in the land of Israel.

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He’s the only son.
Obvious real.

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He’s not mentioned at all in the
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So, not in Revelation, nowhere
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So interesting, let’s do what
we’ve been saying.

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We’d like to do and go back to
Genesis and see if we can find

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out something about Dan.
And I think the essence of the

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spirit of Dan is actually
captured in his naming and his

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birth.
So this is what happens when he

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is born.
Rachel said, God has Vindicated

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me.
Remember, that was one of the,

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the tri-state.
So, it’s named in the King James

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version.
It says, God is Judge Me.

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He has listen to my plea and
given me a son because of this,

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she named him, Dan.
So here, she’s capturing the

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very Spirit of the birth of her
son, Dan.

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Now, I want you to think a bit
about that word that’s been used

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at the Tri-State, as choose to
use the word Vindicated,

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slightly different in our
language.

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The word judge.
I think it’s actually a bit more

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helpful.
The idea there is that God has

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come through for me.
He and she says that I pleaded

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to him, he’s listen to my plea
and he’s given me what I wanted,

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which was a son.
As we unravel the story, we’re

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going to see that there’s
nothing true about that and this

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is where the real spiritual
truth lies.

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That’s been revealed to us, I
Believe by focusing on the

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missing Dan in Revelation
chapter 7.

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So, how does the story begin?
Well, you know, the story,

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there’s a two arms and they’re
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And, of course, Rachel was the
first one, she was the favorite

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and all she wanted to do was to
give her husband a son, but she

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was Barren.
And Leah was just producing the

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wives one after of the wives 4
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One after another four in a row,
every season, she becomes

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desperate, and look at what she
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It is when she saw that she was
not bearing.

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Jacob, any children she became
jealous.

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So she said to Jacob, give me
children or I will die.

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So immediately we learn a lot
about Rachel, don’t we?

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She has a problem.
She’s desperate for children.

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She doesn’t get on her knees,
like, Hannah and pray to God

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because she had on you.
That.

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That’s where children come from.
She goes to Jacob, says, give me

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children or I will die.
Jacob course, being a man of

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Faith answers correctly.
Jacob became angry with her and

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said, am I in place of God who
has kept you from Having

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children, so he points her in
the direction that she should be

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going.
He says, I’m not the one who can

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give you children.
It’s God.

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And I want you to notice those
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Am I in place of God.
Am I the substitute for God in

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this case and so he’s
encouraging her.

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And so what does Rachel do, does
she get on her knees like Hannah

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and pray for children?
As she said, she’d it does she

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plead for children?
That’s not in the record, maybe

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she did but it’s not the way the
writer of Genesis chooses to

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reveal the story to us.
This is what she does.

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So, she said, here is my maid
bulla, go into her and she will

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bear a child on my knees.
That I also may have children by

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her.
She came up with the solution.

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Ironically the solution she came
up with was the very solution

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that God had said to her,
father-in-law his father rat.

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Remember when Abram was
wondering where the promised

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seed would come from, was he
going to come through Eliezer?

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Was it going to come through?
His hand made that had been

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given to him from Sarah and God
said very clearly.

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No, no, no.
Your wife Sarah will bear you, a

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child.
So, in the family, they had

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already learned this principle,
but but for Rachel, she wanted

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so desperately to have a son
that she would find her own way

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to do it and that the use of the
Hebrew expression, I think it’s

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lost in some of the newer
translations is so powerful,

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isn’t it?
Look at that phrase and she will

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bear a child on my knees.
She’s giving us a visual image.

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She’s going to take this hand
mate, and when she’s about to

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give birth, she’s going to put
her on her knees, so that it

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will appear that.
The child that is born is

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actually from Rachel.
I’ve done it, I’ve given birth

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to a child to a son.
There can be given to you.

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Jacob.
And when we stop to think about

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that.
And we now read these words.

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God has Vindicated me.
He has listen to my plea and

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given me a son.
We understand how incorrect it

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was.
She had Vindicated herself, she

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had judged herself.
She had found a way to deliver

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on the problem that she had and
I guess we might summarize that

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particular Spurt as this, my
plan is God’s plan.

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And, you know, so often in our
lives, we find ourselves in that

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situation.
We find ourselves impatient not

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willing to wait for God to work
in us and through us.

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And so what we do is eventually
we find our own way to do

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whatever it is.
We want to achieve, but there’s

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something a bit more Insidious
years in there and we’re good at

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doing this as well, we work our
own solution and then we ascribe

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it to God.
We find a way to manipulate what

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we have done and say, well, it’s
the work of God.

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Now, I can test it in you, and
you can tested a me.

