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took me a couple days to process it, you know? Yeah. process all that got it done. But looking back now with the the value of hindsight, I have to say actually, yeah, very, very happy with how everything went.
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And um yeah, a big part of the last couple days has been putting this teaching together. um Because there are a lot of different angles, a lot of different layers.
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Hello, Brother Perdon. How are you? doing good. How are Great. Always great. Thank you so much for all of your prayers.
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Thank Of course. Of course. Now, listen, that's what the body of Christ is here for, huh? Yeah.
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What time is it where you are right now? Wow. It's 34 one I was just thinking, my goodness, I really appreciate the time commitments you're making, and my goodness.
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Yes, ah I'm so thirsty ah about the watercourt. Amen. Amen.
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And that now isn't bad that is the truth. when... when the Lord puts that passion in your belly, you can't deny it or shake it off. it's That's just the reality of it, 100%. Yeah.
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yeah Yeah. No, I remember even when I was maybe six years old, the first time i was ever shown a Bible, and I was just told, this is the word of God, this is God's word, everything in it is true.
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And without knowing what the first line was, i just made a decision there and then eat up, soak it in drink it in believe it, immerse myself in it. I didn't even have that language, but i just knew the light bulb went on and I said, okay, there's something about this book that is just different from everything else.
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And the hunger was insatiable. So, uh, it's very much made me the man I am today. yeah
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Well guys, I want to, uh, honor the time commitment and that you've all made to be here so punctually. So we'll, jump into the words, alright?
Genesis Patriarchs and Teachings
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Okay, so this Discipleship, Volume 2, Part 3.
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And today we're going to look at the Genesis patriarchs. So we've looked at Adam and Eve quite extensively thus far. Now we're going to look at their kids and their descendants. so Adam and Eve were shown in Genesis 3.21 that picture
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that as a picture of washing away sins.
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A spotless, innocent, flawless healthy animal would have to be sacrificed in their place. More than likely, it was a lamb because Jesus is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
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And we see in Genesis chapter four, verses one and two, that they continued this trend, they taught it to their children, and they would have taught it to their grandchildren and their great-grandchildren, because people back then lived for incredibly long times. and This is not in the Bible, but the Jewish teachers teach that Adam and Eve, in the fullness of their years,
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had 33 sons and 23 daughters. Again, that's not in the Bible, but it would not surprise me. um They lived for a very, very long time, and their bodies were as close to perfect as anyone else's ever will be this side of eternity.
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um So it would only make sense to me. that they would have a vast number of children, maybe even more than this, to be honest. And, you know, especially if they had twins or a triplets or quadruplets or octuplets, whatever.
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um So they would have had a great many children throughout their life. But in Genesis chapter four, we look at two of their sons in particular.
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One of them is named Gotten. or we call him by his Hebrew name, Cain. Okay, Eve got pregnant and was like, oh my goodness, I've gotten a man, I've gotten pregnant with a man, what is this?
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and So Gotzen is named Cain. He became a man of the soil, farmer, if you will.
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Then they had another son. He's most popularly known as Abel, But his name means breath, as in or vapor, little wisp of air.
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It also means sorrow. And I wonder if that's because maybe on some level, when Adam and Eve held this sun for the first time, they knew his breath would be, or his life would be like a breath.
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His life would be like a wisp of air, vapor. And this baby that they loved so much would bring them heartache and deep trouble in their hearts and deep tragedy and sorrow.
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I believe he was prophetically named. Maybe they knew the full extent of that there and then, maybe not.
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But as he got older, he became as shepherd.
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We see in Genesis chapter four, verse 2, that Jesus comes along to receive their offering. Jesus comes along to receive their sacrificial offering.
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And it is supposed to be spotless, flawless, healthy animal, which is the same thing he did for Adam and Eve after incident with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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One of them does that. Abel. But Cain doesn't. Cain brings what today you would call a fruit salad and a Caesar salad. He's like, oh I've grown these.
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I planted the seeds, and I watered them, and I grew them, and I put them all together. Don't they look pretty? And Jesus' sus response was,
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It's not what I asked for. Well, actually, he's Jesus. He's God. He does not ask. He tells you. He commands. He instructs. But Jesus says, you know what I want?
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I told you what I want. Is this what I said I wanted? No. I didn't want something that you grew and you made, and it's you, you, you, you. you Because in Cain's head, there was a song playing.
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me me me me me me me me me it was all about himself Jesus command was that they would sacrifice a living animal as a picture of his own future sacrifice as the lamb of God it takes away the sins of the world so Jesus said to him that's not what I asked for you know what I want I told you what I want just do what I want Cain
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and here we see tension between the sacrificial faith of Abel, who was a shepherd and loved all of his animals.
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When they got sick, he nursed them back to health. When they broke their leg, it was his job to look after them.
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When the cows were like, moo, it was his job to deliver the young ones, the calves.
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But with Cain, you see religion.
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With Cain, you see, well, this is the work of my hands. Well, I did this. Well, I grew this. Well, this is all me.
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I get the credit. I get the glory.
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With Abel, there was a sacrifice.
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With Cain, there was a performance.
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And these two things, biblically, have always and ever been tension.
Religious Hypocrisy
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Been at odds with each other.
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You might say i've been at war with each other. It's the same with Adam and Eve in the garden. They were already made in the image of God, in the image of Jesus, but that wasn't good enough for them.
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They wanted to be in the image of God on their own terms, hence why they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And here we see Cain doing the same thing. And religion gets a bad rap in the Bible.
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In Ezekiel 28, 11-19, it describes Lucifer, who became the devil, as the anointed cherub. And he was covered in precious stones, which would later see in the high priest's ephod and breastplate.
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So he is, well, he was the high priest of heaven, the high priest of Jesus. But that wasn't good enough for him. He wanted more power.
