Season two of Love in Context podcast welcomes you.
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In this new season, we'll embark on a journey together, unearthing fresh insights and gaining
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So let's dive into this season of Love in Context, where love in the context of the
Bible intersect to transform our lives.
Welcome back to the Love in Context podcast.
Is that the name of it?
It is the name of our...
Okay.
Yeah.
He is harassing me because literally the clip that I cut out right before this, I started
saying welcome and I forgot the name of the podcast.
The podcast that I created with my friend Spencer here.
If you are joining us on YouTube, you may notice that Spencer has much less beard than
he used to.
Yeah.
Yep.
He said it was time and then he donated all of his hair to...
Yeah, I think it was like people who don't have beards, they just paste it on them.
That's definitely not true.
No, it's not true at all.
So we're in week two of our covenants.
Yeah.
Yep.
So we're talking about the covenants and normally these covenants are going to build on each
other and kind of continue as God is moving people forward all the way up to the Messianic
covenant.
This one is going to be a little bit different because the Adamic and the Noahic covenant
are very intrinsically connected in a lot of ways.
So one of the things I want to remind you of, if you were with us season one when we
were talking about the flood, we talked about how this story of the flood is a story of
like a new creation, right?
That it mirrors the creation narrative in a lot of details in the way that it's being
presented to the point where actually when they give the covenant, the covenant is actually
very similar.
And it's very clear that in the narrative that it's meant to be like this story of new
creation, right?
That everything got really, really bad and that God is basically starting over and here
we go.
Yep.
Right?
And if you did not listen to either of those episodes, I do recommend that you go back
and check that.
And then also there is an episode of the Baymaw podcast where they talk about the flood and
they're going to get into some more of the chiastic things that are going on inside of
there.
Yep.
Yeah.
So there is lots of literature and there is lots of media that is that's going to be helpful
for pulling apart that part.
Yeah.
So let's take a look here.
So in chapter six of Genesis, starting in verse 18, it outlines the covenant.
So initially God comes to Noah and in verse 18, he says this, I will establish my covenant
with you and you will enter the arc.
You and your sons and your wife and your sons, wives with you.
You are to bring into the arc two of the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive
with you to have every kind of bird of every kind of animal and have every kind of creature
that moves along the ground will come to with you to be kept alive.
You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and stored away as food for you
and for them.
Noah did everything just as the Lord commanded.
Okay.
So there's this precedent set up.
God says, I'm going to make a covenant with you.
Here's what you need to do.
Go into the arc when I tell you to take these things.
And then at the end, I'm going to establish my covenant to you.
Right?
So Noah has a, has a portion of his covenant that he's supposed to fulfill.
Yeah.
Which is that he has to build the arc, which no small feat.
Nope.
They have that.
Uh, is it in Kentucky or Kansas?
They have that arc that they built.
Uh, I don't remember where it's at.
If it's even remotely accurate, the thing is massive.
Right.
And, uh, the arc is, is, is, is massive undertaking because, uh, luckily you don't have to actually
sell anywhere in it because they're not going somewhere.
They're basically just enduring the flood.
Yeah.
But, uh, they have to build this massive boat.
But then not only that, they have to gather two of all of the animals around the world
and put them on this arc.
Yeah.
As well as, uh, right at the end there, it said that you actually need to, uh, take every
kind of food that is to be eaten and stored away as food for you and for them.
Yes.
Right.
So it's quite a bit in this.
There's quite a bit in like of activity that actually takes place in this.
Um, but this is the, this is the covenant from the very beginning and there's going
to be, uh, this onset of the covenant is this portion.
And then when we actually get to the end of, um, the flood narrative in chapter nine, God
actually comes and he, he actually outlines the covenant with Noah.
So I'm going to read this for you here.
Uh, it says, then God blessed no one, his son saying to them, be fruitful, increase
in number and fill the earth.
Okay.
So it's a lot like Genesis one, right?
Um, the fear and dread of you will fall on the beast of the earth and on the birds in
the sky and on every creature that moves along the ground and on all the fish in the sea,
they are given into your hands.
Okay.
That's different, right?
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.
Just as I gave you green plants, I now give you everything.
Okay.
So first covenant and Adamic covenant given all of the plants of the ground, uh, the earth
to eat.
Yeah.
