(323) The Truth about Bones

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because he's trustworthy. He is true. He is the

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way, the truth, and the life. So he is that stability,

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and he becomes that structure like our bones.

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Jesus is the spiritual equivalent of our bones.

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God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out of his

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Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global Outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring so that we may engage

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in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And

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I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so glad that you've joined us. We are really

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excited about this episode because it's kind

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of a spinoff, sort of, of the last episode where

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we were talking with Dean Braxton about... Lots

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of things, but we're going to focus in about

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the truth about bones. We're so glad that you've

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questions for you as well. So let's talk about

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bones. So in our last episode, we were having

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this discussion with Dean Braxton at the convention.

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And there was one question, one comment that

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he was making about bones, because the question

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was asked, what was the significance of the fact

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that Jesus' bones weren't broken. And Dean gave

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us a very surprising answer. He said that, let

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me just pull up my notes about it. He said that

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our bones don't deteriorate like our flesh does.

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Sometimes they're thousands and thousands of

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years old that you can find bones. And what he

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says is that they're representing eternity because

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they last so long. After the flesh is gone, the

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bones are still there. Now, I did a little research,

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and I found that it depends a lot on the environment,

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whether there's lots of heat, whether it's dry,

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whether it's damp. Sometimes bones can deteriorate

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in 10 years. Well, that's what they use in New

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Orleans because you can't bury anything because

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as soon as you dig, you get water. Yeah. So they

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have everything is above ground. Yeah. What do

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you call the box? I forget what it's called,

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but I remembered when we started talking about

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this. Yeah. And it's very similar, really, to

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the kind of burial that they did in the first

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century. Yeah, really amazing. Where they would

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lay the body out. And you see this in the story

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of Jesus. death and burial and resurrection that

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he was laid out and they were expecting to come

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back. I mean, the way that first century burial

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was done is they would put the body there and

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in a year they would come back expecting all

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of the flesh to be deteriorated, decomposed,

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and that the bones would be all that would be

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left and they'd gather up the bones and put them

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in what they call an ossuary, which is a bone

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box. It's just a box and usually made of limestone.

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And, you know, that's just the custom that they

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did. So then they would put all of the bone boxes

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together in that family tomb. And so everybody's

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kind of stacked together. And you're a space

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saver. Yeah, it is. It is. And I remember in

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our travels when we've had tours with our founder,

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Sister Gwen Shaw, we did a tour to. the seven

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churches of Asia that are mentioned in Revelation,

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which is really just Turkey. And we went to see

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other things in that amazing nation that, like,

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there's a place called Cappadocia. And there

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were kind of like catacombs that were dug into

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the soft, porous rock there. And they had all

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kinds of tunnels and there had been some excavating

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done. And I remember seeing the skeletons of

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people that had lived like 2 ,000 years ago.

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And, you know, they were living under persecution.

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They had to live in these tunnels and they had

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elaborate systems. Anyway, the point is that

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I remember seeing these very intact skeletons

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of people that had lived a long, long time ago.

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And they were... a brother or sister in the Lord,

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and here's their bones still here. And then I

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think we were probably in Greece on another tour,

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looking at the footsteps of Paul, you know, going

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to Philippi and different places. And one of

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the places that we visited, in fact, I think

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it was more than one place, where we went to

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these Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries.

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They did something kind of similar, only not

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exactly the same, because once the bones, once

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all that was left of you is your bones, they

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just put all the bones of all the brothers who

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had been in that monastery together. Yeah, so

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all the skulls are together and all the femurs

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are together. So in the resurrection, everything

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will be sorted out. Yeah, yeah, God knows. And

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that reminds me of Ezekiel, you know, where it

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says in Ezekiel 37, he's in the valley of dry

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bones. And all the bones come together to their

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own bones. And I love that, that it doesn't matter

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if your bones have been scattered. You're going

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to come back together in the resurrection. It's

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not going to be Joe Schmoe's femur attached to

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somebody else's patella. Everybody has their

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own bones. God knows where we all are. But the

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thing about the bones that Dean was commenting

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about is that they are representing eternity.

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And I have been on the trail of... bones for

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a long, long time before we ever met Dean, because

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of that scripture in Psalms 3510 that says, all

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my bones will say, Lord, or Yehovah, who is like

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you, who rescues the afflicted from him who is

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too strong for him. And this is the amplified,

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who is too strong for him to resist alone and

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the afflicted and the needy from him who robs

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him. There's nobody like God. There's nobody

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like Yehovah, the one who was and who is and

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who is to come. He is the eternal one. And so

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he's got this characteristic of eternity. He

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is the source of eternity. He always has been.

