H.P. Mansfield – Before the Deluge – Class 4 – Development of Materialism in the Decedents of Cain

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Is Idlewild 1982, day four and
the second period which has been

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being given to us by our brother
Purse Mansfield on the general

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subject before the deluge.
Today’s topic is development of

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materialism and the descendants
of Cain.

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The great theme of our study at
this point of Genesis is, of

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course, the elucidation of the
words of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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As it was in the days of Noah,
so shall it be at the coming of

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the Son of Man, and I believe
that we will see that they’re

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developed in the days following
the the rejection of claim.

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They developed in those days a
system of things upon the earth

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that was an exact parallel with
which we are familiar today.

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Very interesting to see this
develop in this particular part

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of Genesis.
But what is more important and

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what will engage our attention
tomorrow is what we should be

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doing in regard to it.
And we will see that from the

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example that is set before us by
where the men of old.

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First of all, as we come to
consider this particular section

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of the subject, we must bear in
mind that the names that are

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given in the book of in the
Bible most often have a very,

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very significant meaning to
them.

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And that meaning to the names
can help us to understand

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certain circumstances that might
arise.

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For example, we have the name
Abram, which means exalted

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father, changed to Abraham, the
father of a multitude.

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We have the name Jacob, which
means supplanted, changed to

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Israel, which means a Prince
with God.

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And all these names are more
than the name of convenience,

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like we might use, for example,
you call me Purse.

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What’s that means?
Excel?

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I don’t know, except it’s pretty
empty.

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But all names today have not at
that significance.

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But in those days they had a
significance.

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Moses was drawn out because his
name means that and so forth,

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right throughout the Scriptures.
These names are quite important,

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and they have an index to either
the person concerned or the

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circumstances in which he lived.
You will find, if you follow

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this theme through for your own
study of the Word of God, that

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there’s not a.
Chapter of the Bible.

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That’s not outstandingly
interesting.

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I made that statement once when
I was expounding the scriptures

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to friends in in in public
meetings and this, these were

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challenged nights and they could
challenge anything that was

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said.
And I made that point and I

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challenged the audience.
I said you show me a patched

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chapter of the Bible that cannot
be made thrillingly interesting.

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And the man stood up in the
audience and he quoted the first

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of Chronicles chapter 1, but
that reads Adam, Seth, Enos,

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Keenan, Mallele and so forth.
Just a list of names, but

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fortunately I had given a little
bit of study to that and I was

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able to point out that in that
list of names, when you

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carefully look at that list of
names, God is revealing a very

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important principle.
And the principle is this, that

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men that appeared strong and
mighty in their day and

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generation stated some view,
whereas those that were perhaps

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in obscurity or in weakness,
their line was continued.

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That’s the same as Jacob.
Jacob wandered down in the land

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of promise, and he was in
trouble.

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His family was giving him
concern.

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His favorite son was in Egypt,
and the general state of Jacob

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was not one of power and might.
On the other hand, contemporary

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with him, the Edomites had
established themselves in a

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very, very powerful monarchy and
Dukes were reigning there.

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They faded, Jacob continues to
this very day.

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So these names are quite
interesting.

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What we find in the in the 4th
chapter of Genesis, which is

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engaging our attention now we’ve
come yesterday to the point of

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Lanex Lane, Maggie name means
whose name means overthrower,

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whose name can signify a strong
young man.

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And we reached the stage before
the flood of perilous times.

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We know what Paul warns us in
the second of Timothy chapter 3

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after know therefore, that in
the last days perilous times

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shall come.
We’ve reached those perilous

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times and here they are
foreshadowed in the life of

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Lamac and his family.
And these are given in greater

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detail the life of Lamech.
And we’re going to see that his

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great, his great, his great
contemporary is Enoch.

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And there’s going to be a
challenge between these two men

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of old.
So Lamech stands for the

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overthrower.
He lives in perilous times.

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He introduces those perilous
times.

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And he and his family are
responsible for a state of

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permissiveness, profit, pleasure
and power to dominate the world

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at that time.
An exact foreshadowing of the

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present.
We pointed out yesterday that

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for the first time we have
polygamy introduced into the

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things of God.
A state of things that is

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contrary to what God had
established in Eden.

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So that Lomax, for the first
time Lomax takes 2 wives.

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So you see, there is a moral
declension at that particular

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time, as there is a moral
declension today.

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And that moral declension today
is challenging ecclesias, no

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doubt about that, in every part
of the world, because the

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environment in which we’re
living, it accepts things today

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that it never would have
accepted 10/15/20 or more years

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ago.
And very often environment will

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affect our own lives.
And we must exercise care.

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We must exercise care if we want
the Kingdom of God.

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And it’s very important that we
should do that.

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We can do it in our own lives,
in our own example, in our own

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way, in within the ecclesia of
God.

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We must maintain standards at
all costs, because if we don’t,

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we have the parallel what
happened in the days of Noah and

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remember that the.
Lord Jesus Christ said speaking

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to the apostles.
To his own followers.

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As it was in the days of Noah.
So shall it be at the coming of

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the Son of Man.
And remember this, as we pointed

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out and tried to stress that he
said nothing about the violence

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of the earth.
He said nothing about the

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corruption of the earth.
He spoke of ordinary things

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having relationship to the
followers of Almighty God.

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And in the days of Noah, eight
people only were saved of all

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those who were categorized as
sons of God, and the eight were

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saved.
And Jesus Christ said as it was

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in the days of Noah.
And it’s a matter of deep

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concern with me personally,
those words, I see it as a

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challenge.
And therefore it is, as I said,

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of deep concern, because if we
can play any part whatever in

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the ecclesias of God, we must
endeavour to play a part that

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will challenge the environment
in which we’re living, whether

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it be in dress, whether it be in
conduct, whatever it may be in

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doctrine.
Those standards must be

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maintained.
Otherwise we are going to find

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that, as it was in the days of
Noah, affects us in a very

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adverse sense.
Now here we have it.

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In the days of Lamac he took two
wives.

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The name of 1 was Ada, and the
name of the other was Zilla.

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And I think I pointed out
yesterday that the name Ada

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means adorn and zilla means
shade.