And we have animals to eat too, and for that we thank God because bacon is delicious.
Right?
Um, some of you are going to be like, well, what about, you know, prohibition against
bacon?
We'll get there.
I'm a Gentile, so I don't have that prohibition.
Um, uh, verse four, but you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
And for your lifeblood, I will surely demand an accounting.
I will demand an accounting from every, every animal and from each human being too.
I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
Whoever sheds human blood by humans shall their blood be shed.
And if we're in the image of God has God made mankind.
Now once again, the Hill, her heralding back to this first covenant, we are made in the
image of God.
Yeah.
Right.
So you can't go and just kill a human because you're actually killing the very image of
God.
You could look at it when you commit murder as you're actually striking out against God
himself.
Yeah.
Right.
As for you be fruitful and increase in number, multiply on the earth and increase upon it.
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, I now established my covenant with you and
with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you, the birds,
the livestock and all the wild animals, all those creatures that came out of the arc with
you, every living creature on earth.
I established my covenant with you.
Never again will all life be destroyed by the floods or by the waters of a flood.
Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.
Okay.
So there's two different covenants here.
One that's strictly for Noah's family and for humanity.
And then one that's with the entire earth, right?
They're under the same covenant, but like there there's pieces that apply to specific
people.
It's not two different covenants.
Correct.
Two aspects of the same covenant.
So sometimes when we're going to be referring back to this, you need to be specific on which
part of the Noahic covenant are we talking about?
Because this prohibition against the flooding of the earth is actually for all of creation,
not just for not just for humanity.
And God said, this is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living
creature with you.
This is the covenant for all generations to come.
I have set my rainbow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me
and the earth.
When I bring the clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will
remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind.
Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy our life.
Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember it.
The everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.
So God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and
all life on the earth.
Okay.
So when we read this last time when we were in Torah, we talked about how it repeats itself
a lot and there's a chiasm there.
Go check out that episode.
Go check out the Baima episode.
We're not going to get into that today.
But there is this idea of this covenant is he's not going to destroy the earth, that
you're going to be fruitful and multiply.
Same command is showing up in the Adamic covenant.
Like that hasn't changed.
You're still the image of God.
Don't strike out against the other image.
Right.
But I'm not going to destroy everything.
In fact, I'm going to give you a sign, a sign that you can actually carry with you and you
can't lose because I'm literally going to put it in the clouds.
And it's a, it translates as rainbow, but in the, in the Hebrew, it's actually just
bow, but we call it rainbow because that's, that's what it is in the sky.
But it's meant to represent a bow.
Now bow typically battle.
If you actually have a bow and it's curved upwards, where is it actually pointing towards
towards the heavens, towards the heavens.
Yeah.
It's pointing towards God and God saying, I'm actually going to put a bow aimed at myself
every time this comes and I'm going to remember.
Yeah.
I am going to be the one who remembers because humanity, well, I, people are stupid and they
forget, right?
Uh, I personally like to quote from men in black who person is smart.
People are stupid.
That's, that's not exact quote, but, uh, but that's the idea.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So the no way at covenant really has a few aspects that are worth touching on.
One is, uh, the, uh, idea of mercy and patience, right?
Um, which actually echoes back to Genesis chapter three, right?
Um, where, when Adam and Eve fell, they were closed.
Yeah.
Right.
The Lord closed them.
Right.
Um, and so, and then, uh, same here where after he fled the earth, he's like, here's
the sign I'm going to create to show that I'm going to be a merciful and patient God.
And then you actually see that nature of God reflected throughout the rest of the old Testament,
right?
Where he keeps waiting for his people to return to him.
Um, and he uses that rainbow as that sign, right?
Or that bow, right?
As the sign of this covenant to say, I am going to lean into who I am, a God of mercy,
a God of patience, a God of grace, a God of love.
Over the next few weeks, I really want to, I really want to focus on this idea of the
sign of the covenant, because, um, this is going to be really important, uh, in this
one in the, uh, Abrahamic, the mosaic, the Davidic and the mess, messianic.
These are going to be really important in the sign of the covenant.
And it's going to be really important when we get to messiac messianic messiac.
That's not a word.
Nope.
It is not.
I made up that word.
You did, you did.
And you touched on this too, Ben, but there's a universal scope to this covenant, right?
Right.
