Children of God — A Biblical Theology of Adoption 4 | Adoption Sealed by the Spirit: Benefits and Identity of Adoption

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All right, Zach.
So had lunch today.

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Yeah, I want to ask you a
question.

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Yeah, ask away.
You walk up to a counter and

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you're standing there.
OK, You're putting your order in

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and they take your order and
then you have to go out, back up

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and get your food and take it
back to your table.

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This.
Is a tipping question.

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This is a tipping question.
Do you tip when you stand to get

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your food?
It, it, it really depends.

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I am, I don't think anyone's
under any obligation to tip

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unless you want to tip a little
bit.

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Like they're like really
cleaning the tables and they're

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and they're throwing, like if
you're throwing away your food

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and stuff.
I don't, I don't think you

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should feel obligated to tip.
I'll put it that way.

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Yeah, that's why all, that's
what people say, 'cause I was

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looking up we, you know, we
recently went to Golden Corral.

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Oh yeah.
And you know, you go get the you

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can go to lots of plates there.
Yeah, Yeah, that's true.

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And someone's like someone's
taking those away.

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I think I didn't get a refill.
I think maybe one person at our

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table got a refill, maybe one or
two.

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But like, do you tip there?
And I looked it up online.

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It's like, don't feel obligated
to tip, but it's customary to

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tip.
And I'm like, oh it.

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I know it's tipping's insane.
I know it's been talked about a

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lot by people, but it is, it is
like, I feel like we can fix

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this, but it's always like
nebulous, like it's we're

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tipping for everything all the
time or, you know, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, I used to get my haircut
at this barbershop and I was

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reading the rules like you are
not supposed to tip the owner of

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the barbershop.
Like that's seen as rude cause

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like he's already making all
that.

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So there was a Williams
barbershop on Red Bank Road when

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I was in the Navy, and if he cut
my hair, I wouldn't tip him.

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But if other people that worked
for him cut my hair, then I took

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him 'cause he's.
Already I see.

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He's already like, taking like
he's already getting the Yeah.

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It's like you do it for the
waiter, not, you know, Yeah,

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that that that makes sense.
I I get that, yeah.

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Yeah, so Golden Corral fan
yourself.

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Golden Corral, last time I've
been there was pride college and

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boy, if you're in college,
that's like a good place to go.

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You're always looking for the
all you can eat.

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You're like what what wing place
is like Tuesday's all you can

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eat wing night or this is I
might have mentioned this.

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I will say this.
We'll get back to Golden Corral.

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There was a Chick-fil-A in
Greenville that did all you can

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eat Nuggets on a Wednesday
night.

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Not a good business model.
All you can Nuggets for it was

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like 10 bucks and it was like
the, the this is all they got

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you.
The catch was like they would

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give you like a or a 12 pack of
Nuggets and then like you'd have

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to like go up and get like your
second.

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So it's not like you could just
like scoop them all.

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They would try to like pace them
a little bit, but it was like

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all you can eat, drink.
It's like fries, Nuggets, drink.

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Man, that's.
It was packed, if you can

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imagine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And I, I guess maybe they could
get bulk Nuggets.

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They could still, you know, they
could still win on the margin.

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I had a guy I was really good
friends with, went there.

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We like the whole place, was
cheering him on.

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He had 100 Nuggets.
Oh my goodness.

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And it was like he was like
feeling really sick at like 88

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Nuggets.
We were like, you could do it.

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And like the whole place was
like Nuggets like everyone was

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like cheering and he got it and
he was, he was sick for like 3

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days.
It was probably not worth it,

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but it was.
Legendary, you know so.

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Anyway.
The only thing I've done close

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to that, you know, those little
like spherical cheese balls,

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like the puff.
Yeah, You know, we had this

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thing, how many you can shove in
your mouth.

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Nice.
At the same time, I think it was

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in the low to mid 20s.
Wow.

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Yeah, like 2223 I.
Mean they're not that big, yeah,

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but I'm sure once you get to 15
it's getting a little tight.

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Yeah, I was like, you know, I
was trying to like pack them

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like symmetrically, like trying
to get the cheeks 1st and then

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you start getting, you know, the
center.

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I could see that being tough
too, you know, Glad you didn't

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die.
Yeah, yeah, like you didn't, you

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know, you can't start laughing
or anything.

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That's a delicate procedure, so.
But Golden Corral, yeah.