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It comes from a root, Hebrew
root, that means to hover over 1

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to protect.
So that here is Lamac having the

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best of both worlds.
He’s got beauty and he’s got

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care, and his two wives are
attending to him in every way

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that he desires.
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Now we read in that same context
that as far as Ada was

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concerned, she bear Jabel.
Jabel, that word signifies to

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produce like a manufacturer.
He was the great producer, the

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great manufacturer, the economic
genius of the family, the

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commercial man.
He stood for profit, not

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PROPHEP, but PROFIT.
He stood for profit.

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Did this man, because you notice
that as far as he was concerned

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he was the father of them that
dwell in tents and of such as

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have cattle, he was the father
of them.

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He didn’t dwell on the tent
himself.

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He didn’t look after the sheep
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He was no shepherd.
He was the father of them that

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did that.
He employed them.

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So he had his business interest
in all parts of the earth at

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that particular time.
He was a commercial genius of

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the family and he developed the
material resources of that

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family.
Whilst Lanek stood for

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permissiveness, he stood for
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And that’s a feature of life
today, isn’t it?

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The development of profits among
these great combines that we see

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developing on every hand.
And men are being brought into a

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state of slavery under the
control of these great combines

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today, no doubt about that.
So that some of these big

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businesses demand you give them
your body and soul as you engage

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in their service.
Some of them even demand that

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you find your social activities
in the social organisations that

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they will establish.
Some of them in Australia, they

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have their own sports
organization and you are

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expected to be in that that
organization as well.

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And they treat you as pharaoh
treated the slaves in Egypt.

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They had plenty of Egypt when
they were slaves.

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They remembered that back in the
wilderness.

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They remembered how they ate in
in the in in Egypt and how much

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preferable it was to the arid
wandering in the desert.

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And so it is as far as business
is concerned today.

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We must be on our guard and we
must be prepared to to stand up

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against the pressures that are
being brought upon us and by

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determination of faith, do what
we believe is right on the side

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of God.
We’ll be alright.

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You know, the Lord Jesus Christ
himself in the 6th chapter of

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Matthew, he speaks about this
and he tells us that we need to

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exercise extreme care in that
direction and that we need in in

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that way to see before us one
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And that is a position in the
Kingdom of God, because he says

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there in the 6th chapter of
Matthew, take no thought, no

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anxious thought.
What shall we eat or what shall

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we?
Drink or wherewithal shall we be

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clothed?
For after all these things do

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the Gentiles seek, and your
heavenly Father knoweth that he

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need these things.
But seek ye first the Kingdom of

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God and His righteousness, and
these things will be added unto

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you.
Now, that doesn’t mean that we

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can flout everything and merely
say, well, I’m not going to

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worry even at work today.
And some people say in

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Australia, it doesn’t mean that
you act like that in all that

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you do.
Do it with all your mind,

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including business.
But.

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Don’t allow that to obscure your
vision of the first essentials,

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the first priority.
Think ye first, the Kingdom of

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God and his righteousness.
And that should be the main

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objective of our life, and that
should be the the basis upon

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which we found our own families,
so that when we’ve got young

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children of an evening, that
prime is ours, not the world’s

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outside.
And that home is an Oasis for

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the truth.
So we gather the children around

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us and we do the readings.
And even when those kitties are

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young and they can hardly read,
they stutter out words like, you

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know, you get onto on the 14th
of Matthew Genesis.

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And the little child tried to
spell out Kedila Lama and finds

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it very, very difficult.
But it’s a very good exercise, a

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very good exercise indeed.
And it’s teaching that child

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something that 1,000,000 words
will never teach it.

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And that is its parents have got
a reverence for this word of

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God, a reverence for that word
of God, the same as when we give

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first priority to our attendance
at the meetings, not even the

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memorial meetings, the study
classes.

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And it’s an object lesson to our
own families at that meeting is

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first priority.
God is first in our lives.

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Now this was not the case in the
family of Lamech.

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And as far and as far as Gabel
was concerned, his first concern

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was of course, to build up the
family resources and material

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things and he become the father
of them, that women Kents and of

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such as have cattle.
So he employed people in this

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way and he extended his
influence and his possessions on

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all sides.
And the family of Lamechs

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growing up, very well, thank
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Now they have another son.
His brother’s son, we read in

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verse 21, was called Jubal, and
he was the father of all such as

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Handel, the harp and organ.
From this word Jubal, you get

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the word jubilee, and it comes
from a Hebrew root meaning

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joyous music.
So the second son is going to

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look after the pleasure of life.
He’s going to be the great

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entertainer.
Not that he is himself

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necessarily is engaging in this.
They doubtless he plays very

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pleasantly, but he’s the father
of them, has handled the Harvard

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organ.
He organises the pop groups

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around the world of that
promise.

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He’s got pleasure, so that
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He’s the entertainer of the
family of Lamech and on all

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sides you hear the songs of
humor and he is applauded on all

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sides and he is governing the
world at that particular time

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from an entertainment point of
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So that whilst the first son has
engaged in profits and in his

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commercial extension, the second
son has given over the pleasure

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and entertainment.
Not that he particularly has

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engaged in pleasure, but he’s
making a business out of it and

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that business is dominating the
world from that angle at that

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particular time.
See how there is a paraphrase, A

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foreshadowing rather of what is
taking place today.

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Look at the decline in music in
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Look what passes torrents of
music today and, and, and the,

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and the mass production of these
things and the influence that it

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plays that it, the influence
that it exercises over young

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people.
You know, they say The Beatles

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play and they all faint.
Well, I feel the same way, very

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faint when they play.
But just the, the, the, the

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point is that here is something
that is engaging the intention,

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the attention of people all over
the world at that particular

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time.
And that music drives out of the

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mind the things of God.
It drives it out of the mind.

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You know, it matters not what we
might do in life.

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We might be interested in
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We may be interested in music.
As a matter of fact, I’m very

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fond of music.
I think that Beethoven music is,

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cannot be excelled.
I like handle and I like a few

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of the other composers as well.
I find that my mind when I play

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Beethoven, it’s very harmonious
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I, I, I enjoy it so much.
But but whatever we do, whether

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we’re interested in music,
whether we’re interested in

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literature, in reading, the best
thing is to try to elevate our

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minds in that way.
And we can do that even outside

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the influence of the Bible.
You can read good books or you

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can listen to good music.
You can educate yourself in

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these good things and it raises
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It’s a very, very good exercise
from that standpoint.

