Leen Ritmeyer – The Power of Bible Places and their Lessons for Us – Class 4 – He must needs go through Samaria

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This is the 2010 Ontario Winter
Bible School.

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Our speaker for this second
session, his brother Elaine

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Ritmeyer from.
Cardiff, Wales.

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His theme this week is The Power
of the Bible places and there

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are lessons for us.
This is his fourth class and the

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subject of this class is.
He must need.

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Go through Samaria.
Dear brother and sisters and

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young people, yesterday we
followed Jesus Christ in his

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journeys.
We’ve been with him to Cana in

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Galilee, and also we saw why he
settled in Capernaum and went to

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Caesarea, Philippines.
If you go to chapter 2 of John,

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then in the beginning of this
chapter we’ve already covered

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this when there was a marriage
in Cana of Galilee and Jesus

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changed the water into wine.
And then in verse 13 we read

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that the Jews Passover was at
hand and Jesus went up to

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Jerusalem and he drove out all
those that was changing money

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and and selling those animals
for huge profits.

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And it says in verse 17 that’s
the reason why he did it.

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The zeal of thine house has
eaten me up.

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That was the character of the
Lord Jesus Christ taken from

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Psalm 69 and he stays on in
Jerusalem.

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And in chapter 3 we have a
discussion with Nicodemus.

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And then in verse 22 we read
after these things came Jesus

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and the disciples into the land
of Judea, and there he tarried

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wisdom and baptized.
Now that was in the land of

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Judea.
And if you follow the borders

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between Benjamin and Judah, the
only place where that could have

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been is Beastebarra, just a
little bit north of the Dead

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Sea.
So Jesus baptised in there, but

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not Jesus himself with his
disciples.

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Well, John in verse 23 was
higher up in the valley near the

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Sea of Galilee baptising.
And then we come to chapter 4

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when he left Judea.
So on the map you can see that

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Jesus came down from Capernaum.
He went to Jerusalem, He expels

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the money changed from the
temple, then he goes to

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Bethabahr and his disciples were
baptizing then, and then he went

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back again to Galilee.
Why did he not go back the same

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way to through the Jordan Valley
to Capernaum?

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Was he getting bored with the
jury?

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I’ve been there so many times.
Let’s take a detour and see some

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pretty mountains.
No brothers, sisters.

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It says in verse four he must
needs go through Sumerian.

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And I’m pleased to recognise the
the help I’ve had from brother

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Ronkowi in Australia who is a
fantastic talk on this, on this

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subject.
So we hope to come back later

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tomorrow to Bethabara and see
the power of this place.

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Why did he have to go through
Sumerian?

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The word must shows there was no
compromise.

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He had to go there.
If you look at other instances

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in the Gospel of John and
elsewhere, then you see Jesus

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had said in the previous chapter
to Nicodemus, you must be born

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again.
There’s no other way.

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As Moses lifted the serpent in
the village, so must the Son of

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Man be lifted up.
The only way to overcome sin.

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John the battler said he must
increase, but I decrease.

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And just now we read that he
must needs go through Sumeria.

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He said to the woman, They that
worship God must worship Him in

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spirit and in truth.
In John 9 I must work the works

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of him that sent me.
There was no option.

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And the other sheep I have which
are not of this fault, and also

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I must bring.
And this little man must be

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lifted up, but also he must
raise again from the dead.

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These were axioms.
The truth is not negotiable.

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Brethren, sisters, we cannot
compromise on the truth.

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If you do, we only water down
the truth.

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There are certain things we have
to do.

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That’s how God has ordained it.
And I imagine that Jesus all the

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time he was in Nazareth from
past the age of 12 and for the

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first time he went to Jerusalem,
to a temple that he went through

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the Scriptures fine combing it.
I must do this, I must do that.

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This must happen and that must
happen.

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He was ticking them off 1 after
doing it, and we should read the

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Scripture as well.
Bran and sisters read through

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the Bible.
What does God require of us to

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do?
No point saying, oh, God wants

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me to do this and I do something
else can say to the priest,

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well, you got to offer a lamb.
Oh well, can I get my cat,

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please?
No, you cannot change what God

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has ordained.
So then why does Jesus say that

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he had to go through Sumerian?
So he knew beforehand that he

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had to fulfil God’s word and he
had to go to a particular place,

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not just anywhere in Sumeria.
You look at verse 5 and verse 6

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of John chapter 4, then come and
see to a city of Sumeria, which

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is called Saikai, near to the
parcel of ground that Jacob gave

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to his son Joseph.
And Jacob’s well was there, and

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she is there for being weird
with his journey.

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Set us on the well.
They say on the wall that is

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usually built around the well.
It was about the 6th hour, it

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was midday, it was very hot and
it wasn’t difficult to find

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because you often find that next
to a well is a massive oak tree.

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It’s a natural gathering place
for travellers, for for

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shepherds who came to water
their flock.

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And that place is an extremely
important place, brethren,

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sisters, because so many things
happened at a well.

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If you go through scriptures and
look what happened at wells.

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So you an Angel met Hagar at a
well.

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The places of living waters.
Abe made a covenant with a bill

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make at the well of Beersheba.
Bare actually means a well.

