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That's right. the I I want to care for you, but I care about this. >> That's that's so great, Ben, because I think a lot of people like, I don't know what to tell tell God in prayer. Well, just be in silence. Yeah. >> And then you're going to get distracted by something. You're remembering, oh, I've

at's not even it's maybe not even the most I mean it's a big one but it's maybe not even the most convincing one right of course you can read Philippians 2 he who was in the form of God didn't count equality with God something to be taken advantage of right uh and so he took on the form of a servant

king with the Romans and these Romans have been Savage to the Jews they have been terrorizing the Jews in the land I mean I I typically would students speak of them as terrorists right because it helps us understand what it is that uh would have been involved here now one of the Apostles is Simon th

g over them and and choosing a a king like all the nations have right and eventually they have a davidic king and the idea is that God Reigns through this figure especially David a man after God's Own Heart and then the son of David the the kingdom of David is especially associated with the kingdom

nd Jesus says, if you want to follow along, it's Mark 12. He answered, "The first is this here, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with your heart, with all your soul, with your mind, and with all your strength." And then the second, love your neighbor as y

hat they're aware of the book of >> Enoch. Yeah, it seems to know about Enoch or things about that are quoted by Enoch. Yeah, there seems to be an awareness of it. Yeah. One of the things I looked up uh when I was like this is interesting. Shamaya Shamayaza where is that name come from? So I looked

means I think is that there's a way of um there's a way of looking at the tradition that says you know what things are so bad today we made a big mistake we just need to go back to the 19th century everything that was done then it was better whereas in fact the church is trying to respond to the pre

from the ground is is an echo to Jesus's resurrection. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> So you have death and then you have resurrection imagery. >> Um and then uh then I think the the clearest echo to what Christ actually does is also takes us back to the first book of the Bible in Genesis 3 because the Goliath

gels are filled with craven desire is the language he uses. And then the giants are born from angels uh having a union with women and then the angels are punished into eternal darkness and that that's the nephilim. >> Yep. >> What's scriptural? >> Yeah. You know, this is evoking Genesis chapter 6 to

powerful as a two-edged sword and nowhere is this articulated more clearly than in the epistle to the Hebrews here we have in Hebrews 4 the following indeed the word of God is living and active sharper than any two-edged sword so the speech of God sharper than a sword it pierces until it divides sou