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He says that he's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Then that means that the God who hovered over the house in Egypt and held back death from entering is the same God that would do the same thing and has done the same thing again for me today.
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The Holy Spirit resides in you.
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That is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
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We do not work for God's love, but we work from God's love.
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The Lord is given, the Lord is taken away.
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May the name of the Lord be praised.
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If your Bible would be legal, would you value it?
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Dang.
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I stupid.
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Hello, everybody.
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Welcome back to another episode of For the One Podcast.
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My name is Nicole Merlino.
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Thank you again for tuning in another week.
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I hope you all are having a great day and enjoying some of the last of the summer weather.
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I can't even believe the words are coming out of my mouth saying that.
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I don't understand how it's August already, guys.
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I really don't understand how did we get here so quickly.
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Um I I really do feel like there's a verse in Matthew, and I probably talked about this before, but someone on YouTube made a video about it.
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My dad sent it to me, but there's a verse in Matthew talking about how like in the last days, like the the days will basically be like faster, like time will like speed up.
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I'm like really paraphrasing.
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I would have to find the exact verse, but um, I genuinely have like me and my friends have talked about like do we genuinely feel like the Lord is like speeding up the days.
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Like it just seems like the days are going faster, weeks are going faster, months are going faster.
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It's like time is like speeding up.
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So it's genuinely crazy how we're already this far into 2026.
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I don't understand, and I don't understand how we're like sliding into the fall months.
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And I don't I don't think I'm ready.
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I don't think I'm ready for it.
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But um before I dive in, today's podcast is probably gonna be um a little bit more teachy.
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Um there's just like a specific verse um that I want to hone in on today um that I actually discovered kind of like months ago this uh uh word was kind of brought to me and I and I wanted to make sure like I touched on it with you guys because again, it's like you may have heard it before, you may read or listen to the same resources that I do, but anytime I can share information that I really felt like was powerful or like opened my eyes or gave me like a revelation to something, I want to make sure I share it, um, even though it may not be the first time you've heard it.
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I also don't think reminders are bad because sometimes we have to hear stuff.
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A lot of the times I think we have to hear stuff repetitiously.
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Um I don't even know if that's a word, but it it sounded like it is, so we're gonna go with it.
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Um, but we have to hear things again and again to to get them to stick.
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Um and so I don't think today's episode will be like super long.
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It's nothing um that's like super um in-depth, but you know, I did just want to do like a little um more of like a uh depth educational teaching, um, if if you want to call it that.
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Um, but before we get into that, I wanted to make sure that I specifically called out um if you have been listening or watching any of my content for any length of time, you guys should know I'm a huge KB fan.
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Um probably tied with like NF as like my top favorite artist.
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Um, but I love KB.
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And he just came out with a new album a couple weeks ago at the point that you guys are watching this called This Cannot Be Sold.
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If you have not listened to it, I really encourage you to listen to it.
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Um, specifically on the way here, I just had on repeat um the title track This Cannot Be Sold, which is the last song on the album.
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And it is um for any of like maybe like my music nerd people, I'm curious if anybody else, uh if you've heard it or if you listen to it would think of this.
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And I'm not trying to like put the idea in your head, but I was I heard it a couple weeks ago, and I've you know, I've been re-listening to it, going through different songs on the album.
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And every time it comes on, I'm like, wait, I like recognize like this undertone, this this like progression that's like the undertone of the the beat for that song, and it doesn't come in until like midway through.
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Um, but arguably, I think is like my favorite song on the album.
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First of all, the lyrics, I mean, KB just comes with like the sword and is just cutting.
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I mean, I don't, yeah, lyrical genius in his own right, but just like really, really talented, good like lyricism um is is happening with with that song.
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But then this undercurrent of this beat, and I'm like, where have I heard this before?
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Like, I'm like, I recognize this, I recognize this.
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And I it finally clicked in the car.
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I'm like, I think it is almost now, and again, it's like, did they mean to do this?
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Did the producer like mean to do this?
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Was this kind of like a subtle little like nugget that they dropped in?
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But it is almost like a different key progression of the no uh or role models by J.
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Cole.
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And um, because then I was like, wait, I recognize this.
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And I had Siri like play, I was like, play like role, like no role models by J.
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Cole, and I could not believe like, you know, it started playing.
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I was like, it sounds different, but it is like very much the same.
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So I don't know, KB, if if he put like a little just nugget in there to uh, I don't know, just tie the whole thing together.
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Cause obviously we know like that song was huge, like when I was growing up.
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Um, J.
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Cole obviously was like, you know, at the top of like the rap rapper list.
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Um and I don't know.
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I don't know if it was homage, I don't know if it was a little bit of a slight, I don't know if it was a complete accident.
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I don't know, but I'm just curious like if anybody else heard that song or is listening to that song and got the same uh like melodic uh progression out of it that I did.
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That I was like, wait, that's like from the J.
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Cole song.
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So I don't know.
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So I don't know.
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If you want to leave me a comment, let me know if if it's if I'm just crazy, I could just be crazy.
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But that whole album by KB is I think some of his best work.
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Um, I mean, I loved his last album.
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I've loved like his last, like, I don't even know how long I've been listening to him, but I feel like every every time he's just hitting the nail on the head.
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But the lyrics on this, I mean, you're gonna like want to put your seatbelt on for this one because I mean he's he's coming for everybody, and he is not leaving any stone unturned.
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And um, just even his talent is very evident in in his rap.
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It it's almost it feels like a freestyle.
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And I wonder how much of it was a freestyle versus how much of it was like, you know, pre-thought out and pre-written, but it feels like a very punchy, um, like coming for your neck battle rapper type uh element to it.
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Um, maybe that's why I love it so much, but it's phenomenal.
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So I just had to call that out before we got into what we're getting into today.
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This cannot be sold by KB.
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Love KB.
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Um, and this album is no exception.
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And the title track, This Cannot Be Sold, is by far, I think, one of his best works that he's put out.
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So um, you should go listen to it if you haven't already, or just put on repeat again um if you need a refresher because it's worth it.
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Okay, so I will come off of that tangent and today we are going to be.