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He wanted more celebrity status. He didn't want to be the Lord's staff. He wanted to be in control of planet Earth.
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In 1 Samuel 1-4, you've got a priest called Eli, he's the high priest. And the Bible says this man was fat.
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And we're told that he and his sons would would actually would steal the meat from the people. The people would bring a sacrifice of meat onto the Lord.
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And it was the job the priests take a little bit for themselves as their salary. then the people would eat and celebrate with Jesus, well, celebrate the Lord. But actually, Eli and his sons were taking the biggest portions for themselves.
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And in the Hebrew, it actually says he would sit outside the tent of meeting on a throne. He was making himself like God.
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And the most infamous example in the Bible are the evil of religion. is when Jesus was on the earth.
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And you had the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the chief priests, and the Sanhedrin, all the religious people, all the religious teachers, who were so full of religion and so full of hate that they did not even recognize God himself in the flesh when he was there in their presence looking at him.
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And in the end, when they stood before Jesus, he was beside Pontius Pilate, and then there was Jesus Barabbas, a murderer. And Pontius Pilate said, I will let one of these go.
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The holy people, the righteous people, no, not really righteous, but self-righteous, the people who thought that they were so amazing so special, so holy, so all together.
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You know, we dot our I's, we cross our T's, we never make mistake. Those people said, give us Barabbas the murderer. Crucify Jesus.
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Because that's what religious people are like. Religious people would rather a murderer walk amongst them than a righteous man call out their sin.
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Even in Ireland, if we go back a few decades, not too many decades, before I was born, thank God, we can see that. The people who said, well, we're religious, well, God loves us and we love him and we know him.
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Those people had institutional abuse where they would lock up women that they called fallen and treat them like slaves. And if they found out that you owned a Bible, you were public enemy number one and they would berate you and kick you out of their parish, pretty much, unless you gave it up.
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Because they wanted the power over the people, but they did not want people to have the word of God themselves, lest they be challenged. Lest the word of God shine a light on evil and do what it does, which is set people free.
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So this tension between religion and godliness, actual righteousness, has been in the world all along.
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It's been one of the great tensions and conflicts, even from the very beginning of Genesis.
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Now at this point, Cain says to Abel, hey, come for a walk with me. I want to chat with you. And I used to read this and think, well, they're two brothers. You know, maybe he's like, hey, listen, I got a disagreement, got an issue. Let's go have a chat.
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And then maybe a bit of horseplay began, a bit of rough play. And, you know, no one had ever died before. They had long lives. You know, maybe he just made a mistake.
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Maybe he just hit Abe little bit too hard by accident. I used to give Cain the benefit of the doubt. But actually, no, that's not a thing. When you read Genesis 4 in the Hebrew,
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It says that Cain wanted to have an Amar with Abel. That means he talked angrily to his brother. It means he challenged him.
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It means he boasted about himself, his self-righteousness, his religion, how amazing he was. I grew those fruit and vegetables. Aren't I phenomenal? Aren't I fantastic?
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It means he said with great latitudes. What does that mean? That's not an expression any of us use in real life. but It means to give yourself immense liberty or freedom to perceive reality, events, and the root of his offense in his own way.
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It means Cain distorted reality. He lied to himself that he was the victim and Abel was the villain in his story.
Cain and Abel: Murder and Meaning
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Oh, I'd a better relationship with Jesus if not for him. Oh, Jesus would love me better if he wasn't around.
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Jesus would accept my fruit salad if he wasn't running around. killing livestock.
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And the murderous anger and rage that he had in his heart spilled over so that he did what the Bible calls harag.
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Sorry, barag in the Hebrew, barag. It means Cain destroyed his brother.
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Cain put to death his brother. Cain slew his brother.
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Cain wholesale slaughtered, knowing what he was doing. Not accidentally. His brother.
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He smoked his brother with deadly intent. This was premeditated. He knew that this was going to kill him.
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It means he enacted ruthless, private violence against his brother.
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In the Hebrew, it means to kill someone in the manner of a lion.
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It's the first death in the Bible. It's the first murder in the Bible.
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Why is this significant for us in our study of where's Jesus? Well, Abel is a picture of Jesus. Abel was a righteous son unto Adam and Eve, as Jesus was and is a righteous son unto Father God.
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Like I said earlier, his profession, his job, of all the jobs Abel could have had, he was a shepherd. And Jesus is the good shepherd who lays down his life for those of us who least deserve it, and none of us deserve it.
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He offered up the firstborn of his flock, and God offered up the firstborn of all creation, Jesus Christ, in our place.
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Cain hated him. In the same way Jesus contemporaries hated him. And heck, people all across history have hated Jesus. Even today. Abel's oppressor was of the evil one. 1 John 3.12 says Cain was of the devil.
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The devil wants all people murdered, all people dead. He wants to steal, kill, and destroy. And Cain was like, yep. Well, but I want him dead.
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And the same way in Jesus' day,
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he said to the religious people, your father's the devil. You know, it's interesting. You know, they were like, oh, you know, we're children of Abraham.
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Who's your daddy? I wonder if they were insulting Mary saying, you know, ah you were but you know you're that you're the son of a slut. You know, your mother was ah was a whore, your mother was a prostitute, your mother was playing hooky.
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It was probably that kind of insult. And Jesus said, your father's the devil.
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Abel was the victim of fratricide because his works were righteous.
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And Jesus, was hated, despised, and killed because of his good works. Again, the religious people looked at Barabbas, a murderer, and said, free him, let him live among us.
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Yeah, sure, we'll put up with him, it's fine. But Jesus was a holy man who pointed out their sin. That was inexcusable. That was something they could not tolerate.