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But in our hearts and in our
conscience, we can sometimes see

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that.
And this is where this dangerous

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Spirit lies.
This thing that God cannot

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through his Mercy, because God’s
mercy cannot deal with autonomy.

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God’s Mercy is only dependent on
one thing that you are dependent

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on him.
The the unforgivable sin that’s

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in that says the spirit and
power of God, the Holy Spirit

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has no power in my life because
my power is what counts becomes

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the unforgivable sin.
My plan is God’s plan.

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Now, we see this.
Now in the spirit of the birth

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of Dan, The Echoes of Genesis
that something about Dan speaks

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to this desire to to execute our
own will.

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But as we go through now very
quickly, we’ll do it as we go

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through other parts of that and
we see the same idea coming

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through.
For example, you’ll know that

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Jacob gave these blessings to
the 12 children and they

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summarized the characteristics
of each of the children.

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So up on the screen yet when he
was blessing Judah, he

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summarized the fact that Judah
was going to be a leader.

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Maybe he read, he had
demonstrated those qualities and

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he said, you’re like a lion and
from this we get the idea of the

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Lion of the tribe of Judah.
You’re a great leader.

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What did he say when he came to
Dan?

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He said Dan shall judge his
people as one of the tribes of

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Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent by the

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way, a Viper by the pot, that
botched the horses heels.

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So that it’s Rider shall fall
backward.

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So isn’t this an amazing
description of what we had seen

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with Rachel?
This idea that Dan is going to

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judge his people.
I don’t think he means become a

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judge on behalf of God, he’s
going to judge.

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His people will see in a bit
later.

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According to his own way, it’s
his own rules and not only is he

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going to do that, he’s going to
be very deceptive, he’s going to

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come as a snake behind the
rider.

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So he’s going to be a snare to
the rest of Israel.

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And he’s going to present to
them something that looks like

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the judgments of God and he’s
going to take them out just like

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the echo of the serpent that
said, God knows that the day

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that you eat of the tree of the
knowledge of Good and Evil, you

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will become like him.
In other words to present that,

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that this opportunity that you
have Eve, is really not that

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bad, because really, it’s just a
way in which you can make the

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judgments of God yourself.
You can discern between Good and

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Evil.
And that was really the essence

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of the Serpent’s Temptation and
no wonder, Jacob says, in Dan is

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the spirit of that deception
that thing which says I can make

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00:26:02,800 –> 00:26:08,000
the Judgment separate from God
and I can ascribe it to God.

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Isn’t it interesting that
Suddenly at the end of his

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description of Dan, Jacob puts
Verse 18.

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And when you’re reading it, you
think I see put that in there.

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What’s that?
Got to do with the rest?

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I have waited for your cell.
Ovation own Lord isn’t that the

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essence of it?
Well is it that we want to

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execute our own judgment when it
is it that we want to do it our

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way when we no longer prepared
to wait?

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You see, patients is one of
those incredible qualities of

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God.
It’s in almost all of the lists

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that represent the
characteristics of God.

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If you go to Exodus chapter 34,
it’s the third long-suffering,

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merciful gracious.
Long-suffering you go to the

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fruit of the spirit.
We’ve got love joy.

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00:26:52,200 –> 00:26:55,400
Peace.
Patience, you go to the First

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Corinthians 13.
Definition of love.

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Love is kind.
Love is patient.

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Over and over again, patients,
this incredible, quality of

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waiting for the Salvation of the
Lord and Rachel couldn’t do it.

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And it’s built into Dan and Dan
cannot wait for God’s.

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Will, to be worked out the very
essence when it comes down to

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the crunch with the Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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What is it that he’s tested on
in the garden?

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00:27:21,200 –> 00:27:27,000
It all comes down to this that
your will may be done and not

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mine.
That was the essence of the

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test.
And so, when we go and have a

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look at the, the nation of Dan
the tribe that was born out of

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the spirit.
We’re not surprised that we find

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that they called the, the city
that was the capital of Dan

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after the name of Dan, he was
their leader.

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So, let’s call it down.
He’s going to be our judge.

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And they, they the children, it
says, verse 30 of Dan sets up

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for themselves, a carved image,
and Jonathan, the son of

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gershom, the son of Vanessa.
And his sons were priests to the

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tribe of Dan until the day of
the Captivity and I set up for

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themselves Marcus cough image,
which he made all the time that

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the house of God was in China.
What do they do?

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They decided, you know what?
We still want to worship?

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00:28:11,000 –> 00:28:13,600
Yes, we still believe in God, we
were seeing this.

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What did you call?
It was a better word.