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I always I'm always like, if you'd like to turn into your text, I it's just so funny to me to like say that, but uh genuinely we're gonna be looking at Exodus 12, um, in verses 12 and 13 specifically.
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So this was um something where back in the winter months pre-endometriosis surgery, Nicole, I was on the Bible reading plan that I did fall off of, I will admit.
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I we've pivoted, maybe we'll try again in the coming months and in 2027 to get back back on it.
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But um, it is by the Bible project.
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So I chose it because I love that the title is, and this is on the U version app.
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If you wanted to look at it for yourself and watch the video, I'll see if I can find the video itself, like outside the UVersion app, and and put it in the description of this video.
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If I can locate it, I will definitely do that for you.
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Um, but basically, I love the Bible project's take on this Bible in a year plan because they don't call it Bible in a year, they call it one story that leads to Jesus.
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And it really is um, because I feel like a lot of people struggle with the Old Testament and they're like, well, this just seems so disconnected almost from like Jesus in the New Testament.
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And the thing that the Bible project did a really good job of, I think, is like tying everything in.
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Like, okay, when you're reading Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, when you're reading all of these Old Testament books and the story of David and the story of the judges and all of this stuff, they're like, This is how this comes back to Jesus every single time.
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This is how this was a type and shadow of, you know, Jesus' character as, you know, our redeemer with, you know, Ruth and Boaz, like our kinsman redeemer.
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Like they do a really good job of breaking down, like, this is how you can actually see the image and likeness and characteristic of Jesus in like all of these biblical figures and all of these stories.
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And it's one story that like leads to Jesus every single time.
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And so, and this is also, I think the way that they do it really proves the cohesiveness.
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I was just telling Sean this.
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If you even just read the Bible cover to cover from Genesis to Revelation as a literary work, um, I still think it's the scripture is alive and active, and you know, it is it was led by the spirit, and the spirit is moving and active in scripture.
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But for someone who maybe has a more cynical view of the Bible or is not, you know, really in religion at all, I think even if you read this as a literary work, I really think it's hard to find flaws in it as far as it pertains to um a story.
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And it to me is the most cohesive story I've ever read from Genesis to Revelation.
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Everything ties into everything else, and this goes back to this.
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And I think Jordan Peterson, you know, brought up um in one of his lectures like that chart of like it is the most hyperlinked text in existence.
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Like this goes back to this, and this relates to this, and the amount of interliterary like links from old to New Testament and vice versa are um very, very large.
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And I think this is what gives um the Bible even more um like credence in a way.
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Not that like I I don't need to fight for or fight anyone on um the relevance of the Bible and how I think it it is what I believe it is.
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Again, the word of God, the living and ever active text of um the Lord that He has given to us to help, you know, us live our lives in a way that is pleasing and honoring to him.
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I think like this is um, I heard a pastor say, like, this is his like love letter to us, basically.
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Um and you know, with the help of the Holy Spirit, I really think that it encapsulates everything that we need um while we're here on earth and while we're not in heaven, um to to be image bearers of his and be um in his likeness more and more.
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But all that to say, as a literary text, it's very cohesive.
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And um what I love about the Bible Project too is that they get into not on every single video, not every single text, but they are not shying away from the Hebrew.
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And I think I said this before, and I'll say it again.
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Um, I'm still learning more Hebrew.
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Um, actually, just to bring up that KB song one more time, there is a term, a Hebrew term that he uses.
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Um, and in that song that I had never heard before, I looked it up, and every time I would listen to KB and he's rapping this, this Hebrew term for the Lord, and I and I was saying there and I I don't know what it fully means because I had never heard this Hebrew term before, but I was it, it like something in my spirit just really like jolted every time he would he would say the Hebrew name of Jesus in this way.
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And I I've said this for I don't even know, probably over a year now of like there is something very, very potent and very, very um like uh like sharp in a good way um when it comes to the Hebrew names of God and and the um Hebrew um names for for God and Jesus.
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And I think not only the names are more powerful, but I also think that we have lost so much in our English translated text.
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I'm not talking about, oh, someone removed this verse because it didn't fit their agenda and this version didn't put this verse in or they mistranslated.
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That's not what I'm saying here talking about today.
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I'm talking about we have just genuinely lost so much uh depth to a lot of scripture because our English language has really done a poor job in the what you would call like word-for-word translation of what the original writer was trying to say.
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The Hebrew, the Greek, they seem to have a lot of depth to their language.
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Like I always go back to the example of the Greeks have like five different words for the word love, but each word that they have, see, we just translate it love, but it's like, no, this is a brotherly love, this is a romantic love, this is a like a mentor to mentee love.
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Like there's these different levels of the word love, and they have a different word for each one of them.
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Whereas we just translate it, oh, and he loved him like a brother.
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I'm just using that as an example.
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And it's like the the depth of that actually gets lost in the translation.
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And so too, this happened in this particular um verse 12 and 13 in Exodus 12, um, that we're gonna look at today.
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And again, I did not discover this.
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The Bible project talks about this in this video.
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I just this has been really like weighing on me in a good way since I first, you know, kind of had this uh revelation through their teaching.
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So um, starting in verse 12, this is the NIV version of uh Exodus 12 that I'm reading.
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And it says, On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt.
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I am the Lord.
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The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
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Okay, so specifically looking there at verse 13.
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So obviously, this is the chapter where God is about to enact the final plague on Egypt before um the children of Israel are freed.
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And he says, Um, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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So the word here in the Hebrew, I believe I'm pronouncing it right.
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I tried to look up the pronunciation just to make sure I was getting it right.
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I believe it is pascah, is how you would pronounce it in the Hebrew, pascah.
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Um, it is spelled P-A-S-A-K-H.
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So the Bible project breaks this down that basically, and I had to write this in the margin of my Bible because I'm like, this is so pivotal.
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Um, when it's using the word Passover, it says, quote, a mother bird who comes to defend and hover over her nest, end quote.
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This means that God hovers over the houses with protective love and holds back death from entering, not just simply skipping over other households.
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So I grew up listening to the story of the Passover and and reading it and learning about it.
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And I always was like, oh, God's saying, I will pass over you to all of the children that, you know, put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost.
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The angel of death that I'm sending to strike the firstborn is just gonna pass over.
