Nov. 12, 2025

Children of God — A Biblical Theology of Adoption 2 | Adopted by the Father: His Loving Plan and Preparation

Children of God — A Biblical Theology of Adoption 2 | Adopted by the Father: His Loving Plan and Preparation

Episode 2.56


Before the world began, the Father had already decided to make us His own.

In this week’s episode, Zach and Michael trace the doctrine of adoption back to its eternal source—God’s loving plan “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:3–6). Adoption is not a divine backup plan but the very heartbeat of redemption.


The discussion unpacks how the Father chose, predestined, and purposed our adoption in love through Christ—joyfully, not reluctantly. His design was always to create a family of sons and daughters who reflect His holiness and live “to the praise of His glorious grace.”


Listeners are invited to:

– Rest in the Father’s plan — chosen before creation.

– Rejoice in His love — wanted, not pitied.

– Rely on His faithfulness — secure in His will.

– Respond in worship — praising the grace that made us His.


The episode closes by contrasting earthly adoption—beautiful but uncertain—with divine adoption—undeserved yet guaranteed. “The fix is in,” the hosts say: before time began, the Father had already written the ending. Through Christ, we are not merely accepted—we are wanted, chosen, and eternally loved.


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121 Does that number mean
anything to you?

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No.
I'm nervous now.

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I'm nervous. 121 We did an
episode oh, a long time ago

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this.
Is like where Jill finally made

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it to 121.
That's what you're saying?

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Yeah, I'm just.
Kidding where we talked about

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goals for this year?
Oh goodness.

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And you said you were going to
do 100 days where you exercise,

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dude.
Yeah.

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And I was like, well, I don't
know if I'll do 100 days where I

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actually get a routine in, but.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100 days of

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closing all three of my rings.
Yeah.

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And when I counted like a week
and a half ago or so, I was like

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surprised.
I was like, I got to see how

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many more I got to get in.
But I'm sorry, at 1:21.

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Killing it.
And I think when I counted days

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that I had an actual extras,
like a actual workout recorded

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was something like 69 or
something.

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I think I had 31.
So I I might be able to get in

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100 actual workouts.
Now I probably need to like slow

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down eating or something 'cause
those things are not in this is.

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Like the problem when not 'cause
I have this problem too.

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When I work out a lot, I eat a
lot more.

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It's hard to.
It's hard to, especially when

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you're trying to lift and stuff.
If you're not eating, you don't

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make progress.
It's like actually demoralizing.

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But you're like, OK, yeah.
Yeah, it's hard.

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If you're lifting with someone
you it's especially if like

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binge you can it's easier to go
to failure.

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Oh yeah.
But if you're not, you don't

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want to.
Like, am I not pushing myself

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hard enough?
Should I push myself harder?

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Yeah.
So also coaching soccer.

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Coaching soccer.
Good times.

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Cool.
It's nothing.

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Nothing.
Nothing stressful, you know?

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Yeah, I Jackson knows what he's
doing.

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Yeah, so, so I feel like you
talking about, we were talking,

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I don't even know when these
will come out.

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So what what I'm about to
reference may not even come out

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yet, but we were talking about
playing cards.

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You were talking about how you
could be kind of ruthless.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I think maybe in your

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maturity, you swing the pendulum
the other way and.

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You know, you might be right,
'cause this, this is what I did

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last year too, when I, when I
had this is, this is my move.

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And the last year was so easy to
do.

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Our team was head and shoulders
better than everyone, my move

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and I.
And when I'm coaching, I hate to

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be perceived as like the coach
that's like biased towards his

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kids.
I would always, every single

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game, Jayden and Jack would play
the whole first quarter on the

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bench.
They would sit out every single

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game.
It'd be like whatever I put them

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both in, we just start
demolished.

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Like it was like it was almost
like I loved it.

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If we could survive the first
quarter.

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We had a really good team.
So I was trying to keep like

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Jackson out and then I put him
in and I really try to limit

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second graders to like three
quarter.

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I try to limit and I try to get,
you know, kindergarteners if two

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to well, it's two, obviously, if
it's a lot of them, three if I

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can, but I know what you're
saying.

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Some, some of it's not conducive
toward, you know, maximizing.

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If I've been a parent where I'm
on the sidelines, I'm like, hey,

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I want my kid to play, but I
also want my kid to win, you

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know what I'm saying?
So put that good kid out on the

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field, give him some scoring
opportunities, you know what I'm

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saying?
Yeah.

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Yeah, 'cause my mind too, what
I, what I would like to do in a

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perfect world and what I would
try to do would put, I would

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like to put.
Simeon and go 100% four

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quarters, is that what you're
thinking?

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No.
That that that's just what I

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would like to.
I like to put like everyone gets

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1/4 on offense, 1/4 on defense
at least.

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And if I could do like Jax and I
go, you know, get some

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experience.
See, the thing, we have one kid,

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hilarious kindergartner.
He just wants to stand in a

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circle.
Right.

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Stand in the circle when the
ball comes by.

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He's like, Dev.
I was like, I was like, hey,

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you're playing.
He's like, I need to say I was

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like, honestly, just stay in a
circle.

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Like doesn't bother me.
Yeah, yeah, we got, we got to

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think about a solution for him.
I thought maybe half of the 1st

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of every quarter.
Yeah, something like that's a

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good.
And you can pull them out.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Something like that is good.

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And I'll tell you this is
bananas.

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One practice I came to to see if
an older brother there was

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someone hit his family got there
early.

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I think it was older brother
that was like, I don't know how

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old, how old he was.
He was like a much older maybe

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like 4th grade or something.
And this kid was like so

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engaged.
He was getting like pushed onto

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the ground.
He was so resilient getting up

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put I was like, I think he's
just comfortable with his family

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and like very especially in a
game when you're playing, you

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see parents and kids you don't
know as.