So the covenant is not just for Noah.
It's for Noah and all his descendants, right?
For everybody to come after him.
Yeah.
And, and so like one of these things, this conversation comes in where people talk about
universal morality, right?
Uh, CS Lewis is well known for talking about this, that if you, uh, step outside of the
rules, there has to be a rule giver.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, why is it not acceptable anywhere in the world to commit murder?
Yeah.
Because there's a foundational covenant with the entire world, right?
When you, when you take blood in the image of God, that there is recompense.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, the idea though is that there is some sort of like moral law that is, exists outside
of humanity.
It's this covenant with God that, uh, and there's a few things that go with that, but
we'll talk about that in a few minutes because a Jewish thought has some thoughts on that.
Um, but there's this, this moral law outside of humanity that actually says these are things
that aren't okay.
Yeah.
And it's, it's no coincidence that we keep coming back to those same fundamental truths.
Right.
So when Paul talks about the fruit of the spirit, right.
Uh, at the end of it, he says against these things, there is no law.
Yeah.
Right.
He's actually referring to that.
Yeah.
Referring back into that.
There, there is a natural, there is a natural way that we are supposed to live.
Of course.
Now, of course we have, uh, outside of Christ, we have a fallen world and things that are
going to tend towards destruction.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the story that comes before the flood is that every inclination of humankind
was to evil all the time.
Yeah.
And that's my, um, least favorite and also favorite verses because like that's terrible,
but also like there's no ambiguity there.
All of the thoughts of humanity were evil all of the time.
You know, it's not like these were kind of bad people.
No, every, every thought was evil all the time.
Yeah.
Right.
So you're talking about like this whole idea of like divine mercy and, and compassion and,
um, but there's also like the Adamic covenant, there's this, this, this portion of human
responsibility, right?
Like there is, there is a job to do.
Yeah.
Uh, it doesn't seem like the, uh, the covenant is conditional upon them doing it, but it
is a job that they're giving as part of the covenant.
Like what I mean is that God is not going to not destroy the world if they don't do
their job.
Like he's made the covenant on his terms, like he's going to fulfill this.
Yeah.
But inside of that, there is this commission to be fearful, multiply and actually rule
the earth.
For example, like good parents are going to be good parents, whether the kids are obeying
or disobeying.
Hopefully.
Yeah.
I said good parents are going to be good parents, whether their kids are obeying or disobeying.
Right?
Yeah.
Like we have a covenant as parents to be like, we are going to raise our kids to the best
of our ability, right?
We're going to raise them up in the way of the Lord.
They are given a moral responsibility, right?
Uh, but it's not conditional upon God fulfilling his side of the covenant.
Right.
Like God's not going to abandon his side of the covenant because they failed their moral
responsibility, which by the way, Noah does at the end of the story.
Yeah.
If you, I'm, I'm hopefully I'm not spoiling anything.
You've read the book before, but there is a, in the next couple of chapters, Noah, Noah
kind of, uh, fails on that, on that aspect of walking forward with that.
Um, and, uh, but there's, there's going to be also this trend moving forward that God
is going to fulfill his end of the covenant.
No matter what, whenever God makes covenants, he's going to make sure that his side is taken
care of, which is really key because, uh, as we're going to find out, we've talked about
in the past, God typically will actually find a way to fulfill both sides of the covenant.
Yes.
Um, like a good parent, he's like, Hey, I bet you they're not going to do great at this.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, and then once again, we want you to, we, the sign of the covenant is a big deal to
pick away from this.
Um, is that the, this is the first one that a sign is given, right?
And the sign of something that you can't lose.
One of the just interesting things, like whether this has weight or no weight at all is there
actually was more dietary permission and prohibition given in this one.
Yeah.
Where instead of like, instead of you hinted at it earlier, but instead of just plants,
like, Oh, here's everything.
Yep.
And, uh, here's everything, but here's also, you can't take something with the lifeblood
in it.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, which we're going to talk about in a minute because that actually, uh, coincides with
some ways that the Jews have interpreted that over the years.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh, some older sage wisdom is what I'm going to call it.
Uh-huh.
So it's no longer just, um, every good plant don't eat this.
Now it's like, okay, well you had the plants and you also have the, the animals.
Yeah.
But there's also a certain amount of responsibility because, uh, now you have animals.