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He always will be. And he's put this eternity

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in our bones so that we'll say forever. while

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our bones are still in the grave or wherever

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they are, that our bones are still going to be

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saying, there's nobody like you. There's nobody

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like you. There's absolutely nobody like you.

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You are without comparison. And so while your

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spirit is in heaven already worshiping, your

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bones are still in the ground saying, there's

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nobody like you. There's nobody like you. And

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it's just... It's just interesting, you know,

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this idea of the bones. I don't know if you remember

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biology, anatomy and physiology, maybe just biology

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from eighth grade or something like that, where

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you'll learn about some things about the bones.

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And your bones are actually living. We kind of

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think about the bones as being like dead because

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they're just hard. Yeah, you see so much of that

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in the culture we have now. You see a lot of

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skulls and skeletons and stuff. Going into a

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chiropractor's office sometimes, there'd be some

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one or two, maybe somewhere, had the skeleton

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of all the bones, you know. Yeah, they're teaching

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tools, really. Teaching tools, yeah. But, you

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know, I never really thought in terms of my bones

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being alive. But they are. They're a part of

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our living. Don't they produce the blood? Yes,

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yes. The bone marrow produces the blood. The

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bone marrow produces the blood. There's the soft

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part. There's the spongy part of your bones.

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And then there's a hard part of your bones. And

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the marrow is actually producing the red blood

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cells and the white blood cells and the platelets.

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Those are the three main things in your blood.

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That your blood is, remember the word says, the

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life of the flesh is in the blood, right? What

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are some other characteristics about your bones?

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Like, what would we look like if we didn't have

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bones? We'd just be a pile of stuff that couldn't

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get around, right? You know, you have to have

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bones. It's a structure. It's the central structure

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that allows you to move. It's the central structure

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that protects your vital organs. you know, like

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your skull protects your brain and your eyes,

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you know, you've got the shape of your skull

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that's like covering and protecting your eyes.

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And your whole rib cage is protecting your vital

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organs, your heart, your lungs. And then your

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bones are always adapting. There's always this

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construction and destruction and restructuring

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that's going on. And some of the time, you know,

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as people, tend to age. They tend to, they, I'm

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talking about they, not us. They tend to stop

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moving around so much. When you're younger and

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you're more active, your bones are adapting.

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to the stresses of life because your muscles

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are pulling on your bones. And because, you know,

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your muscles attach to your bones so that you

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can move at your joints, right? So what's amazing

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is that you can actually rebuild the structure

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of your bones, especially if you've lost some.

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Yeah, or if you break a bone, they put it in

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a splint. Right. Or a cast. Or a cast and tape

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it up and the bone will knit itself. Right. And

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it's stronger where the break was than it was

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before. But when you have osteoporosis or osteopenia,

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I think it's called, where there's a weakness

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in the bones, you can actually rebuild that by

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exercise. You begin to put stress and you do

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it gently. You don't do it. all at once. There's

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lots of videos out there on YouTube for rebuilding

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your bone structure. I've been looking a little

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at them. The point that I'm trying to get to

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is that this structure is living and it is going

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through changes all the time. It's adapting.

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It's adapting. So it can adapt back to strength

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if we will help it. Our bones will continue to

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improve as we work at it, right? So the word

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in Hebrew for bones is etzem. And it means bone.

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And think eternal, okay? Remember what Dean said

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about there's something about the bones that's

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eternal. And it's not like we're trying to give

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all the answers on this, but these are some thoughts

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that the Lord has put into our hearts. It means

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bone. It means essence. It means substance. And

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it's talking about the body and the limbs and

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the external body. But it also means yourself.

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So there's something about your bones that has

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to do with yourself. So your DNA is in your bones,

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like these archaeologists and paleontologists

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that have found ancient bodies, like they have

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found... bodies of the Philistines in an ancient

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cemetery in the area around Ashkelon. not far

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from the Gaza Strip, where the Philistines used

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to live. And they found an ancient cemetery and

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they can go into the teeth, which have some of

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the hardest substance, and still find some DNA

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so that they can understand who these people

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were. So there's DNA, your DNA, your very substance

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is in your bones and even in your teeth. It's

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amazing. So there's more to this then meets the

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eye. And as we get into this, I'm hoping the

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Lord will help me show you something that is

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eternal here and something that will help us

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in our walk with the Lord. It's not just about

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bones, okay? We don't want to lose anybody off

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the podcast because we're talking about just

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bones. Right. Don't get weirded out about the

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bones. But it also means like this very. Like

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this very day, or this self -same day, as King

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James would say. So the same word for bones is

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used in making a point about a point in time.