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Well, you saw an older brother
doing this to this player on

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art, and he was.
Fine.

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And he was like pushing back and
he was like a, he was like

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resilient, which is not the word
I would use.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
He wasn't like melting down and

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then like, it's not, not that
it's like a meltdown, but it's

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like we're just like not engaged
or you know.

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If Simeon's not in goal four
quarters, who's the other person

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in goal?
This.

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Is this is the thing?
Is it Jackson?

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And Jackson played great goalie.
The first time he played goalie,

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he made like, Awesome says.
The second time he played

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goalie, you might have been
gone.

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Did not play well, but it's
because I gave, when I give him

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queuing, it's apparently
terrible cues.

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I was like, hey, you can own
this box.

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Everything in this box is yours.
And what he meant was when the

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he would like just stand in
random places in the box, like

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not in the goal.
He got scored on 'cause he was

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not in the goal one time.
But he's like totally capable.

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What?
You mean is probably have a home

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base here, but don't be afraid
to go out if the ball's there

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and go attack it.
Just get 'cause I would like, I

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think it's good for people to
play like a little bit

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different.
If I, I would, I don't like

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Jackson be a goalie, but I would
like him to play.

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So he's like, OK, this is what
the goalie does.

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But man, it's it just.
And the other thing is when

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Jackson's not playing offense,
it's just night and day.

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Yeah, we don't really have.
And Phoebe was talking.

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Phoebe, you know, she thinks a
lot about this stuff.

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That's.
Good she was.

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Like she was asking how she did
and I was like, I think you did

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well.
I think you've gotten better.

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I think you're more aware of the
overall flow of the game.

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I said, I still think you're a
better defender than a, than an

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offender.
And she's like, well, well, I

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still play offense.
And I was like, yeah, 'cause we,

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we like to play everyone kind of
defense and offense, 'cause

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there, there may be a hidden
offender in there that we don't

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find out until you're a first
grader or second grader as

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you're learning the game.
We don't want to just peg you as

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defense, but there's some people
I think like, can we say names

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here?
I I.

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Don't care.
Brody, he, when he, I've seen

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him naturally, just stay with
the ball and play offense

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really, really naturally where I
don't know that he plays defense

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very naturally.
So yeah.

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There's some people that maybe
are on the other end of that

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like.
No, I, I, I, I think you're

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right.
I try not to like you're saying

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like pigeonhole people, but I
will say when I was a kid, I got

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pigeonholed at like striker,
great thing, best thing for me,

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like love it.
Like never played me a defense,

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Like I love that.
So it can be a good thing, you

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know, too.
And then I get people of like,

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natural inclinations and like,
they're good at certain things.

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Fortunately.
I mean, we've got so many

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kindergartners, it's crazy, But
most?

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Of our it does seem like, and I
don't know, like if you're, if I

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guess we're saying a whole bunch
of names.

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Yeah, put yourself in Steele's
position and let's say you have,

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and I'm not saying this is the
case, but let's say this this is

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the case.
Let's stipulate you've got some

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people.
You think these are good

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coaches?
Probably.

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And you got some people like
maybe not the best coaches.

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Do you still give them kids of
equal thing or do you like

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handicap the good coaches?
Like, you know what, in order to

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make these teams kind of even, I
need to give these people some

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more natural talent and like,
let these.

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Good coaches develop.
I really wonder.

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I think it's such a confluence
of a every coach, which like,

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I'm sure he tried to make it
work for me where I'm coaching

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both age groups.
And so it's time to get like all

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this, this coach come on any
Thursday, Monday, he does like

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that.
And then he tries to lose

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siblings on this, whatever.
And then the other, well, and I

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think what you said might go
into it too.

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And then the other thing that
goes into it is I know for a

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fact 3 kids that were on my team
in years past have they're like

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always together all the time.
They're all really good.

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It's actually probably unfair
that they're always together.

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And I wonder how much is parents
pushing like, hey, we have to do

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this, whether it's a good reason
like carpool, I don't know what

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there might be a good reason
behind it, but it's like last

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year we had three second graders
in addition to Jayden on our

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team, and they were like some of
the better second graders and

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they're on the same team for
3rd.

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It might be coincidence, but I
don't know how much of that

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drives it too.
You know what I mean?

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Where all these things probably
come.

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Together Team Black team.
They're on the green team.

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OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.
And so it's like, I don't know

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how much of that like totally
drives it because at some point

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still price steals.
Like these are battles that I'm

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not going to fight or makes up.
Because I think he's the type of

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guy too, that would be like, no,
you're stacking like he would

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say like you're stacking it.
But if it's like, yeah, there's

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some leeway, he might be like,
hey, this just makes sense,

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whatever.
Yeah, I it's a it's a quandary

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like, yeah, and I'm not
necessarily saying that.

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I'm not saying I don't want to
be like, oh, we're the best

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coaches.
So you.

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But it does seem like we have a
disproportionate number of

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because we we asked for me and
Jonathan to be there.

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So that brings in two female
kindergarteners, Phoebe and

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Everly.
But we have.

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Dude.
Half our team, a whole bunch of

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half our team, we have two. 1st
graders. 3 second graders and

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what 5 I mean, maybe not I mean.
It's a lot of, it's a lot of

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kindergarteners and a lot of
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And there's nothing wrong with
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But but like you know but.
Guys are generally a little bit,

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you know, a little you know.
More aggressive even if they're

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even if the skill level stuff as
a general rule, like I think I

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think yeah and honestly, it's
funny like and.

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We've only had one loss and I
think we could beat that team.