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Abe’s servant met Rebecca,
Isaac’s wife at the well and

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Jacob also.
Rachel drew water from the well.

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Moses met his wife Sepora at a
well.

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God made a dry well to flow with
living waters.

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A good place to find your wife.
Young people there.

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If you wonder why go to the
well?

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Why?
Because Deborah said go to the

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places of drawing of water,
because there they shall

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rehearse the righteous acts of
Yahweh.

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That’s where people came
together to talk about the

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truth.
If you look for a wife, go to

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somebody, to a young girl that
loves the truth, that loves

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speaking about it, because then
you’ve got something to share

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with.
It’s the place where you draw

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the living waters of the Word of
God.

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That’s what Jesus was explaining
to this woman.

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You give her living waters.
And he spoke of the Spirit that

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God will give to those that
believe in him.

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And now Jesus was going to show
to this woman of Samaria the

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righteous acts of Yahweh.
He went there to fulfil a very

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ancient promise.
And the full meaning of this

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event can only be grasped if you
first search out the historical

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and the geographical background
of this location.

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Now the question is why the
Jesus have to go?

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He had to go to Somalia.
He had to go specifically to

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Jacob’s well, neither the pass
of ground that Jacob had given

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to Joseph.
And we know that Joseph is a

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type of Jesus, so he was the
real Joseph sitting at the well

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which his father Jacob had given
to him.

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Now usually the Jews avoid going
through Sumerian because of the

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animosity between the two
peoples who were the Samaritans.

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And by the way, they’re still
Samaritans today, very friendly

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people.
They still sacrifice Passover

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every year.
Go to 2nd Kings chapter 17.

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After the king of Assyria had
carried away capital’s 10

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northern tribes of Israel, they
he brought in other people, he

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brought in people from from
Babylon.

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It says there in verse 30, the
men of Babylon, they made Sokhov

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Bednat and the men of Kuthmed
Niagar, the men of Hamat made

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Hashimah.
They had made came back to

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Israel to settle there.
And because you can see that in

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the early part of the chapter,
and then God sent lions among

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them, because they were
worshipping false God in his

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land.
So they brought over a priest in

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verse 27, the king of serial
commanders.

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They carried in one of the
priests whom he brought from

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them.
They let them go and dwell there

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and teach them the manner of the
God of the land.

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And so one of the priests, the
Levite probably has, which had

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carried away from smerry, came
and taught in Bethel in the

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House of God, and taught them
how they should fear Yahweh.

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So you’ve got the people in
verse 33 that feared Yahweh, but

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also served their own gods after
the manner of the nations whom

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they carried away from them unto
this day.

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They do after the former manners
as you’ll draw a big stop after

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this first part of verse 34.
So those Samaritans, they feared

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Yahweh, but understanding was
mixed up with idol worship,

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unless the Jews, because the
first continue speaking about

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the Jews, they, the Jews fear
not Yarwah.

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Now they do they after their
statutes or after their

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ordinances or after the law.
And commander with Yarwah

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commanded the children of Jacob,
whom he named Israel.

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So he got 2 nieces in the land
Sabatas who feared Yarwah, but

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they also served idols and the
Jews would didn’t fear Yarwah at

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all.
And so Jesus went to the

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descendants of these people who
were taught by Levite and he

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came then to Sumerian.
So there are different religious

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backgrounds, the Jews and the
Samaritans, they were both

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supposed to believe in the same
God.

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And of course, if you’re a
Samaritan, then, well, who is

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right?
Are we Samaritans all right or

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are the Jews all right?
That’s the question.

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We there was, we was a God in
Mount Grise.

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I mean, you do it in Jerusalem.
Who is right?

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But where did this meeting place
actually happen?

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It was in Shechem.
And here we can see excavation

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remains of the city of Shechem.
There’s a city wall there, but

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you can see a very happy city
wall.

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There’s actually a gate building
here.

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The city wall goes all the way
around.

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There’s a temple here with a
courtyard in a standing stone

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and some of the houses that have
been excavated.

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It’s about 50 kilometres north
of Jerusalem.

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And Shechem is located right
here between Mount Garaizum and

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Mount Ebal.
So you get the central mountain

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range going through Israel.
There’s a big gap there right in

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the middle, and that is where
the pass through Mount Garaizum

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and Mount Ebal is located.
And right in the middle is

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Shechem.
The name Shechem means a shoving

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shechem.
You’ve got two of them.

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A shechem is a shoulder, and you
can see shechem is located in

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between two shoulders, as it
were, of the two mountains.

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What you do is our shoulders.
We carry burdens.

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But also in Hebrew, Shechem
means to rise up early in the

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morning, I suppose, because you
roll over on your shoulder and

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then you get up early in the
morning.

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So it means both getting up
early in the morning and be

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ready to carry your burdens.
And we should do that billingly

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and not dreadingly.
When the Tabernacle moved, the

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Kohathites were given
responsibility of carrying all

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the holy things.
How?

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On their shoulders.
And then David didn’t remember

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that law.
He put the ark on the cart.

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Disaster struck Israel.
We cannot do things our own way.

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By the sisters.
You have to go home, do his

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Bible reading.
Oh, it’s my fault.

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They should be carrying them on
the shoulders like the

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scapegoat.
Jesus bore our sins on his

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shoulders and carried them away
into a land that is cut off.