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00:28:15,500 –> 00:28:19,700
Seen Chris, was it syncretism
beautiful word syncretism?

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00:28:20,100 –> 00:28:23,000
They mixed what work for them
together, what?

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00:28:23,000 –> 00:28:26,600
Looked like Devon and godly
worship, own priesthood.

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00:28:26,600 –> 00:28:29,400
Still got a priesthood, we’ve
got places to worship, don’t

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00:28:29,400 –> 00:28:32,500
need to go down to Shiloh.
Let’s, let’s mix what God has

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00:28:32,500 –> 00:28:36,000
given us, but that which is
inconvenient will take out And

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presented back as something
acceptable.

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00:28:40,400 –> 00:28:41,800
You see what’s so powerful
about?

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This isn’t just a normal sin,
God can deal with those.

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00:28:44,800 –> 00:28:46,700
He’s promised us that he will
wash them away.

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This cannot be dealt with, you
won’t be amongst Revelation

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chapter 7 with this condition.
Those who swear by the sin of

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00:28:57,200 –> 00:28:59,800
Sumeria who say as your God
Lives.

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00:28:59,800 –> 00:29:01,800
Oh Dan?
And as the way of Beersheba,

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00:29:02,000 –> 00:29:06,700
they shall fall and look what it
says and never rise again.

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00:29:07,500 –> 00:29:11,400
In this state in this state,
what is called the city of

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Samaria.
When you have given yourself

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00:29:13,600 –> 00:29:19,300
over to independence from God,
self-reliance autonomy, driving

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00:29:19,300 –> 00:29:23,000
your own judgments.
There is no place, you shall

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00:29:23,000 –> 00:29:25,700
never rise again.
So in summary, we have This,

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00:29:26,000 –> 00:29:32,200
this wonderful message coming to
us from this little meditation,

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00:29:32,800 –> 00:29:34,600
learning to submit our will to
God.

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00:29:34,600 –> 00:29:37,700
We’ve got to understand in our
daily living that that he is the

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00:29:37,700 –> 00:29:39,800
Potter.
We are the clay and how often we

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00:29:39,800 –> 00:29:41,700
want to resist him.
We’re impatient.

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00:29:41,700 –> 00:29:44,000
We’re not willing to let them
work with us.

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00:29:44,500 –> 00:29:46,700
Patiently waiting for his will
to be done.

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There’s no places there for the
spirit of Dan in the sealed of

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00:29:51,700 –> 00:29:54,300
God.
God, God cannot the one thing he

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00:29:54,300 –> 00:29:57,800
will not and cannot do is cure
self Vindication.

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00:29:58,400 –> 00:30:02,400
And so, let’s be aware of that.
There is an abundant entry.

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00:30:02,700 –> 00:30:04,600
We’re being taught in
Revelation, chapter 7, and

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00:30:04,600 –> 00:30:07,800
abundant entry into the kingdom
for all of us, and that’s an

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00:30:07,800 –> 00:30:10,100
inspiration.
And that’s an encouragement.

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00:30:10,500 –> 00:30:14,800
Except if we refuse to submit
our will, if we make our

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00:30:14,800 –> 00:30:19,200
judgments God’s judgments, if we
choose not to Wait for the

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Salvation of God.
So there is a meditation on some

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names and some people that we
can go back and listen to The

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Echoes from the Old Testament.
Let’s keep in this theme and I

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want to draw your attention to
this passage also very

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well-known passage from
Revelation, Chapter 2 and verse

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00:30:39,100 –> 00:30:43,700
17.
So let’s read it together, he

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00:30:43,700 –> 00:30:46,700
who has an ear, let him hear
what the spirit says, to the

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churches to him who overcomes, I
will give some of the Hidden

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00:30:50,700 –> 00:30:53,300
Manna to eat.
And I will give him a white

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00:30:53,300 –> 00:30:57,500
stone and on that stone, a new
name written which no one knows

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00:30:57,700 –> 00:31:02,500
except him who receives it.
So, thinking again, about Echoes

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00:31:02,500 –> 00:31:06,100
of themes and names in the
previous one, we were looking at

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00:31:06,100 –> 00:31:08,100
the names of the children of
Israel.

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00:31:08,600 –> 00:31:12,300
Here, we have direct reference
to this name that that’s going

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00:31:12,300 –> 00:31:15,200
to be given to us.
This beautiful idea that we can

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imagine ourselves.
I can picture it.

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00:31:17,500 –> 00:31:22,200
So so beautifully being there,
being accepted by Jesus waiting,

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00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:26,400
as he comes to me and he
presents me with a white stone.