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No, we, we are definitely the
better team.

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We, we, I'm sorry, I I honestly,
I, I, when I get to end of zone,

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like we could like honestly next
time we, I think we, I don't

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know if we play that team next.
Like I'm fine with optimizing

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our lineup because we, we get
like I didn't do it before

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because I probably was arrogant
and thinking like Jackson, just

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go out there and score some
goals.

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You know what I mean?
Like everyone can get like can

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get exposure, they can learn and
we'll still we'll get our take

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and eat it too.
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Think the best place if we
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I think the best place, if
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Jackson on defense.
But say.

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But tell him flow up and play
offense.

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Honestly, yeah.
Flow up and play offense, you

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know, be back for defense.
Like the field's small enough he

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could do it.
But if the ball, if you get a

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break, take it 'cause that's
like if, if we, you know, if I

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could sit down and just have 15
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Talk to him like, hey, this is

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how we're thinking about this.
You're back here, but if you're

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starting dribbling it kind of
like a like a midfielder.

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I know, honestly, I'm fine.
Let's do it for this team we

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lost to last time just to send,
send a message because that's

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what kindergarten through 2nd
grade soccer is about.

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And honestly, I'm fine with
trying Jackson there.

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And it's like, I mean, this kid
was sick yesterday, yesterday,

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and he just banged, you know?
I was really impressed.

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You know the the the other team
may not have optimized their

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goalie.
Though that was a mistake.

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Yeah, yeah.
Because honestly, if we didn't

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have Simeon maybe up a Creek a
little bit, our first graders

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are not good goalies.
I think Jackson could do it.

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You need some coaching the game.
She could play goalie.

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I was like, no, I was like,
let's play to our strength.

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And the kindergarten.
So because the challenge,

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honestly, like we have Asher who
played heck of a game yesterday,

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he's when he's engaged, he's so
good.

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The problem is, I think even in
first grade, you float in and

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out where you're doing
cartwheels.

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Like you get goalie, you're so
disconnected.

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Sometimes you're like you, at
least when he's on the field,

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you can run after a ball, right,
Right.

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But goalie, it's hard.
We're sitting.

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And.
Staying glued to it.

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I think he takes some pride in
it in a good way where he's he's

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got him.
He's like he's like a cheat code

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in goalie for a lot of time.
So honestly, let's just do it

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next time we play that team,
start Jackson.

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Let's get up to a three O lead
and then start, you know, moving

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things around.
Yeah, Yeah.

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It might be good if we, yeah,
there is something I think some

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people play their weakest
lineup, maybe third quarter

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dude, if they're trying to get
everyone in.

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Yeah, because they're trying to,
they're looking towards the

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fourth quarter.
So we need to have Jackson in on

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offense on third quarter.
Yeah, just cause if they had

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that.
Yeah, if they have a weak goalie

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sub in, yeah, that's great.
Well, I hope none of those

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people listen to our podcast
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Or maybe this after after
everything.

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Gotcha.
Yeah man, 3rd through 5th grade

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dude.
Also, I know we're we're running

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a log on this band.
So this is like a whole episode

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of soccer.
Jack Jaden scored a goal from

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the half field circle.
Nice.

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From this and it's like a good
sized field.

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I mean, he wasn't trying to
score, he was trying.

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To see one of his games
sometimes.

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He played his.
I was so proud of him.

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He played his best game.
He's a third grader, 3rd through

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5th.
I think he's been a little like

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intimidate.
He's like a little smaller kid

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out there.
Yesterday was his first game.

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He like looked like a soccer
player.

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He was like receiving them all,
dribbling.

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He's looking up, making passes.
I'm like, oh, you.

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He might not be the best player
out there, but he looked like a

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soccer player.
He was running everywhere and he

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was trying to pass it like he
was doing so good passing.

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He was trying to like really get
a hold of this.

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The ball was like rolling
towards him, trying to kick up

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to a striker.
He got a hold of it from half

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field all over the goal.
He said it was a freak accident,

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but it was like our team playing
so bad.

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Like we had kids run off the
bench and come pick him up and

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it was like the goal of the year
is like so fun for him.

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So I think he got some
encouragement like, oh, now I

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really like soccer, you know, so
hoping we can.

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Good.
Was he not really loving soccer?

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No, he actually really liked it.
But now he like, loves.

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Soccer now.
He's really now.

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Now it's.
Like now he's a soccer.

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Player cause like he, this is
his first game.

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He was actually like not scared
like really 'cause it's like

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he's always got it in him.
He just is like a little bit

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timid played and we, our team
played so good.

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Like we had another guy on our
team score goal who was like

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been trying to put it together,
put together, finally got a

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goal.
So it's like we're coming

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together, but we still lost, but
we're coming together.

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It was good.
So anyway, adoption.

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I was thinking, you know, I
talked about my 100.

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Have you gotten your 100?
You've been tracking that.

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Nailing it and I'll tell you
this is the secret.

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I don't think this is cheating,
but I don't even know what

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number I'm on, but I count like
my key is like 30 minute

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workouts, like I'm not going for
like 2 hours killing myself.

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I, I, I log all my workouts and
it's like, I mean, they're

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nothing like too crazy.
Just like a few exercises and I

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count Saturn's play ultimate.
I'm like, oh, I've ran 3 1/2

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miles.
That's my count.

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But I've got I'm like I'm.
Like 200.

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Maybe not 200, but maybe 200.
Like maybe a lot.

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I've been slacking lately more
because I've been having some

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radial nerve pain.
Like I probably need a good

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chiropractor.
For that I I've been doing some

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like nerve gliding.
It's like killing me because it

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really bothers me.
Would you?