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And after he had done that, God
replaced that burden is

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something else, because He put
the government upon his

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shoulder.
So if he first bear the burdens

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on our shoulders, then we can
help Christ in his Kingdom as

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priests and kings to share that
government which is on upon the

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shoulders of Jesus Christ.
So got one, just like Abram and

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like David and Joshua and Jesus
to rise up early in the morning

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and bear the burdens of the day,
both of our normal life and of

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ecclesial life.
So the place Shechem means a

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place of responsibility and
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It’s a place where you make
decisions and you bear

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responsibility.
That is the power of this

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particular Bible place.
And we will see that some very

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good but also some very bad
decisions have been made in

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Shechem.
Let’s go to Genesis chapter 12.

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It’s the first place we read
about this city.

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And we’re reading verse 6:00 and
7:00.

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Abram came from Haram, and we
passed through the land.

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That’s the word Hebrew.
He passed through the land unto

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the place of Shechem, unto the
plain of Mori.

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And the Canaanite was then in
the land, And Yahweh appeared

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unto Abram, said Unto thy seed,
will I give this land?

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And there he built an altar unto
Yahoo, appeared unto him.

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The word plain is not always
plain.

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We’ve seen with the plain of the
Jordan is the Kikai.

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It means a circle.
The word plain does not mean a

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plain at all here.
The plain of morae in Hebrew is

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alon more and along means an oak
tree.

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It doesn’t mean a plain at all.
I don’t know where those

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translators got it from.
And what’s the meaning of

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Moraine?
As you perhaps know, I’ve been

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teaching in Hebrew for 5 1/2
years in a heritage College in

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Adelaide and I was a teacher.
In Hebrew.

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The word for teacher is Moraine.
So the plain of Moray is

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actually oak of Moore.
It’s the oak of the teacher.

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That’s the real name, the real
meaning of the Hebrew Alon

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Moore, nothing to do with a
plain at all.

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Many times when the word alon is
in the Hebrew, they translate

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this plain, but it’s an oak.
Plainly it is an oak.

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So only that oak of the teacher.
That’s where Abram went first.

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That’s where he built an altar
under that oak, and that’s where

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God gave him the promise, under
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So that is a very special place
where the sisters.

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So if you look at an oak tree
here, as we see the map where

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Abel came down from her over
Damascus by the Sea of Galilee,

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and he went to the oak of the
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Now oaks, as you can see here,
are massive trees.

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There are not many left in
Israel. 200 years ago, the land

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was especially Galilee, full of
oak trees.

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They’ve all been cut down.
By whom?

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By the Turks, who built a
railway line from Damascus to

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Cairo.
And to make sleepers for those

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red iron whales, they cut down
all the oak trees, only the few

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that had a tomb of a rabbi or a
St. underneath, because that’s

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what they do.
Often there’s, you know,

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sanctuaries, a few left and
always beside him you find a

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well now we know that Abraham
was a teacher.

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Go to Genesis chapter 18 and
verse 19.

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God says about Abraham.
He was 18 See that Abram shall

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be surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the

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nations of the earth shall be
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For I know him.
God knew what kind of person he

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was.
I know Him that He will command

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his children and his household
after him, and they shall keep

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the way of Yahweh to do justice
and judgement that Yahweh may

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bring upon Abraham that which he
had spoken of him.

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Abe, God knew Abram to be a
teacher.

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He was the father in his family,
but he was a teacher.

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There’s some families in
England, they say, OK, so you

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must go to Sunday school.
But when you’re 18, you can do

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what you like.
Unlike Abraham, He commanded

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their children.
Not for me, I’ll force you to.

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But he made it so lively, so
interesting, and that they

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wanted to follow Abraham.
It’s a tax for all of us.

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Doesn’t Moses say the same
thing?

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You shall teach them those
statues and the laws and the

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commandments of God diligently
unto your children.

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You shall talk of them when you
sit in your house, when you walk

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by the way, when you lie down,
and when you rise up.

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So Jesus went to the oak of the
teacher, because Israel has

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never seen any greater teacher
than the Lord Jesus Christ.

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So they’re massive oak trees.
And if you go go to the Hebrew

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word alone, you find that some
fantastically interesting things

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took place in the oak trees.
Look at Abraham Pass, we just

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read this.
He went to the oak of the

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teaching.
Later on, you’ll see that Jacob

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hit all the strange gods, only
the oak, which is by Shechem,

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the same oak tree.
And Deborah, Rebecca’s nurse,

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was buried under an oak tree.
There are notable features of

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the landscape.
And Joshua wrote all the words

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in the book of the law of God.
He took a great stone, and said

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that where under the oak, Which
oak in Shechem same oak when the

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Angel appeared, until Gideon in
offer, it was under an oak tree

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where he met him, a force tree.
Absalom he got hung in an oak

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and said like a place of
judgement, and that men of God.

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You also found a city under an
oak tree, so oak trees are

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notable places in Scripture.
You just go back to Genesis

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chapter 12 and we read there
that Aman passed through the

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land and to the place of
Shechem.

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There was just a small
settlement.

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There was not yet a whole city.
That came later on.