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Like it says in Genesis 7, 13, it says, on the

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very same day, etsem, yom etsem, or etsem yom,

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the same day, the very same day. Noah and Shem

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and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah and Noah's

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wife and the three wives of his sons went with

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them and entered into the ark. So it's making

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a point of a point in time. So your bones or

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your substance or your very DNA, it's the very

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substance of you. Okay, so your bones are important.

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So what happened? when Jacob brought his family

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down into Egypt and found that Joseph was, he's

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nearly the head honcho. He's the second in command

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over all of Egypt. And when Jacob died, they

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carried his body back to the promised land and

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buried him next to his father, Isaac, who was

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buried next to his father, Abraham. So Abraham,

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Isaac, and Jacob were all buried together. in

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the cave of Machpelah in Hebron. And according

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to the testimonies of the patriarchs, whether

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that was really written by the patriarchs or

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written by somebody else later, it indicates

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that they were all buried in Hebron also, in

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the cave of Machpelah. So when Joseph, before

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Joseph died, what did he make them promise? Genesis

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50, 25. Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear,

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saying, God will surely visit you and take care

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of you, returning you to Canaan. And when that

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happens, you shall carry my bones up from here.

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Yeah. I guess Moses would have, because of his

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position being raised in Pharaoh's house, he

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knew where the bones were. Sure he would. That

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would have been known to all the Israelites because

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they would have buried Joseph with the highest

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Egyptian honors, whatever that looked like. But

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Joseph wasn't an Egyptian. And he wanted to be

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buried with the rest of his family. Remember

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how Dean Braxton always talks about family in

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heaven is so important, that it's an eternal

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thing. Family is eternal. So our bones even belong

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together. You know, that's why you have a family

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cemetery plot. Let's not get into that. That's

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not the point. But the point is that when they

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did go up out of Egypt 400 years later. they

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remembered where Joseph's bones were. And they

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said, okay, let's take his bones and let's go.

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Let's just strap that box onto a camel and we'll

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just... Right, right. And actually, Joseph wasn't

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buried with the rest of the brothers in Hebron,

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in the cave of Machpelah. He was buried in the

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plot that Jacob gave him up in Shechem. where

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his, you know, Jacob's well is, right? And that

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became the place that the Samaritans had in the

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days of Jesus. So I often think of when Jesus

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was sitting by the well and talking to the woman

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at the well, he's thinking about here's the place

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where. Joseph's bones are, and there's going

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to be a resurrection soon here, boy. Can you

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imagine going through the desert for 40 years

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carrying this box of bones around? Everybody

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else got probably buried in the sand, you know,

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as they died. It doesn't say what happens to

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those that died in plagues out of rebellion.

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Of course, the earth opened up and swallowed

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Korah and company. You didn't have to bury them.

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But everybody else must have just been buried

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in the sand. But the bones of Joseph, you know,

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they just kept carted around. In all those years.

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Yeah. Because of the importance of that. It's

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true. It's true. So you've got the bones, the

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dry bones of Ezekiel that we mentioned earlier,

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and how God is talking even then about bones.

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Can these bones live? That was the question to

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Ezekiel. Ezekiel, can these bones live? You know,

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when God asks you a question and you don't know

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the answer, you say, well, you know. Yeah, Lord,

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thou knowest. And so, you know, here's this beautiful

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story of bones that he prophesies the flesh over.

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So it's like a resurrection that they're being

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called into a resurrection. Of course, we know

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that that is. picture of the resurrection of

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the nation of Israel. And we've seen it. Well,

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it happened a little bit before we were born.

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But, you know, God is faithful to his word and

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he's faithful even to the bones. And don't we

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talk about something being true to the bone or

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bad to the bone or it means something that goes

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all the way to your core. In Israel, if there

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was a suicide bomber, something happens and a

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person is blown to bits. So it's like they will

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get every piece of flesh they can find. They

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meaning the Orthodox people. What do they call

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the... I don't know what they're called. They

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have a special... It's a special group of Orthodox

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men that go around and collect all the pieces

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because every piece of a person's body is sacred.