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Ever needle your own nerves?
I would not needle my I would I

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would not dry needle my nerves.
I'm trying to do what they call

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like nerve flossing or nerve
gliding and.

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Like that dance?
Yeah, I'm trying to get cooked

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'cause it's like, oh, when I
grip, it's like I've got my

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sensory nerve.
I don't know where my radial

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nerves impinge and it's really
impacting you.

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May have a verb right out of the
line.

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I know I'm hoping not.
That's what I'm actually I'm

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hoping.
Like a lot of times your radial

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nerve where it kind of wraps
around, it gets kind of impinged

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here.
I'm hoping it's here and not

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here.
That's like when I'm nervous.

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I've got scoliosis, I've got bad
posture.

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I'm like, oh.
I I don't know this to be a

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fact, I'm just repeating what I
was told, but I was told that

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like 80% of adjustment mishaps
come from PTS doing adjustments,

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not who said this.
Chiropractors doing adjustments.

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Unbelievable.
Is that is that, is that true?

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I don't believe it.
You don't believe it?

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I don't believe it.
He was, he was like, it's, you

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know, PTS, they get a little bit
of training, but they don't do

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it all the time believable.
And they don't, you know, and so

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they try to adjust some net
thing and.

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I I need to talk to I would say
this is not true.

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Well, I would say most of the
time I would.

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I would suspect it's not true
just for the fact that PTS

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really as a general rule won't
like.

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We've got rules like you've got
to pass like 5 or 6 benchmarks

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before we would adjust you and a
lot of those like it it the the

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risk for anything going wrong is
so so.

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Low so people you're saying PTS
never even do it?

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Well, not, not if you're on
certain medication, if you're,

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there's certain things that we,
if you have osteoporosis, we

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won't do chiropractors.
Your bones are weak.

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We're still, we're going to do
this left and right.

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But there's certain things
that's like, oh, we're not going

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to do it because if you do this,
you are at a higher risk for an

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event such as like your
vertebral artery or I mean,

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some, some of these things, you
know, very, very rare.

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I'm not saying chiropractors do
these things, but it's like, you

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know, it's all, it's all risk.
So we would do it way less, but

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I would think like the risk of
something going wrong would be

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way less.
I need to, I need to see the

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numbers.
This is.

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This is, Yeah.
Maybe once there's has the study

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been done?
Let's check on the studies.

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I don't know.
I don't know but this.

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Is classic classic chiropractor
not looking, not just not

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looking at the not looking at
hard data.

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He seemed fairly confident.
Yeah, I bet he can cure your

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diabetes and asthma too.
He's never claimed that.

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He's never claimed that, but you
know, he he has, he was saying,

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you know, if you want to come
work out with me, that's fine,

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but I give you stuff to do at
home.

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You can go work out at home.
Like, I'll adjust your, you know

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that.
And he was basically saying, you

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know, PTS just have you work out
in front of them, you know, so.

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Unbelievable what it's such.
A What I need to do is get y'all

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two in a room and just like let
you go go at it but.

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I think chiropractors are good,
but I think it's one of those

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things where it's like, I mean,
how could it?

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Someone just wants you in their
office once a week.

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I'm just like, you should you
should be able to do stuff going

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back to this point.
Like, yeah, do stuff on your own

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to maintain.
You don't need to see someone.

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Else, honestly, that's my
perspective.

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Like I see value in PTI, see
value in Cairo, I see value in

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ENT and gastro and you know,
some of your home stuff, like

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it's probably there's a little
bit of truth.

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Yeah, in all those types of
things.

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Yeah.
I just like poking, I know.

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I know, I know, and I know you
do too.

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And it's works, man.
Yeah, yeah, all.

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Right.
Well, we better adopt our way

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out of this.
Let's.

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Let's do it.
We're in this second, second

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week on adoption.
Let's go ahead and take it to

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the next level from the hearts
of the low country in South

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Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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All right, children of God, a
Biblical Theology of adoption.

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Week 2.
We're kind of covering this in

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Sunday school.
I missed this class.

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Great, this will be good so.
We could talk about.

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Yeah, especially because as I
was even, I'll get your

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perspective on this.
As I was speaking, I was really

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struggling with what kind of
language to use.

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Maybe we'll get to it later, but
do I want to be theologically

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precise, or do I want to try to
play?

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Into some of Tim's comments
today or no?

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I don't No, no, no, I don't
think so.

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And I don't, you probably don't
remember looking at that book.

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I wish I had that book here, but
like that diagram, I wish I had.

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I just showed that thing where
it was like union and Christ

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00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,400
connected with adoption.
And anyway, 'cause that that's

435
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,000
like the thing, all these
adoption books kind of put

436
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,680
adoption closer to union with
Christ, where it's not like a

437
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,160
extension of justification.
But anyway, it'll be good.

438
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,560
So we, we will jump into it.
Hey, we could have used this for

439
00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,200
banter, but we won't.
We soccer has sometimes gotten

440
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,080
terribly wrong.
But this lesson is all about,

441
00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,400
not all about, but emphasis on
God the Father as the purposeful

442
00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,720
planner of our adoption.
With the caveat that.

443
00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,200
When you look at any of these
passages, Ephesians 1, Galatians

444
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,560
4, Romans 8, you can't really
isolate the Trinity.

445
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,160
The trinity's involved, the
Trinity's in the lockstep.

446
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,200
It would be a mistake to say you
can.

447
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,120
We're just putting different
emphasis each week.

448
00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:24,160
So classic text.
Ephesians 1.

449
00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,200
You know it, This is this is one
of those passages.