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It's been a while.
I, I, you know, we went on a

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Sunday afternoon and the prices
go up from like $10 a person to

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about $16.00 a person.
So the food was fine.

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I, I, I think you're, I said
this to you earlier.

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I don't think you're paying for
quality food.

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Not that it's bad, but you're
paying because you can get a

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whole lot.
This restaurant was not on

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Phoebe's radar before, but now?
Now.

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It is.
She's a gold ground.

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Yeah.
She's like this is.

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Great.
And you know, one of her

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favorite places is that dessert
bar or you can get all ice cream

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and the stuff.
So she's.

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Jill asked her, yeah, a couple
days ago, like where did she

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want to eat for her birthday?
And she said go and crawl.

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And Jill was like.
Oh my goodness, we've created.

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A monster.
So have you done so?

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I'm not saying it was drama, but
who?

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Who was the motte to pick Lydia?
And she was, she was, it was

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like, it's just all good fun,
you know?

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But well, she said when we
first, so I think we've

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mentioned this before, but maybe
a year and a half ago, you know,

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we, I tried to give Jill because
it is the woman's job to cook.

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And I'm just saying I try to
give, you know, me and Jill the

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day off for cooking on Sundays.
So we don't even like have a

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prepared meal on in the evening
on Sundays.

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It's just like we call it yo-yo,
you're on your own, you know,

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catch what you can.
We got plenty of leftovers or

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cereal or you can make yourself
a sandwich in the evening on

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Sundays.
But for Sunday day, we try to

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be, you know, if we can be the
only time we eat out, unless

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it's like a birthday or
something.

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And so, but it was, we'd always
try to find some place there all

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seven of us could agree on.
And of course, as the father, I

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could say, no, we're going to
Culver's every day, which is the

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right choice.
It's good.

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And it's it's.
It is reasonable and it's like

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consistent.
You know, yeah, but we what we

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do is we just go down the line
and you just pick.

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And when we first adopted it,
Lydia said.

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One day I'm going to pick she.
She warned everyone.

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Yeah, she's like, is that OK,
dad?

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Like, are there places off
limits?

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I'm like, as long as it's, you
know, yeah, no, there's no

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places off limits.
So she picked.

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But was anyone, did anyone
change?

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Like, was it like Chloe?
Like, man, I am just very

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thankful.
Like it was, people were like,

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hey, it was good, you know what
I'm saying?

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I don't think anyone walked out
upset.

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You know, Jill's a little Jill.
Jill's picky eater a little bit,

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you know, if I can say that.
So she was like, I was like,

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were you happy?
She's like, no, not really.

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Like, like, well, what did you
like that?

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What did you have that you
didn't like?

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Well, it was all fine.
It was all fine.

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You know, I'm like.
Yeah, yeah.

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Golden crowd.
Haven't been there in a while.

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That was really big when I was
in college.

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Also, it was Ryan's was big.
Ryan's.

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Going corral like people would
go a lot of these places trying

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to think of like other all you
can eat like places, you know

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what I mean?
They're kind of going out of

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style.
It's.

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Probably for the best.
Like with like like standing.

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Pizza Hut used to have I could
eat pizza you'd go in on like

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lunch or something.
The very first time I ever

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travelled for the government as
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Think I was a contractor then as
far I went civvy, but the first

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time travelling outside of when
I was active duty Navy, we went

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up to Jacksonville, NC Camp
Lejeune and we hated a grown

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corral and I got a little bit of
a upset stomach like like a

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little bit maybe I don't want to
say food poisoning, but but who

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knows if it was that or the
Firehouse sub that I had

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earlier.
They it's like how, how do you,

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how do you nail that down?
So, but.

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Ma'am, food I always love.
One of my favorite things is

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just asking the mots, like who's
picking?

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It's good to see like, you know,
I tried.

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What was the other one?
Where did you guys go last week?

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Was that was that Golden Corral?
Last week, last Sunday was

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Golden Corral, this Sunday was
Karis 'cause we just go down the

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road road and she picks Poke
House.

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Poke Poke Cafe.
'Cause she loves that.

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And I was like, OK, we're gonna
order online because it says

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inside if you order online you
get 10% off.

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I don't know why I don't.
Why would you do that?

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And we can.
Just you, you like, sat outside

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and ordered online because it's
like 10% when you're paying for,

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you know, all those people.
Yeah, yeah, That's so funny.