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Wow. Even in death. Even in death. And that's

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why... There are so many things about the tradition,

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about the way that Jesus was buried, you know,

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that the face cloth that was over his face after

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he died, you know, they covered his face. And

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then that was folded up and put in a different

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place when he was put into the shroud. And the

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interesting thing is those two pieces of cloth

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match in their markings of, you know, where the

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bloodstains are. They match identically. Anyway,

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every piece of a person is sacred. And God wants

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us to understand that he didn't intend for our

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bodies to be dying. That came with the disobedience.

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And it's interesting when somebody like loses

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a limb or something, they have what they call

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phantom pains. Yeah. You know, like it's gone,

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but there's still pain like it's there. I mean,

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we haven't experienced it. I haven't lost anything.

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No, and we're not planning to either. We're not

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planning to either. But I remember hearing somebody

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talking about how even though that portion of

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the limb has been cut off, that the spiritual

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part is still there. And that's why they have

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phantom pain, because there is still the spiritual

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part. And that's the part that can regenerate

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the limb. If you remember the story of what happened

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in Azusa Street, there was a man who came in.

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He was an amputee. Yeah. And he'd lost the lower

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part of his leg, and he was having trouble with

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the stump. And he was walking on like a peg leg.

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Peg leg, yeah. And he was having trouble with

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the stump, that the stump was bleeding and raw.

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And so they started praying for him, and the

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limb regrew. And watched it happen. Yeah, they

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watched it happen. And, you know, the stories

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are out there, the eyewitnesses that saw it.

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So it's there in the spirit. And this is where

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we need to catch the connection between the spirit

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and the bones, the spirit and the body, because

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God made us to be one. And that's another one

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of the things that Dean talked about in the last

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episode about how. When we get our resurrected

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bodies, we won't be just spirit, soul, and body.

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We'll be one. And that's exciting. That's exciting

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to think about. But the thing that has been in

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my spirit that I've been meditating on is the

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idea that Jesus is the truth. He's the way, the

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truth, and the life. And there's something about

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truth and Jesus himself within us. You know,

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we invite him to come and live in us, and we

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are also clothed in him. So he's in us and we're

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in him. And it's like a substance in the spirit

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that we are supported by him as truth. Okay,

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it's kind of like he becomes the bones for us

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in the spirit realm. The word truth is emet.

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Remember, the word for bones is etzem. I don't

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think that there's any relationship in the words,

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the root words, but it's emet in the Hebrew,

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and it means firmness, faithfulness. truth, sureness,

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reliability, stability, continuance, faithfulness,

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reliableness, and truth, okay? And just to go

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back to that word for bones, the root word for

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bones is the word atzom, and it means to be vast,

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to be numerous, to be mighty. The Gesenius lexicon

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says it means to bind, to bind fast, to tie up.

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to become strong. So you have this idea of bones

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coming from the word for firmness. We're going

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into Jesus being our firmness, our stability,

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our faithfulness. That's the word for truth.

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The word for truth is stability and peace and

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stability. It means firmness. And it's a security.

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So it has to do with anyone who is consistent

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and performs promises. So that is who our God

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is. And he made our bones to be a physical structure

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that would have this firmness and stability for

00:26:41.849 --> 00:26:44.970
our bodies to hold us up. So we're seeing this

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in the physical realm. And he is that in the

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spirit realm. He designed us to begin with not

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to have death and not to have disease and not

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to have things that would cause death. But he

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designed us to be one. And that's what he's going

00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:06.599
to do again. But it's all because of Jesus, right?

00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:13.420
So we have Jesus being that truth for us. It

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talks about, you know, I keep going back. over

00:27:17.029 --> 00:27:20.589
and over again, to the visitation that Moses

00:27:20.589 --> 00:27:24.109
had on Mount Sinai when he said, show me your

00:27:24.109 --> 00:27:29.950
glory. And in Exodus 34, it says that the Lord

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like roared his name, Yehovah, Yehovah. He says

00:27:34.470 --> 00:27:38.109
he's compassionate and gracious, slow to anger

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and abounding in loving kindness and truth or

00:27:42.250 --> 00:27:45.839
faithfulness. So the faithfulness, faithfulness

00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:51.059
and truth are really the same idea. You can count

00:27:51.059 --> 00:27:54.859
on him. You can count on his faithfulness. He

00:27:54.859 --> 00:27:59.779
is faithful. He is watching over his word to

00:27:59.779 --> 00:28:03.079
perform it. He is going to do everything he says

00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.119
he's going to do. And he gives us a word, and

00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.180
then he steps back to let us be tested in it.