450
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,280
I feel like we talked about it
not that long ago, probably when

451
00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,680
we were doing one of these
Ephesians things with Paul,

452
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,880
right?
So, so fresh, fresh on the mind

453
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,760
and really what I think on our
notes, I had just a bunch of

454
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,480
different questions like the
what, the why, the when, the

455
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,880
how, all of these things like we
want to ask these questions of

456
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,600
the text.
What we were centering on, if

457
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:53,200
you can guess, was adoption to
himself as sons.

458
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,880
We were kind of focused on that
and looking at this passage

459
00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,200
through that lens.
So I don't know, Michael, do

460
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:00,760
you?
Do you just want to take a deep

461
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,840
breath and just read all these?
Yeah, blessed be the God and

462
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,960
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ

463
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,280
with every spiritual blessing in
the heavenly places, even as He

464
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,920
chose us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we

465
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,920
should be holy and blameless
before Him and then love.

466
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:25,480
He predestined us for adoption
to Himself as sons through Jesus

467
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,840
Christ, according to the purpose
of His will, to the praise of

468
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,880
His glorious grace, which with
which He has blessed us in the

469
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,960
Beloved.
In Him we have redemption

470
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,840
through His blood, the
forgiveness of our trespasses,

471
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:44,680
according to the riches of His
grace which He lavished upon us

472
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:49,040
in all wisdom and insight,
making known to us the mystery

473
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,320
of His will, according to His
purpose which He set forth in

474
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,080
Christ as a plan for the
fullness of time to unite all

475
00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,800
things in Christ, things in
heaven, and things on earth in

476
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,360
Him.
In Him we have obtained an

477
00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:06,080
inheritance, having been
predestined according to the

478
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,760
purpose of Him, who are all
things according to the counsel

479
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,480
of His will.
Awesome.

480
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,200
Thank you, Michael.
The what we're talking about is

481
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,240
adoption as sons, The Who we're
trying to emphasize is the God

482
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,480
and father.
You're like my handwriting,

483
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:22,560
Michael.
It's a little bit a little bit

484
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,720
squiggly here.
The God and Father of our Lord

485
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,400
Jesus Christ.
That's kind of our starting

486
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,600
points and we just worked our
way through asking different

487
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,720
questions and this is where we
start getting some trouble with

488
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,080
some of the theological
precision.

489
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,840
But asking, you know, you know,
talking about when were we

490
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,480
predestined for adoption to
himself for sons really looking

491
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:48,320
back to two verse 4.
He chose us in him before the

492
00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:54,760
foundation of the world.
And I was borrowing this I I was

493
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,720
listening to this by John Piper.
He's got a lot of good resources

494
00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,240
on adoption.
I don't even know this he he

495
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,120
adopted when he was like 50
years old, adopted a child.

496
00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:04,800
Yeah.
And has he?

497
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,360
He's done some really good
sermon series.

498
00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:12,000
He has a son who's kind of this
is Abraham.

499
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,560
Biological, biological.
Abraham Piper, I think it's

500
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:15,760
Abraham.
It's like some biblical name

501
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,640
like that.
It's like cool, that guy is like

502
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,000
on a mission.
I haven't heard of him lately,

503
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,080
but there was a time he's like
really a little little bit a

504
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,760
little bit tough.
But talking about when our

505
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,760
adoption was planned before the
foundation of this is where I

506
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,000
was going.
John Piper, you know, he looks

507
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,160
at this and he would say he's
got this great, great, you know,

508
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,240
little video of his sermon or
something.

509
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,160
He talks about adoption and he's
he puts it in a unique way.

510
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,360
He says adoption is greater than
the universe.

511
00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:51,960
Adoption is before the universe
really adoption is really you

512
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,240
look at a passage like Ephesians
one.

513
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,200
It's the purpose of the
universe, that creation.

514
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,160
So looking at the different
decrees, you know a lot of the

515
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,160
order to try to separate
creation from redemption.

516
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,400
That maybe creations the stage
where redemption happens.

517
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,920
I've never thought about that,
but that's good.

518
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:13,360
So all of this exist as a means
for him to adopt us into his

519
00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:15,760
family.
Where when God thought to

520
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,000
himself, again, not theological,
precise language, you know, how

521
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,160
can I best glorify myself?
How do I bring myself immense

522
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,400
praise?
How do I do these things?

523
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,240
Well, I'm going to create a
world in which there will be

524
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,040
filled with people that I can
adopt to myself.

525
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,560
And so as I'm saying these
things, it's like, I think

526
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,600
that's a good way to communicate
it, but it's always a little

527
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,440
bit, you know, weird when you're
trying to order the different

528
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,520
things God is thinking and you
know, before the foundation of

529
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:42,760
the world.
This is when he's planning your

530
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,960
adoption and these and these
kind of things.

531
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,600
To the praise of his glorious
grace.

532
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,080
That's right there.
Yeah, right, right there.

533
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,200
So weak.
That's great.

534
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,640
Leading into another question.
You know the the why?

535
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,160
One of the wise Yeah, to the
praise and I'm embracing now to

536
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,760
the praise of his glorious
grace.

537
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,200
Another why?
Well, thinking about that, in

538
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,840
that same vein, he starts this
thing out blessed if we kept

539
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,840
going.
Verse 12 and verse 14 also say

540
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,040
very similar things to his
praise to the praise of his

541
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,720
glorious grace.
The other why might be that you

542
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,800
should be holy and blameless
before him that you're adopt.

543
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,920
I like this framework of
adoption where it's not just a

544
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,160
transaction, a legal forensic
term, but it's always it's it's

545
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,520
molding you.
You're changing by virtue of

546
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,400
being adopted.
How did he adopt us?

547
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,040
Another couple answers.
You know, I would say in love

548
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,280
the ESB would say in love the
NESB would K JV.

549
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,000
They put that period after love,
not before.