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The trouble is today we have so
much rubbish that’s published.

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Or performed.
That it degrades the mind.

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I am told that every day
18,000,000 trees are cut down.

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In the world, 18,000,000 trees
are cut down, and most of those

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trees are cut down to provide
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And on that paper there are
printed things that poison men’s

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minds.
So 18,000,000 trees, God’s

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living trees, are cut down to be
pulped into paper and printed on

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their deadly things that are
going to destroy your mind.

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And that’s fed into your mind.
You know, the tree is designed

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to purify the air.
But we are told by ecologists

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that we’re reaching a stage in
human history where there are

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simply not enough trees to
purify the air for humanity.

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We’re reaching the stage that
the atom bomb or the nuclear

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weapon is not going to be the
thing that’s going to challenge

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us by, but ecology, ecology,
ecological principles, including

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these trees that they are at
present time cutting down so

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readily and cannot be replaced.
Mostly they will replace a tree

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with a pine tree, which does not
help you as far as the

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purification of the air is
concerned.

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Australia, for example, is not
enough trees.

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Not enough trees.
And what’s the same result?

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People to get irritable.
And you know how damn irritable

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Australians can get?
Blame it onto the trees.

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But you see, this is a situation
that men cut down that which God

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is designed to purify the air,
and they use it to poison men’s

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minds.
Now this is the state in which

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we’re finding ourselves with
these sons of Lamech.

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So there we have a Jubal noted
for the heart of the organ and

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giving himself over to
entertainment and pleasure.

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Now in verse 32 we find that
Zilla has a son, and she called

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him Tubal Cain.
And Tubal Cain means the flowing

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4th of Cain.
It’s an extension of Cain.

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Now we know what Cain did and
killed his brother.

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Now in the son of Zillah there
is one that’s going to extend

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that.
He’s going to extend that Kane

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conducted or Kane was the first
murderer.

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But this descendant of Cain,
this flowing 4th of Cain is

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going to perpetuate and extend
the spirit of Cain and he’s

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going to be noted for that.
He’s going to rejoice in power.

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So whilst in Lamac we have
permittiveness and in the Jabil

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we have Prophet and in Jubal we
have pleasure, in Tubal Cain we

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have power.
And he becomes the instructor of

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every artificer in brass and
iron, or as the Hebrew habit,

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the wetter, the sharpener of it.
He is manufacturing the

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munitions of that day.
He is perfecting them and

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sharpening them so that he’s
going to be noted for munitions

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in that pine.
He’s going to stand for power,

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and now re/max surveys his
empire, and what more does he

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want?
He is himself pleasing himself.

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What he’s going to do as fast as
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What I want?
I’m going to have Where is his

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son, the first son.
He is the commercial genius of

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the age, bringing in the world
into the family.

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His.
Second son looking after the

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pleasure, giving the world a
form of escapism.

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So they don’t.
Think too much about God.

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The third one, noted for power
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He’s the munition.
Maker of the Age.

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And that is being extended at
that particular time under the

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influence of this third son,
Jubal Kane, much the same as you

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have it today, an exact parallel
of what we see about us today.

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Do you know how?
Many people are employed in

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munition works throughout the
world or related industries. 80

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million people. 80.
Million people are employed in

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munition works or related things
around the world.

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You imagine the sum of money
that’s played out merely to

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employ them.
Imagine the collapse of the

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economy in many parts of the
earth if it was stopped.

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But the manufacture of munitions
of, of war to die is a major

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industry throughout the world,
and 80 million or less than 80

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million people are employed in
that.

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And here we have a foreshadowing
of it in the work of of what’s

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his name in the work of Jubal
Kane, who was the wetter of

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every artificer in brass and
iron.

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So now you see we have this
development in the family of

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Lamic.
And then surprisingly, his

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daughter’s name is given.
Now this is most unusual, mainly

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of course, because the men,
that’s all friends will realize,

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are the Lords of creation and
really women are secondary

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consideration.
But better as it may, here we

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have the daughter of Limac
mention.

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Now that’s a very surprising
thing in Scripture, a very

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surprising thing, and it’s only
done under exceptional

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circumstances.
So there’s some some exceptional

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circumstance that that requires
the mentioning of the sister of

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Tubal Kinas Naima.
Naima’s name means pleasantness.

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She is a pleasant personality.
And the mention of women and the

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genealogies of the Bible, as I
said before, and I should have

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said it more seriously, is most
unusual and always there are

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some reason in it.
So there’s some reason for the

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for Naima’s name being mentioned
here.

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And I believe myself that she
has a plan to play when you come

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to the 6th chapter of Genesis
and you have the sons of God saw

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the daughters of men, that they
were fair.

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Now here then is Naima, whose
name means mentioning, whose

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name means pleasantness, and she
is beginning to assert herself

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in contradiction to what we read
in the 3rd chapter of Genesis

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and verse 16.
Nothing much is said concerning

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her, merely that her name is
mentioned there.

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Perhaps she was flaunting her
feminine beauty in some way.

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Perhaps her very attitude was
leading to that state of things

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that we see in Genesis chapter 6
verses one and two, but most

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likely it was in some form of
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So you see as far as Naima was
concerned, this pleasant

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daughter of Lamech, Lamech would
encourage her in the attitude

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that she adopted.
So that now we have in addition

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to the three sons of the of the
Lamech, we have her daughter,

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his daughter Naima.
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So now we have the whole family,
the polygamy with which is

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associated Lamech, prophet with
which is associated Jabil,

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pleasure with which is
associated Jabil power,

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cubilkane and permissiveness
Naima.

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And there we have the.
Life of this man who is a.

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Leading light among the sons of
Cain in the in the development

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of the purpose of God at that
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Now with that, we’d look at his
contemporary.

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We’re only going to look at his
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We’ll go back to that later on.
But the contemporary of of Lamac

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was Enoch, the Enoch that was
translated, the Enoch that’s

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mentioned in the next chapter.
And as far as that is concerned,

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he challenged Lamac, he
challenged Lamac.

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And we’ve got the words of both
their challenges here to

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consider.
First of all, we’ll look at that

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of Lamech, and then we’ll look
at that of Enoch.

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Here we have it in the in the
23rd verse of that 4th chapter

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of Genesis.
And there we have the national

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anthem of Naimac.
And Lamech says, Hear my voice,

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hear my voice, ye wives of
Lamech, hug it unto my speech.