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It's good, it literally, that's what I thought it meant was it was just going to skip over the households of anyone who had the blood on the doorpost.
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But this term pasca in the Hebrew, it is usually what the Hebrews would use in terms of a mother bird who comes to defend and hover over her nest, her babies, her young, the protector.
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And this is saying that God is not just skipping or passing over or just like, oh, the I see blood, I'm just gonna like skip over your house.
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No, he is actually lingering over, hovering over the households with the blood on the doorpost, with protective love and holding back death from entering, not just skipping over, actively hovering, protecting, holding back death in love from these households.
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That definition is, I mean, the that completely changes the meaning of not only the word passing over, but also the entire concept of of how we thought uh the perspective that we had on how we thought about this story of this is not God just being passive and just, oh, I'm just gonna skip over because I see the blood check mark, you're good.
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Cool.
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This is God inserting himself on behalf of his children.
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Y'all see where I'm going with this?
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I hope y'all catch where I'm going with this.
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This is God inserting himself on behalf of his children to hold back wrath, to hold back death.
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Are you catching where I'm going with this?
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Because I didn't even catch where I was going with this until months later.
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What was this?
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June 14th.
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I talked about this.
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We had a worship evening for group that night.
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And I remember this came back up to me.
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I was I was praying over group, I think specifically in the season that we've been in as a Bible study.
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And this word, Pesca, came back into my mind of Exodus 12.
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And this is what I wrote down.
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This is word for word what I have on this note card.
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Covering us, he always took it to the chin, literally.
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The cross was him spreading out his wings and protecting us from death by taking it on himself.
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So, again, this is that very maternal, um, nurturing, protective characteristic that you would see in something like you think of a mother bird protecting her nest.
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You think of really any mother, um, like a bear in like how she is protective and defensive of her cubs.
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This is the lore.
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To us.
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This is the protective nature and characteristic of the Lord that He doesn't just say, oh, this is just gonna skip over you.
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Oh, this is just not gonna like affect you.
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Great, you put the blood on the door.
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Okay, cool.
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Like I saw it, you're good.
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Pat, like, let's just go to the next house and see if they have blood on the door.
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No, this is death is coming for everybody.
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The difference is those with the blood on the doorpost, I'm actively hovering over and I'm gonna take it upon myself so that it doesn't fall on you.
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And we already know the great significance and obviously metaphor that the Passover lamb in Exodus 12 was going to be representative of, you know, thousands of years later, with Jesus dying on the cross for us, ultimately, and this Passover lamb was just the first like incident that we saw of that, where like it was the sacrificial lamb whose blood on the doorpost was going to protect the the people inside the household from death, from wrath, but this takes it to a whole other level.
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And when I realized, and again, the Holy Spirit definitely gave me this revelation, but when I was able to see and think of the visual of the mom bird's wings outstretched over her nest, protecting her, her children.
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And then I think of even how Jesus' arms were outstretched on the cross.
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It is literally the symbolic picture of what I what I felt like the spirit was revealing to me that I wrote down that this is the symbolic uh picture of him spreading out his wings and protecting us from death by taking it on himself.
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He's absorbing the wrath, he is absorbing death on himself so that we don't have to.
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And this is exactly the picture in Exodus 12 that God is hovering over the households to protect them and is holding back death from entering.
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Not just, oh, it doesn't see this is the thing is like every every element of wrath requires a payment.
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I it just comes down to who pays for it because the the world would say uh or the world that says that you know Jesus was not the son of God and God doesn't exist, and you know, whatever the world is saying, um, they are going to have to pay their bill, so to speak, for the death and the wrath that is owed to them.
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And see, this this is the thing is like death and wrath are owed to all.
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Just like here in Exodus, we see that God is like, Hey, uh death and wrath are coming for everybody in the land of Egypt.
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Now, the difference is that the children of God, the Israelites, they were given an instruction that if they were obedient to follow and carry out, would secure their lives and save them from said death and wrath.
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And that was to put the blood of the lamb on your doorpost.
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They were given that instruction.
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They were given a way out that they did not have to pay the death and the wrath.
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God said, I'll take that.
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You you follow my instruction, I'll take care of the rest.
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I'll hover over you, I'll take it to the chin, I'll take it myself, I'll bear it, but I will spare you.
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And then now comes the same with Jesus, where he is saying, Every human being is sinful and owed death and wrath.
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The difference is that the follower of Jesus is given a way out.
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The follower of Jesus is given a way to be spared.
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And that is Jesus saying, I am now the metaphoric blood on your doorpost.
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And those who believe in me have eternal life.
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I will spare you, I will pay for the wrath and the death that is owed to you, and I will take it to the chin, and I will hover over you, and I will protect you and hold back death from having your life.
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And uh I told you guys this wasn't a lengthy lesson.
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This wasn't going to be some like long drawn out, um, I don't know, like deep dive into the text.
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It really is all of that from one Hebrew word that again to us is just translated to pass over you, but in the Hebrew context, gives so much richer and and uh a deeper meaning to the text that then not only affects this text in Exodus 12, but then it's also affecting what we know of the crucifixion and the death of Jesus, and how much deeper um and more rich that even the meaning of that is, and even the picture, like I said, of him hanging on the cross and taking that wrath for me, for you, for all of us on our behalf.
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He's sparing us, and he is being that symbolic picture of that mother bird, of that sacrificial lamb that will defend and protect by sacrificing themselves, by laying down their own lives.
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That mother bird that's hovering over the nest, that analogy in that picture, that is her saying, whatever harm is going to befall my children is going to come to me first.
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And I will literally die before I allow it to come upon my children.
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And I will literally give of myself before I allow any uh death to come close or take place to this nest, to my kids.
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And that's the same thing that the Lord said about us is he said, I will die before I let death take my children from me.
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And I'm telling y'all, when that hit, I mean I was in tears.
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Um, but this is just an encouragement to all of you, again, of it's it's nobody's responsibility, and nobody's gonna hold your hand through, you know, you maturing in your relationship with God or you maturing in scripture.
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But there, we are so blessed that we live in a time that there are so many resources out there, one of them being the Bible project that is such a tool and useful in breaking these things down.