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Yeah, yeah.
So 'cause I was like, and then

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we're because we also, we get up
there and we're like, cause a

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lot of us like sushi and we're
like, are you gonna get this

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roll?
And they have like 3-3 specialty

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rolls for two cost of 2/5
regular rolls for the cost of

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$25, which is a pretty good
steal.

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So today doing online, we got it
down to like 105 for a family of

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seven.
That's really reasonable in my

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ballpark 'cause I tell them
anything like 70 like $10 a

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person up to around the 100 one
05.

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That's within reason.
It's like when we start getting

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to the one 40s, like $20 per
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It's, it really is painful to
me.

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I'm like, is this the best use
for money?

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But.
Well, food.

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Natural segue to adoption.
I don't know what the segue is,

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but food, you need to eat food
no matter who you are.

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Yeah, yeah.
You know, just it it it's like

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the universal we are in.
We're getting towards the end of

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our adoption series.
We at least got this one, maybe

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another one.
We'll see.

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We'll see what what we got here.
But we're gonna jump into God,

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the Holy Spirit and the benefits
privileges of adoption.

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So let's go ahead and take it to
the next level.

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Let's fire up that twangy music.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
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Nicknames.
I know we talked about me, I I

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like names and meanings and all
this stuff.

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And eating out of living.
I know that hit you from that

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film, you know that.
That phrase, though, means

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you're eking it out.
I mean, I don't know, like I

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heard the phrase like I know the
phrase like, am I?

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Am I getting by?
Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're just barely eking out on

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me.
Yeah, yeah.

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So if you took on an extra job,
that was your EEK job.

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OK, gotcha.
So you're eeking it out.

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And if you had an extra name,
that was an EEK name.

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Oh.
And a nickname.

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Oh, and a nickname, and that's
where we get that.

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That's a good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So.
Nice.

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Well, what?
What was?

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Little, little drop.
I like that we always talk about

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Pastor Joel called Fox, you
know?

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Gotta love that.
Any cool any cool nicknames you

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had?
Big Mot.

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Big mot.
That's great.

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Classic applesauce.
Applesauce.

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Yeah.
No other ones other than like,

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you know, nerd.
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school and I saw this someone
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Hand they were like pointing and
they told me the name afterwards

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and I didn't get like I was like
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Said maybe, but it was like I
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repeat what it was and they
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Like, oh, it's not that bad.
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I feel like a a good rule for a
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yourself the nickname.
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Else you have to earn.
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and then we even think of this
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We, we did a podcast on this,
like what's in the name?

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Bible characters with name
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You know, what was the
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scripture?
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of the privileges we have.
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You get it.
You're in a new family, you have

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a new name.
A lot of stuff goes hand in hand

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with that.
Remind me, Michael, we're going

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to come back to these slides.
I'm just going to skip over some

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of these.
Oh, and it was a wonderful day.

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It was.
It's the day I did.

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This was my oldest and my
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Same days.
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This was the day that I didn't
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This is the day.
Yeah, famously.

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Yeah, it didn't either.
Sticks with you.

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Also, our guest speaker, Grace
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So we had the trifector of
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And in case people don't know,
2nd Sunday in NN's, you know, as

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adoption month in the adoption
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November is known as Pure
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I think kind of in the same vein
of a certain, you know, Sunday

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in January, sanctity of life.
It's like this is pure religion

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Sunday.
Can you guess where it comes

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from?
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Like the the pure religion
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It James.
James Yeah, This is pure and

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undefiled religion that you
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Beautiful nailed it in their
affliction they have to keep

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oneself unstained from the
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And I know James is so practical
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you were religion that is pure
and undefiled before God the

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Father is this.
If you were to fill in the blank

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like not knowing what it said, I
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some like worship God with all
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soul, strength, mind.
Like something like maybe more

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doctrinal, maybe different.
And he focuses so much on.

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Action like the first and second
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Or maybe you would say something
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Yeah, it's interesting.
So it kind of fits into that.

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And fits into that where he goes
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orphans and widows in their
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And on Pure Religion Sunday, so
adoption of Jason trying to fit

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everything here, but go ahead.
I was just going to say so weird

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because we were talking talking
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She had a birthday party and she
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because both my parents had
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I was like, well, no, that's
like when you when you're an

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adult and your parents died
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You know, it's it's expected.
It's not you're not considered

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an orphan.
But she was really confused that

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why.
Did I try to make sense of it

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And, and all this is good pure
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It's really a collaboration of
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together.
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called Stand Sunday.
Stand.