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But I have slain a man to my
wounding, and a young man to my

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hurt, if trained, shall be
Avenged Sevenfold.

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Truly Lamech 70 * 7.
Truly Lamech 70 * 7.

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That is the boast of this man
Lamech.

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That is what he is claiming.
And that’s a song, because in

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the Hebrew it’s in poetic meter.
So you see, here we have the

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song of Lamech, and we can
imagine that song being put to

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music by his son, and that song
resounding throughout the world.

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It’s a warning.
Now those words can be rendered

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a little differently.
Hear my voice, ye wives of

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Lamech, hugging unto my speech.
For I would.

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Slay a man if he worded me and
that stands in my way to my

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hurt, let.
Anyone stand in my way and I’ll

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cute.
Did anyone try to stop me?

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And I murder him.
And I don’t care who it is, I,

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Lamex, have spoken.
I have the power, the resources,

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no one will stop me.
And it’s the attitude that is

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reflected in the world today in
this song of Lamex at that

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particular time.
Moreover, if Train is going to

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be Avenged Sevenfold, my lame
act will avenge myself 70 * 7.

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I don’t want God to do it.
God couldn’t keep out of my what

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God said that he would avenge
Train 7 times.

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Not enough for me.
Lame act.

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I will avenge myself. 70 * 7 And
I’ll do it myself.

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And as far as the avenging is
concerned, let anyone stare in

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my way.
I destroy him, he’s dead.

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Keep out of my way.
Don’t try to hinder us.

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That was the attitude of Lamac.
The words of Lamac are quoted by

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Jesus Christ and you have them
in the 18th chapter of Matthew.

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And Jesus Christ here shows that
we should, as far as that is

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concerned, we should just
manifest the opposite

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characteristic to lay back.
So that in the 18th chapter of

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Matthew, Peter came to the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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And he said to him in verse 21,
How else shall my brother sin

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against me?
And I forgive him till 7 times.

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And the Lord said unto him, I
say not unto thee until 7 times,

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but until 70 * 7. 70 * 7.
The very words of Lamac.

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And I believe that the Lord
Jesus Christ was citing the

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00:29:14,360 –> 00:29:18,680
words of Lamac, but in reverse.
Whereas Lamac would avenge

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himself, 70 * 7.
A follower of Jesus Christ will

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forgive. 70 * 7 In other words,
to the Outmast, he will manifest

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00:29:29,160 –> 00:29:33,640
exactly the opposite spirit to
that which is shown by Lomac,

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which is the spirit of the world
today.

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And he’ll stand apart from the
spirit of the world today in

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every way.
And instead of following in its

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course in the way of Cain, as we
have Jude mentioning, instead of

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following in the way of Cain, he
will stand up for a different

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form of philosophy and defy the
world in all that it’s means.

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So that here you see Namac, the
words of Lamac are counted by

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the words of Jesus Christ.
And whilst we’re in the New

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Testament, yes it’s let us just
briefly look at this, the words

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of Enoch, the contemporary of
the Lamac and they are given in

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Jude and we’re going to look at
these a little later.

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But here though Enoch answered
the boast of Lamac in the 14th

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verse of Jude, Enoch also the
7th from Adam.

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Now here’s the 7th from Adam in
the line of Seth.

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And if you count the name,
you’ll find that Lamac is the

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7th from Adam in the line of
time.

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So here we have the 7th from
Adam.

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And he prophesied of these
saying.

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And here he’s answered the Lamac
and try to develop the drama of

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the situation.
On all hands they can be heard

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00:30:55,880 –> 00:30:59,120
the music of Lamac.
On all sides there can be heard

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00:30:59,120 –> 00:31:01,920
the words of Lamech, the thought
of Lamech.

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00:31:02,480 –> 00:31:04,360
And now here is the message of
Enoch.

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Of Enoch stood earth and
preached the gospel message and

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00:31:08,680 –> 00:31:13,880
it wasn’t in any form of simple
terms in terms of love and

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endearment.
It was a challenging statement

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00:31:16,360 –> 00:31:19,720
that is made by Enoch.
The whole world covers with

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00:31:19,720 –> 00:31:23,920
10,000 of his Saints to execute
judgment upon all and to

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convince all of their ungodly
among them of their ungodly

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00:31:27,560 –> 00:31:31,240
deeds which they have ungodly
committed and of all their hard

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00:31:31,240 –> 00:31:34,280
speech which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him.

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There was the answer to lame
act, and you know did it

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00:31:39,600 –> 00:31:44,200
fearlessly, standing out the
challenge, the philosophy that

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00:31:44,200 –> 00:31:48,360
was set forth by Lamech, and
setting forth boldly and in a

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00:31:48,360 –> 00:31:52,880
forthright way the coming
judgments of Almighty God upon a

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generation that had turned so
completely from His way.

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00:31:58,080 –> 00:32:01,520
And so we come back to Genesis
chapter 4, and we hug it again

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00:32:01,520 –> 00:32:05,680
to the voice of Lamech.
As he says, I have slain a man

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00:32:05,680 –> 00:32:10,240
to my wounding, or as the margin
renders it, I would slay a man

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00:32:10,240 –> 00:32:13,160
if he wounded me.
I would destroy a young man if

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00:32:13,160 –> 00:32:15,720
he hurt me.
If Kane shall be Avenged

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00:32:15,720 –> 00:32:20,200
Sevenfold, truly, Lamech, 7 feet
and sevenfold.

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00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:26,440
And that’s for the moment
concludes the line of Kane.

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It concludes the line of Cain.
And we come now to consider the

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line of Abel through Seth.
So we read in verse 25 that Adam

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knew his wife again and she bare
a son and called his name Seth.

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Now Seth means appointed, for
God said she hath appointed me

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00:32:50,240 –> 00:32:52,920
another seed instead of Abel,
whom counselor.

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00:32:53,600 –> 00:32:57,360
And from this I would conclude
that Adam and Eve had turned to

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00:32:57,360 –> 00:33:02,040
God in prayer, asking the
meaning of all that had gone on

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and had received the revelation
from God.

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00:33:05,880 –> 00:33:10,240
But this boy Seth, this baby
that would be born to her, was

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00:33:10,240 –> 00:33:15,080
appointed instead of Abel.
So that in this boy’s Seth there

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00:33:15,080 –> 00:33:18,560
was, as it were, a resurrection
of Abel.