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And again, giving Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek, whatever the original language was, context from those words that just had a deeper meaning to them, uh, to give this insight into the scripture.
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That again, you can read this.
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I mean, I again I've read this since I was a child.
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Like, yeah, I know the story of the Passover and the blood on the doorpost.
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And yeah, God's skipped over the Israelite children, and then I'm 28, 27 years old and learning for the first time that this is like so much deeper than that.
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And this is showing the the ultimate part of this is not for you to just have this like head knowledge.
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That's not the point, is oh, I'm just smarter in scripture and I'm a Bible nerd, and I know all of these fancy Hebrew words and their meanings.
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No, this is this is revealing a characteristic of God.
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This is revealing a part of God that then I can take this and hold on to this.
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That if he says that he's the same yesterday, today, and forever, then that means that the God who hovered over the house in Egypt and held back death from entering is the same God that would do the same thing and has done the same thing again for me today.
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So that's that's the point.
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That's what you take from this, is not just, oh, I I learned a new Hebrew word, oh, I'm so smart, oh, I'm so smart in this like biblical literature sense.
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No, this is no, God's revealing something of Himself to me.
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And this is like teaching me the nature and the characteristic of God that I did not have before.
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And then you go back to, and this is why uh, you know, it says in the scriptures, and you know, constantly the angels and and the and the beast uh and the elders are crying like holy, holy, holy, because every time they gaze upon him, there's something new.
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There's like this new side of him, a new facet, a new, a new revelation of who he is, that all they can keep crying is holy, holy, holy.
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And this is like, I mean, just a tiny, tiny fraction of an example of that that I was able to have here on earth.
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And again, this is what I mean by the scrap.
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The scripture is alive and active and made possible that way by the spirit.
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Because again, I say this teaching moment, I was like, oh wow, I'm gonna write that in the margin.
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Wow, that's that's really cool, God.
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And that's the wow, I had no idea the depth of that meaning.
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That was back in probably what January or February, and it wasn't until the middle of June that it came back to me by way of the spirit, and the spirit's revealing, like, yeah, that's really cool.
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And that is exactly what Jesus did for you on the cross, and like putting it together in a way that again, months later, made it cohesive from Old Testament to New Testament.
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One cohesive picture and characteristic of God.
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And then even that, you can say, okay, the characteristic of God that I see in Exodus 12, wow, that's the same characteristic of God I see in the gospel accounts when they're describing Jesus going to the cross and being crucified.
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Same God, same characteristic of God.
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So this is making him more trustworthy, which if y'all have been watching my podcast, you know, like this is a good reminder for me of like he is trustworthy.
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His nature does not change, his characteristics do not change.
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The God that, again, I see here in Exodus 12, same God I see in the gospels going to the cross for me, same God that I see show up in Revelation.
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You know, it's the same God with the same nature, same characteristics, same heart, same intentions.
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That again, I say it's like every single time he gives a way out, even when you don't deserve it.
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I doubt that everybody in that Israelite community in Egypt, yes, they were in slavery.
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I doubt that all of those Israelites were without sin.
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I doubt that they were spotless, perfect people.
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Not only do I doubt it, I can confirm that they were not.
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And God already knew what was going to be coming as they're coming out of Egypt in the wilderness that really revealed their hearts and where their minds were at and where their worship was at was once they got into the wilderness.
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But you see here, even in imperfect people, but God said, But these are my children and I love them.
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I will give them a way out.
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I will give them an option that will spare them from the wrath and the death that they also deserve.
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The Egyptians deserve it, you deserve it.
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But the difference is I'm going to give you an option to spare you from this.
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And that's where I'm like, God's always making a way.
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He's always making a way.
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He's always making uh if you want to kind of call it like an escape route, he's always, he's always making a way for those who he has called to himself, for those who love him, for those who like want to follow him and give their lives to him.
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He's always making a way for them to get out.
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He's always making a way for them to get out.
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And in Exodus, it's out of somewhat of a very practical physical circumstance of slavery and really harsh labor and all of this stuff.
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But then in the New Testament, it's our eternity and where we all were supposed to land separated from him.
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And he said, I'm still I'm gonna make a way.
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I'm gonna give you an escape route, I'm gonna make sure that you have a way out of experiencing death every single time.
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Flawless execution, by the way.
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Flawless from Genesis to Revelation, it's just flawless execution.
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And we do not we do not deserve it.
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We cannot earn it, and yet that is how great his love is for us, that he makes a way out.
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He makes a way out, and all we have to do is choose to receive it, um and and be obedient to what he's asking us to do, whether that's putting a lamb's blood on the doorpost, or whether that's him saying, you know, like obey my commands and and love me and love your neighbor and and follow me, and you know, spend your days living for me and pick up your cross and carry it daily, like whatever it is that he's asking of us, he's asking that of us to get us to out, to save us, to rescue us.
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That is that is the escape route.
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Hey, just just listen to what I'm asking of you, and we're gonna be good, and I'm gonna get you out of here.
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And you're gonna have life and life to the full and life eternally.
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That's the promise.
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So honestly, guys, kind of short podcast today.
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That's all I have for you.
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Um, again, I just think that that's beautiful.
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I will try to link um the the teaching from the Bible project so you can watch that little uh uh sketch.
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Um, it's not a sketch, so you can watch that um teaching that they have.
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It's very short, but you can watch it in full, hear their words um for yourself.
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And yeah, I just encourage any time you have the opportunity to use a resource um to go deeper into the Hebrew words used, the Aramaic or the Greek used.
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I I just I encourage that because I feel like it's just gonna give a much richer depth and picture.
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Um, again, not for us to be haughty in our like head knowledge or our biblical literacy, but to actually um humble ourselves and and sober ourselves before the Lord um once we are understanding and it is being revealed to us the magnitude of his love and his nature and his character towards us.
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So um I will leave you all with that for today.
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And I thank you for joining me, and I look forward to having you uh join again on another episode of Four Than One Podcast.
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The Holy Spirit resides with you.
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That is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
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We do not work for God's club, but we work from God's club.
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The Lord is given, the Lord is taken away, make the name of the Lord.