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If you go Fast forward to the
life of Jacob, he spent some

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time in Hagam as well, and then
his family returned to the land

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and they came to Shechem and
they planned to go to the House

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of God to Bethel.
Let’s go to chapter 33.

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So Jacob was coming back now.
First of all, he had to meet

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Esau.
And after that meeting with

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Esau, it was 18 we read that
Jacob came not to Shalom, that

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there’s no Shalom there at all.
He came in peace to a city of

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Shechem, which in the land of
Canaan Shalom is the word

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Shalom.
He just came in peace after

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having met Esau and giving him
the ties which he had promised

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to God, he gave it to Esau.
Then in peace he came to

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Shechem, the same place, if it
was 19, he bought a parcel of a

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field where he had spread his
tent at the hand of the children

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of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for
100 pieces of silver.

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And he built an altar there and
called it El Elohe Israel.

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That means the power of the
mighty ones of Israel.

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That’s the power of an altar by
the sisters where we destroy the

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flesh.
That is the power, the

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destruction of the flesh of all
the mighty ones of Israel, so

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that the Spirit can live.
The Spirit cannot live in a body

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of flesh.
It needs to be destroyed.

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But now we read that Jacob came
to that place.

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He had to buy it again.
And I believe it was the same

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plot of land that Abram had
earlier bought.

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So we’ve been given an
inheritance, pregnant sisters,

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but if you don’t look after it
or if you aren’t there all the

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time, you may lose it.
And Jacob had to buy it again

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later on.
Jacob says that he had to fight

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for it and he got to back with
his bow and arrow and was

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actually a Steeler found.
He would see Jacob going to

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Shechem.
Before he went to Bethel, he did

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a few other things.
A Steeler has been found in in

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Egypt, which refers to Shechem.
An Egyptian army came and

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conquered Shechem, and some
people suggested that when there

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was an Egyptian invasion in the
land, as later on happened when

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Jacob was buried, that some of
that of the children of Israel

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went and recaptured that land
that belonged to their father

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Abraham.
And you’ll see that that later

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on happened.
Notice that it’s a place of

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decision.
And here we see Dinah where the

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first wrong decision was taken
by Dinah in chapter 434 verse

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one we read she went out to see
the daughters of the land.

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Big mistake.
We should only be interested in

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Christadelphians and people that
we can share our faith with.

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The young man looking for the
wife go to the bell where those

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girls are which speak about the
word of God.

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We should be friendly only with
like minded people.

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The second wrong decision taken
in Shechem was by the son of

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Hamar in raping Dinah and it led
to another wrong decision by

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Simeon and Levi who broke God’s
covenant and killed all the men

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of Shechem and all happened
because Dinah went out to see

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the people of the world.
Stay away from the world, burden

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sisters and young people.
It only leads to disaster,

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especially girls when they don’t
protest as we don’t read that

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Dinah protested at all.
So it was such a difference with

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Joseph.
When he was tempted, he fled

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away, never mind the
consequence.

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And so Jacob now had trouble in
his family and he had to realise

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he had to do something.
God said in chapter 35 to Jacob,

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first one arise and go up to
Bethel, bait Al the House of

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God, not just of God as Yahweh,
not just as God as Ali, but God

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as Al.
And Al means power.

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He’s going to the powerhouse of
God.

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And we also are on our way to
the House of God pregnant

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sisters.
So what did he do?

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He made an altar unto Al that
God said, Go to Bethel and build

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an altar there, and to ale that
appeared unto thee when thou

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flathers from the face of Esodai
Brethen.

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Now Jacob was thinking, Well, I
need to put my house in order.

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And what did he do?
He he said to all this

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households Come here, everybody
and to everybody that was with

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him.
There was a large encampment

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like Abe met 318 young men
educated in his home.

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What did he say?
Put away the strange gods that

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are among you and be clean and
change your garments.

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We need to do that on a daily
basis.

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Young people and older people.
We need to put away whatever

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interferes with our life in the
truth.

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Get rid of the old clothes, put
on clean clothes, wash

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yourselves, because only then
can you arise and go up to

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Bethel, and I’ll make there an
altar unto AO, who answered me

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in the day of my distress, and
was with me in the way which I

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went.
What did they do with all those

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idols?
Look at first form.

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They gave unto Jacob all the
strange gods that were in the

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hand there.
Many of them Remember Rachel.

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She had hidden the terraphy of
her father’s house in a

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camelback, and all the earrings
was hid in their ears.

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And Jacob hidden under the oak,
which is by Shechem.

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He had learned the lesson of the
Teacher.

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He was at the oak of the
teacher, and now he was

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teaching.
His family put away all the

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guards and he buried them under
the oak at the place where Eigma

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built an altar.
So there you got an oak, a

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Nobel, and buried idols in the
ground right below that oak of

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the teacher.
And so by ancestors we should

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also do the same thing, like
they said in Acts chapter 15 at

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the Jerusalem conference, that
the Gentiles should abstain from

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pollutions of idols and from
sexual immorality, need to bury

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all the things that pollute our
lives and put them away for

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good.
Otherwise we cannot go to the

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House of Cards.
The very worst decision ever

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taken in Shechem was by the
brothers of Joseph, and they

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sold him to the Midianites who
took him to Egypt, and that

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decision would haunt him,
especially Judah, for 20 long

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years in chapter 37 of Genesis.
In verse 12 we read that his

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brethren, that is Joseph’s
brethren, went to feed their

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father’s flock in Shechem.
Why is Shechem?