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As Abel lay dead, blood pouring out of his corpse, Cain showed no remorse. Jesus came along and said, yo, where's your brother?
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Cain's cold response? Am I my brother's keeper? He was a keeper of sheep. That's his job. I don't look after sheep. I don't look after my family.
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Nope.
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He was very blasé for someone who just murdered his own kin.
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As Jesus hung on the cross, he was mocked.
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If you're God, save yourself and save us. hu Little did they realize he was saving us by not saving himself, you know.
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Cain buried Abel in the ground. Dust to dust. And Jesus was buried in a tomb.
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But here's where they differ.
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As Abel lay dying, he cried out for justice. He said, God, avenge See what's happening. Jesus, help me. Avenge me
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But the blood of Jesus speaks a better word than the blood of of Abel. Jesus' blood does not cry vengeance, death, justice.
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Jesus' blood cries out grace, forgiveness, and mercy. Jesus' blood speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. I sympathize with the blood of Abel, but I'm so grateful for the blood of Jesus.
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And when he died, Abel, his soul and his spirit, descended into paradise.
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The spiritual world, not heaven. Heaven's up there. Paradise was down there. And he became the first person to live there, to dwell there. And when Jesus died, he descended into paradise.
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And he took all the people who were in that waiting room and he brought them into the world of heaven.
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We can see in Abel very clear picture of the life of Jesus and the love of Jesus and the sacrifice to Jesus.
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But what about Cain? Well, Jesus came and had a conversation with him and we know it was Jesus because John 1.18 says that no one had ever seen God the Father.
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So in the Old Testament, if God is seen, it' Jesus.
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And Jesus comes and says, where is your brother?
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And Cain is like, don't know how much to put And G's like, hey, I can hear his blood screaming from the ground.
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Don't try to Adam and Eve me, okay? Don't hide behind fig leaves thinking that's going to work. Don't lie to me and pretend going to fall for it.
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And Cain got very afraid for himself. And he said, oh my goodness, if my dad, my mother, if my other siblings, my nieces and nephews see me, oh, I'm a dead man, they're going to kill me.
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And even though Jesus had absolutely every right to wipe Cain off the board, to kill him as he had killed his own brother, Jesus chose to have mercy and compassion on him.
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And he puts on him a mark. The word mark in Hebrew is tav. It's a cross. You know, a corpse called Otzi the Iceman was found in the Alps.
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And some people actually think that this is Cain. They date the corpse to about 5,500 years ago and he's got all these tattoos in his body. And one of them is the tattoo of a cross.
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Is it Cain? Possibly. If not, this guy clearly had some idea that the cross was significant 5,500 years ago.
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So perhaps Cain and his descendants spoke of the power of the cross as as a protection.
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And you might say, but Cain didn't deserve freedom. Cain deserved punishment. Cain deserved to die. And the reality is true, but for our sin, we all deserve bad things from God.
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But the wonderful thing about God is he reveals your sin
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so you can deal with your sin and he heals you of the wounds of your sin and it is concealed by the blood of Jesus.
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Reveal, deal, heal, conceal.
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That's the opposite of what the enemy does. The enemy reveals your sin so he can steal from you. And he conceals your sin, or at least convinces you to conceal it, so he can steal from you some more.
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And then he reveals it so he can steal. And he tells you to conceal the effects so he can steal. And you go on and on and on in this loop.
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But God, he reveals it. so you can deal with it. He heals you of its impact on your life.
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And he conceals it with the power of the blood of Jesus. So even though Cain did not deserve forgiveness, none of us do either. But the cross speaks a better word. The blood of Jesus poured out on that cross speaks a better word.
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And Jesus said, no one who finds you is going to kill you.
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But bugger off, basically.
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I'm sure Cain told his wife, who he yes, would have been his sister. Don't think about it too much. The human race had to come from somewhere. It's fine.
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And his kids and his grandkids and his great grandkids and his great great grandkids. I'm sure he told a lot of them all about this. And actually... One of his descendants, Lamech, I'm going to call him Lamech number one, because early Genesis has two Lamechs, heard this and thought, oh, well, that's amazing.
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And he decided to waste the grace. right What Cain lived by had come from the Mount of Jesus himself. Lamech, we have no reason to believe, had a relationship with the Lord.
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But he liked the bits of theology, the bits of the Bible, the bits of other people's testimonies that he could steal and manipulate for his own life.
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So it follows that he had a minor infringement one day. a young man did something to him, maybe innocently, maybe innocuously.
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Just seems to have hurt him a little bit. Nothing major. am And Lamech, the first bigamist in the Bible, the first man to take on two wives, decided to absolutely
Genealogy and Prophecy
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love this young man to totally get revenge on him, to treat him like dirt.
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And we know that because it says that when he killed him, The word Barag is used, the same word that was used when Cain killed Apel. It said Lamech destroyed that young man.
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Put him to death. Slew him, wholesale slaughtered him. Smote him with deadly intent, knowing what he was doing. Enacted ruthless private violence.
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and killed him as though Lamech was a lion and this person was ah gazelle. Just tore him to shreds.
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And Lamech said, if Cain will be avenged seven times, I will be avenged 490 times. 70 times 7.
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Now the difference is Jesus has spoken to Cain. I forgive you. I'll protect you.
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Lamech just took this upon himself. His violence against this young man was disproportionate to the original offense. He was just hateful and wicked and cruel, full of malice.
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But he was willing to take a little bit of theology and twist it and pervert it to meet his own bloody, violent ends.
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And he said, if someone hurts me, going to avenge myself 490 times against them.
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But again, thank God for Jesus. Because in Matthew 18, 21 to 22, Peter said, Jesus, if someone offends us, how much, how how regularly should we forgive them? How many times? Surely there's a cap.