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Stand Sunday and I think it was
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place.
I think it's it was called like

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Possum Texas.
We mentioned this a little bit

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earlier, but it was this church
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Before, but it's actually Texas.
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possum something and you were
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Arkansas.
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I think this is Texas, but I
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called something else.
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same time and they were both
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foster care or orphans.
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something.
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Pure Religion Sunday.
And I like the talking points

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like what they encourage
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So I'll share it here.
But they call us to image, to

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image our God, follow what our
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And they say that our God
incarnates, that we look at

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Christ and his example was
someone who condescended and

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move towards struggle and
suffering and hard things that a

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lot of times, you know, I'll put
myself in this boat.

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You see something like hard
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You're like, I don't, I'm going
to walk away like I'm going to

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step away backwards quietly and
I don't want to run towards

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struggle.
John 1 the word became flesh and

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dwelt among us that he moved
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God also is a welcoming God.
Psalm 68 says that God is a

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father to the fatherless
defender of the widows.

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This is God whose dwelling is
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This is the new living
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places the lonely in families
that God's a welcoming God we

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should be welcoming and then
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Deuteronomy 10 says that God
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receive justice.
He shows love to the foreigners

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living among you and gives them
food and clothing that we should

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fight for those who need help,
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vulnerable, the helpless,
orphans, widows and.

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So to summarize those three,
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So incarnates, yes, we're not
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Incarnate and change your
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But the example is that we're
going to give up our privileges

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to help someone in need, welcome
people who are outside of our

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sphere, and then protect those
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Beautiful.
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Good things, remember, just
highlight on pure rule.

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Just like it's like one of those
things, like we all know this to

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do this, but good, good thing to
think about the main crux of our

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time we spent in Romans 8.
So for review, we talked about

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Ephesians 1 and God the Father,
purposeful planning and

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adoption.
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it was Galatians 4, God the son
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that he redeemed us.
I like the way Paul puts it.

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He says that God sent his son to
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The why for all of that is so
that we might receive adoption

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as sons.
And so Romans 8 mention this

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Greek mentions this Greek word
we have to see a twice adoption.

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Umm, and one here, and one a
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We'll really talk about the
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But do you want to read for us
Romans 813 through 17?

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Yeah, it says, For if you live
according to the flesh, you will

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die.
But if by the Spirit you put to

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death the deeds of the body, you
will live.

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For all who are led by the
Spirit of God are sons of God.

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For you did not receive the
spirit of slavery to fall back

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into fear, but you have received
the spirit of adoption as sons

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by whom we cry.
ABBA, Father, the Spirit himself

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bears witness with our spirit
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And if children, then heirs,
heirs of God, and fellow heirs

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with Christ, provided we suffer
with him, in order that we may

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also be glorified with Him.
Thank you, Michael.

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I also have up here Galatians
4-6 and seven because I I put it

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because it very closely mirrors
this and because your sons got

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us in the spirit of his son into
our hearts crying ABBA father,

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because you're no longer a
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If a son, then an heir through
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And I mentioned this too because
it's so funny.

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When I did the God the son, I
had like a like 4 or 5 middle

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school kids come up to me and
say Zach, best lesson ever.

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Loved being in there.
It was like their teacher was

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out Friday, so they were there
was like, oh wow.

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In my hubris and my arrogance,
just like, like, man, I'm.

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Like walking on cloud.
Wow, even the middle schoolers

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are paying attention.
And then I'm like, this guy,

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he's hilarious.
Grant was like, it's because you

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were talking a lot about
Galatians 467 and doing the hand

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motions and stuff.
And if you if you know, you know

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6-7 is all the.
Rage.

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Everywhere for kids.
Yeah, I saw a recent scholarly

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article that said that they
think that they have

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mistranslated Revelation instead
of the mark of the beast being

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666 is actually 6-7 so.
That it it checks checks out

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well in this Romans passage and
Galatians passage, we see some

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themes here and what we did
well, just look, look through

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these and I, I have it's
starting in verse 13 because I

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think all this context makes a
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We kind of started in verse 15
where it says you have received

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the spirit of adoption as sons.
That's kind of the crux of what

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we're talking about.
You might ask the question,

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well, who who were the ones that
have received the spirit of

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adoption?
If you back up to verse 14, Paul

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writes that for all who are led
by the Spirit of God or sons of

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God.
So the ones who have received

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the Spirit are the ones who are
led by the Spirit, which prompts

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another really good question is
what's it mean to be led by the

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Spirit?
But if you listen to our

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podcasts.
Yeah, I thought you did a real

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good job 'cause you kind of
pranced around it.