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Those were the fields that
belonged to the family.

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Abram had bought it.
Jacob had to rebuy it again and

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he said go to our fields.
You need to occupy our fields

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and grace there.
Be in that place where the oak

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of the teacher is.
Remember the covenant which God

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made to Abraham.
Remember that I buried the idols

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there and keep them buried
there.

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And Israel said it to Joseph,
Just not thy bread.

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And feed the flock and shake
him.

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Come, and I will send the unto
them.

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Wow, would you go?
You brothers hated you.

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They couldn’t stand listen to
those dreams.

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They couldn’t stand it then that
he told his father about all the

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wrongdoings of his brothers,
what would happen to him?

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What a man Joseph was as a young
man, 17 years old.

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Yet come, says his father, I’ll
send you unto them.

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He said, Here am I.
He said, go and pray to see

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whether it be well with thy
brethren.

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00:29:52,720 –> 00:29:56,440
And he would says, Ask for the
peace of you brethren.

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00:29:56,920 –> 00:30:00,200
That’s what Jacob had wanted.
That was peace in his family,

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00:30:00,640 –> 00:30:04,560
peace among his sons.
See this well with the flocks.

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00:30:04,560 –> 00:30:07,360
He was a shepherd.
He looked after the flock and

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00:30:07,360 –> 00:30:10,000
bring me word again.
So he sent them out of the Vale

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00:30:10,000 –> 00:30:12,360
of Hebron, and he came to
Shechem.

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00:30:13,200 –> 00:30:15,120
What a wonderful man, Joseph
Ross.

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00:30:16,000 –> 00:30:18,680
He must have had second thoughts
about going alone to his

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00:30:18,680 –> 00:30:20,560
brothers, knowing what kind of
people they were.

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00:30:21,320 –> 00:30:25,840
It’s just like through Jesus
Christ, God sent him to his

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00:30:25,840 –> 00:30:29,120
brethren.
He knew beforehand what they

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00:30:29,120 –> 00:30:34,040
would do to him, but he went
willingly and obediently.

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00:30:34,760 –> 00:30:38,120
It’s a wonderful state of mind
to have brothers and sisters.

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00:30:39,440 –> 00:30:42,600
And then he came to the oak of
the teacher, to the land of

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00:30:42,600 –> 00:30:47,360
Jacob, and they weren’t there.
They should have been there in

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00:30:47,360 –> 00:30:51,480
their own inheritance, where the
promises have been given and

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00:30:51,480 –> 00:30:54,200
they’re gone.
Look at verse 15.

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00:30:55,720 –> 00:30:59,520
The judge was looking all over
the place, and then a certain

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00:30:59,520 –> 00:31:02,720
man found him.
And Ronkowi suggested that was

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00:31:02,720 –> 00:31:05,320
an Angel.
And the audio was wandering in

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00:31:05,320 –> 00:31:07,680
the field.
And men asked him, saying what

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00:31:07,680 –> 00:31:10,880
seekers, though angels always
ask questions.

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00:31:11,640 –> 00:31:15,520
And there we see the whole
purpose of the life of Joseph

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00:31:15,800 –> 00:31:19,800
encapsulated in one sentence.
I seek my brethren.

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00:31:20,440 –> 00:31:23,160
All his life he’s been seeking
his brethren.

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00:31:24,480 –> 00:31:27,000
He said, tell me, I pray thee,
where they feed their flocks.

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00:31:28,640 –> 00:31:32,600
And the men said they departed
from hands, they’ve left the oak

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00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:36,480
of the teacher, they’ve left the
inheritance of Abram of Isaac

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00:31:36,480 –> 00:31:39,000
and the father Jacob.
And I heard him.

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00:31:39,200 –> 00:31:43,200
Let’s go to Dotan.
And Joseph went after his

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00:31:43,200 –> 00:31:48,040
brethren found him in Dotan.
Some people say Dotan means too

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00:31:48,040 –> 00:31:49,400
well.
So I don’t know where you get it

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00:31:49,400 –> 00:31:52,240
from at all.
Dotan is a name goes from that

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00:31:52,920 –> 00:31:55,400
and that is a religious
tradition.

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00:31:56,200 –> 00:31:58,280
The religious children is are
called dat een.

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00:31:58,840 –> 00:32:00,960
They followed that.
They followed their own law.

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00:32:01,560 –> 00:32:06,560
So they forsook the promises,
the grace and the mercy of God,

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00:32:06,880 –> 00:32:09,480
and they went to the law and
that’s where they were.

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00:32:09,960 –> 00:32:12,520
And they took a very wrong
decision.

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00:32:13,400 –> 00:32:16,920
They couldn’t care less about
the promises which got made to

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00:32:16,920 –> 00:32:18,720
Abraham.
They couldn’t care less about

477
00:32:18,720 –> 00:32:23,320
all the teaching of Abram and
their father Jacob when they

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00:32:23,320 –> 00:32:25,720
appeared later in front of
Joseph in Egypt.

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00:32:26,040 –> 00:32:27,480
And he said, whence are you
coming?