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00:33:19,240 –> 00:33:22,520
And as, of course, Abel puts
forward to the Lord Jesus

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00:33:22,520 –> 00:33:27,560
Christ, who was slain by the
Jewish people, who inherited the

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00:33:27,640 –> 00:33:34,240
punishment that was laid upon
Cain, so in so in Seth there

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00:33:34,240 –> 00:33:37,760
was, as it were, a resurrection
of Abel.

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00:33:38,040 –> 00:33:44,560
He was appointed instead of the
instead of the Abel Tim Cain’s

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00:33:44,560 –> 00:33:48,320
slew.
So Seth now continues the line

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00:33:48,520 –> 00:33:52,640
of Abel.
And to serve to him also there

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00:33:52,640 –> 00:33:56,640
was born a son, and he called
his name Inos.

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00:33:56,960 –> 00:34:02,440
And then men began to call upon
the name of Yahweh.

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He called his name Inos.
Inos is quite a strange name to

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00:34:08,199 –> 00:34:11,159
call a son.
And as I said before, when we

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open this session, the names
that are given to these these

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00:34:15,880 –> 00:34:21,719
children, those names really are
indicative of conditions.

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00:34:23,600 –> 00:34:26,560
Now he knows, so he knows she’s
a word that has elsewhere

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00:34:26,560 –> 00:34:30,320
translated man.
There are various Hebrew words

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00:34:30,320 –> 00:34:32,199
that are rendered man.
In the Bible.

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You have the word Adam, which
means man in his natural state.

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00:34:37,360 –> 00:34:42,719
You have the word ish which
means man in his elevated state,

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00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:47,239
and you have the word inosh
which means man in his weak

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00:34:47,360 –> 00:34:50,239
state or even in his depraved
state.

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These are different words for
man.

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We will find in the next chapter
the God called Adam Adam man.

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But Adam selected the word Ish
to define himself and so his

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00:35:06,120 –> 00:35:10,080
wifes name was called Isha or
woman because she was taken out

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of me.
But here the son of Seth is

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00:35:15,000 –> 00:35:21,840
called Enosh.
Now if we turn over to Psalms 9,

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00:35:22,520 –> 00:35:25,240
we find that the psalmist here
uses this term.

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00:35:25,240 –> 00:35:30,040
It’s translated men, but it’s
the same term as is used there.

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00:35:30,360 –> 00:35:36,320
So in the Psalm 9 and at verse
20, a prophetic Psalm of the

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00:35:36,320 –> 00:35:40,560
futures, the psalmist has put
them in CEO Yahweh, that the

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00:35:40,560 –> 00:35:43,080
nations may know themselves to
be but men.

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00:35:43,080 –> 00:35:47,240
And here we have the word
enosch, that they might

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00:35:47,240 –> 00:35:49,120
understand themselves to be but
which?

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00:35:49,120 –> 00:35:55,280
And depraved the word fear.
There can be rendered teacher,

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00:35:55,480 –> 00:35:59,760
and some render that particular
verse give them a teacher, but

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they may know themselves to be
but Enosh.

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00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:07,640
But we depraves men, and of
course that is the stage here.

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Enosh self calls his son Enosh,
which means a decline, and

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00:36:14,840 –> 00:36:19,320
evidently there had been a
decline among the sons of God.

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00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:24,160
Has the environment affected
them at that time so that Seth,

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00:36:24,280 –> 00:36:28,920
he calls his son’s name Inos
because of that decline?

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00:36:29,760 –> 00:36:34,800
Then we read.
Men began to call upon the name

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00:36:34,800 –> 00:36:40,640
of Yahweh, but that word began
as a strange word that’s

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00:36:40,640 –> 00:36:46,000
rendered in various ways in the
Bible, and it can mean to

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00:36:46,000 –> 00:36:52,520
profane to mean to profane.
There was profanation in the

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00:36:52,520 –> 00:36:57,000
invoking of the name, and some
have paraphrased it.

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00:36:57,400 –> 00:37:03,800
Then the sons of men desisted
feast from calling on the name

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00:37:04,040 –> 00:37:08,400
of Yahweh, or they profane that
name.

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00:37:09,480 –> 00:37:14,120
To profane the name of Yahweh is
not to live consistently with

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00:37:14,120 –> 00:37:18,960
that name.
In Proverbs chapter 30, the

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00:37:18,960 –> 00:37:24,040
Proverbs, the wise man there
says that he wished for neither

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00:37:24,720 –> 00:37:30,920
poverty nor riches, lest being
poor, he steal and take the name

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00:37:30,920 –> 00:37:34,600
of Yahweh in vain.
And therefore to take the name

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00:37:34,600 –> 00:37:39,680
of Yahweh in vain is to live
inconsistently with the calling

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00:37:39,680 –> 00:37:43,160
of that name.
In the 15th chapter of Acts of

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00:37:43,160 –> 00:37:48,440
verse 14, we read that God is
taking out of the Gentiles a

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00:37:48,720 –> 00:37:53,080
people for His name.
We are that people.

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00:37:53,400 –> 00:37:56,480
We are called out of the
Gentiles for that name.

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00:37:56,960 –> 00:38:00,080
We’re not called out of the
Gentiles for salvation.

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00:38:00,840 –> 00:38:05,680
Salvation will be given to us if
we develop that which God wants

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00:38:05,680 –> 00:38:09,160
to see in US.
And what He wants to see in us

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00:38:09,160 –> 00:38:13,440
is a reflection of Himself, His
name.

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00:38:13,440 –> 00:38:17,640
The name of the great in create
is the family name into which we

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00:38:17,640 –> 00:38:22,840
are called, and that family name
will be manifested by us when we

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00:38:22,840 –> 00:38:26,080
show the characteristics of that
name if.

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00:38:26,080 –> 00:38:28,600
We do not.
Show the characteristics of that

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00:38:28,600 –> 00:38:31,680
name.
We are not living in accordance

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00:38:31,680 –> 00:38:35,240
with the call of God and we will
not receive salvation.

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00:38:35,640 –> 00:38:40,160
He will give salvation to those
that manifestate, that name.