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Not pranced, but you kind of
walked around it.

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You walked us into well, it
probably doesn't mean what you

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normally think it means.
Probably not full emotion.

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I I think we can with pretty
good, you know, pretty good

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understanding.
Just back up to verse 13 and it

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says if you live according to
the flesh, you will die.

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But if by the Spirit you put the
deeds of the body put to death

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the deed of the body, you will
live because or for all who are

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led by the Spirit or sons of
God.

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So it's basically implying you
put to death the deeds of of the

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flesh that's being led by the.
Spirit.

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That's always part of it.
That is walking the spirit.

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And if you thought, wow, this is
a crazy interpretation, go over

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to Galatians 5 where Paul is the
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And it's the only two places in
the New Testament that use this

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phrase.
It's the same context.

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It's, you know, we're not going
to have the things, the fruit of

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death, but we're going to have
the fruit of the spirit and

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we're going to walk by the
Spirit and we're going to put

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the deed death, you know, the
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So 'cause.
You would think those would be

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prime areas to have some of this
more emotional language or maybe

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you you are appealing to other
verses in Scripture for some of

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this, but it's like not at least
not in this immediate context or

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that Galatians immediate context
that that says something, right.

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So anyway, I think I think just
that chain of events is

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important.
That part of receiving the

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spirit of adoption is putting to
death these of the flesh being

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changed, being transformed.
On top of that, we see this

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contrast that you didn't receive
the spirit of slavery to fall

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back into fear.
But have received the spirit of

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adoption as sons where it's it's
different.

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And in some sense we are, you
know, slaves and bond servants

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of Christ.
So that's a different analogy

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than Paul's making here.
And Paul talks about that a lot.

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I'm not saying that's not a
reality, but there is a

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difference altogether of a slave
versus son mentality where you

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can even see here, slavery and
fear kind of go together.

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You don't do things because you
live in this state of fear.

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And you can imagine a world
where God sets up as, you know,

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slaves that do all this bidding
with no regard to their

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happiness.
And it's like they're just, if

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they don't do what I say,
they're in big trouble.

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And that's why they do
everything they do.

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And you know, God could do that.
God's God's, you know, a perfect

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God.
But the way he orchestrated the

447
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,680
world was there's sonship and
there's this relationship where

448
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,840
you've got a father, you're in a
family, you do certain things,

449
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,360
but it's for the family.
I don't know.

450
00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:57,440
It's a whole, it's a little bit
different of a spin on it,

451
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,320
right?
Yeah.

452
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,480
So even when you're talking
about that, I'm reminded of

453
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:05,280
previous episodes we've done on
this, namely the one where

454
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,320
you're talking about, hey, if
you want to adopt someone, it's

455
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:14,160
basically on paper, someone has
sold their child three times and

456
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,720
you've redeemed them three
times.

457
00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,640
And I'm thinking about, you
know, is there maybe there was

458
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,040
like a difference if you bought
someone out of that market as a

459
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,480
slave versus if you bought them
as adoption?

460
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,400
I'm sure that's a different
legal process.

461
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,680
So in my mind, Paul is saying,
hey, the process by which you

462
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,040
were bought out of this market
was not just so you can be a

463
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,120
common servant in the house to
be a slave in the house,

464
00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:41,040
although we do get that moniker
sometimes.

465
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,280
But the true thing is that we're
going to be adopted as sons,

466
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,240
heirs as sons into the family of
God.

467
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,240
So it's, it's a huge, you know,
blessing.

468
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,280
No, that, that, that's great.
So we see that contrast and then

469
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,640
we get to that phrase.
ABBA father.

470
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,720
I know we teased it.
I think last episode we might

471
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,720
have fully developed.
I can't totally remember.

472
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,520
Yeah, we, we kind of talked
around it, but we didn't really

473
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,240
we're.
ABBA father.

474
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,920
Well, you, you tell me what?
What do you think?