Like if you kill all the animals and you won't have that animal anymore, right?
If you don't plant and you just keep reaping, then you're never going to actually have things
that grow.
Yeah.
Right.
It's kind of like the start of like, now there's actually additional responsibilities.
Like when you have, uh, you're entrusted with more options, there's now more responsibility
put on your shoulders to actually, how are you going to steward that?
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So in this covenant though, uh, one of the things that I absolutely love about a lot
of these covenants is that there are no strings attached.
Like, yes, we're given moral responsibility, but as far as God fulfilling his side of it,
there's no strings attached.
Right.
So if you fulfill his side of it, spoil alert read through the Bible, you will find that
true in the messianic covenant as well.
Uh, he is going to fulfill his covenant.
Yeah.
Cause you don't see Noah going, Hey God, can you on your side of the covenant, make sure
that you don't destroy the world with water again?
Cause building this arc was real hard.
Yeah.
Right.
Like that's not something that comes up.
No.
Um, the, the only exception is where I think where somebody's going to have a question
about that is actually going to be in the Abrahamic, which comes up next.
Uh, we're not going to talk about that till next week, but, um, but in this one, Noah
doesn't ask for a sign of the covenant.
He doesn't ask God, uh, to put the conditions as something that God does proactively in
Noah's favor and humanity's favor.
Yeah.
And so, um, those are, to me, those are the big things in the covenant.
Well, and I think one of the things that we, we maybe misunderstand because we're not Jewish
and we're, you know, in south, southeast Alaska, like we're used to being around water all
the time.
Yeah.
And so we don't necessarily think of it as chaos, even though water is fairly chaotic,
but we don't think of it as a, uh, like, uh, like in the deep or evil or anything like
that.
But that's not necessarily going to be true in, um, middle Eastern culture in that time
because, uh, they, they looked at like the water is the place that you go.
The shale is underneath the water that you have, like the water and then you have the
ferment and you have like, you know, like it's underneath and maybe I'll put a picture
in the show notes, but, um, it's, uh, this like biblical view is that, you know, the
water was deep chaos.
Right?
And so like, it's not just that God's promising not to flood the earth again.
He says, I'm never going to plunge you back into chaos.
That's not why I'm here.
It's not like, I'm not here to plunge you into chaos.
So water, yes, is water, but your water is also a metaphor for chaos.
And like, God is not bringing chaos back into this world.
And anytime that the rain falls and you might think that the world's coming to chaos, God's
like, no, look at my covenant and remember that I'm not doing that.
Right?
And like, that is a, that is a profound truth that we're going to see in each of the covenants
is that God is saying like, we're not leaning towards chaos.
We're moving towards Shalom, which is what we had in the garden and was broken, but it's
what we want again.
Yeah.
Right.
So one of the things I find pretty interesting here is, um, in this, in this text in chapter
nine, um, so I went and was taking a look at, uh, basic moral laws of the Jews came up with
from the no egg covenant, right?
Uh, so there's seven, seven Noah hide laws.
That's what they call them.
The first is prohibition of idolatry, uh, that you're not supposed to worship idols
or engage in, in idolatry, recognizing the one true God.
This is very apparent by you are made in the image of God image being the word that we
get idol from.
Yep.
Right.
You are a representation of God, right?
Makes sense that they would, that's the takeaway they have.
There's this prohibition against murder.
Once again, somebody made in the image of God, you don't take strike out against God.
Uh, there's prohibition against theft, stealing or taking what does not belong to oneself.
Prohibition against sexual immorality, um, prohibition against, uh, of blasphemy and,
uh, prohibition of eating flesh taken from a living animal.
This is where we were talking about.
You can't eat meat that has its lifeblood in it.
In other words, you don't eat an animal while it's still alive.
Yeah.
You, uh, you slay the animal, you drain the blood and you eat the animal.
Yep.
Right.
And then there's the judgment of courts of justice.
This is once again that blood for blood and, uh, universal morality.
We talked about that with this foundation of God's intentions for humanity and it became
this foundation for civilization for them moving forward.
This this idea of, uh, there's some sort of universal code that we're supposed to live
by.
Yeah.
Right.
And, uh, really impacted the way that they started to interact with the world around
them.
And whenever they veered from that, it ended badly for them.
And when they really lived into that, there was a blessing.