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And Jesus said 70 times 7. for Forgive them 490 times. And Jesus obviously had Lamech number one in his mind.
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Do not get revenge and vengeance on yourself 490 times. You forgive them 490 times. You forgive them until they are forgiven.
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You forgive them until you're no longer angry. You forgive them until the bitterness is gone. You forgive them until you can see them face to face and not make a fist.
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Not tense up. Not grit your teeth. e
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You do it. You forgive them until you no longer have to do that. You forgive them until you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that it's done. It's a done deal.
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Well, let's get back to Adam and Eve.
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You know, Cain's descendants were just pure evil. They went nuts, went crazy, committed all kinds of sheer wickedness.
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But Abel was supposed to be the son who would carry the seed of life in him.
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You know, Jesus told Adam and Eve in our last session that Eve, a daughter of Eve, a woman, would get pregnant miraculously.
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And through that child, evil would be stopped. He'd be the anointed one, the chosen one, the one who would destroy evil, who would crush the head of the snake. Jesus was prophesying about himself.
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Abel was the righteous shepherd. He was the good son. Abel was supposed to be the one who would carry the seed of life.
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And Jesus would come through his line, through his descendants, but he was dead. The seed of life was slain.
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Satan obviously did not want the chosen one to be born, and now the one that the chosen one would come from was dead. Satan appeared to have won. chapter four the Bible and Satan's like, yeah, I've destroyed a family line, destroyed God's plan.
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So God had to create a new life, a replacement for Abel. And that came through Adam and Eve's child, Seth.
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Again, they had dozens and dozens and dozens of sons and daughters. But Seth became the new line through which Jesus would come into the world. And here's another really interesting thing about the birth and the death of Abel.
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Abel died when he was 33, maybe 33 and a half. And that is the same age that Jesus was when he was crucified.
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So again, Abel is a picture. of Christ crucified. Seth is a picture of Christ resurrected. Seth is a picture of new life, of new hope, of new restoration.
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But 48 years passed between the death of Abel and the birth of Seth. For 48 years, there was no one on the earth through whom Jesus could have come.
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Yes, there were other sons and daughters. Were they saved or sinners? Died, I know. I don't have a notion.
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But the line that Jesus would come through, if you look at in the New Testament, especially in Luke chapter 3, you look at the the Bible chronology and timelines, um and son of its the son of so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, it came through Seth.
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But for 48 years, there was no one that Jesus could have come through. No righteous line on the earth, righteous lineage.
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But even though they had to wait 48 years, that child was born and Jesus came through his line. So I want you to know that if you're waiting for something, or all hope seems lost, all hope seems dead,
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They had to wait 48 years, but then they had that child through whom Jesus would come. So I want you to hang on.
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Now it follows in Genesis, if we look at the first 10 generations. Adam had many kids, but the son who's in the lineage of Jesus was Seth.
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Seth had many kids. The one who's most important for us today is Enosh. Enoch had many kids, his most important was Cain and it so on and so forth. Mahalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, a very popular one.
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The meaning of their names in English. Adam means man. Seth means appointed. These are all very prophetic names. Listen to this. Enoch means mortal.
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What a strange name to call your child. Kenan means sorrow, just like Abel did. Mahalel means blessed God.
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Jared isn't unusual, it means shall come down. Imagine calling your child shall come down and tell him to come downstairs for dinner. Shall come down! Come down for dinner. Come down for your tea.
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Enoch means teaching. And we have a very famous teacher Enoch in the news in Ireland these days.
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Methuselah was Enoch's son. His name means his death shall bring. We're going to look at him in a few minutes. Then there's Lamech number two, not to be confused, the last guy who was a villain.
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He means the despairing. What a horrible name to call your child.
Nephilim and the Great Flood
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And Noah means rest and comfort. But if you put all of their names together, you have a summary of the Bible.
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Humans are appointed mortal sorrow. Humans are appointed. Mortality. We will die and there will be sadness.
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Isn't that the human life summarized in just a few words? The blessed God, Jesus, shall come down from heaven teaching.
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Wow. 2000 years ago. His death shall bring the despairing human race rest and comfort. And that is exactly what Jesus did on that cross.
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He took all of our sin, all of our pain, all of our shame. He was stricken by God for all of it. Every ounce of human wickedness, thought, said, or done.
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God is a good judge. He had to punish someone. He didn't want to punish us, so he punished Christ.
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And Jesus buried that sickness, that pain, that shame, that sin in hell. And he rose again in new life and he offers that new life to us, that divine rest to us, that Holy Spirit comfort to us.
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From the first, from the most important man in those 10 first generations, we have a summary of the entire Bible there and then. Isn't that fabulous?
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Now let's look in a little bit more detail at a few of them. Let's look at Enoch, for instance. Enoch's story is a very short one in the Bible, but my goodness, he's very important. since We will come back to him at a later point when we look at Elijah. He's quite significant there. People miss it, but he is.
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We're told that Enoch was 65 years old when he and his wife had Methuselah. Now again, he probably had lots of kids, but he hadn't methuselah.
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And after he had methuselah, the Bible says he walked with the Lord for 300 years. Again, they had extended lifespan. So perhaps he lived an immoral life for those first 65 years and then from the year 66 to 365, lived for the Lord and walked with the Lord. I believe that's probably literal.
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Jesus would come down and they'd walk together and they'd talk together. And then there came a point where he was no more. People looked for him and they could not find him because Jesus had taken him away.
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Enoch is the first person in the Bible to be raptured. So far it's only happened to two people. That is when Jesus just snatches you away. Takes you to heaven without you even dying.
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and I'm not saying paradise where Abel was, I'm talking capital H heaven up in the sky.
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But while he was on the earth, Enoch was prophesying against sheer unadulterated wickedness on the earth.