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If your Bible would be old, would you value it?
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He says that he's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Then that means that the God who hovered over the house in Egypt and held back death from entering is the same God that would do the same thing and has done the same thing again for me today.
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The Holy Spirit resides in you.
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That is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
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We do not work for God's love, but we work from God's love.
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The Lord is given, the Lord is taken away.
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May the name of the Lord be praised.
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If your Bible would be legal, would you value it?
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Dang.
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I stupid.
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Hello, everybody.
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Welcome back to another episode of For the One Podcast.
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My name is Nicole Merlino.
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Thank you again for tuning in another week.
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I hope you all are having a great day and enjoying some of the last of the summer weather.
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I can't even believe the words are coming out of my mouth saying that.
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I don't understand how it's August already, guys.
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I really don't understand how did we get here so quickly.
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Um I I really do feel like there's a verse in Matthew, and I probably talked about this before, but someone on YouTube made a video about it.
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My dad sent it to me, but there's a verse in Matthew talking about how like in the last days, like the the days will basically be like faster, like time will like speed up.
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I'm like really paraphrasing.
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I would have to find the exact verse, but um, I genuinely have like me and my friends have talked about like do we genuinely feel like the Lord is like speeding up the days.
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Like it just seems like the days are going faster, weeks are going faster, months are going faster.
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It's like time is like speeding up.
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So it's genuinely crazy how we're already this far into 2026.
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I don't understand, and I don't understand how we're like sliding into the fall months.
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And I don't I don't think I'm ready.
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I don't think I'm ready for it.
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But um before I dive in, today's podcast is probably gonna be um a little bit more teachy.
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Um there's just like a specific verse um that I want to hone in on today um that I actually discovered kind of like months ago this uh uh word was kind of brought to me and I and I wanted to make sure like I touched on it with you guys because again, it's like you may have heard it before, you may read or listen to the same resources that I do, but anytime I can share information that I really felt like was powerful or like opened my eyes or gave me like a revelation to something, I want to make sure I share it, um, even though it may not be the first time you've heard it.
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I also don't think reminders are bad because sometimes we have to hear stuff.
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A lot of the times I think we have to hear stuff repetitiously.
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Um I don't even know if that's a word, but it it sounded like it is, so we're gonna go with it.
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Um, but we have to hear things again and again to to get them to stick.
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Um and so I don't think today's episode will be like super long.
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It's nothing um that's like super um in-depth, but you know, I did just want to do like a little um more of like a uh depth educational teaching, um, if if you want to call it that.
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Um, but before we get into that, I wanted to make sure that I specifically called out um if you have been listening or watching any of my content for any length of time, you guys should know I'm a huge KB fan.
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Um probably tied with like NF as like my top favorite artist.
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Um, but I love KB.
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And he just came out with a new album a couple weeks ago at the point that you guys are watching this called This Cannot Be Sold.
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If you have not listened to it, I really encourage you to listen to it.
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Um, specifically on the way here, I just had on repeat um the title track This Cannot Be Sold, which is the last song on the album.
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And it is um for any of like maybe like my music nerd people, I'm curious if anybody else, uh if you've heard it or if you listen to it would think of this.
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And I'm not trying to like put the idea in your head, but I was I heard it a couple weeks ago, and I've you know, I've been re-listening to it, going through different songs on the album.
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And every time it comes on, I'm like, wait, I like recognize like this undertone, this this like progression that's like the undertone of the the beat for that song, and it doesn't come in until like midway through.
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Um, but arguably, I think is like my favorite song on the album.
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First of all, the lyrics, I mean, KB just comes with like the sword and is just cutting.
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I mean, I don't, yeah, lyrical genius in his own right, but just like really, really talented, good like lyricism um is is happening with with that song.
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But then this undercurrent of this beat, and I'm like, where have I heard this before?
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Like, I'm like, I recognize this, I recognize this.
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And I it finally clicked in the car.
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I'm like, I think it is almost now, and again, it's like, did they mean to do this?
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Did the producer like mean to do this?
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Was this kind of like a subtle little like nugget that they dropped in?
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But it is almost like a different key progression of the no uh or role models by J.
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Cole.
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And um, because then I was like, wait, I recognize this.
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And I had Siri like play, I was like, play like role, like no role models by J.
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Cole, and I could not believe like, you know, it started playing.
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I was like, it sounds different, but it is like very much the same.
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So I don't know, KB, if if he put like a little just nugget in there to uh, I don't know, just tie the whole thing together.
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Cause obviously we know like that song was huge, like when I was growing up.
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Um, J.
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Cole obviously was like, you know, at the top of like the rap rapper list.
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Um and I don't know.
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I don't know if it was homage, I don't know if it was a little bit of a slight, I don't know if it was a complete accident.
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I don't know, but I'm just curious like if anybody else heard that song or is listening to that song and got the same uh like melodic uh progression out of it that I did.
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That I was like, wait, that's like from the J.
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Cole song.
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So I don't know.
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So I don't know.
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If you want to leave me a comment, let me know if if it's if I'm just crazy, I could just be crazy.
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But that whole album by KB is I think some of his best work.
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Um, I mean, I loved his last album.
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I've loved like his last, like, I don't even know how long I've been listening to him, but I feel like every every time he's just hitting the nail on the head.
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But the lyrics on this, I mean, you're gonna like want to put your seatbelt on for this one because I mean he's he's coming for everybody, and he is not leaving any stone unturned.
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And um, just even his talent is very evident in in his rap.
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It it's almost it feels like a freestyle.
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And I wonder how much of it was a freestyle versus how much of it was like, you know, pre-thought out and pre-written, but it feels like a very punchy, um, like coming for your neck battle rapper type uh element to it.
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Um, maybe that's why I love it so much, but it's phenomenal.
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So I just had to call that out before we got into what we're getting into today.
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This cannot be sold by KB.
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Love KB.
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Um, and this album is no exception.
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And the title track, This Cannot Be Sold, is by far, I think, one of his best works that he's put out.
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So um, you should go listen to it if you haven't already, or just put on repeat again um if you need a refresher because it's worth it.
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Okay, so I will come off of that tangent and today we are going to be.