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Are you going to stick with this? Are you going

00:28:13.299 --> 00:28:16.359
to be faithful to my word that I've given you?

00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:23.799
And just like our bone structure, he is there

00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.200
for stability. He is there for us for firmness.

00:28:27.299 --> 00:28:31.940
He is there for us to count on him. Okay? Psalm

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31 .5 says, And we heard Jesus say this on the

00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.700
cross, right? Into your hand I commit my spirit.

00:28:39.099 --> 00:28:42.839
You have redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth

00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:46.700
and faithfulness. What does Psalm 40, 11 say?

00:28:47.539 --> 00:28:50.440
Do not withhold your compassion and tender mercy

00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:53.539
from me, O Lord. Your loving kindness and your

00:28:53.539 --> 00:28:57.500
truth will continually preserve me. See, loving

00:28:57.500 --> 00:29:01.759
kindness is that chesed, that, yeah, loving kindness.

00:29:01.819 --> 00:29:05.890
It's kind. It's kindness that comes out of love,

00:29:06.009 --> 00:29:11.049
and it has to do with his commitment. It's like

00:29:11.049 --> 00:29:14.990
a covenant commitment that he is going to keep

00:29:14.990 --> 00:29:19.910
his promises in love and in kindness. What about

00:29:19.910 --> 00:29:24.210
Psalm 8611? Teach me your way, O Lord, and I

00:29:24.210 --> 00:29:27.490
will walk and live in your truth. Direct my heart

00:29:27.490 --> 00:29:31.630
to fear your name with awe -inspired reverence

00:29:31.630 --> 00:29:35.190
and submissive wonder. Isn't that beautiful?

00:29:35.509 --> 00:29:38.950
Yeah, it's amplified. Yes, yes. It has to do

00:29:38.950 --> 00:29:41.769
with him teaching us his way. And when we humble

00:29:41.769 --> 00:29:45.589
ourselves and submit to him, he will teach us

00:29:45.589 --> 00:29:49.789
his ways. And when he teaches us his ways and

00:29:49.789 --> 00:29:52.130
we see how much better his ways are than our

00:29:52.130 --> 00:29:57.970
ways, then we can lean on him. We can depend

00:29:57.970 --> 00:30:03.220
on him. He is our stability. He is our security,

00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:05.980
just like our bones are in our bodies, right?

00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:11.740
Direct my heart to fear your name with awe -inspired

00:30:11.740 --> 00:30:13.819
reverence and submissive wonder. Isn't that beautiful?

00:30:14.420 --> 00:30:18.279
And then verse 15 of the same chapter. But you,

00:30:18.339 --> 00:30:21.960
O Lord, are a God who protects and is merciful

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:27.160
and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in

00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:31.640
loving kindness and truth. Truth. Abounding in

00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:36.720
loving kindness and truth. This is his character.

00:30:37.180 --> 00:30:41.119
This is what he is trying to work in us by his

00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.259
Holy Spirit. That's working his character. We

00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:49.640
are designed to work with him, to be like him,

00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:53.980
to become like him, to grow up into looking like

00:30:53.980 --> 00:30:57.480
dad. You know, sometimes you look at a baby.

00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:01.079
And you think, OK, that child looks like his

00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:04.859
mom or his dad or whoever. And then as the child

00:31:04.859 --> 00:31:07.720
grows up, you know, sometimes there's this kind

00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:09.740
of waffling back and forth. Sometimes he looks

00:31:09.740 --> 00:31:12.779
like mom. Sometimes he looks like dad. But as

00:31:12.779 --> 00:31:17.740
they grow older, often, often you will find that

00:31:17.740 --> 00:31:21.220
the son looks like the father. And I find it.

00:31:21.579 --> 00:31:26.220
Amazing, especially in like family members. When

00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:29.660
I see, like I noticed my uncle one time, how

00:31:29.660 --> 00:31:33.680
much he looked like his dad. It was like, oh,

00:31:33.859 --> 00:31:36.720
wow, I wasn't expecting that. He just looked

00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:40.039
just so much like his dad. And that's the goal,

00:31:40.059 --> 00:31:43.839
is that we look like father as we grow more mature.