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Now the Bible says he had Methuselah and then he walked to the Lord. So something happened on the earth the year Methuselah was born.
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And naming your son Methuselah his death shall bring, it means his death shall bring judgment. When my son dies, judgment is coming to this earth.
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What happened the year Methuselah was born? a demonic agenda to corrupt, pervert and defile human DNA, the human genome.
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We're going look at that in just a moment. Keep that in your minds though.
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Methuselah had a son His name was Lamech. Again, the good one, not the bad one. Lamech number two, the father of Noah.
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Now, Methuselah is the man who lived the longest out of anyone else. He'd lived 187 years when Again, he probably had dozens upon dozens upon dozens of kids, but Methuselah, his most important one was Lamech.
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Genesis 5, 28, Lamech had probably had a ridiculous number of kids, but Noah was the most important one, born after he'd lived 182 And eightyt two years and in Noah's year, the great flood began.
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Now if you add all those numbers, 187, 182, 600, you get 969 years, which is how old Methuselah was when he died. So he died the year the flood happened.
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And he would have assisted Enoch and Lamech and Noah in telling people the great flood is coming. The great flood is coming. Destruction is coming. Calamity is coming. Turn to God.
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but Most people didn't pay attention. Most people had no interest in listening.
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But what was happening in the earth in those days? Why was it that Enoch would name his son Methuselah? His death shall bring, his death shall bring judgment, his death shall bring destruction, his death shall bring calamity.
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What was the corruption against the human genome? Well, we can read about it in Ezekiel 31. thirsy one
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In Ezekiel 31, Ezekiel the prophet prophesies against an evil king, Pharaoh of Egypt. But he does two things at once.
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He's prophesying against a human king, but he's telling you the story of what happened in Methuselah's day.
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Let's start with verse 2.
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Who can be compared with you in majesty? Consider Assyria, so I'm going to call this the Assyrian spirit. Once a cedar in Lebanon.
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Lebanon in biblical prophecy means the Garden of Eden. With beautiful branches overshadowing the forest. It towered on high, its top above the thick foliage.
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This is talking about an angel. An angel who was tall, who was big, who was mighty, who was amazing.
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The waters nourished it. You're gonna see a lot of references to water here. Deep springs made it grow tall.
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Their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field. So it towered higher than all the trees of the field.
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Its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters, another water reference. All the birds of the air nested in its boughs. All the beasts of the fields gave birth under its branches.
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All the great nations lived in its shade. It was majestic in beauty. No creature created was more beautiful than this angel.
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It was majestic in beauty with its spreading boughs. For its roots went down to, again, abundant waters. God's really trying to get the great flood i idea in your head. The cedars in the garden of God, the garden of Eden, could not rival it.
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This angel was more beautiful than the garden of Eden. Nor could the pine trees equal its boughs. Nor could the plain trees compare its branches.
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No tree in the garden of God, the garden of Eden, could match its beauty. I, God, made it beautiful with abundant branches. The envy of all the trees of Eden in the Garden of God.
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So this is the angel who was the most wonderful looking of of them. And was in the Garden of Eden. So we're not talking about the devil.
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Therefore, this is what the Severan Lord says. Because it towered on high, lifting its top above the thick foliage, and because it was, attention now,
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proud of its height. So this angel was like, look at me, I'm amazing, I'm fabulous, became a narcissist.
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And that was only one of its offenses.
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And any angel in rebellion is called a demon. Okay, this is the second heavenly rebellion. This is the second time angels went rogue. I handed it over to the ruler of the nations.
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The god of this world. The devil. After Adam and Eve fell, the devil pretty much sees control of this world like that.
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For him to deal with the according to its wickedness. Now why is the devil torturing this? Because the demons don't like each other. There is no love in them, they are not friends. They do whatever it takes to get power over each other.
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Their empire is built on deception, on cruelty, on competition, on wickedness, on torture, on fear.
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I cast it aside. It was Selfish to the core, it was narcissistic, it was wicked, it was in rebellion, and God said, you're not one of my kids anymore. I cast it aside, and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it.
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These are other demons came and began torturing it. They're all ganging up on him. Its boughs fell on the mountains and on all the valleys. Its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land.
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All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it. All the birds of the air settled on the fallen tree and all the beasts of the field were among its branches.
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You know, Jesus would later share a parable about a farmer sowing seeds, scattering seeds. And he says that the blackbirds came to steal the seeds.
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And Jesus said that they're the demons who come to steal the word of life. The evil one comes to steal the word of God when it's sent your way. So these birds are walking top of it.
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These are demons who are like, you know, yeah, it's been destroyed. Yeah, you're so amazing. look at you know Like, you know, we are the champions. Insulting it. Mocking it. Again, there's no love in the Empire of Darkness.
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Therefore, no other trees by the Waters, again God's really hammering on the great flood here, are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage.
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No other trees are so well watered and are to reach such a height. They're all destined for death, for the earth below among mortal men, with those who go down to the pit. This is the bottomless pit.
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This is Tartarus, this is the abyss. Hell for demons. The lowest part of hell. This is what the sovereign Lord says.
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On the day it was brought down to the grave, I covered the deep springs, that's a great flood reference, with mourning for it. I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained.
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Because of it, I clothed Lebanon, is the Garden of Eden with gloom, That's why no one can find the Garden of Eden now. The Great Flood washed it away. And all the trees of the field withered away.
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I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the grave with those who go down to the pit.
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Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the trees that were well watered were consoled in the earth below. Those who lived in its shades, its allies among the nations, had also gone down to the grave with it, joining those killed by the sword. So this was not the only angel in rebellion.
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Others were doing it too, and they were locked in the bottomless pit as well. Which the trees of Eden can be compared with you in splendor and majesty. Yet you too will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below.