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00:31:27,700 –> 00:31:32,500
And as I grab that watch Stone
and I turn it over, it says it

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00:31:32,500 –> 00:31:37,300
has a new name for me and it’s
powerful because it says, you

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00:31:37,308 –> 00:31:40,000
know, that new name that you’re
going to get no one else would

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00:31:40,000 –> 00:31:43,300
have heard of it before.
It’s an interesting thought, you

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00:31:43,300 –> 00:31:46,000
know, we we often think about
the fact that we have taken on

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00:31:46,000 –> 00:31:49,400
the name of God.
Of course, that’s Central to the

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00:31:49,400 –> 00:31:52,500
gospel message, isn’t it?
This idea that Simeon has

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00:31:52,500 –> 00:31:55,100
declared Our God at the first
visit the Gentiles to take out

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00:31:55,100 –> 00:31:56,600
of them.
A people for his name.

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00:31:57,700 –> 00:32:02,100
Yes, we are called out to Bear
the name of Yahweh, the name of

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00:32:02,100 –> 00:32:04,300
God, the name that was given to
Jesus.

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00:32:04,300 –> 00:32:07,100
That is above every name, but
this is sense in this

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00:32:07,100 –> 00:32:12,400
meditation.
That there is a new name, a name

556
00:32:12,400 –> 00:32:17,000
that is given to us personally
that no one else knows except

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00:32:17,000 –> 00:32:21,300
him who receives it.
And this is where my focus went,

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00:32:21,300 –> 00:32:22,900
this is where my thought process
went.

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00:32:22,900 –> 00:32:26,700
As in terms of not just the
Echoes that abound throughout

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00:32:26,700 –> 00:32:30,800
the word of God on names, but
the the idea of giving and

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00:32:30,800 –> 00:32:35,000
receiving names that that we
will receive a new name.

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00:32:35,800 –> 00:32:38,300
That seems to be very personal.
Now, if we think about names,

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00:32:38,300 –> 00:32:41,200
very Let’s think about names a
very quickly.

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00:32:41,700 –> 00:32:44,600
We each have two dimes, some of
you may have more because your

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00:32:44,600 –> 00:32:47,400
parents were feeling generous
and have the money to give you

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00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:50,800
more names, but we at least
hopefully, each have two names

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00:32:51,100 –> 00:32:53,000
that are used to identify us
uniquely.

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00:32:53,600 –> 00:32:55,700
We have our surnames, we call
them.

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00:32:55,700 –> 00:32:59,100
Our family names are second
names and primarily if you think

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00:32:59,100 –> 00:33:03,400
about your surname, it’s a name
that yes, it identifies you, but

571
00:33:03,400 –> 00:33:06,000
it more identifies you in terms
of belonging.

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00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:10,100
So you can tell a lot about
someone by knowing their Cerner.

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00:33:10,600 –> 00:33:12,200
You can often tell where they
came from.

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00:33:12,700 –> 00:33:16,000
So if your surname is slum in,
you probably haven’t heard that

575
00:33:16,000 –> 00:33:17,900
in the u.s.a.
That’s a very common surname

576
00:33:17,900 –> 00:33:19,200
back.
Yeah, you will work out.

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00:33:19,300 –> 00:33:20,900
This chap doesn’t come from the
USA.

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00:33:20,900 –> 00:33:23,500
Probably comes from somewhere
else and I can tell you comes

579
00:33:23,500 –> 00:33:26,800
from a province, called
kwazulu-natal in South Africa.

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00:33:27,400 –> 00:33:32,500
If the person’s name is Trump,
you probably work out that he

581
00:33:32,500 –> 00:33:34,600
comes from.
Where should I say Russia?

582
00:33:34,800 –> 00:33:35,900
Russia must be Russia.
Yes.

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00:33:38,600 –> 00:33:43,400
But we can work out a lot from
the surname of the individual,

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00:33:43,700 –> 00:33:47,300
and who they belong to.
And, in many ways, the name that

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00:33:47,300 –> 00:33:49,300
we’ve been caught to is our
family name.

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00:33:49,700 –> 00:33:53,400
We’re going to belong to the
family of God, but then we have

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00:33:53,400 –> 00:33:56,000
a first name.
And, you know, our first names

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00:33:56,000 –> 00:33:58,400
are a lot about our
individuality on that.

589
00:33:58,900 –> 00:34:01,600
We associate people’s first
names with their individual

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00:34:01,600 –> 00:34:04,100
personality traits.
That’s why often if we had a bad

591
00:34:04,100 –> 00:34:05,900
experience with a particular
first name, and then the wife

592
00:34:05,900 –> 00:34:07,900
says she thought, To call
someone by that name, I’ll go

593
00:34:08,000 –> 00:34:10,800
on, touch it.
Love to call my child, at off,

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00:34:11,100 –> 00:34:13,100
like a table.
Start working for me.