00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.220
Yeah, I remember when it had been a few years

00:31:47.220 --> 00:31:51.299
or so since we'd seen Papa Dorn. And we got together

00:31:51.299 --> 00:31:54.380
and he says, oh, you're looking more like Estobus

00:31:54.380 --> 00:31:58.799
every day. It's true. It's true. And just the

00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:01.039
other day, didn't I say, oh, honey, you look

00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:05.579
just like your dad when he had a beard. Yeah.

00:32:06.059 --> 00:32:11.440
Yeah, absolutely. It just is astounding how that

00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:15.119
family characteristic is there. And that's the

00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:18.069
picture. And I have two brothers. And when I

00:32:18.069 --> 00:32:21.089
grew my beard, I looked like one, which would

00:32:21.089 --> 00:32:24.430
look more like my dad. But when I grew my beard,

00:32:24.589 --> 00:32:27.509
I looked a lot like the other brother that's

00:32:27.509 --> 00:32:31.809
had a beard all his life since he was 19. And

00:32:31.809 --> 00:32:35.430
I thought that's just amazing when a little hair

00:32:35.430 --> 00:32:40.250
on your chin just changes the way you look. Yeah,

00:32:40.250 --> 00:32:43.230
it's true. But here's the point, that we are

00:32:43.230 --> 00:32:46.589
supposed to be growing up. to look like our Father

00:32:46.589 --> 00:32:54.029
and to carry these characteristics of His faithfulness.

00:32:54.849 --> 00:32:59.329
His faithfulness. He is faithful. And really,

00:32:59.430 --> 00:33:02.930
the way that we become faithful is by leaning

00:33:02.930 --> 00:33:06.890
into Him. I was studying the other day about

00:33:06.890 --> 00:33:10.700
the Beatitudes. And I'm excited. We're going

00:33:10.700 --> 00:33:14.220
to have Flo Ehlers on soon. And she's going to

00:33:14.220 --> 00:33:17.019
teach us some more about a comment that she made

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about sandwiching. the gifts of the Spirit in

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between the blessings of the Beatitudes and the

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:29.339
fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5, that you

00:33:29.339 --> 00:33:33.579
hold the gifts in between those two things. I'm

00:33:33.579 --> 00:33:35.980
really looking forward to that. So I was meditating

00:33:35.980 --> 00:33:38.500
on that idea, and I went to the first of the

00:33:38.500 --> 00:33:43.000
Beatitudes in Matthew 5 .3, and it says, Blessed

00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.599
are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom

00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:49.839
of heaven. And I thought, I got to dig a little

00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:51.799
more in here because I never really did understand

00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:56.460
that one. And as I dug into it, it really means

00:33:56.460 --> 00:34:02.279
that you're so poor that you're a beggar. Like

00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:05.359
somebody who is poor, there's another word in

00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:10.099
the Greek for poor that means poor in the way

00:34:10.099 --> 00:34:12.519
that we would probably consider poverty where,

00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:16.079
you know, you just are barely getting by and

00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.699
you don't have anything that you can, there's

00:34:20.699 --> 00:34:24.139
no extras. You're just getting enough to feed

00:34:24.139 --> 00:34:27.579
your family or whatever. But this other poor

00:34:27.579 --> 00:34:32.440
means an absolute beggar. You are depending on

00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:35.199
the mercy of someone else to provide for you.

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And when you are that way, in your spirit, you

00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:45.079
realize there's not a thing that I can do to

00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.880
provide my own righteousness. All of our righteousnesses

00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:52.059
are as filthy rags, right? That's what the word

00:34:52.059 --> 00:34:59.880
says. So our ability to provide our own sustenance,

00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:05.280
to provide our own security, to provide for the

00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:09.239
ability to move. all of these things, we're dependent

00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:14.880
on him. We're dependent on his goodness and his

00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:18.860
mercy. And when we see that everything is coming

00:35:18.860 --> 00:35:21.760
from him and not from our own hard work, you

00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:27.820
know, a lot of the time we're really behind in

00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:32.840
the ways of God because we try to provide for

00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.159
ourselves. We think that God has given me this

00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:41.539
gift, and so I'm going to use this gift to provide

00:35:41.539 --> 00:35:44.800
for myself. I'm going to use this gift to provide

00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:48.360
for my family. And while that does help you have

00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:50.739
a pretty good work ethic, and there's something

00:35:50.739 --> 00:35:54.840
good to be said about that, when we learn to

00:35:54.840 --> 00:36:00.659
rest in His provision, when we learn to rest

00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:05.449
in the fact that really, the best we can do is

00:36:05.449 --> 00:36:09.590
still falling short. We're just not getting there.