550
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,480
So they would say actually that
love modifies the other side of

551
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:41,840
it.
I think there's arguments both

552
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,800
ways, but I think in the love
not that it makes that.

553
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,240
Blameless before him.
In love.

554
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,600
In love, he burned out.
Like yeah, right, probably try

555
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,040
to find both and so 2 answers to
the how as well in love.

556
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,240
And the other answer is the
other how is through Jesus

557
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,480
Christ kind of getting me what
Tim was saying.

558
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,840
I made a point last time that
you read this and it's like in

559
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,720
Christ and him and him and him
and him.

560
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,320
It's like that's like the
Ephesians one thing that

561
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:12,400
everything is in Christ.
Sinclair Ferguson, he got a

562
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,880
shout out today.
Were you in the Rebecca?

563
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,000
Yes.
Apparently still alive.

564
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,880
Still alive.
I talked to him last week.

565
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,680
Rob and him are tight.
He has this.

566
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,400
I, I like the way he says this
when he's talking about our

567
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,720
union with Christ.
He's kind of provocative with

568
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:27,840
this, but he's trying to prove a
point.

569
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,720
But he would say Paul never
really thought about himself as

570
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,040
a as a Christian because Paul
didn't ever use that

571
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,280
terminology.
The word Christian was written

572
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,200
down once by Peter, twice by
Luke.

573
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,160
We don't really read that a lot
in our Bibles.

574
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,440
Was like a not necessarily a
favorable label.

575
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,880
Even like, yeah, well, maybe a
little bit pejorative where you

576
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,440
read Scripture, the authors
would more frequently say we're

577
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,080
followers of the way or more
even than that.

578
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,480
Paul's particularly would say we
are in Christ.

579
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,720
So if you ask Paul, you know.
Or the called ones.

580
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:01,920
Are you a believer or the called
ones?

581
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,920
So so it's like, you know, even
even some terminology that

582
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,840
that's primarily kind of how
Paul thinks about believers that

583
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,440
they are in Christ.
You can't can't separate that.

584
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,200
I'm trying to think if there is
any other questions that I was

585
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,200
asking as I was kind of focusing
on three through 5 with with the

586
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,360
father didn't delve too much
farther, but I think I think

587
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,880
that was it.
And it got me thinking.

588
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,640
Maybe the listeners really want
a podcast on lapsarian views and

589
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,000
you'll look at and you'll look
at the logical order of decrees

590
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,960
like you know there's.
Probably people out there, yeah,

591
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,080
that just said, OK, I don't even
know what Zach's talking about.

592
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,720
So what is lapsarian even?
What does that refer to?

593
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,560
I I, I don't, I don't know if it
literally means like decrees or

594
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,840
ordering of decrees.
That's always what I just like

595
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,880
equate with it.
It might not literally mean that

596
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,040
because I know lapsarian is not
like a normal word.

597
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,200
I don't know if that's like
Latin, Greek, whatever, you

598
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,560
know, like that goes into it,
but you can think of like the

599
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,280
way an Armenian would or like
have things ordered.

600
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,120
You would think I always say the
word wrong, but like

601
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,080
Amaryllidian would order things.
And then there's within the

602
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,960
Reform framework, you might have
a infra Lapsarian view or a

603
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,680
supra lapsarian view, whether
you know, before the fall or

604
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,880
after the fall.
How are you ordering things?

605
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,040
Did God create the world?
OK, then man's going to fall.

606
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,000
Or was it like man's going to
fall and then I'm going to

607
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,920
redeem?
Like which order did redemption

608
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,240
the creation, redemption the
fall?

609
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,760
What order did these things
happen?

610
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,800
And you know, if you're supra,
you kind of lean, maybe hyper

611
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,160
Calvin.
It's not really, but like,

612
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,000
that's what people would say.
And we're not talking about

613
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,360
necessarily chronological order.
Yeah, that's important.

614
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,840
That's very.
Important we're talking about

615
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,200
like which one like did God
purpose to do this?

616
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,200
And then so the other things
kind of fell.

617
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,560
Yeah, that, that's beautiful.
Because I think if it was not

618
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,200
logical, we could probably solve
this a lot faster.

619
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,160
We're much like the Ordo
Salutis.

620
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,880
It's like logically ordering it
at a certain time.

621
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,240
And I'm trying, I'm blanking.
Maybe I might look this up

622
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,440
because I'm blanking.
But there's like there.

623
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,000
Yeah.
It's creation, redemption, fall.

624
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,040
There's probably 1.
In there old earth creationism

625
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,880
is in there but but there's
really four and these four

626
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,720
different orderings of how you
would do these Lapserian.

627
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,400
And what does, what do Thomas
say?

628
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:28,160
Because to me, this all sounds a
little bit like my my first

629
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:34,320
blush is as given my training at
SES Southern Avenge at All

630
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,440
Seminary, where I am a 3/4
tomist.

631
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,680
Hell yeah, there you go.
There you go, they would say.

632
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:48,600
I I think we would say God acts
singly from eternally, like

633
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,040
you're trying to split things
apart.

634
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,880
Yeah, and that's what you can't
really.

635
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,080
That, you know, God sees this
perfect plan.

636
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,800
It's his His will to do, you
know that.

637
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,200
And he just, you know, makes it
happen, you know?

638
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,440
Yeah, and, and honestly, it's
probably why I you can parse

639
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,800
this stuff out like too much,
like, who really cares?