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00:38:41,040 –> 00:38:45,400
Take for example the people of
Israel. 2 million people left

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00:38:45,400 –> 00:38:48,640
the land of Egypt.
They were baptized into Moses

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00:38:48,640 –> 00:38:52,080
and they sung the song of
rejoicing on the other side.

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How many reached the Promised
Land?

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00:38:54,840 –> 00:38:59,520
God said concerning them that He
had taken them out for His name,

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00:39:00,560 –> 00:39:04,240
that they might honour Him.
When they didn’t do that, then

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00:39:04,240 –> 00:39:08,280
they perish in the wilderness.
Then the challenge is to us to

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00:39:08,280 –> 00:39:11,920
recognise quite clearly the
purpose of our porch.

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00:39:12,080 –> 00:39:18,000
And the purpose of our porch is
not primarily salvation, Not

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00:39:18,000 –> 00:39:22,160
primarily salvation.
It is to manifest the name of

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00:39:22,160 –> 00:39:25,280
God and then we will receive
salvation.

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00:39:25,920 –> 00:39:30,600
It is to make ourselves births
of saving, and we are worth

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00:39:30,600 –> 00:39:35,960
saving if we put something in US
of the divine excellence, if

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00:39:35,960 –> 00:39:40,200
something of God is put into us,
so the Word of God is placed

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00:39:40,200 –> 00:39:43,120
into us and we reflect that in a
way of life.

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00:39:43,480 –> 00:39:47,360
And then when we reflect that in
a way of life, then God will be

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00:39:47,360 –> 00:39:50,400
pleased with us and grant us
salvation.

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00:39:51,960 –> 00:39:54,720
That is the purpose.
So when they began to profane

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00:39:54,720 –> 00:39:58,960
the name of Yahweh, they were
not living consistently with the

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00:39:58,960 –> 00:40:01,840
name.
And that’s leading to the great

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00:40:02,160 –> 00:40:04,560
the, the great tragedy of that
time.

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00:40:05,080 –> 00:40:08,680
When of course, the sons of God
were found at the time of the

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00:40:08,680 –> 00:40:13,240
flood in a state that God was
not prepared to save them at

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00:40:13,240 –> 00:40:16,920
all.
And they were involved in the in

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00:40:16,920 –> 00:40:19,440
the flood that destroyed the
world.

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00:40:19,680 –> 00:40:23,400
That’s a very important
statement at the end of chapter

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00:40:23,400 –> 00:40:27,520
4 of Genesis, a very important
statement indeed.

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00:40:28,000 –> 00:40:34,240
So that, you see, here is the
hint of the trouble that is to

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00:40:34,240 –> 00:40:37,680
come.
Now we come over to the 5th

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00:40:37,680 –> 00:40:41,880
chapter of Genesis, and I finish
at 10:00.

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00:40:41,880 –> 00:40:46,880
You know, is it 10:00 or 9:50?
I finish.

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00:40:49,360 –> 00:40:53,360
I’ve meant 11:00 or 10:50.
Is it right?

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00:40:54,000 –> 00:40:56,200
That’s all right.
Now we come to the 5th chapter

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00:40:56,200 –> 00:40:58,720
of Genesis, a very, very
important chapter, indeed

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00:40:59,160 –> 00:41:02,560
particularly important in the
development of this this theme.

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00:41:03,040 –> 00:41:04,880
We read first of all in verse
one.

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00:41:05,760 –> 00:41:08,160
This is the book of the
generations of Adam.

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00:41:09,160 –> 00:41:13,360
A very important statement that
you read that form of statement

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00:41:13,360 –> 00:41:16,000
twice in the Bible.
You read it here.

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00:41:16,000 –> 00:41:18,800
This is the book of the
generations of Adam and you read

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00:41:18,800 –> 00:41:20,680
it in Matthew chapter 1 and
verse one.

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00:41:20,880 –> 00:41:24,640
The book of the generations of
Jesus Christ. 2 great books that

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00:41:24,640 –> 00:41:26,960
are found there.
The book of the generations of

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00:41:26,960 –> 00:41:28,840
Adam.
The book of the generations of

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00:41:28,920 –> 00:41:32,440
Jesus Christ.
Into the book of the generation

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00:41:32,440 –> 00:41:35,160
of Adam everyone is placed who
is born upon this earth.

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00:41:36,040 –> 00:41:39,600
They’re there automatically, but
not so in the book of Jesus

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00:41:39,600 –> 00:41:42,520
Christ.
That is the book of life, and

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00:41:42,520 –> 00:41:44,800
therefore only those are in the
book of life.

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00:41:45,080 –> 00:41:48,120
His names are retained there to
the coming of the Lord Jesus

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00:41:48,120 –> 00:41:50,120
Christ. 2 great books of the
Bible.

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00:41:50,640 –> 00:41:54,280
We can’t avoid being in one.
We can strive to be in the

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00:41:54,280 –> 00:41:56,760
other.
And those two books of the Bible

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00:41:56,760 –> 00:41:59,440
are in contrast.
And you know what’s in the book

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00:41:59,440 –> 00:42:02,720
of the generations of Adam?
Read it in your Bible.

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00:42:02,840 –> 00:42:05,840
See it clearly, starkly,
dramatically set forth.

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00:42:06,160 –> 00:42:09,840
You’ll probably have missed it,
but it’s found in the repetition

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00:42:09,840 –> 00:42:15,000
of the words.
And he died verse 5, And he died

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00:42:15,240 –> 00:42:18,000
verse 8.
And he died verse 11.

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00:42:18,120 –> 00:42:22,400
And he died verse 14.
And he died verse 17.

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00:42:22,520 –> 00:42:26,880
And he died verse 20.
And he died verse 27.

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00:42:27,040 –> 00:42:30,480
And he died verse 31.
And he died.

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00:42:31,600 –> 00:42:35,280
And with monotonous regularity
this statement is made,

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00:42:36,320 –> 00:42:42,240
emphasizing the hopelessness of
the human race in spite of the

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00:42:42,240 –> 00:42:50,000
long lives lived.
Inevitably, the sad end awaits

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00:42:50,200 –> 00:42:56,160
even a Methuselah.
And this becomes the theme song

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00:42:56,160 –> 00:43:01,400
of life.
And The only exception in that

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00:43:01,400 –> 00:43:08,000
book that is written there, The
only exception in the long line

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00:43:08,000 –> 00:43:13,400
of genealogy there, is our
friend Enoch in regard to all

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00:43:13,400 –> 00:43:20,640
the others.
And he died, and he died, and he

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00:43:20,960 –> 00:43:28,080
died.
A man lives his little life and

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00:43:28,080 –> 00:43:35,960
he dies.
And when you were young, life

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00:43:35,960 –> 00:43:41,600
seems like an endless, endless
path that leads into the future.