00:36:09.730 --> 00:36:12.769
We don't have what it takes to do it ourselves,

00:36:13.070 --> 00:36:19.789
but he does. And as we yield to him, as we say,

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I can't do this. I can only do this if you'll

00:36:23.630 --> 00:36:27.539
help me. I'll do anything you say. But you've

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:29.420
got to give me the strength. You've got to give

00:36:29.420 --> 00:36:31.300
me the energy. You've got to give me what it

00:36:31.300 --> 00:36:34.079
takes. That's submitting to him. Yeah. It's a

00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:36.940
submission to him that puts us in a place of

00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:40.599
rest, that puts us in a place of dependence on

00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:44.139
him. You know, especially as Americans and as

00:36:44.139 --> 00:36:47.860
Western society, we have placed such a value

00:36:47.860 --> 00:36:51.539
on independence. And, you know, we're coming

00:36:51.539 --> 00:36:57.719
up on our 250th Independence Day. And really,

00:36:58.059 --> 00:37:03.500
in the face of eternity, I understand they were

00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:07.960
pushing, we have no king but Jesus. But we kind

00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:14.159
of have lost that idea of, we need Jesus to be

00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:18.570
our king. We need to be dependent on him. And

00:37:18.570 --> 00:37:23.050
I love the movie that we saw a while back about

00:37:23.050 --> 00:37:27.250
A Great Awakening where George Whitefield is

00:37:27.250 --> 00:37:32.530
preaching and Ben Franklin is, you know. Like

00:37:32.530 --> 00:37:35.429
he's just not moved. Yeah, he's unmoved by the

00:37:35.429 --> 00:37:39.769
whole thing. But the idea that independence from

00:37:39.769 --> 00:37:44.659
England was what they were after. it still required

00:37:44.659 --> 00:37:47.739
dependence on God. They couldn't come up with

00:37:47.739 --> 00:37:50.699
any kind of a constitution if they didn't stop

00:37:50.699 --> 00:37:54.440
to pray. It was the stopping to pray and taking

00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:58.360
a time alone with God that enabled them to have

00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:01.460
the unity to be able to come up with a constitution.

00:38:02.019 --> 00:38:06.500
And so it's our dependence on him, our absolute

00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:10.880
dependence on his ability to structure us, and

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:14.619
his faithfulness and his truth. You know, if

00:38:14.619 --> 00:38:17.960
you don't have truth inside of you, you're not

00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:22.159
ever going to accomplish. what he put you here

00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.840
to do. You know, you have to be true to yourself.

00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:29.340
What's it they talk about cognitive dissonance?

00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:32.820
When there's something going on in you that maybe

00:38:32.820 --> 00:38:36.039
your words are not agreeing with your core values

00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:38.860
or your thinking isn't agreeing and there's something

00:38:38.860 --> 00:38:43.980
that's wrestling inside of you that it's just

00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:47.960
not coming together right. This is where God

00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:51.679
wants to align us with his word and align us

00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:55.079
with his ways, and then it begins to work. And

00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:59.480
then as we're depending on him, as we're yielding

00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:03.019
to him, as we're just in that beggarly place,

00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:06.579
that's where we begin to operate in the kingdom

00:39:06.579 --> 00:39:10.519
of God. We can operate on earth as it is in heaven

00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.460
because everything in heaven depends on the life

00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:18.750
that comes from him. And we really need to depend

00:39:18.750 --> 00:39:23.550
on him now. So we have this beautiful idea of

00:39:23.550 --> 00:39:28.989
putting our trust in him. When we trust in him,

00:39:29.150 --> 00:39:33.429
we are becoming one with his faithfulness because

00:39:33.429 --> 00:39:37.449
he's trustworthy. He is true. He is the way,

00:39:37.510 --> 00:39:41.030
the truth, and the life. So he is that stability.

00:39:41.250 --> 00:39:46.650
And he becomes that structure. like our bones.

00:39:47.530 --> 00:39:50.429
Jesus is the spiritual equivalent of our bones.

00:39:50.730 --> 00:39:53.070
Jesus is truth. You want me to read that? Yeah.