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00:34:13,600 –> 00:34:17,400
All right.
So so first names talk to

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00:34:17,500 –> 00:34:20,400
individualization and and there
is an idea.

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00:34:20,400 –> 00:34:23,100
Here isn’t the in Revelation
Chapter 2 and this meditation

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00:34:23,100 –> 00:34:27,000
that that although we are called
to be one, although we are

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00:34:27,000 –> 00:34:30,900
called to bear that one name, we
are diverse.

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00:34:31,699 –> 00:34:34,000
And me, God is the creator of
diversity.

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00:34:35,100 –> 00:34:39,100
If that were not true then why
is it that every one of us has I

602
00:34:39,199 –> 00:34:42,600
absolutely unique fingerprint
and absolutely unique eye and

603
00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:45,900
absolutely unique DNA,
everything completely unique.

604
00:34:46,000 –> 00:34:48,500
Every snowflake that falls is
completely unique.

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00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:51,800
He is a God that creates
diversity and brings it into

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00:34:51,800 –> 00:34:56,199
Unity not uniformity.
So there’s a sense that that, as

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00:34:56,199 –> 00:35:01,200
an individual You have a name
that fits into your belonging

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00:35:01,200 –> 00:35:02,900
name and I want to explore this
idea.

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00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:05,800
This idea of of first names
because I think this is what’s

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00:35:05,800 –> 00:35:08,400
been captured in Revelation
Chapter 2.

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00:35:09,100 –> 00:35:12,700
Let’s think quickly about giving
and receiving of names.

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00:35:12,900 –> 00:35:15,800
Have you ever noticed this in
the Book of Genesis course

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00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:19,400
you’ve noticed the passage.
This is our Genesis Gene that

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00:35:19,400 –> 00:35:22,100
that in the midst of all the
intensity of everything that’s

615
00:35:22,100 –> 00:35:25,300
going on in Genesis and all the
things that are being explained

616
00:35:25,300 –> 00:35:30,800
to us it makes so much sense.
We have Curious event where Adam

617
00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:32,700
is taken.
And God says, I’m going to bring

618
00:35:32,700 –> 00:35:35,500
the animals in front of you and
you can name them, and he gets

619
00:35:35,500 –> 00:35:38,300
to name all of the beautiful
animals of God.

620
00:35:39,200 –> 00:35:43,100
Why did God do that?
And why is it recorded for us?

621
00:35:43,600 –> 00:35:47,100
It’s the first time that name
appears in the Bible, Adam

622
00:35:47,100 –> 00:35:50,300
called them every living
creature, the name that he would

623
00:35:50,300 –> 00:35:53,500
give them and such was his name.
The first time it appears.

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00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:55,200
So there’s, there’s a DNA in
this.

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00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:57,700
There’s something for us to
understand, I want to put it to

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00:35:57,700 –> 00:36:01,100
you.
This you see that the

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00:36:01,100 –> 00:36:03,900
characteristic of God that we
often don’t talk about, but it

628
00:36:03,900 –> 00:36:07,900
is the very first thing we learn
about God, is that he is

629
00:36:07,900 –> 00:36:12,000
creative.
The first thing we re in the

630
00:36:12,008 –> 00:36:17,400
beginning God created, he’s a
creative God, he’s Innovative.

631
00:36:17,400 –> 00:36:20,700
He’s about making things, and
that’s what he did.

632
00:36:20,700 –> 00:36:23,700
He made the whole earth and this
beautiful landscape that we’re

633
00:36:23,700 –> 00:36:28,100
enjoying this week and in a
sense, what did he do?

634
00:36:28,700 –> 00:36:32,900
He created this incredible
fabric of creation and he makes

635
00:36:32,900 –> 00:36:36,800
one part of that creation
special with the ability to also

636
00:36:36,800 –> 00:36:39,600
create with the intellect and
the power.

637
00:36:39,700 –> 00:36:42,300
The free.
Whoa to also be creative.

638
00:36:42,300 –> 00:36:45,400
It’s what’s unique about humans?
Compared to the rest of the

639
00:36:45,400 –> 00:36:48,500
creation and the way that he
demonstrates, that that’s what

640
00:36:48,500 –> 00:36:51,400
he wants is he says to Adam, you
know what, I’ve done this

641
00:36:51,400 –> 00:36:53,200
creation but I want you to
finish it off.

642
00:36:53,800 –> 00:36:56,300
You guys often the honor and the
privilege.