475
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,600
Like the traditional.
And I don't think it's

476
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,440
altogether wrong.
I think it's like on the right

477
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,680
track and it's pretty good.
I've always assumed because ABBA

478
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,480
kind of sounds like our Dada.
And so I've always thought like,

479
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,000
hey, it's just like a child
that's like resting on their

480
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,920
father's chest.
And it's like, you know, kind of

481
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,560
babbling about, you know, in
this comforting, you know, dad,

482
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,040
dad, dad, dad type of thing.
I I've heard the same thing,

483
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,800
baby talk we mentioned the last
time that this word ABBA is in

484
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,320
legal contracts, fair prayers by
rabbis.

485
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,800
It's places you would not
necessarily predict there would

486
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,840
be child cooing or that kind of
thing.

487
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,080
So let's let's look at the text
a little bit.

488
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,440
We see this word that precedes
ABBA father in both Romans 8 it

489
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,760
says cry ABBA father.
Galatians 4 says crying ABBA

490
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,360
father.
What do you think of when you

491
00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:55,280
think of cry or crying?
Like what?

492
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,720
That's like a simple definition,
or what kind of imagery would

493
00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,560
you think of?
Well, there's probably there's a

494
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,520
range.
So it's, you know, you can have

495
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:06,280
the crying with tears.
You can have the crying like

496
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,560
where you, you know, that's like
you or there's like this.

497
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,480
I think we did tease this last
episode.

498
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,000
So I'm kind of cheating.
But you know the guy who's on

499
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,600
the road, who cries out to
Jesus, You know, son of David.

500
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,080
Nailed it.
You know, you know, healed me.

501
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,320
And they're like, be quiet, be
quiet.

502
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,240
Like he cried out all the louder
and Jesus has mercy on him.

503
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,840
Yeah, it's like that exactly.
That's the same word we see with

504
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,160
Bartimaeus when he's like, he
hurts Jesus and he's like crying

505
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,160
out.
So you can imagine there's

506
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,560
intensity, conviction, if you
did a word study, this word

507
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,840
cries used a bajillion time
time.

508
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,280
So it's hard to nail down
exactly.

509
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,440
But more times than not, it's
not like a quiet mumbling.

510
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,280
It's like a crying out in some
capacity.

511
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,680
It's what demons do when they're
being exercised by Jesus or they

512
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,240
come into contact, they're Jesus
of Nazareth, they're crying out.

513
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,520
It's what the crowd shouted when
they said crucify him.

514
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,720
It's they cried, crucify him,
crucify him.

515
00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,240
It's what the apostles when they
thought they saw a ghost, but

516
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,760
Jesus, they cried out.
So it's like you can think of

517
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,800
the imagery.
It's a major cry.

518
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,880
And then the other thing I asked
people to think about is we see

519
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,120
ABBA Father three times in
Scripture, once in Romans 8,

520
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,360
once in Galatians 4.
Where's the 3rd place?

521
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,400
It's in Mark 14 in Gethsemane.
So that gives us some context.

522
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,440
Where's Paul?
Probably, maybe what's he

523
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,800
thinking about?
I don't know if this has been

524
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,760
like circulating this kind of
stuff.

525
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,960
Basically, Long story short, we
were familiar with the story in

526
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,240
Mark 14.
We know that Jesus is greatly

527
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,040
distressed, that he's troubled.
He even says my soul is very

528
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:35,800
sorrowful even to death.
In that context, he says, ABBA

529
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,520
father, all things are possible
for you remove this cup for me,

530
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,280
yet not what I will, but what
you will.

531
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,240
And I think that is very
instructive.

532
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,400
When we think of ABBA father, I
think when we'd hear it, it's

533
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,280
very right to say, hey, it's
intimates.

534
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,440
It's like this close relational
context.

535
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,160
I think that part is true, but.
There's an intensity to.

536
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,040
It there's an intensity, there's
like desperation when we see it.

537
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,920
It's not the way Russell Moore
puts it in his book is so good,

538
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,600
he says.
It's less of a baby giggling in

539
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:11,480
a father's face and more of a
child or a toddler running

540
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,640
screaming for his father as his
face is getting ripped apart by

541
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,760
a dog.
And you can imagine, like my kid

542
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,800
got, it was great.
Was his face though.

543
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:21,840
It wasn't his face.
Oh, I can't even imagine his

544
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,800
face.
It's like when your kids in real

545
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,080
danger and like says like dad or
like thinks they're really hurt.