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00:43:43,880 –> 00:43:51,560
But as age takes its toll, you
come to appreciate better.

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00:43:52,960 –> 00:44:03,560
The words of Paul redeem the
time, for the days are evil, and

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00:44:03,560 –> 00:44:08,480
the word means to buy it up
because it is precious.

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00:44:09,640 –> 00:44:14,200
There’s nothing quite as
precious in our possession as

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00:44:14,200 –> 00:44:18,920
time itself.
And you know that time is

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00:44:18,920 –> 00:44:22,600
distributed to each one of us in
equal proportions.

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00:44:23,720 –> 00:44:26,520
There was 60 seconds to a
minute.

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00:44:27,360 –> 00:44:32,680
There’s 60 minutes to an hour.
There’s 24 hours in a day.

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00:44:33,680 –> 00:44:36,920
You.
Each have got 60 seconds to the

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00:44:36,920 –> 00:44:45,240
minute, 60 minutes to the hour,
24 hours to the day in each in

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00:44:45,240 –> 00:44:49,840
equal proportions that that time
is parceled out to each one of

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00:44:49,840 –> 00:44:52,800
us.
But how do we use it?

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00:44:53,640 –> 00:44:58,920
Do we waste that precious time,
or do we use it effectively?

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00:44:59,400 –> 00:45:04,760
Do we parcel it out in our
minds, or do we squander time?

650
00:45:04,760 –> 00:45:11,200
And we can squander time.
As I look back over my own life,

651
00:45:12,560 –> 00:45:18,600
if I had the living of it again,
probably Megan’s big a mess of

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00:45:18,600 –> 00:45:19,440
it.
And that’s now.

653
00:45:19,840 –> 00:45:24,680
But as I feel now, there would
be different things that I would

654
00:45:24,680 –> 00:45:28,280
have done and different
occupations to which I would

655
00:45:28,280 –> 00:45:31,080
have given myself.
It’s too late now.

656
00:45:32,360 –> 00:45:38,000
All I can say is the limitations
of my own life.

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00:45:39,160 –> 00:45:44,960
And all I can see is if if
anything is to be done now, it

658
00:45:44,960 –> 00:45:50,600
must be done immediately.
When I was young, I did not

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00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:54,120
understand it in that way.
And that’s why Paul said redeem

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00:45:54,120 –> 00:45:56,640
the time.
That’s very valuable, because

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00:45:56,640 –> 00:45:59,840
you’ve got nothing quite as
precious as time, nothing at

662
00:45:59,840 –> 00:46:02,160
all.
But how do we use that time?

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00:46:02,880 –> 00:46:04,800
And it’s good to parcel about in
times.

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00:46:05,240 –> 00:46:08,400
It’s good to parcel about and
occupy a certain amount of time

665
00:46:08,400 –> 00:46:12,760
to a certain things during the
day and not to waste that which

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00:46:12,760 –> 00:46:16,080
is so precious.
So we’re all in the book of the

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00:46:16,080 –> 00:46:19,400
generation of Adam.
And the theme song of that book

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00:46:19,400 –> 00:46:25,160
is and he died.
Now we come on and we read this

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00:46:25,200 –> 00:46:29,440
in the day that God created man
in the likeness of God made him.

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00:46:30,240 –> 00:46:33,720
That’s verse one in the likeness
of God made he man.

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00:46:34,160 –> 00:46:38,400
Now we know what is stated in
Genesis chapter one in relation

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00:46:38,400 –> 00:46:41,960
to the creation of man.
God said let us make man in our

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00:46:41,960 –> 00:46:44,800
image after our likeness and let
them have dominion.

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00:46:46,120 –> 00:46:49,480
And you know that verse in
Genesis one verse 26.

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00:46:49,720 –> 00:46:52,040
Do you know this?
That that verse is the

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00:46:52,040 –> 00:46:54,400
foundation of every epistle of
Paul’s.

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00:46:55,560 –> 00:46:59,320
That first Genesis 126 is the
foundation of every epistle of

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00:46:59,320 –> 00:47:00,640
Paul.
You trace it out.

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00:47:01,280 –> 00:47:02,880
I’ve got a list of it here if
you want it.

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00:47:03,640 –> 00:47:06,480
But every epistle of Paul is
referring to that particular

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00:47:06,480 –> 00:47:10,480
verse and basing his own
theology upon it, because that’s

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00:47:10,480 –> 00:47:13,240
one of the most important verses
you’ll find in Scripture.

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00:47:13,360 –> 00:47:17,760
And here is repeated God created
man in the likeness of God made

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00:47:17,760 –> 00:47:22,160
he him image and likeness.
Image relates to shape likeness

685
00:47:22,160 –> 00:47:25,840
to capacity.
And that is a very that the the

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00:47:26,040 –> 00:47:28,400
the difference between the
animals and man.

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00:47:28,640 –> 00:47:33,160
His capacity, his capacity to
take in divine principles and

688
00:47:33,320 –> 00:47:37,320
and precepts, his capacity to
reveal those divine precepts and

689
00:47:37,320 –> 00:47:41,160
precepts and and principles.
Your animals can’t do that.

690
00:47:41,480 –> 00:47:44,640
His intelligence as they may be.
They cannot take in divine

691
00:47:44,640 –> 00:47:47,600
principles.
They cannot bring to more of

692
00:47:47,600 –> 00:47:49,480
those features.
We can’t.

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00:47:49,600 –> 00:47:53,120
We’ve been made that way and got
us, made us specifically for

694
00:47:53,120 –> 00:47:56,360
that purpose that we might
reflect to His glory

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00:47:56,880 –> 00:48:00,480
specifically for that purpose.
You know, on one occasion I was

696
00:48:00,680 –> 00:48:04,080
on the bait and we were going
down some river in Bangkok and

697
00:48:04,080 –> 00:48:06,920
on all the sides of a little
kitty’s head, dozens of them

698
00:48:07,320 –> 00:48:10,440
diving in the water, coming up
with I was singing about this

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00:48:10,640 –> 00:48:14,080
that every one of them has made
in the with the capacity to

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00:48:14,080 –> 00:48:16,960
reflect the glory of God.
But how many do it?