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00:32:27,480 –> 00:32:30,480
In chapter 42, verse seven, he
says from the land of Canaan.

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00:32:30,480 –> 00:32:34,680
Are we as one cow?
He said they like to be cool

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00:32:34,680 –> 00:32:37,160
Canaanites.
They want to be just like the

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00:32:37,160 –> 00:32:41,600
people in the world.
And Joseph stood before Pharaoh

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00:32:41,600 –> 00:32:45,280
and he said, where are you from?
He said, I have been stolen out

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00:32:45,280 –> 00:32:49,560
of the land of the Hebrews.
So brother said we come from

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00:32:49,560 –> 00:32:51,200
land of Canaan.
Joseph.

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00:32:51,200 –> 00:32:53,240
No, I come from the land, the
land of the Hebrews.

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00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:56,640
And So what do we identify
ourselves with?

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00:32:56,640 –> 00:32:59,600
Brave and sisters.
It’s all that associated with

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00:32:59,600 –> 00:33:02,480
the world we have through our
workplace, hopefully not through

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00:33:02,480 –> 00:33:07,920
friendship and other things.
Our workmates more important or

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00:33:07,920 –> 00:33:09,680
our brave and sisters more
important.

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00:33:10,240 –> 00:33:12,720
Do we come from the land of
Canaan or do we come from the

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00:33:12,720 –> 00:33:17,200
land of the Hebrews?
Joseph’s main aim in his life

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00:33:17,200 –> 00:33:22,680
was to seek his brethren, just
as Jesus always did everything

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00:33:23,080 –> 00:33:26,160
for his brethren up to the
giving up of his life, as Joseph

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00:33:26,160 –> 00:33:29,680
also did.
He says greater love has no man

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00:33:29,680 –> 00:33:33,240
than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends.

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00:33:33,240 –> 00:33:35,480
And I’m sure that Joseph
expected something like that to

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00:33:35,480 –> 00:33:38,240
happen when he was sent by his
father to his brethren in

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00:33:38,240 –> 00:33:42,240
Shechem.
It took 20 years before he

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00:33:42,240 –> 00:33:46,600
really found his brethren when
they came before him in Egypt.

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00:33:47,560 –> 00:33:50,960
And we hope that 2000 years
after the Jews have rejected

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00:33:50,960 –> 00:33:57,800
Jesus that Jesus also will find
his Jewish brethren in chapter

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00:33:57,800 –> 00:34:10,850
48 and verse 22 and verse 21 for
connection there before he died,

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00:34:11,409 –> 00:34:17,730
Jacob said to Joseph, Behold I
die, I’m about to die.

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00:34:18,409 –> 00:34:23,199
But Eloveim shall be with you,
and bring you again unto the

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00:34:23,199 –> 00:34:26,760
land of your father’s.
Moreover, I’ve given to thee 1

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00:34:26,760 –> 00:34:29,600
portion of birth thy Breton,
which I took out of the land,

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00:34:29,719 –> 00:34:33,520
out of the hand of the Amorite
with my sword and with my poem.

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00:34:34,400 –> 00:34:40,159
Jacob gave unto Joseph that
place in Shechem, where the oak

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00:34:40,159 –> 00:34:42,880
of the Teacher was, where the
promises were given, and where

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00:34:42,880 –> 00:34:47,760
the altar was built.
And that is a wonderful thing.

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00:34:47,840 –> 00:34:52,159
And Joseph himself also, when he
was about to die, look what he

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00:34:52,159 –> 00:35:00,520
says in chapter 50, in chapter
50 and verse 24, Joseph says the

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00:35:00,520 –> 00:35:02,360
same thing.
Joseph said unto his bread, and

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00:35:03,080 –> 00:35:07,640
I die, I’m about to die.
And Elvin will surely visit you

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00:35:07,680 –> 00:35:11,480
and bring you out of this land,
unto the land which you swear to

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00:35:11,480 –> 00:35:15,040
Abram, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And Joseph took an oath of the

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00:35:15,040 –> 00:35:18,520
children vessel saying, Elvin
will surely visit you, and ye

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00:35:18,520 –> 00:35:21,160
shall carry up my bones from
hands.

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00:35:21,960 –> 00:35:27,040
And Joseph died 110 years old.
And they inbound him and he was

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00:35:27,040 –> 00:35:30,320
put in a box in the coffin in
Egypt.

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00:35:30,320 –> 00:35:34,480
So the coffin stayed in Egypt
all the time.

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00:35:34,480 –> 00:35:36,200
The children of Israel were
there.

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00:35:37,120 –> 00:35:40,560
They carried it around on their
shoulders for 40 years.

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00:35:41,680 –> 00:35:45,160
Those bones crossed the river
Jordan when Joshua entered into

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00:35:45,160 –> 00:35:53,120
the land and by Tobiah and then
they brought him to Shechem.

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00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:57,680
There he was buried where under
the oak tree.

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00:35:59,240 –> 00:36:18,130
You go to Joshua chapter 24.
In verse 32 we see that exactly

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00:36:18,130 –> 00:36:21,850
the same place, but finally they
came to Shechem.