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I always I'm always like, if you'd like to turn into your text, I it's just so funny to me to like say that, but uh genuinely we're gonna be looking at Exodus 12, um, in verses 12 and 13 specifically.
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So this was um something where back in the winter months pre-endometriosis surgery, Nicole, I was on the Bible reading plan that I did fall off of, I will admit.
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I we've pivoted, maybe we'll try again in the coming months and in 2027 to get back back on it.
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But um, it is by the Bible project.
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So I chose it because I love that the title is, and this is on the U version app.
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If you wanted to look at it for yourself and watch the video, I'll see if I can find the video itself, like outside the UVersion app, and and put it in the description of this video.
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If I can locate it, I will definitely do that for you.
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Um, but basically, I love the Bible project's take on this Bible in a year plan because they don't call it Bible in a year, they call it one story that leads to Jesus.
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And it really is um, because I feel like a lot of people struggle with the Old Testament and they're like, well, this just seems so disconnected almost from like Jesus in the New Testament.
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And the thing that the Bible project did a really good job of, I think, is like tying everything in.
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Like, okay, when you're reading Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, when you're reading all of these Old Testament books and the story of David and the story of the judges and all of this stuff, they're like, This is how this comes back to Jesus every single time.
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This is how this was a type and shadow of, you know, Jesus' character as, you know, our redeemer with, you know, Ruth and Boaz, like our kinsman redeemer.
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Like they do a really good job of breaking down, like, this is how you can actually see the image and likeness and characteristic of Jesus in like all of these biblical figures and all of these stories.
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And it's one story that like leads to Jesus every single time.
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And so, and this is also, I think the way that they do it really proves the cohesiveness.
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I was just telling Sean this.
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If you even just read the Bible cover to cover from Genesis to Revelation as a literary work, um, I still think it's the scripture is alive and active, and you know, it is it was led by the spirit, and the spirit is moving and active in scripture.
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But for someone who maybe has a more cynical view of the Bible or is not, you know, really in religion at all, I think even if you read this as a literary work, I really think it's hard to find flaws in it as far as it pertains to um a story.
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And it to me is the most cohesive story I've ever read from Genesis to Revelation.
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Everything ties into everything else, and this goes back to this.
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And I think Jordan Peterson, you know, brought up um in one of his lectures like that chart of like it is the most hyperlinked text in existence.
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Like this goes back to this, and this relates to this, and the amount of interliterary like links from old to New Testament and vice versa are um very, very large.
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And I think this is what gives um the Bible even more um like credence in a way.
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Not that like I I don't need to fight for or fight anyone on um the relevance of the Bible and how I think it it is what I believe it is.
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Again, the word of God, the living and ever active text of um the Lord that He has given to us to help, you know, us live our lives in a way that is pleasing and honoring to him.
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I think like this is um, I heard a pastor say, like, this is his like love letter to us, basically.
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Um and you know, with the help of the Holy Spirit, I really think that it encapsulates everything that we need um while we're here on earth and while we're not in heaven, um to to be image bearers of his and be um in his likeness more and more.
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But all that to say, as a literary text, it's very cohesive.
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And um what I love about the Bible Project too is that they get into not on every single video, not every single text, but they are not shying away from the Hebrew.
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And I think I said this before, and I'll say it again.
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Um, I'm still learning more Hebrew.
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Um, actually, just to bring up that KB song one more time, there is a term, a Hebrew term that he uses.
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Um, and in that song that I had never heard before, I looked it up, and every time I would listen to KB and he's rapping this, this Hebrew term for the Lord, and I and I was saying there and I I don't know what it fully means because I had never heard this Hebrew term before, but I was it, it like something in my spirit just really like jolted every time he would he would say the Hebrew name of Jesus in this way.
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And I I've said this for I don't even know, probably over a year now of like there is something very, very potent and very, very um like uh like sharp in a good way um when it comes to the Hebrew names of God and and the um Hebrew um names for for God and Jesus.
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And I think not only the names are more powerful, but I also think that we have lost so much in our English translated text.
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I'm not talking about, oh, someone removed this verse because it didn't fit their agenda and this version didn't put this verse in or they mistranslated.
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That's not what I'm saying here talking about today.
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I'm talking about we have just genuinely lost so much uh depth to a lot of scripture because our English language has really done a poor job in the what you would call like word-for-word translation of what the original writer was trying to say.
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The Hebrew, the Greek, they seem to have a lot of depth to their language.
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Like I always go back to the example of the Greeks have like five different words for the word love, but each word that they have, see, we just translate it love, but it's like, no, this is a brotherly love, this is a romantic love, this is a like a mentor to mentee love.
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Like there's these different levels of the word love, and they have a different word for each one of them.
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Whereas we just translate it, oh, and he loved him like a brother.
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I'm just using that as an example.
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And it's like the the depth of that actually gets lost in the translation.
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And so too, this happened in this particular um verse 12 and 13 in Exodus 12, um, that we're gonna look at today.
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And again, I did not discover this.
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The Bible project talks about this in this video.
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I just this has been really like weighing on me in a good way since I first, you know, kind of had this uh revelation through their teaching.
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So um, starting in verse 12, this is the NIV version of uh Exodus 12 that I'm reading.
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And it says, On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt.
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I am the Lord.
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The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
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Okay, so specifically looking there at verse 13.
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So obviously, this is the chapter where God is about to enact the final plague on Egypt before um the children of Israel are freed.
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And he says, Um, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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So the word here in the Hebrew, I believe I'm pronouncing it right.
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I tried to look up the pronunciation just to make sure I was getting it right.
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I believe it is pascah, is how you would pronounce it in the Hebrew, pascah.
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Um, it is spelled P-A-S-A-K-H.
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So the Bible project breaks this down that basically, and I had to write this in the margin of my Bible because I'm like, this is so pivotal.
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Um, when it's using the word Passover, it says, quote, a mother bird who comes to defend and hover over her nest, end quote.
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This means that God hovers over the houses with protective love and holds back death from entering, not just simply skipping over other households.
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So I grew up listening to the story of the Passover and and reading it and learning about it.
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And I always was like, oh, God's saying, I will pass over you to all of the children that, you know, put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost.