701
00:48:17,320 –> 00:48:19,520
So very few.
And that country, there were

702
00:48:19,520 –> 00:48:22,080
millions of people there.
And I said in that day to be

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00:48:22,080 –> 00:48:25,640
flocking around everywhere.
And I thought upon this, it

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00:48:25,640 –> 00:48:28,160
worried me a bit.
It worries me still.

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00:48:28,320 –> 00:48:33,360
But so very, very few people use
the brain that God gave them for

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00:48:33,360 –> 00:48:37,760
the purpose that God gave them.
You know, we are supposed to

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00:48:37,760 –> 00:48:40,520
have two brains or two parts of
one brain.

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00:48:40,520 –> 00:48:42,720
I don’t know what it is because
I’m no scientist.

709
00:48:42,960 –> 00:48:44,720
And there’s a bridge between
them both.

710
00:48:45,080 –> 00:48:48,280
But scientists call this other
brain, the higher brain, the new

711
00:48:48,280 –> 00:48:51,760
brain, because of course, he
says that we have evolved and

712
00:48:51,760 –> 00:48:55,040
therefore we have a former brain
that the animals lack, and they

713
00:48:55,040 –> 00:48:58,800
call it the new brain.
And that new brain is the brain

714
00:48:58,800 –> 00:49:02,440
that takes in these principles,
these divine principles.

715
00:49:02,840 –> 00:49:06,880
It acts something like that.
The lower brain tells us what we

716
00:49:07,280 –> 00:49:09,480
what we ought to have.
I’m hungry.

717
00:49:09,600 –> 00:49:12,600
So the brain says you’re hungry,
you better get some food.

718
00:49:12,840 –> 00:49:15,440
And if I’ve got no scruples,
I’ll go and get that food.

719
00:49:15,680 –> 00:49:18,720
I’ll break into somewhere and.
Get that food like an animal

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00:49:18,720 –> 00:49:20,840
will.
But the higher brain says, look,

721
00:49:20,840 –> 00:49:23,520
you better not do that.
A policeman might be there and

722
00:49:23,520 –> 00:49:26,120
you’ll be taking taken into
custody.

723
00:49:26,280 –> 00:49:29,600
So the higher brain works on the
lower brain and says, no, it’s

724
00:49:29,600 –> 00:49:33,400
not the time for that.
That higher brain can be trained

725
00:49:33,400 –> 00:49:35,840
in divine principles.
The lower brain can’t.

726
00:49:36,160 –> 00:49:39,480
The lower brain is dominated by
the propensities, the lust of

727
00:49:39,480 –> 00:49:41,680
the flesh, the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life.

728
00:49:41,960 –> 00:49:44,800
And it’s in conflict with that
higher brain.

729
00:49:45,280 –> 00:49:48,920
And siders tell us who are quite
ignorant of the Bible, that the

730
00:49:48,920 –> 00:49:52,920
more you use that higher brain,
the more you get into a pattern

731
00:49:52,920 –> 00:49:56,080
of so using it.
That’s the same, I suppose like

732
00:49:56,080 –> 00:49:59,320
a thing with the the gramophone
needle goes around and it gets

733
00:49:59,320 –> 00:50:02,560
in the track and it goes around
that way and you create habit

734
00:50:02,560 –> 00:50:06,080
that way.
And scientists will tell us that

735
00:50:06,080 –> 00:50:09,800
if that brain is exercised, that
brain will dominate the lower

736
00:50:09,800 –> 00:50:12,680
brain.
But if it’s ignored, it won’t,

737
00:50:12,760 –> 00:50:15,440
the lower brain will dominate
the higher brain.

738
00:50:16,320 –> 00:50:19,040
Now, I know nothing about that,
but I do know that the apostle

739
00:50:19,040 –> 00:50:23,200
Paul tells us that we can think
with the flesh or we can think

740
00:50:23,200 –> 00:50:25,800
with the Spirit.
The thinking of the flesh he

741
00:50:25,800 –> 00:50:28,040
contrasts with the thinking of
the Spirit.

742
00:50:28,280 –> 00:50:31,480
And the Spirit Word is impressed
upon that higher brain.

743
00:50:31,640 –> 00:50:35,440
It’s the principles of God’s
Word, and we need to exercise it

744
00:50:35,440 –> 00:50:38,400
that way.
And we have been created so that

745
00:50:38,400 –> 00:50:42,240
we can take in those impressions
and reflect those impressions

746
00:50:42,240 –> 00:50:46,520
back in a way of life.
And that is what God is saying

747
00:50:46,520 –> 00:50:49,920
here.
He created man, not the dot.

748
00:50:50,360 –> 00:50:54,560
He created man not to follow out
the principles of the flesh.

749
00:50:54,760 –> 00:51:00,200
He created man to be like sheep.
And he gave him the ability with

750
00:51:00,200 –> 00:51:03,680
a brain that’s able to take in
divine principles and reflect

751
00:51:03,680 –> 00:51:06,880
them in a way of life that will
build into his life, a

752
00:51:06,880 –> 00:51:09,920
characteristic that makes him
like God.

753
00:51:12,400 –> 00:51:15,800
You know, it said with the 22nd
chapter, Genesis, that as far as

754
00:51:15,880 –> 00:51:19,680
Abraham was concerned, he was to
OfferUp his only beloved son,

755
00:51:21,000 –> 00:51:24,400
his only beloved son or begotten
sons.

756
00:51:25,240 –> 00:51:31,800
But he it speaks of only one
son, but he had two sons, but he

757
00:51:31,800 –> 00:51:37,440
really only had one son because
a son should be a reflection of

758
00:51:37,440 –> 00:51:41,800
his father.
And I and Isaac was that not

759
00:51:41,800 –> 00:51:43,880
Ishmael.
So we only have one son.

760
00:51:44,040 –> 00:51:45,600
They could count 2 in his
family.

761
00:51:46,280 –> 00:51:51,240
We are called to be sons of God,
to be of God into our lives.

762
00:51:51,360 –> 00:51:53,160
We do that with the Word of God.