00:39:53.710 --> 00:39:57.349
Jesus is truth. It is his presence in us that

00:39:57.349 --> 00:40:01.130
is the spiritual equivalent of our bones. Structure,

00:40:01.289 --> 00:40:05.409
protection, produces blood for life, ever adapting

00:40:05.409 --> 00:40:09.190
to the needs of the body. That's Jesus. There's

00:40:09.190 --> 00:40:12.349
power in bones. We didn't mention what happened

00:40:12.349 --> 00:40:15.980
to Elisha. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. You remember

00:40:15.980 --> 00:40:19.059
when the dead man, they threw, why weren't they

00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:21.780
covered up? I don't know. But where Elisha's

00:40:21.780 --> 00:40:24.739
bones were, they threw them on Elisha's bones

00:40:24.739 --> 00:40:27.059
and he came to life. Yeah, because there was

00:40:27.059 --> 00:40:29.000
still power. There was power in those bones.

00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:34.940
In those bones. So, yeah, there's life. There's

00:40:34.940 --> 00:40:36.519
that eternal thing. Isn't that an amazing story?

00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:40.300
Yeah, it is. It is. Wow, wow. And there's power

00:40:40.300 --> 00:40:46.329
in Jesus. Yeah. He is that spiritual equivalent

00:40:46.329 --> 00:40:50.070
of our bones. So Jesus provides a structure,

00:40:50.230 --> 00:40:55.349
right? We can depend on him. We can move because

00:40:55.349 --> 00:40:58.429
we have bones. We can move because we have Jesus

00:40:58.429 --> 00:41:03.550
inside of us. We have protection. He is the one

00:41:03.550 --> 00:41:07.420
that protects us, you know? We run into him like

00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:10.300
the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous

00:41:10.300 --> 00:41:12.860
run into it and they're safe. That's who he is

00:41:12.860 --> 00:41:18.119
to us. He is our protector and his blood. We

00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:21.719
have life because he shed his sinless blood for

00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:25.679
us. And we plead the blood. We use it like in

00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:28.840
a courtroom where, you know, you're declaring

00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:31.659
either you're guilty or you, how do you plead?

00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:36.460
guilty, not guilty, or I plead the blood. The

00:41:36.460 --> 00:41:40.539
blood of Jesus covers my sins. He washed away

00:41:40.539 --> 00:41:43.760
my sins with his blood. His blood became the

00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:48.659
payment for my sins. And so he produces this

00:41:48.659 --> 00:41:52.519
blood of life for us. And just like our bones

00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:56.239
are continuously adapting, there's stuff going

00:41:56.239 --> 00:42:00.219
on all the time. Our bones are continuously making

00:42:00.219 --> 00:42:03.659
blood for us. They're adapting. They're strengthening.

00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:07.440
They're adapting to our situations. That's what

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:11.059
Jesus is to us. I mean, he's the same yesterday,

00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:15.880
today, and forever. So he's this unchanging structure

00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:21.659
that we can depend on. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:26.039
So let's look to the Lord in prayer. Father,

00:42:26.059 --> 00:42:29.800
we thank you that you are faithful and true.

00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:35.989
Faithful and true. Faithful. and true. We can

00:42:35.989 --> 00:42:39.190
trust your faithfulness. We can trust in your

00:42:39.190 --> 00:42:42.150
truth that there's no lie that's coming to us

00:42:42.150 --> 00:42:45.389
that your Holy Spirit won't help us discern.

00:42:45.670 --> 00:42:49.949
Lord, that everything that we need, you are all

00:42:49.949 --> 00:42:52.949
that to us. And Lord, we just thank you that

00:42:52.949 --> 00:42:57.489
you've given us this little look into a kind

00:42:57.489 --> 00:43:01.639
of an Odd idea. But Lord, we thank you that our

00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:05.420
bones are eternal and they're to remind us of

00:43:05.420 --> 00:43:08.179
eternity and they're to remind us of your faithfulness

00:43:08.179 --> 00:43:12.639
and your structure and your protection. We bless

00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:14.900
you for that, Father, and we thank you for it.

00:43:14.940 --> 00:43:18.019
We thank you, Jesus, that when you were on the

00:43:18.019 --> 00:43:22.960
cross, that not one bone was broken. We thank

00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:26.570
you for that, Lord. bless you. And we just hold

00:43:26.570 --> 00:43:29.510
this over all of our listeners and viewers, Lord,

00:43:29.610 --> 00:43:33.030
that we will all begin to walk in a greater,

00:43:33.090 --> 00:43:37.769
greater dependence on you, a dependence and a

00:43:37.769 --> 00:43:41.949
trust in your structure for us. In Jesus' name,

00:43:42.090 --> 00:43:51.019
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