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The angel of death that I'm sending to strike the firstborn is just gonna pass over.
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It's good, it literally, that's what I thought it meant was it was just going to skip over the households of anyone who had the blood on the doorpost.
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But this term pasca in the Hebrew, it is usually what the Hebrews would use in terms of a mother bird who comes to defend and hover over her nest, her babies, her young, the protector.
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And this is saying that God is not just skipping or passing over or just like, oh, the I see blood, I'm just gonna like skip over your house.
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No, he is actually lingering over, hovering over the households with the blood on the doorpost, with protective love and holding back death from entering, not just skipping over, actively hovering, protecting, holding back death in love from these households.
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That definition is, I mean, the that completely changes the meaning of not only the word passing over, but also the entire concept of of how we thought uh the perspective that we had on how we thought about this story of this is not God just being passive and just, oh, I'm just gonna skip over because I see the blood check mark, you're good.
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Cool.
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This is God inserting himself on behalf of his children.
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Y'all see where I'm going with this?
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I hope y'all catch where I'm going with this.
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This is God inserting himself on behalf of his children to hold back wrath, to hold back death.
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Are you catching where I'm going with this?
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Because I didn't even catch where I was going with this until months later.
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What was this?
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June 14th.
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I talked about this.
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We had a worship evening for group that night.
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And I remember this came back up to me.
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I was I was praying over group, I think specifically in the season that we've been in as a Bible study.
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And this word, Pesca, came back into my mind of Exodus 12.
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And this is what I wrote down.
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This is word for word what I have on this note card.
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Covering us, he always took it to the chin, literally.
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The cross was him spreading out his wings and protecting us from death by taking it on himself.
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So, again, this is that very maternal, um, nurturing, protective characteristic that you would see in something like you think of a mother bird protecting her nest.
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You think of really any mother, um, like a bear in like how she is protective and defensive of her cubs.
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This is the lore.
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To us.
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This is the protective nature and characteristic of the Lord that He doesn't just say, oh, this is just gonna skip over you.
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Oh, this is just not gonna like affect you.
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Great, you put the blood on the door.
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Okay, cool.
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Like I saw it, you're good.
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Pat, like, let's just go to the next house and see if they have blood on the door.
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No, this is death is coming for everybody.
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The difference is those with the blood on the doorpost, I'm actively hovering over and I'm gonna take it upon myself so that it doesn't fall on you.
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And we already know the great significance and obviously metaphor that the Passover lamb in Exodus 12 was going to be representative of, you know, thousands of years later, with Jesus dying on the cross for us, ultimately, and this Passover lamb was just the first like incident that we saw of that, where like it was the sacrificial lamb whose blood on the doorpost was going to protect the the people inside the household from death, from wrath, but this takes it to a whole other level.
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And when I realized, and again, the Holy Spirit definitely gave me this revelation, but when I was able to see and think of the visual of the mom bird's wings outstretched over her nest, protecting her, her children.
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And then I think of even how Jesus' arms were outstretched on the cross.
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It is literally the symbolic picture of what I what I felt like the spirit was revealing to me that I wrote down that this is the symbolic uh picture of him spreading out his wings and protecting us from death by taking it on himself.
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He's absorbing the wrath, he is absorbing death on himself so that we don't have to.
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And this is exactly the picture in Exodus 12 that God is hovering over the households to protect them and is holding back death from entering.
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Not just, oh, it doesn't see this is the thing is like every every element of wrath requires a payment.
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I it just comes down to who pays for it because the the world would say uh or the world that says that you know Jesus was not the son of God and God doesn't exist, and you know, whatever the world is saying, um, they are going to have to pay their bill, so to speak, for the death and the wrath that is owed to them.
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And see, this this is the thing is like death and wrath are owed to all.
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Just like here in Exodus, we see that God is like, Hey, uh death and wrath are coming for everybody in the land of Egypt.
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Now, the difference is that the children of God, the Israelites, they were given an instruction that if they were obedient to follow and carry out, would secure their lives and save them from said death and wrath.
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And that was to put the blood of the lamb on your doorpost.
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They were given that instruction.
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They were given a way out that they did not have to pay the death and the wrath.
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God said, I'll take that.
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You you follow my instruction, I'll take care of the rest.
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I'll hover over you, I'll take it to the chin, I'll take it myself, I'll bear it, but I will spare you.
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And then now comes the same with Jesus, where he is saying, Every human being is sinful and owed death and wrath.
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The difference is that the follower of Jesus is given a way out.
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The follower of Jesus is given a way to be spared.
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And that is Jesus saying, I am now the metaphoric blood on your doorpost.
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And those who believe in me have eternal life.
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I will spare you, I will pay for the wrath and the death that is owed to you, and I will take it to the chin, and I will hover over you, and I will protect you and hold back death from having your life.
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And uh I told you guys this wasn't a lengthy lesson.
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This wasn't going to be some like long drawn out, um, I don't know, like deep dive into the text.
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It really is all of that from one Hebrew word that again to us is just translated to pass over you, but in the Hebrew context, gives so much richer and and uh a deeper meaning to the text that then not only affects this text in Exodus 12, but then it's also affecting what we know of the crucifixion and the death of Jesus, and how much deeper um and more rich that even the meaning of that is, and even the picture, like I said, of him hanging on the cross and taking that wrath for me, for you, for all of us on our behalf.
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He's sparing us, and he is being that symbolic picture of that mother bird, of that sacrificial lamb that will defend and protect by sacrificing themselves, by laying down their own lives.
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That mother bird that's hovering over the nest, that analogy in that picture, that is her saying, whatever harm is going to befall my children is going to come to me first.
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And I will literally die before I allow it to come upon my children.
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And I will literally give of myself before I allow any uh death to come close or take place to this nest, to my kids.
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And that's the same thing that the Lord said about us is he said, I will die before I let death take my children from me.
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And I'm telling y'all, when that hit, I mean I was in tears.
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Um, but this is just an encouragement to all of you, again, of it's it's nobody's responsibility, and nobody's gonna hold your hand through, you know, you maturing in your relationship with God or you maturing in scripture.
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But there, we are so blessed that we live in a time that there are so many resources out there, one of them being the Bible project that is such a tool and useful in breaking these things down.