Just like most covenants, there's blessings and there's curses.
Yep.
Um, I think sometimes when we hear that, we hear, oh, if you do what the covenant says,
God's going to bless you.
And if you don't do it, he's going to curse you.
But the reality is there's a certain way that the world is meant to work.
According to, cause God built it, um, that there's a certain way that life is supposed
to be.
And when you live into the way the life is supposed to be, the natural result is blessing
because that's the way the world is supposed to work because you're living into God's design
under God's creation in the world that he put together.
But when you live outside of that, curses are the natural production of living outside
of the way that God called the world B. It's not that he's bringing curses into your life.
He's saying, if you do these things, this is what happens.
It's like if you tell your kid, if you play with that knife and swing it around, eventually
you're going to cut yourself and then they swing it around and then they cut themselves.
I didn't cause them to cut themselves because I told them about the consequences of swinging
a knife.
Right.
By the way, we don't parent that way.
Yeah, we don't parent that way.
Yeah.
If you have a stick of TNT, no, but you know what I mean?
And so I think a lot of the times when we hear these blessings and curses, we're like,
Oh, God's just waiting for me to break the law so that he can lay the smack down on me.
But that's not really what's going on at all.
What God is saying is if you choose to live here, like I made this world, this is how
it's meant to operate.
If you operate outside of that, you're going to find brokenness and curses.
Right?
Yeah.
And one of my favorite examples of this is, and this is going to get real nerdy for people
who don't like computers, but computers have a certain design to them and they're meant
to operate within certain parameters.
And when you operate outside of those parameters, you get corruption and corruption typically
spreads to the point that it can actually lock up your entire computer.
Yeah.
Right.
Because you're operating outside of the parameters and it can start small, but it grows over
time and that corruption spreads to the point where eventually you have to have a, you have
to reformat and ready reset to the default setting on your computer.
Yep.
Or you might burn your high drive like the app demo if possible.
Or just gotta get a new computer, like throw out the old, get a new.
Yeah.
Right.
Like take out, take out your hardest stone and get a new one.
Yeah.
Um, and so like this, this idea, nobody will look at a computer and be like, Oh, well the
computer is bringing curses on me for doing no, you're using it incorrectly.
Yeah.
Not in the way that it's designed to be.
And then it's not working.
Like you should not, if you use it in an unconventional way, don't be surprised if it breaks.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, speaking of that life hacks, like when people do life hacks, sometimes they use things
in unconventional ways and then it blows up in like fantastical and often amusing ways.
Sometimes it works though.
Sometimes it does work.
Um, like, like I saw an Instagram real earlier this morning where it was a guy, he took a
mop head and he attached it to the end of a weed eater.
Perfect.
And mopped the kitchen floor with it.
And I was like, this is, I was like, I don't know if this is like stupid or brilliant,
right?
It's somewhere in there, somewhere in there.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, granted it was a gas powered weed eater that he was running in his kitchen.
So that was probably stupid, but probably didn't smell great.
He brought, yeah.
So, but I was like, I was like, man, if I was just a battery powered weed eater, that'd
be like perfect.
Well, and can you imagine though that if he did that and then he, uh, tried to see the
manufacturer of the weeder who's like, now my house smells like gas.
So like, it's not meant to be run indoors.
Yeah.
You know?
And like, you're getting mad at the designer for when you took the product and you used
it incorrectly, that it didn't work the way it was supposed to.
Yeah.
I was like, well, you didn't use it the way you're supposed to.
Yeah.
And a lot of like, with, uh, with this, this, like this foundational covenant has got saying,
Hey, there's a way that the world works.
Right.
And then the Adamic covenant, the way the world worked, you're supposed to subdue the
earth, fill it, um, be fruitful and multiply.
Yeah.
Right.
Like the tree, like those, those sort of things.
That's how the world worked and spend your time with God live in day seven, go and, uh,
make the whole earth look like the garden of Eden.
Right?
Like that was it.
Yeah.
In the, in the time of Noah, he's saying, Hey, there's a little bit different.
You're still going to be fruitful and multiply.
You're still going to, but now, uh, everything's going to be fair game for you as you go out
there for eating.
Yeah.
Um, but you need to be really careful not to like strike down somebody who's made in
the image of God.
Yeah.
Because that's a strike against me.