640
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,800
These are the decrees if you do
hear God's decree to create the

641
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,400
world for his glory, God's
decree to permit the fall, God's

642
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,480
decree to elect certain fallen
people to salvation by grace in

643
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,480
Christ and God's decree to sin
Christ and the Spirit to save

644
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,120
the elect.
That that's infralapsarianism,

645
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,880
which what most Reformed people
would probably say in this camp

646
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,640
versus supra, which would say
God's decree to predestine the

647
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,000
elect to eternal life first and
then create the world, then

648
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,640
permit the fall and then send a
sun.

649
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,840
So that's the difference.
Like Jonathan Edwards.

650
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,400
No, I will prop my heartstrings
go out to the second one more

651
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,880
than the first one.
Go out to the second one, Supra.

652
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,200
Supra.
Yeah, there you go.

653
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,680
That's like that's like Jonathan
Edwards.

654
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,480
He's like Supra.
And people shy away from it

655
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,240
because I think they don't like
it like they don't like it

656
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,480
versus a lot of people.
If you're reading, reading

657
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,080
everything is like they feel
comfortable with infra because

658
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,000
they they think it's softer.
Let me see the language here.

659
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,200
They like election logically
occurring after the decree of

660
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,880
the fall versus like I purposely
am only saving some people like

661
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,360
you already know you know what I
mean not that it matters that

662
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:25,200
much, but compare that with the
Armenian order would be create

663
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,960
the world.
Then they would say God's

664
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,360
foreknowledge of the fall, then
God decreed descend to sun, then

665
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,080
God's decree to provide a memes
then God's foreknowledge it it's

666
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:35,720
much more elaborate.
You have to cut all these steps.

667
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:40,440
It's not as simple and then the,
you know, and morality in order

668
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,280
is kind of like this this, this
middle, middle grounds between

669
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,040
the two, but you know, anyway.
Yeah, I, I'm comfortable with

670
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,400
saying God is going from, you
know, his, his primary purpose

671
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,840
was create a people that would
be his own.

672
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,000
And how was he going to do that?
Well, he's got a create a people

673
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,480
that's every single one of those
going to be his own.

674
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:07,640
Maybe not.
Roman says explicitly that some

675
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:12,120
were created as vessels of honor
to show his mercy.

676
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,640
Some were created as vessels of
wrath to show his righteousness.

677
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,760
And we don't like that.
I don't like that it's it's

678
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,440
uncomfortable, but in one sense
I don't like it.

679
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,400
In another sense I have to like
it because that's what God

680
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,240
purposed to do.
Like I have to go, yes, God is

681
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,680
just he is going to.
And, and if you've ever kind of

682
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,240
rejoice some, some bit when a
criminal has gotten his just

683
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,160
desserts, like a murderer gets
sent caught and sent to prison

684
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,880
and he's executed and you're
like, yeah, he got what he was

685
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,240
coming to him, then it's that
same sense that you should be

686
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,320
able to rejoice in hell because
there's criminals getting what

687
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,920
they're just deserts.
It's just the fact that, you

688
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,520
know, all of us are, you know,
deserve that, that makes it

689
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,200
uncomfortable.
So I'm very fine.

690
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,320
I'm very comfortable with this,
this supra version of that.

691
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,080
Is that where you would land or
do you think you're you're on

692
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,320
the softer side of infra?
You know, you know, it's, it's

693
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,520
funny you read things because
I'm I'm always just curious,

694
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,960
like, where do people land?
And I was like, I was looking, I

695
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,480
was, I was doing this in ChatGPT
and I was like, hey, read this,

696
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,360
you know, sermon by someone like
look at these, look at these

697
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:24,600
things and there's conflicting.
It's hard to, I think if you're,

698
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,560
you know, it's hard for chat to
discern because if you're

699
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,240
expositing scripture, there
might be an emphasis in one, you

700
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:32,440
know what I mean?
And so they're like, well, in

701
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,080
this place he's infra, in this
place he's super, you know what

702
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,560
I mean?
And I think that's probably the.

703
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,440
It's hard to.
It's hard because it's probably

704
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:45,600
flows out of 1 decree that has
these multiple facets, you know,

705
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,000
but I, if, if I had to order, I
think I would put, you know, the

706
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,040
decree to, to call people as
home.

707
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,400
That's like the primary.
Primary.

708
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,520
Yeah.
Yeah, I I can get behind that.

709
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,080
I did not talk about first.
John 31 Stephen Emily Bostick

710
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,800
shared about foster care.
Were you in there for that or

711
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,240
you missed that?
You know, you should listen back

712
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:03,760
to it.
It was really.

713
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:05,720
Good.
Yeah, it'll show up on.

714
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,639
That's right.
Yeah, November 9th is when this

715
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:13,679
one, that one will hit, Yeah.
Great, but that was really our

716
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:19,520
our time in Ephesians 1 and and
really stepping back as we go

717
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,600
through adoption, seeing these
parallels, like one of the

718
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,679
parallels is, you know, in most
cases, adoption is seriously

719
00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,360
planned.
Your adoption in Christ very

720
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,520
seriously planned, like before
the foundation of the world.

721
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,239
It's not, it's what it what it's
not is it's not a Plan B where

722
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,760
God created the world, people
sinned, then he scrambled and

723
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,600
thought, what am I going to do?
Oh, I can redeem this, I'll make

724
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,520
this right.
That's like not what happened.

725
00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:47,480
That reactionary kind of thing
where, where this was, I like

726
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,320
the way John Piper says this
where it's like he created a

727
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,320
world for people that would
honor and glorify him that he

728
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,400
could adopt.
And a lot of these passages,

729
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,000
we're looking at Ephesians 1,
Galatians 4, Romans 8, and many

730
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,160
other parts of Scripture very
familiar to us.

731
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,960
It's just like maybe like a
slightly different angle that

732
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,000
we're, you're just kind of
thinking adoption.