643
00:36:56,300 –> 00:36:59,800
If you’ve a scientist and you
discover something new, it’s the

644
00:36:59,800 –> 00:37:02,900
honor and the privilege of the
scientists to be able to name.

645
00:37:03,300 –> 00:37:08,800
It is the privilege of the the
the Creator to name that which

646
00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:12,400
is created.
So we get the privilege when we

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00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:16,300
give birth to a baby as the mom
and dad have been heavily

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involved in the creative part to
name the job.

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We wouldn’t feel very good if we
add the child, then some person

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the doctor walks in and says, oh
this looks like an author and

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gives the name and so it is when
someone discovers a news and you

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star or some new discovery they
name it.

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It’s a part of the creative
process.

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And I think this idea that that
name giving is given to Adam is

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really God saying I’ve called
you to be a co-creator with me.

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The first commandment he ever
got the first words he ever

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spoke to man, be fruitful and
multiply we are called not just

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sit back not to to hold on to
the very little that we have.

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00:37:56,400 –> 00:37:58,800
God says, I want you to grow, I
want you to be abundant, but I

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want you to grow in supporting
my creative work, understanding

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00:38:04,000 –> 00:38:06,400
that you have to create together
with me, the idea of

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co-creation.
Now, this is a very important

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Insight, especially, for me.
It teaches us that in every part

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of our life, we have a way to,
to live out our calling, whether

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00:38:17,700 –> 00:38:23,400
it be at work, whether it be in
in our relaxation, Tom, whether

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00:38:23,400 –> 00:38:26,000
it be in the family, we are
being called to use.

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Creativity to ultimately move
his plan for it.

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And that’s what he was calling
Adam to do.

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Now, if you think I’m making too
much of that when, when the

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first human is named, who was
given the right to name the

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first human?
Well, the often the the

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spontaneous answers.
Well that was God because the

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first human named is Adam and if
I have my slides up there, I’d

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be able to show you that
actually Adam never received the

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name.
Okay, so Adam, who we know, as

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Adam in fact, all that is is the
Hebrew word that describes the

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creation of, man.
In fact, when we first have the,

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the now use my little glasses.
When we first find, Adam

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mentioned, think his first name
is mentioned.

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If you have your Bibles, you’ll
pick it up.

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His name is first, mentioned in
Genesis 2, verse 19, the first

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time he’s called Adam.
If you got the King James

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version Genesis 219, do you know
that the Word has been used, non

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Thomas before that.
Cha States has just decided at

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some point, we’ll just use the
Hebrew.

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So in actual fact to be
consistent do you think just

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keep calling a man?
The man, the man, so the word

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name and you can check it is
never used that guard named him.

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Adam.
I think that’s important because

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the first human ever night, he’s
in fact, Eve, and that’s

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recorded for us in Genesis 3,
verse 20, Adam called his wife’s

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name, Eve, you see?
This is consistent.

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00:39:55,600 –> 00:39:59,100
God has given name giving two
men.

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And it’s interesting that the
names that are then given when

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he gives her the name, Evie
says, she shall be the mother of

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all living.
In other words, the name was to

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capture the way that person was
going to be a part of God’s

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great creative process.
She was going to be the

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beginning of creating living
people.

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And who do you think gave the
name to the first human ever

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born?
Of course, it was Adam and Eve.

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And the first human ever born
was Cain and they gave him his

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name and his name actually was a
part of the idea.

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It actually means position.
It means possession, it’s quite

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00:40:35,000 –> 00:40:39,000
interesting when, when Eve
names, akane and Genesis for

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burst, once you said I have
created a man, just as the Lord

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She’s starting to work out.
That this idea of, of creativity

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00:40:48,200 –> 00:40:51,300
is a part of our calling.
The very fact that I could have

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children, even saying, is
demonstration that.

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I’m a co-creator with God.
And she was able to name him as

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demonstration of it.
But there’s something in the

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words of Eve that that catches
our attention.

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I have created a man just as the
Lord did.

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And here’s the edge brothers and
sisters.

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00:41:10,400 –> 00:41:12,400
It seems so simple.
Doesn’t it?

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00:41:12,900 –> 00:41:16,500
That that on the one hand we
have to rely on God, but you

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00:41:16,500 –> 00:41:18,900
said God is calling us to be
creative.

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00:41:18,900 –> 00:41:22,800
He’s calling us to multiply,
he’s calling us to be abundant,

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he’s calling us to be named
givers but in that process there

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is the risk that we become name.
Builders in that process, we

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become not co-creators but self
creators.

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And as we follow the theme of
James.