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00:36:23,840 –> 00:36:27,080
They took the bones of Joseph
which the children of Israel

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00:36:27,320 –> 00:36:31,720
brought about of Egypt.
They buried in Shechem in a

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00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:35,760
parcel of crown which Jacob
bought of the sons of Hammer,

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00:36:35,760 –> 00:36:39,440
the fat of Shechem for 100
pieces of silver, and became the

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00:36:39,440 –> 00:36:42,400
inheritance of the children of
Joseph.

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00:36:43,440 –> 00:36:46,920
So now we’ve got the same oak of
the teacher, but the Isles were

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00:36:46,920 –> 00:36:50,000
buried for the household of
Jacob, and right beside it were

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00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:57,480
the bones of Joseph.
But not only the bones of

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00:36:57,480 –> 00:36:59,720
Joseph, there were many more
bones there.

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00:36:59,720 –> 00:37:16,810
If you go to Acts Chapter 7,
it was 15.

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00:37:16,810 –> 00:37:22,290
We breed.
It was Acts Chapter 7.

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00:37:22,890 –> 00:37:30,200
Jacob went down into Egypt and
died, he and our fathers, and

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00:37:30,200 –> 00:37:33,600
that says in the Greek.
They were carried over into

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00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:37,160
Shechem, and laid in the
sepulchre that Abram bought for

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00:37:37,160 –> 00:37:40,920
a sum of money of the sons of
Hammer, the father of Shechem.

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00:37:43,720 –> 00:37:47,560
So not only Joseph was buried,
there also Reuben, and Simeon,

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00:37:47,560 –> 00:37:50,000
and Levi, and Judah, and all his
brethren.

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00:37:50,320 –> 00:37:55,040
Here in death, under the oak of
the teacher, Joseph was united

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00:37:55,040 –> 00:37:59,760
with his brethren.
Joseph was so different from his

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00:37:59,760 –> 00:38:02,120
brethren.
It says in Genesis 49, it was

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00:38:02,120 –> 00:38:05,000
26.
He was the separate one of his

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00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:06,560
brethren.
It’s the same word for a

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00:38:06,560 –> 00:38:10,440
Nazarite.
So do we see now the importance

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00:38:10,440 –> 00:38:14,240
by the sisters of that place?
Do we start to understand why

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00:38:14,320 –> 00:38:16,880
Jesus had to go to that
particular place?

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00:38:16,880 –> 00:38:22,360
But there’s much more to it.
John Moses had commanded Joshua

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00:38:22,360 –> 00:38:26,720
to go to Shechem and pronounce a
blessing and a curse.

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00:38:26,720 –> 00:38:29,680
A blessing on Mount Corizum and
a curse on Mount Evil.

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00:38:31,840 –> 00:38:34,440
So you can see them very went
from the camp of vision near

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00:38:34,440 –> 00:38:37,240
Gilgarh.
And David and Moses had said,

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00:38:37,480 –> 00:38:40,800
When you come into the land,
then you shall put a blessing

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00:38:40,800 –> 00:38:43,640
upon Mount Corizon, and a curse
upon Mount Evil.

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00:38:44,360 –> 00:38:49,200
And you shall also set up these
stones which are commanded in

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00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:51,920
Mount Evil.
Placidonus Plaston, right the

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00:38:51,920 –> 00:38:55,200
lower on them.
Now there’s something else

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00:38:55,200 –> 00:38:58,320
there.
If you go back to Joshua 24, we

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00:38:58,320 –> 00:39:02,880
just read in at the end of
chapter 24 that he buried the

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00:39:02,880 –> 00:39:06,680
bones of Joseph under the oak.
But that came after another

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00:39:06,680 –> 00:39:17,820
event in verse 25.
We read that Joshua made the

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00:39:17,820 –> 00:39:21,220
covenant with the people that
day and set him a statute and an

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00:39:21,220 –> 00:39:25,060
ordinance in 2nd.
And Joshua wrote these words in

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00:39:25,060 –> 00:39:30,600
the book of the law of Elovim.
It took a great stone, I said

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00:39:30,600 –> 00:39:37,440
it, where under the oak that was
by the century of Yahweh, and

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00:39:38,520 –> 00:39:40,440
where Joshua said unto all the
people be.

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00:39:40,440 –> 00:39:42,760
All this done shall be for a
witness unto us.

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00:39:43,120 –> 00:39:46,640
For it has heard all the words
of Yahweh she spoken to us.

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00:39:46,960 –> 00:39:51,120
It shall be there for a witness
unto you, lest ye deny your God.

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00:39:52,040 –> 00:39:56,520
So Joshua did the very same
thing under the oak of the

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00:39:56,520 –> 00:39:59,440
Teacher.
He had learned the teaching of

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00:39:59,440 –> 00:40:03,000
Abraham.
He was back at that oak of the

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00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:06,160
teacher, and he did the same
thing as Jacob did.

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00:40:06,400 –> 00:40:10,680
Look what it says in verse 23.
Put away the strange gods which

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00:40:10,680 –> 00:40:15,360
are among you, and inclined your
heart unto Yahweh, your Elovene.

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00:40:17,560 –> 00:40:21,360
He himself said the example,
Bradman sisters, He said, As for

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00:40:21,360 –> 00:40:24,520
me and my house, we will serve
Yahweh.