733
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,800
Because I think a lot of times
you can think of all these

734
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,960
things and you can think about
adoption, but it's not like a

735
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,360
primary driver.
I don't want to make too much of

736
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:17,600
adoption, but you know.
Yeah.

737
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,520
You were talking about Plan B.
Yeah.

738
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:24,000
And I think that that might be a
good contrast because not all

739
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,360
horizontal adoptions.
Are Plan B that's a good

740
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,520
contrast.
Yeah, could be.

741
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,640
You know that's right.
For various reasons, you can't

742
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,240
have biological kids.
And so we can't have biological

743
00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:38,240
kids.
Let's adopt where that's not

744
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:39,360
saying anything wrong with,
Right?

745
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,640
Right.
That's probably right.

746
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:41,960
Mainly yours.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

747
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,440
That's resonates with me very
much.

748
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,880
But the the contrast not a Plan
B for.

749
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,240
God not a Plan B.
God, from eternity.

750
00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:50,400
Oh, that's good.
I'm gonna pull you out.

751
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,720
I'm gonna make you my own.
So that's.

752
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:52,880
No, that, no, that's really
good.

753
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,360
And I like as the series goes,
like pulling some of those

754
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,560
through lines out where it's
very similar here, not similar

755
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,840
here, but it kind of helps you
kind of see these different

756
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,840
things.
So I I like, I like that a lot.

757
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,280
Really, really good.
Trying to think if there's

758
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,120
anything else in here we hit on.
I think that's the big stuff.

759
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,920
The take away was, you know, if
these things are true, you can

760
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,400
rest in the father's plan that
if if your adoption was decided

761
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,960
before the foundation of the
world, then really it it'll

762
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,960
happen before you exist.
It really emphasizes grace.

763
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,600
You know, it's like it's not
really what you're bringing to

764
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,880
the table, right?
Rejoice.

765
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,880
It was in love.
It's out of his overflowing

766
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,800
love.
You know, you can read a passage

767
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,480
like Ephesians 1, you see the
sovereignty of God very clearly.

768
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,040
You can either take great
comfort in that or you can be

769
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,760
very uncomfortable by that.
What I like about Ephesians 1 is

770
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:49,280
that God's sovereignty is not a
cold hard determinism, but it's

771
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,320
like a warm affectionate
adoption.

772
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,640
Like it's like connected.
It's like not in this cold

773
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,720
robotic way that people, I think
the opposite side, it's like,

774
00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:58,320
no, actually all of this is very
positive.

775
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,160
You know what I mean?
Yeah.

776
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,360
It's like, I like how that's all
connected.

777
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,200
And then if our God is
unshakable, we can rely on our

778
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,800
Father's faithfulness because
our God's unchanging,

779
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,360
unshakable.
Even though your circumstance

780
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,680
may shift, like your adoption,
that's like a settled thing.

781
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,160
It's irreversible.
It's permanent.

782
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,560
And our response to the praise
of his glorious grace to be holy

783
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,520
and blameless like this is this
is the direction we should be

784
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,440
going.
That's great.

785
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,240
In light of it, that's great.
Oh, and then I was talking about

786
00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:23,360
the NBA gambling scandal
scandal.

787
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,160
I, I, I, I tried to trap people.
I was like anyone here, like a

788
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,560
major, like sports gambler.
No one raised their hand.

789
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,320
No one.
I was like Grammy, You got a

790
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,920
parlay on the Eagles game later
today.

791
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,280
She did not say anything.
I did not say that I really

792
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:40,120
wanted to be like Lori Summers.
You got the money line like but.

793
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,600
But if you are in the gambling.
Right.

794
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,480
If you're not, you hear this
term, this phrase, the fix is

795
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:45,600
in.
It's what you normally say when

796
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,600
you're playing the Patriots and
the refs are paid off, right?

797
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,160
You know, the game is really.
Like that, that's what people

798
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,880
say, even though it's not not
the case.

799
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,200
Going back to the Patriots,
you're talking about Gronk being

800
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,440
better than Kelsey, but there's
other Tyreek Hill.

801
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,400
He had other weapons other than
just Kelsey.

802
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,680
Tyra Kill was a force.
In the day, yeah.

803
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,800
So Kelsey and Hill, Yeah.
OK, Yeah.

804
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,960
There you go all.
Right back on, back on target.

805
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,840
The fix is in.
That's like an A negative

806
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,440
phrase.
Your team's losing, the game's

807
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,120
rigged.
The the deck is stacked against

808
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:18,440
you.
It's like you can't do anything

809
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,840
about it unless it's God the
Father's fix.

810
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,200
That that's right.
Your adoption, we redeem it.

811
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,840
That's right, the fix isn't.
Like we know how the book ends

812
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,200
and and you can rest assured
that like man, the outcome is

813
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,280
decided.
That's really good news.

814
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,920
And so anytime you can work in
like a gambling analogy in

815
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,760
Sunday school, you got to take
it right.

816
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:40,280
I should do a parlay each week.
For a small amount of money that

817
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,560
the Pats are going to win and
the Chiefs are going to lose and

818
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,120
just see what it what it you
know you know what is it you

819
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,720
know 10 bucks and see what it
pays back see what happens man

820
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:52,000
you know there you.
Go Well, that's week #2 you

821
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,960
know, we've got maybe a, a
handful more to go here, but I

822
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,320
got, I got nothing else that you
got.

823
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:58,240
Anything you want to add,
Michael?

824
00:38:58,240 --> 00:38:59,720
Maybe we should talk about
soccer some more.

825
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,400
I love.
It oh, that's so good.

826
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,800
Well, that that's our take.
Thanks for.

827
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,560
Listening to Take 2.
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828
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,080
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829
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:12,760
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