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And again, giving Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek, whatever the original language was, context from those words that just had a deeper meaning to them, uh, to give this insight into the scripture.
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That again, you can read this.
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I mean, I again I've read this since I was a child.
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Like, yeah, I know the story of the Passover and the blood on the doorpost.
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And yeah, God's skipped over the Israelite children, and then I'm 28, 27 years old and learning for the first time that this is like so much deeper than that.
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And this is showing the the ultimate part of this is not for you to just have this like head knowledge.
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That's not the point, is oh, I'm just smarter in scripture and I'm a Bible nerd, and I know all of these fancy Hebrew words and their meanings.
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No, this is this is revealing a characteristic of God.
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This is revealing a part of God that then I can take this and hold on to this.
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That if he says that he's the same yesterday, today, and forever, then that means that the God who hovered over the house in Egypt and held back death from entering is the same God that would do the same thing and has done the same thing again for me today.
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So that's that's the point.
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That's what you take from this, is not just, oh, I I learned a new Hebrew word, oh, I'm so smart, oh, I'm so smart in this like biblical literature sense.
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No, this is no, God's revealing something of Himself to me.
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And this is like teaching me the nature and the characteristic of God that I did not have before.
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And then you go back to, and this is why uh, you know, it says in the scriptures, and you know, constantly the angels and and the and the beast uh and the elders are crying like holy, holy, holy, because every time they gaze upon him, there's something new.
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There's like this new side of him, a new facet, a new, a new revelation of who he is, that all they can keep crying is holy, holy, holy.
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And this is like, I mean, just a tiny, tiny fraction of an example of that that I was able to have here on earth.
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And again, this is what I mean by the scrap.
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The scripture is alive and active and made possible that way by the spirit.
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Because again, I say this teaching moment, I was like, oh wow, I'm gonna write that in the margin.
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Wow, that's that's really cool, God.
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And that's the wow, I had no idea the depth of that meaning.
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That was back in probably what January or February, and it wasn't until the middle of June that it came back to me by way of the spirit, and the spirit's revealing, like, yeah, that's really cool.
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And that is exactly what Jesus did for you on the cross, and like putting it together in a way that again, months later, made it cohesive from Old Testament to New Testament.
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One cohesive picture and characteristic of God.
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And then even that, you can say, okay, the characteristic of God that I see in Exodus 12, wow, that's the same characteristic of God I see in the gospel accounts when they're describing Jesus going to the cross and being crucified.
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Same God, same characteristic of God.
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So this is making him more trustworthy, which if y'all have been watching my podcast, you know, like this is a good reminder for me of like he is trustworthy.
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His nature does not change, his characteristics do not change.
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The God that, again, I see here in Exodus 12, same God I see in the gospels going to the cross for me, same God that I see show up in Revelation.
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You know, it's the same God with the same nature, same characteristics, same heart, same intentions.
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That again, I say it's like every single time he gives a way out, even when you don't deserve it.
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I doubt that everybody in that Israelite community in Egypt, yes, they were in slavery.
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I doubt that all of those Israelites were without sin.
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I doubt that they were spotless, perfect people.
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Not only do I doubt it, I can confirm that they were not.
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And God already knew what was going to be coming as they're coming out of Egypt in the wilderness that really revealed their hearts and where their minds were at and where their worship was at was once they got into the wilderness.
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But you see here, even in imperfect people, but God said, But these are my children and I love them.
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I will give them a way out.
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I will give them an option that will spare them from the wrath and the death that they also deserve.
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The Egyptians deserve it, you deserve it.
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But the difference is I'm going to give you an option to spare you from this.
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And that's where I'm like, God's always making a way.
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He's always making a way.
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He's always making uh if you want to kind of call it like an escape route, he's always, he's always making a way for those who he has called to himself, for those who love him, for those who like want to follow him and give their lives to him.
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He's always making a way for them to get out.
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He's always making a way for them to get out.
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And in Exodus, it's out of somewhat of a very practical physical circumstance of slavery and really harsh labor and all of this stuff.
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But then in the New Testament, it's our eternity and where we all were supposed to land separated from him.
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And he said, I'm still I'm gonna make a way.
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I'm gonna give you an escape route, I'm gonna make sure that you have a way out of experiencing death every single time.
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Flawless execution, by the way.
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Flawless from Genesis to Revelation, it's just flawless execution.
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And we do not we do not deserve it.
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We cannot earn it, and yet that is how great his love is for us, that he makes a way out.
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He makes a way out, and all we have to do is choose to receive it, um and and be obedient to what he's asking us to do, whether that's putting a lamb's blood on the doorpost, or whether that's him saying, you know, like obey my commands and and love me and love your neighbor and and follow me, and you know, spend your days living for me and pick up your cross and carry it daily, like whatever it is that he's asking of us, he's asking that of us to get us to out, to save us, to rescue us.
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That is that is the escape route.
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Hey, just just listen to what I'm asking of you, and we're gonna be good, and I'm gonna get you out of here.
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And you're gonna have life and life to the full and life eternally.
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That's the promise.
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So honestly, guys, kind of short podcast today.
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That's all I have for you.
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Um, again, I just think that that's beautiful.
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I will try to link um the the teaching from the Bible project so you can watch that little uh uh sketch.
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Um, it's not a sketch, so you can watch that um teaching that they have.
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It's very short, but you can watch it in full, hear their words um for yourself.
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And yeah, I just encourage any time you have the opportunity to use a resource um to go deeper into the Hebrew words used, the Aramaic or the Greek used.
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I I just I encourage that because I feel like it's just gonna give a much richer depth and picture.
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Um, again, not for us to be haughty in our like head knowledge or our biblical literacy, but to actually um humble ourselves and and sober ourselves before the Lord um once we are understanding and it is being revealed to us the magnitude of his love and his nature and his character towards us.
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So um I will leave you all with that for today.
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And I thank you for joining me, and I look forward to having you uh join again on another episode of Four Than One Podcast.
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The Holy Spirit resides with you.
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That is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
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We do not work for God's club, but we work from God's club.
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The Lord is given, the Lord is taken away, make the name of the Lord.
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