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It doesn’t take long before we
get to the Tower of Babel and

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00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:46,800
what do they say?
Let us make a name for ourselves

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00:41:47,500 –> 00:41:50,300
and so they go from being named
Caboose demonstrated, the

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00:41:50,300 –> 00:41:54,700
co-creative role that we have
been caught, 22 name, givers and

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00:41:54,700 –> 00:41:59,300
name, builders And and then we
come to to the next

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00:41:59,300 –> 00:42:02,400
manifestation of Babylon that we
were talking earlier and we come

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00:42:02,400 –> 00:42:05,400
to that incredible passage that
I think you will know.

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00:42:05,400 –> 00:42:07,600
Well you don’t even need to see
it in the screen.

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00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:12,000
When Nebuchadnezzar stands on
the same planes, where they

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00:42:12,000 –> 00:42:14,200
built the Tower of Babel, where
they had built a name for

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00:42:14,200 –> 00:42:17,600
themselves.
And, and captures, the very, the

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00:42:17,607 –> 00:42:22,700
very Spirit of Babylon when he
says, is not this great Babylon,

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00:42:22,900 –> 00:42:28,200
which I have built by the power
of my might and for Honor of my

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00:42:28,800 –> 00:42:32,000
name.
You see you see what has

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00:42:32,000 –> 00:42:36,000
happened yet?
Is is Nebuchadnezzar has has

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00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:39,900
lost contact with the cause of
creation.

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00:42:39,900 –> 00:42:43,900
You see as co-creators we never
lose sight that he is the cause

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00:42:43,900 –> 00:42:47,700
we purely have a fabric, he’s
given us this incredible Fabric

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00:42:47,700 –> 00:42:50,000
and all we doing is putting the
finishing touches fishing

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00:42:50,000 –> 00:42:54,300
touches, but when we lose sight
of the cause of our creativity,

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we will lose sight of the
purpose.

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00:42:57,200 –> 00:42:58,700
So they begin is a looks at
Great Babylons.

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00:42:58,700 –> 00:43:00,900
This is not this great Babylon
that I have built by the power

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00:43:00,900 –> 00:43:03,200
of my mind.
And therefore, for my honor,

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00:43:04,200 –> 00:43:08,300
What a great lesson, you know,
David I think picks up on this

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idea, David spends so much time,
doesn’t he in the Psalms?

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00:43:12,900 –> 00:43:17,400
He tells us to constantly?
Be reminded that all that we see

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00:43:17,400 –> 00:43:21,800
out there is a reminder that he
is the cause of all creativity.

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00:43:22,300 –> 00:43:25,300
Everything that you’ve ever
achieved is only because he gave

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00:43:25,300 –> 00:43:28,200
you it to work with.
So he looks upon the stars and

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00:43:28,200 –> 00:43:31,600
and looks at the heavens and
beholds, the glory of God, the

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00:43:31,600 –> 00:43:35,700
handiwork of God and because
David Always understood that God

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00:43:35,700 –> 00:43:40,000
was the cause of creativity, he
therefore understood that he was

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00:43:40,000 –> 00:43:42,500
the purpose.
In other words, it was always to

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00:43:42,500 –> 00:43:45,300
his glory.
That was why when David brought

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00:43:45,300 –> 00:43:47,700
the Ark of the Covenant into
Jerusalem?

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00:43:48,200 –> 00:43:51,200
The first thing he did as it
came, as a manifestation of the

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00:43:51,200 –> 00:43:54,800
glory of God, is he took off his
crown, he took up his Royal robe

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00:43:54,900 –> 00:43:58,600
so that he could say, here is
the purpose of creativity?

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00:43:58,700 –> 00:44:02,700
Here is where the glory belongs,
because his wife marker, looked

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00:44:02,700 –> 00:44:04,200
at that.
And she couldn’t see what He was

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00:44:04,200 –> 00:44:08,100
doing, you have made yourself as
one of the vulgar ones because

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00:44:08,100 –> 00:44:12,000
you have humbled yourself in the
sight of the Communists.

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So when we look to ourselves and
we understand that we are called

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00:44:19,600 –> 00:44:23,400
to be named givers to be
co-creators and yet in doing

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00:44:23,400 –> 00:44:29,400
that as we gain success, as we
get the satisfaction that God,

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00:44:29,400 –> 00:44:32,000
always intended you to have in
creativity.

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00:44:32,600 –> 00:44:36,700
As we start to get, perhaps some
economics behind our name.

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00:44:37,500 –> 00:44:41,000
Perhaps is at the end of your
name, PhD, be calm, or whatever

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00:44:41,000 –> 00:44:43,200
it is or perhaps it’s at the
front of your name.