546
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,000
You like can feel that call out
to whether it's dad or daddy or

547
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,960
whatever it is.
It's like that's visceral,

548
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,960
that's desperate.
And I think what fits so nicely

549
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,080
with Romans 8 is we in verse 16,
the spirit bears witness with

550
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,400
our spirit that we are children,
people that cry out in

551
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,400
desperation to their father
surround on the mount, broken

552
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,920
without being broken, poor in
spirit.

553
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,760
If you're not doing that, you're
probably not saved.

554
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,600
You know what I mean?
It's like, I think all of this

555
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,560
makes a lot of sense where
there's a difference between me,

556
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,960
like, hey, God, please help me.
Or it's like, God, I've got

557
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,280
nowhere else to turn.
You know, I'm gonna repent, I'm

558
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,600
gonna follow you.
And I think wrapping that

559
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,240
together, that paints a good
picture of what I think is all

560
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,120
wrapped up in this phrase.
ABBA Father.

561
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,360
That's good.
That's.

562
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:11,680
Great.
We heard from Grace.

563
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,520
I love to hear it from her.
And we mentioned her a little

564
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,560
bit last, but she she's adopted.
And we mentioned like, she

565
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,800
brought up some things that
weren't her favorite things

566
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,120
about being adopted.
There's a lot of good.

567
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:22,000
Yeah.
You know.

568
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,440
You like, you know, she said.
You know, I'm very blessed and

569
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,960
so, but let me just give you
some of the things and I think

570
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,640
even, you know, we have you.
You mentioned something, I don't

571
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,640
know if it was this one or a
previous one where you, you said

572
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,240
people would ask you if Jay and
Jack.

573
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,960
It might be this one.
Were brothers and you're like,

574
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,480
of course they're brothers.
We're, you know, just like

575
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,800
they're brothers with Jordy.
And of course, obviously what

576
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,120
they mean is were they
biological brothers?

577
00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:52,160
Did they come from the same one
'cause I'm, I think I remember

578
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:58,320
asking the, the family that you
had later, the Vasquez if Kaden

579
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,080
and Kane, you know, I may, I may
have worded it that way too.

580
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,400
Like, you know, I, I think maybe
I I did say did they come from

581
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,640
the same family or something
like that?

582
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,640
But yeah.
It it's a common thing in

583
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:08,680
everyone.
Obviously it's like.

584
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,440
Super.
Well, meaning, yeah, Yeah.

585
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,160
No, no one's doing that.
It's like it's a common thing,

586
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,240
like if you read adoption books
or something, everyone's like,

587
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,680
this is what they say or they'll
be like, did you have any

588
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,360
children of your own or
something like that?

589
00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:21,080
And I they're no one's ever
meaning it in a bad way.

590
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,680
They're just, they're just like
curious, they're making

591
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,040
conversation and they're like,
oh, and so.

592
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,680
Because there is this biological
order of things.

593
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,240
But yeah, I, I appreciate it.
Like just to be aware.

594
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:32,720
Of that you don't know what you
don't.

595
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,120
Know yeah, so that you can, you
know, oh, this is something they

596
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,560
run into all the time.
Like I'll just say like when my

597
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:42,400
mom passed away, I bet I was
told 300 times I'm sorry for

598
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,440
your loss.
I and my my recommendation is if

599
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,840
you go to a funeral, do not say
those words because they.

600
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,400
Yeah, like after a while I'm
like, yeah, saying something

601
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,680
different like 'cause it's just
becomes like, like painful.

602
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,880
And so not that again, no one
meant anything bad.

603
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,760
Like they are truly sorry for my
mom passing away, but I remember

604
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,600
something she said.
Oh yeah.

605
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,920
Yeah, yeah.
Was that she will never

606
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,000
experience walking in a
supermarket and having someone

607
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,520
say, oh, you look just like your
mom.

608
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,160
And I was like, you know, that
is true.

609
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,680
And there's nothing that's going
to take that hurt away.

610
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,680
Like there's hurt that she feels
from her biological parents.

611
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,120
And if you listen to it, it
should air on our channel, you

612
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:27,600
know, her biological sisters,
you know, kind of a strange from

613
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,520
her as well.
So there's hurt that she can't

614
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,160
get.
But just like I think we

615
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:36,240
mentioned this maybe the first
time on this series, but you

616
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,880
know, adoption just isn't, it's
not just legal papers.

617
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,640
There is transformation that
happens when we're adopted by

618
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,000
God.
We are transformed in his image.