Yeah.
There's a way that the world's meant to be.
And there's these ideas that they come away with, like these general, like universal truths
that you're going to walk with.
And when you walk outside of those, not surprisingly, yes, you're going to have curses, but you're
really just taking the natural consequences of doing what you're not supposed to do in
a world that was created for a specific purpose.
Yeah.
So kind of hit the bullet points of the covenant here is one is, uh, there's element of mercy
and patience.
We're talking about that, right?
God saying he's going to be merciful and patient with this creation.
Yeah.
Uh, there's no strings attached to God fulfilling it.
Correct.
Or God fulfilling his side of the covenant, right?
He's going to fulfill his side of the covenant, whether we live into our side or not.
He's still going to fulfill his side of the covenant.
Uh, the, um, one of the other ones is that, uh, well, obviously the rainbow, we've got
to talk about the rainbow.
Yeah.
I can't believe I almost skipped over that, but the rainbow.
Trying to skip it.
No, I wasn't trying to skip it.
It's beautiful.
Yeah.
And then there's the, there's a universal scope.
It's meant for everyone.
Yeah.
Right.
This isn't meant just for Noah.
It's not meant just for Jewish people.
It's meant for the whole world.
Correct.
Right.
Like it is meant for everyone.
Uh, and there's, and lastly, there's moral responsibility, right?
Like there are things that we are responsible for.
We have been given responsibility, uh, charged to care for the earth, charged to steward it
well.
Right.
And so when you look at the, when you look at the covenants, most of this lies on God
fulfilling his side.
Right?
Yeah.
And then all God's asking is like, Hey, take care of what I've blessed you with.
Well, and, and because this came out on the heels of the flood, there's this, there's
this thing that's going to connect and continue on.
And Sandra Richter is going to talk about this in her book, um, epic of Eden.
And we're going to plug that again.
Um, also Peter Gentry's, uh, covenants kingdom covenant, I believe it was called.
I, every time I go to say it, I always forget what the book is called.
Um, kingdom of covenants, Peter Gentry.
Um, but in Richter, what she's going to talk about is that in the middle of the chaos,
God is always focusing on the hope.
And you're seeing the mercy in like, even with judgment, you see mercy.
It's always, God is always trending towards wanting to forgive and include and bring in
and, and make a part of his family.
And she's going to connect that no way covenant.
What happens here to later covenants, particularly the theme of judgment and grace.
Right?
So judgment is coming, but God wants to give grace.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, now Jenner is going to place it in the talk about more about how it fits in the near
east.
Um, once again, I want to stress that if you are not a details person, gentry's is probably
going to be a little heavy for you.
Right.
Uh, and he talks about how that the new covenant is a beginning for humanity, emphasizing the
fresh start and God offers after judgment, similar ideas, but he's going to be much more,
uh, talking about the no covenant, laying the groundwork for the, uh, Abrahamic covenant.
And he's going to talk about how they are progressively revelating revelation of God's
plan for humanity.
Yeah.
Both of those are great ways to view it.
Yeah.
Right.
I don't think that they contradict each other.
They're just two different scholars, ways of looking at the same events and, uh, the,
the, the, there is a really good marriage between those two ideas.
Yeah.
But understanding like the Adamic and Noahic, I really want to marry those two ideas because
they're, they're really in the first six, six, seven chapters of the Bible that God is,
he's saying you're here for a purpose.
You have a job.
I'm going to do my part.
Don't worry about that.
I'm going to make sure that chaos doesn't continually happen around you and that if
you live into what I'm calling you to do, you're going to find blessing and, uh, but
you do have a job and we need to get about it.
You're made in the image of God.
Go represent me in the world.
Yep.
Right.
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Um, we'll probably try to address those.
Uh, we do record a couple of weeks in advance, so you may recognize that we don't answer
a question for like four weeks.
Yeah, that's entirely possible.
Um, I cause cause Spencer has pity on me.
He doesn't make me record and edit and post in the same week because that would be a lot.
Yeah.
Um, but we actually do want to hear what you guys have to say.
Um, the, the covenants are really important to understand and the Noahic covenant is going
to have a connection when we get to the book of Acts too.
It's going to come back and talk about Noahic and Abrahamic covenant, um, in this conversation
with their first council of the disciples.
Yeah.
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