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You will lie among the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword. And then God says, if I did not spare an angel, I will not spare Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who was a mass murderer.
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So, in short, because I know that was a long chapter, the Assyrian spirit was an angel. The most beautiful angel there was. But if you read Ezekiel 31,
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and you read Genesis chapter 6, you get the whole picture. This angel was so obsessed with himself, became such a narcissist, that he corporealized, took on human form, and began sleeping with human women.
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How would i put this politely, in case children ever watch this video on YouTube?
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Angels have the equipment. but If that sounds like a PG-18 reference, it should. Angels are male and angels are female, okay? They've got all the bits, shall we say.
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But they are not supposed to be intimate with humans. It would be like a human and a dog. Two different kinds of creature. It's not natural. It's not supposed to happen.
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In fact, angels aren't even marrying other angels. It's not a thing. but If you ever see two angels getting married, they are not of God. Just let it that way. So this angel was the first to take on flesh, which all angels can do temporarily, and slept with the human woman and got her pregnant.
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Other angel said, yeah, women look nice. Let's do that too. And in Genesis 6, it says that they created the Nephilim. They created a race of giants.
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A race of human plus. Supermen. People whose DNA was contaminated. People whose DNA was corrupted.
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People who weren't actually really people. Think of like, you know, in all the mythology where Zeus sleeps with human woman and poof, you got Hercules or you got Perseus or, and know, the Greek legends, you've got Dionysius or the Bacchus Euripides. All these legends and stories am of humans and gods getting together and giving birth to supermen.
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In Ireland, you know, we've got Cú Chulans. Yeah, one, like a hero affiliated with my town, whose father was the god Lou, and his mother um was a woman who drank a fly.
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It's an Irish legend, and just roll with it. And then what happened? You got this superman running around. All these legends are based on what actually happened in the world in the days of Methuselah.
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Enoch was horrified by what he saw. And that's why when his wife gave birth Methuselah, he said, okay, his death will bring judgment.
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When Methuselah dies, God is gonna let rip. God's gonna have a bloody conniption and he's gonna get revenge on all these angels who are up to no good. And the thing is, Methuselah lived 969 years. patient.
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god was incredibly patient He wanted as many people to get saved as possible, to turn away from evil as possible. And in the end, only Noah, his wife, his three sons, or three of his sons, however many kids he had, and their wives got on the ark. Only eight people out of the entire world got on that boat.
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So the Lord sent the Great Flood as a way of preserving the human race, to preserve and the human lineage. And we're told in the Bible that the Great Flood lasted a total of 150 days.
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And in Ezekiel 1, it says that the day that the Assyrian spirit and all the other rebellious demons were locked away in Tartarus, that's when the waters were restrained.
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That was day 150, if you will. And now they're locked up in Tartarus, the bottomless pit, the abyss, and they are chained up there, awaiting their final judgment in the end.
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Spoiler alert, they do get out in the future. During the Great Tribulation in Revelation 9, they do escape the bottomless pit. Satan lets them out.
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And just as the Lord saw that they were tortured for 150 days before being locked up, they will attack the human race for 150 days, giving them the sting of death, but not actually allowing them to die. And then there's a second advance in which four Dark angels who've been locked under the Euphrates River get out and they lead an army of 200 million demons to massacre of the human race.
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and But that's not gonna be our portion, that is not for us, that is for a future time, that's the Great Tribulation, perilous times. We will be in heaven with Jesus before any that happens.
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That's just two cents of prophecy for free.
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But what was so special about Noah? Why did Noah and his family get on the boat?
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Well, Genesis 6 and 9 tells us that Noah, his wife and his three sons, alone in all the earth, were tamim.
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That's a Hebrew word, it means blameless. It means that they were right with God through faith, and it means they were biologically pure. They did not have any Nephilim DNA in them.
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Out of all the earth, Noah, his wife, and the three sons. And then the three sons each had and had a wife each.
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Why is this so important?
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Because 1 Timothy 2.15 said, however, She and all women will be saved through the birth of the Christ child if they lead respectful lives in faith, love and holiness.
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Jesus was coming to save the human race. He was not coming to save the Nephilim. He was not coming to save the offspring of dark angels, of demons.
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The women who were doing the nasty with these dark angels probably became witches, let's be honest. They probably were like, oh, tell me something no one else knows. Teach me the dark arts.
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No. Salvation had to come through ah human, Jesus, and he had to come through a human father, well, a human mother, and he wanted to be raised by a human stepfather.
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So it was important that the Lord wash away the earth of the Nephilim, of these hybrids, of these supermen. Genesis 6 tells us that every thought in their heads was evil and violent.
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In fact, the Hebrew is the word Hamas, which, hello, we're all very familiar with today. Think of what Hamas did to those Israeli civilians that they kidnapped. And I imagine an entire world full of this, yeah?
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So the Great Flood came and washed them all away, so the Lord could preserve some semblance of the human race. Eight people got on the boat.
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It started on the 17th of the second month and continued to the 17th of the seventh month.
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But again, this study is where's Jesus in the Old Testament. This study is about Jesus finding him in those first dozens of books in the Bible.
Symbolism of the Ark
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Well, the ark was made from wood.
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What else was made from woods in the Bible? The cross.
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The Ark only had one door, whether you were a human or an animal, one door. And Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no way to God except through him.
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For us, there is no way to God except through putting your faith in the cross, that it washes away all your sin, that it gives you your identity today.
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that your eternity is secure in him, in Christ.
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That if you believe in your heart that Christ was raised from the dead by God, you confess he's Lord, he's the master, he's the boss, you'll be saved.
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One door.
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And only the people who were inside the ark were saved. everyone else was washed away. And only those who are in Christ are his kids.