619
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,000
And as you've adopted, you're 2
boys and as she's adopted, you

620
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,080
know, there's a transformation
that happens that you know,

621
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,960
they're going to adopt some of
your characteristics, some of

622
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,360
your values.
Like, you know, Jaden's where I

623
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,840
see him wearing Steelers shirts,
you know, I'm like, so you know,

624
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,040
some of that in a way that you,
you, you can't get around.

625
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,680
So yeah.
Yeah, no, I I think, I think you

626
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,120
nailed it.
It's good to think through those

627
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,760
things.
I didn't spend a lot of time in

628
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,440
the lesson, but these are good.
I, I kind of just fixated on

629
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,640
Romans 8, but if we were to go
to big picture, what are all the

630
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,920
benefits we have?
There are a lot.

631
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,200
I'll just run through some of
these quickly and these are

632
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,600
really from Joel Beekeys book
airs with Christ, where he

633
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,520
basically takes what the Puritan
says on adoption and

634
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,040
extrapolates this a little bit
more.

635
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,600
I'm actually going to see if I
can pull this up because I've

636
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,160
got more context here.
But he talks about, so when when

637
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,200
you are adopted, a lot of things
change.

638
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,400
Your relationships are reset.
And I think this is good because

639
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,720
we think about man, your
relationship to God changes you.

640
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,160
Now you were not a child of God.
Now you are a child of God.

641
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,680
Just as importantly, your
relationship with your former

642
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,760
family is actually kind of
severed, right?

643
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,760
You were one way to the world.
Now, now you're not.

644
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,040
We don't think about that as
much.

645
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,240
I wish I could have spent more
time on that.

646
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,640
Our orientation to the future
changes.

647
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,680
We have a New Hope, our
relationship with ourselves

648
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,960
change that we put off sin, put
on Christ.

649
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,800
And then tying into what we were
saying, are they brothers?

650
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,320
I was trying to make the point
that you have a new family.

651
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:20,640
The church is now your family
where you know most of the time,

652
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,640
understandably, it's in our
language and all this it's

653
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,320
defined by DNA Genex bloodline,
but it's like a different we

654
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:26,200
all.
It's like one of those things

655
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,360
everyone knows, but it's hard to
really wrap your mind around it

656
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,920
to where all these relationships
are changed.

657
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,320
And then if we were to talk
about the privileges, there are

658
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,560
a lot.
I'll just let these quickly a

659
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,760
new family, a new name, a new
spirit, a new lightness, A

660
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,760
strengthened fate, a loving
discipline, a deep communion, a

661
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,280
spirit LED worship, your guide,
guided by God.

662
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,960
You have this freedom, you're
protected, you are supplied with

663
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,680
every need.
You are given provision, angelic

664
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,120
care, a glorious hope.
And so the list really could go

665
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,720
on and on all these different
privileges.

666
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,120
And the last thing I'll say is I
like this too.

667
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,800
When you're adopted, there's
more expected of you too.

668
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,240
You have these responsibilities
you got to do like the family

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chores, right?
I mean, you know, that doesn't

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earn you entrance into the
family.

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You don't do them so you can be
part of the family.

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You do them because you're
already.

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Part you're there.
That's yeah, you're exactly

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right.
And so we're called to trust God

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for every need, to honor him,
submit to him, to imitate him,

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to resist sin, to join him in
his work, and to rejoice in him

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as our greatest treasure.
And so I, I like thinking, I

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wish I could have developed some
of this a little bit more in our

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lesson because it's not just
like a small thing that happens,

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but it changes everything both
positively and negatively.

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Let's go back there, I think.
Now you said you want to go back

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to some slides.
Oh, yeah, And actually, what I

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might do, I'm glad you reminded
me.

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I might throw that in our next
one, our recap one, because I've

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got some questions to ask you
and maybe our listeners.

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What they can think about for
the next one is what's the

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secret to a happy life?
That's the I always like doing

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these little questions so people
can think a little bit, but what

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you know, be thinking about it.
We'll talk about that next

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adoption episode.
Variety is the spice.

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Of life.
Yeah, Variety is the spice of

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life.
What's the secret topic of life?

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But that is adoption lesson #4
we got one more.

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Yeah, yeah.
So hope you're looking forward

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to that, but that's all I got.
Anything you want to add?

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That's all I got.
That's our take.

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Thanks for listening to Take
Two.

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