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00:40:24,840 –> 00:40:27,080
And therefore that Shechem.
Especially the place of the oak

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00:40:27,080 –> 00:40:28,840
of the teachers, the place of
decision.

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00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:31,320
We’re there almost every day in
our life by the sisters.

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00:40:31,320 –> 00:40:34,880
What decision do we take?
Are we ready to put away all the

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00:40:34,880 –> 00:40:38,240
idols in our life?
Are we listening to the words of

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00:40:38,240 –> 00:40:40,560
God?
Are we listening to the teacher

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00:40:40,680 –> 00:40:44,320
under that oak?
So by the sisters, when Jesus

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00:40:44,320 –> 00:40:49,200
went there, the same place all
the associations would have been

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00:40:49,440 –> 00:40:53,680
in his mind.
The Samaritans look upon Mount

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00:40:53,680 –> 00:40:56,640
Horizon as a holy mountain
because of the blessing which

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00:40:56,960 –> 00:41:01,760
Joshua pronounced on it.
Joseph’s parable and all his

598
00:41:01,760 –> 00:41:05,720
Brits were killed in Shechem was
also called off from Mount

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00:41:05,720 –> 00:41:08,240
Horizon.
So it’s received an added

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00:41:08,240 –> 00:41:11,800
sanctification Sound Balat
erected the temple of Mount

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00:41:11,800 –> 00:41:16,480
Horizon and we can see that and
in the 2nd century Grandeur

602
00:41:16,480 –> 00:41:21,560
temple was built here that there
became a place of worship for

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00:41:21,560 –> 00:41:23,920
the Samaritans.
You can now understand it.

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00:41:24,720 –> 00:41:28,880
So when the woman said I’ll be
worship here because it’s the

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00:41:28,880 –> 00:41:31,960
mountain of blessing, Joseph’s
power was there.

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00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:34,960
It’s a temple builder since the
time of the return of from the

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00:41:34,960 –> 00:41:37,680
exile.
You must say you must in

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00:41:37,680 –> 00:41:41,960
Jerusalem worship.
Jesus said it doesn’t matter.

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00:41:42,600 –> 00:41:50,160
God is spirit and they that
worship him must worship him in

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00:41:50,160 –> 00:41:53,800
spirit and in truth.
If you don’t worship God in

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00:41:53,800 –> 00:41:56,200
spirit and in truth, it’s
useless.

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00:41:56,880 –> 00:42:01,200
We must worship God in spirit
and in truth.

613
00:42:02,880 –> 00:42:07,760
So Jesus had to be.
And when he was sitting at

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00:42:07,760 –> 00:42:13,400
midday under the oak of Shechen,
the oak of the teacher, I’m sure

615
00:42:13,400 –> 00:42:16,600
that all those associations
we’ve been going through now

616
00:42:16,600 –> 00:42:20,200
would have entered into his mind
because he was the one who

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00:42:20,200 –> 00:42:23,120
sought his brethren.
He was a separate one of his

618
00:42:23,120 –> 00:42:26,400
brethren.
Let’s go back to what Jacob says

619
00:42:26,720 –> 00:42:30,520
because it’s the ultimate
fulfilment, the ultimate reason

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00:42:30,520 –> 00:42:36,920
why Jesus went to the oak of the
teaching in Genesis 49 and verse

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00:42:37,000 –> 00:42:44,520
22.
There we’ve got Jacob’s blessing

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00:42:45,600 –> 00:42:53,530
on Joseph.
He says Joseph is a fruitful

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00:42:53,530 –> 00:42:56,930
bell, even a fruitful bell by a
bell.

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00:42:57,890 –> 00:43:02,320
The bell is checking whose
branches or whose daughters run

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00:43:02,320 –> 00:43:05,520
over the wall.
The artists have sorely grieved

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00:43:05,520 –> 00:43:08,280
him and shot him and hated him.
But his bow evolved in his

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00:43:08,280 –> 00:43:11,160
strength, and the arms of his
hands were made strong by the

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00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:14,880
hand of the mighty One of Jacob.
From then such a shepherd, the

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00:43:14,880 –> 00:43:16,400
stone of Israel.
What a blessing.

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00:43:16,720 –> 00:43:18,760
But the branches run over the
wall.

631
00:43:18,760 –> 00:43:22,360
There was a wall around Israel,
like there was a wall around

632
00:43:22,480 –> 00:43:26,440
that well, and Jesus sat on that
wall, which is like the middle

633
00:43:26,440 –> 00:43:29,680
wall of partition, but the
branches, the daughters went

634
00:43:29,920 –> 00:43:33,600
over that wall and reached unto
that woman of Sumerian.

635
00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:39,880
She was also a bit like Dinah, a
woman that didn’t leave her life

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00:43:39,880 –> 00:43:44,320
according to the truth.
But it is the only woman whom

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00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:49,080
Jesus revealed himself as the
Messiah under the oak of the

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00:43:49,080 –> 00:43:52,360
teacher.
So the ultimate power of

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00:43:52,360 –> 00:43:57,400
Shechembread insists that Jesus
gives the choice of believing

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00:43:57,840 –> 00:44:02,800
that he’s a Messiah not only for
the Jews, but unto us, like the

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00:44:02,800 –> 00:44:05,640
woman is to marry as Gentiles as
well.