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Only those who are in Christ by faith in his Lordship and his cross are his children, are are the inheritors of heaven, are citizens of heaven, are princes and princesses of heaven, have had all their sins washed away.
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I should note, for those of you who are parents or You're like, what about the children? Think of the children. So please think of the children. Simpsons style. God loves kids.
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There will come at a point where they have to make a decision for themselves as they get older. But all kids who die go straight to the father. All babies, pre-born. Very regardless. Disclaimer notice.
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You know, Noah was an amazing man. Imagine having the bravery to live in such a world as that. I know some Christians find it hard to live in the world that we're in Noah's world was far worse.
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And yet, for such an amazing man, he was not Jesus, so he was not perfect. And in Genesis chapter 9, made a big mistake.
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A bit of a boo-boo.
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Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 3. He looked at food that was not his to eat. He took some and ate it, and damned us all.
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Noah, after the flood, waters had receded, they'd all gone down, planted a vineyard, and he made some wine for himself.
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He took fruit that was permissible, but he drank it in excess.
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And what happened was he fell asleep in his tent, butt naked.
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Now he had three sons, Japheth, or Japhda, Shem, and Ham, who was appropriately named because he was a ham.
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Those of you in English-speaking countries know that a ham is an idiot, is a fool, a goon.
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Well Ham walked into the tent and saw Daddy Dearest in the nip. In the nude. And his response was to poke fun.
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He came to his brothers and said, you'll never guess what Dad looks like. on, get in here, get in here. He's an absolute disgrace.
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And his other two brothers were like, oh my word, are you messing? Are serious?
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So one of them grabbed one side of a blanket, and the other grabbed the other edge of a blanket,
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and they walked in backwards. Right like this.
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And they threw blanket over their father.
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What's another beautiful picture of Jesus in the Old Testament?
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Maybe it's pornography you watched. Maybe you took illegal drugs. Maybe you had one glass too many at a Christmas party. Or a birthday party in front of your boss.
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Maybe you dropped an F-bomb. Maybe you blew a gasket, you lost your head, you lost your temper, and you said something to someone you really shouldn't have.
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Maybe you had the opportunity to teach the Word of God, and you did. Badly. You began saying things that aren't true. You were a silly billy, and everyone in the room knew it.
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Whatever it is.
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We all have a ham in our life. And it's the enemy.
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You've messed up. No second chances. Idiot. Never try again.
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shot. And you missed it. God hates you There's no forgiveness for you. And you say you're a good person? Mm-hmm.
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Okay. Oh, you were so holy building that ark, but now look at you. This is the real you. Down in the dumps. Lying on your back with it all hanging on display for the whole world to see. Mm-hmm. Okay.
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We've all had those thoughts, those intrusive thoughts. The words from the enemy.
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But Jesus is like the other two songs.
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Here, grab. One end of a blanket and the other end. And the Bible said that when God forgives you, he remembers your sin no more.
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He's not even looking at it. So he walks in
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and throws the blood of Jesus over you like a blanket.
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Throws the holiness of Jesus over you.
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throws the righteousness of Jesus over you, throws the perfection of Jesus over for you. So when God thinks of you, he doesn't say drunkard, speeding ticket,
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you like your cupcakes, size 12, failure,
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failure
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Mrs. Bad Attitude.
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Mr. Nobody Loves.
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Rejected. Whatever that word is of the enemy's been throwing your way, whatever that word is you've been contending with.
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Forever Sick.
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Negative Ninny.
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No. The Lord throws that blanket over you. That blanket of holiness. That blanket of righteousness. That blanket of Jesus' blood.
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And when God looks at you. Imagine you're in heaven. Like Jesus help me. Help me. When God looks at you. This is Jesus now.
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It is Jesus that he sees. Christ in you. The hope of glory. The old is gone. the new has come. You are a new creation.
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You are reconciled to God. You are the head and not the tail.
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You are a temple of Holy Spirit. You are the house of Holy Spirit.
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God lives in you through Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit. You are the hands and feet of Jesus.
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There's one man, one mediator between man and God. It's Jesus Christ, and he lives within you.
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There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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So he doesn't see you and your brokenness and your shame and your pain and your aches and your distress.
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He sees Christ in you. The hope of glory your identity in him, your identification in him. Where it is no longer you who lived, is Christ who lives within you.
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Where your sinful state, your naked Noah, was crucified on the cross.
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And your new self, your true self, your made alive in Jesus self, came up out of that grave.
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So I know that there were a lot of details in this teaching. Hopefully that was all clear.
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Of all these different pictures of Jesus. Abel as Christ, slain, the innocent one slain and punished.
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Seth as Jesus 2.0, Jesus resurrected.
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the Ark as a picture of Jesus and why the Great Flood was necessary to preserve the human genome, the human DNA, so that Mary might come along one day and carry Jesus, carry the Christ child, carry our Savior.
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And that story in the tent.
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The next time the enemy tells you, you are your past. You should be ashamed. You're filth, you're scum. I want you to say, and you're am. Get behind me, Satan.
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You say shame on me, Jesus says shame off me.
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Because that blanket that was thrown over Noah has been thrown over you.
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And it's the holiness of Almighty God.
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In Jesus name.
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Amen.
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So guys, as always, this live stream will be put up on YouTube tonight or first thing tomorrow morning. Depends how long it takes to upload.
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And you will be able to see it on the either YouTube channel or on WhatsApp. I'll put on on both. a and if you want the teaching that goes with this, it's about 17 to 20 pages long, and that costs a tenner, okay? 10 euros. and I go into the same stories.
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I go into more stories. I go into a lot more detail, a lot more Bible verses. I touch on a lot of things I didn't touch on here. I go into Bible chronologies and timelines and what age people were when such and such happened and yadda yadda yada yada yada.