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00:44:43,200 –> 00:44:46,000
Doctor Sir?
And we begin to build the

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00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:50,500
Temptation, is we become brand
builders that the Legacy moves

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00:44:50,500 –> 00:44:54,100
from being a legacy for God?
But a legacy for ourselves and

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00:44:54,100 –> 00:44:56,600
we’re on Facebook, and we’re on
LinkedIn, and we can Google

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00:44:56,600 –> 00:45:00,600
ourselves and our name gets
bigger and bigger until such

778
00:45:00,600 –> 00:45:06,900
time, as we have the spirit of
Babylon in each and every one of

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00:45:06,900 –> 00:45:10,300
us.
So I think the lesson is very

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00:45:10,300 –> 00:45:15,900
clear brothers and sisters.
It is for us to understand that

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00:45:15,900 –> 00:45:19,900
he gave us the opportunity.
He gave us the blessing of being

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00:45:19,900 –> 00:45:23,700
co-creators so that we could
finish his creation.

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00:45:24,400 –> 00:45:28,600
But you know what, ultimately,
he wants to give you that first

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00:45:28,600 –> 00:45:31,400
name that your mom and dad gave
you, he wants to change it.

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00:45:31,400 –> 00:45:35,400
He wants to complete his
Creation in you and we know

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00:45:35,400 –> 00:45:37,400
that’s true from revelation.
2:7.

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00:45:37,600 –> 00:45:40,600
We read in On one, this this
beautiful passage when John Was

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preparing, the message of the
Gospel he says, but as many as

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00:45:44,300 –> 00:45:48,500
received him to them, he gave
the right to become the children

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00:45:48,500 –> 00:45:50,900
of God.
In those, who believe in his

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00:45:50,900 –> 00:45:53,900
name, who were born?
Not of blood, nor of the will of

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00:45:53,900 –> 00:45:56,000
the flesh, nor of the will of,
man.

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00:45:56,000 –> 00:46:01,100
But of God, you see, it’s not
about whether we choose.

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00:46:01,100 –> 00:46:05,500
It’s about whether we receive
He’s chosen to give you a new

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00:46:05,500 –> 00:46:07,100
name, he’s waiting to give it to
you.

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00:46:07,300 –> 00:46:09,200
You will receive run from your
parents.

797
00:46:09,200 –> 00:46:12,800
It wasn’t by your will not by
the will of man or by flesh.

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00:46:12,800 –> 00:46:15,000
You just got it.
You can’t even complain about

799
00:46:15,000 –> 00:46:15,800
it.
I know some people like to

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00:46:15,808 –> 00:46:17,500
change their names, but that’s
it.

801
00:46:17,900 –> 00:46:21,600
He says, but I am willing to
give you a new name.

802
00:46:22,400 –> 00:46:26,000
I’m willing to give it to you,
but you need to want to receive

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00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:28,400
it.
You need to be ready to give up

804
00:46:28,400 –> 00:46:30,200
all that.
You’ve achieved behind your

805
00:46:30,200 –> 00:46:33,200
first name here.
And you know what I believe.

806
00:46:34,200 –> 00:46:37,600
I believe that when we were in
the Kingdom with him, and he

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00:46:37,600 –> 00:46:41,500
gives us that watch stone, that,
that new name, that’s recorded.

808
00:46:41,500 –> 00:46:46,400
They will summarize everything
that we did all of our talents,

809
00:46:46,400 –> 00:46:50,100
all of our skills that
co-created with him, that helped

810
00:46:50,100 –> 00:46:52,500
us each person.
Need to do something to forward

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00:46:52,500 –> 00:46:55,500
his master plan.
And that is why when you turn

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00:46:55,500 –> 00:46:59,200
that stone over and you read
that name though, nobody else

813
00:46:59,200 –> 00:47:01,300
will know it because they never
called you by that name.

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00:47:01,400 –> 00:47:03,600
They called you Harold, they
called you Cameron.

815
00:47:04,800 –> 00:47:08,900
There is a name that God will
give that summarizes everything

816
00:47:08,900 –> 00:47:12,100
you ever did to co-create with
him.

817
00:47:12,800 –> 00:47:15,500
And to me, that is so
inspirational because today

818
00:47:15,600 –> 00:47:20,500
we’re working on that new name
and we need to hold on to it and

819
00:47:20,500 –> 00:47:23,100
make sure we don’t.
Hold on to the name that we were

820
00:47:23,100 –> 00:47:26,300
given by our parents.
So may God bless you as you

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00:47:26,300 –> 00:47:28,900
continue to meditate on the Book
of Revelation.

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