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Talk about the first 2008 years um reality. ah So again, that's 10 euros, but lots more detail and lots of and questions for you to answer and you get the answer key as well. Okay, that's 10 euros. If you want that, just reach out to me personally and there I'll give you the details.
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But I know that there was a lot in that. So now it's over to you. Any comments, queries, questions, concerns?
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and Brendan, yes, I have a question, sorry. Sorry, there is a little pepeco somewhere.
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The naughty Lamech, do you think he killed Cain?
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Do I think Lamech number one killed Cain? Yes, because of what he said. that he killed a man through his own wounding?
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Great question. i would say too long had passed for him to ever kill Cain. I think what probably happened was he looked at Cain as an inspiration.
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He probably looked at Cain as a negative as ah a role model that no one should ever consider to be a role model. And imagine, let's say if someone looks at a celebrity today and that celebrity does something really disgusting or shameful and they get away with it because they're rich.
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They get away with it because they have a PR campaign. They get away with it because they have the money to pay off the journalists or the cops or whatever. But then someone who's very impressionable watches this and is like, well, that person is my idol.
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They're a star. They're an inspiration. So I'm going to do it too. I think that was more like Lamek's perspective on things. Looking at someone wicked and was like, well, he got away with killing somebody.
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So therefore, of course i will too, but he just decided to exaggerate us hundreds of times over. um Even to the point where, I mean, he was the first person ever to take multiple wives.
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So he definitely saw that he was a step above everybody else and that the laws of God did not apply to him. But he liked, and he didn't understand the grace of God.
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Cain was a recipient of the grace of God. We have no reason to believe he was righteous or went to heaven. and In fact, I'd say probably wasted the grace and continued in his evil trajectory.
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Sometimes that happens. um I think Lamech looked at the fact that Jesus had shown Cain a bit of grace and was like, well, obviously he'll do it for me too.
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The same way you would see people today who obviously don't have a relationship with Jesus and have never read a Bible once in their lives. But they'll take a twisted perversion of the Word of god that suits them and apply it to their lives.
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So I wouldn't say he ever tried to hunt down or kill Cain. I'd say he probably looked at Cain as a role model for all the wrong reasons and just decided to emulate the evil Cain had already done or was known for.
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All right. yeah make sense think Yeah, makes perfect sense. Thank you. No worries.
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OK, thanks for Hades. Anyone else?
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Okay, I'll just give another few seconds.
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Alright.
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Alright, well, Lord God, we thank you for your word today.
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we thank you, Lord, that you
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have given To humans, this most phenomenal book.
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Full of secrets and mysteries and wonders and you have not hidden Jesus from us in this book. You have hidden Jesus for us in this book.
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That we can read through it and see pictures of Jesus. pictures of his death, the death of an innocent man by religious people all the way back in Genesis 4.
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And how for 48 years the seed of life was not in the earth. Just like today God people are like, well we're screwed. The perilous times are coming. Things are too hard.
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There's no way things can get better.
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They had to wait 48 years Jesus, but you did it.
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And we can derive such hope that what you did in those days, you will do again. That the desert that we're living in will become evergreen.
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That
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murky, dirty pools of water around us in spiritual will become tsunamis of the waters of life, the rivers of life.
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That just as we saw such incredible immense evil in today's story, and you washed it all away, that even in our time, as we are in the crisis of the age, you will put this upside down world the right way up for us.
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Because you are the same yesterday, today and forever, and you are absolutely good. Always absolutely good.
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And we thank you, Lord, that you are like Noah's righteous sons. You throw a blanket over our shame.
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Shame that we are responsible for.
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And shame we're not responsible for. Shame for things we tolerated. Shame for things we did. Shame for things we were complicit with. Shame for things we allowed.
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Shame for what we thought, how we spoke. We did to others, we did to ourselves.
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But you throw that blanket over us, that covering. And you say, shame off you. Jesus took your shame and he buried it in hell, so why are you picking it up again?
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Enough is enough, drop it. You're free.
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We thank you, Lord, for your goodness as evidence in those stories and that you are the same yesterday, today and forever.
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And the same love you had for them, you have for us.
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We thank you so much, Lord Jesus. And we love you. We love you, Lord. Because you first loved us.
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So God, as we go forward into the rest of this week,
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We choose to carry Christ. To carry his love. His patience. His mercy, his loving kindness, his grace, his undeserved favor to ourselves.
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And we extend it to our enemies as well. We will not be like Lamech, looking to get offended 490 times
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But rather, Lord, we will hearken to your word and we will forgive, even if it is 490 Because want
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you ones our heart to be pure, not to be full of bitterness and offence and forgiveness holding us back. We want us to be released into the fullness where you have for us.
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Not to be like the agents of darkness, demons who are full of hatred and wickedness and unforgiveness and checklists of all of wrongdoing.
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But to be a people who are kind and patient, who persevere, who forbear, who keep no record of wrongs, who always trust and always love.
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Because of love never fails, and love always wins. Because God, you are love, and you never fail, and you always win.
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Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. And amen. Thank you so much everybody you for the beautiful comments there in the chat box. I really do appreciate them. And I really do appreciate the time that you've all put in to being here tonight.
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a I know for some of you it is absolutely ridiculously early AM in the countries that you're joining in from. so I appreciate you guys in particular.
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um And I appreciate the trust and that you're all extending to me as well to release the word of God to you in a way that behooves you, encourages you, builds you up and makes the word a God, which can be difficult at times, more accessible, okay? That's not trust that I take lightly.
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So I do appreciate that and I extend a word of thanks to each and every one of you. Have a beautiful night with Jesus. a great rest of your week. If you need anything during the week, a word of encouragement to the likes, just send me a message. And than that, I will see you next week. All right. Have beautiful night. How was everyone? Thank you so much.
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Bye-bye. Bye-bye. by