1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Season two of Love in Context podcast welcomes you. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,600 Get ready for engaging unscripted conversations with your hosts, Ben and Spencer. 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:17,120 Our mission remains unchanged to explore the Bible through the powerful lens of love. 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,060 In this new season, we'll embark on a journey together, unearthing fresh insights and gaining 5 00:00:21,060 --> 00:00:25,440 deeper understanding of how we can love God and live out our faith in practical ways. 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,200 So let's dive into this season of Love in Context, where love in the context of the 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,640 Bible intersect to transform our lives. 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,080 Welcome back to the Love in Context podcast. 9 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,080 Is that the name of it? 10 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,080 It is the name of our... 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,080 Okay. 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,080 Yeah. 13 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,060 He is harassing me because literally the clip that I cut out right before this, I started 14 00:00:45,060 --> 00:00:48,160 saying welcome and I forgot the name of the podcast. 15 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:52,540 The podcast that I created with my friend Spencer here. 16 00:00:52,540 --> 00:00:56,160 If you are joining us on YouTube, you may notice that Spencer has much less beard than 17 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,160 he used to. 18 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:58,160 Yeah. 19 00:00:58,160 --> 00:00:59,160 Yep. 20 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,800 He said it was time and then he donated all of his hair to... 21 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,800 Yeah, I think it was like people who don't have beards, they just paste it on them. 22 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:07,800 That's definitely not true. 23 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,000 No, it's not true at all. 24 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,200 So we're in week two of our covenants. 25 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,200 Yeah. 26 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:15,200 Yep. 27 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,240 So we're talking about the covenants and normally these covenants are going to build on each 28 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:23,760 other and kind of continue as God is moving people forward all the way up to the Messianic 29 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,600 covenant. 30 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,240 This one is going to be a little bit different because the Adamic and the Noahic covenant 31 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,560 are very intrinsically connected in a lot of ways. 32 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,480 So one of the things I want to remind you of, if you were with us season one when we 33 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,160 were talking about the flood, we talked about how this story of the flood is a story of 34 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,560 like a new creation, right? 35 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,120 That it mirrors the creation narrative in a lot of details in the way that it's being 36 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,000 presented to the point where actually when they give the covenant, the covenant is actually 37 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 very similar. 38 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,360 And it's very clear that in the narrative that it's meant to be like this story of new 39 00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,360 creation, right? 40 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:05,520 That everything got really, really bad and that God is basically starting over and here 41 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:06,520 we go. 42 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:07,520 Yep. 43 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:08,520 Right? 44 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,500 And if you did not listen to either of those episodes, I do recommend that you go back 45 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:12,500 and check that. 46 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:16,520 And then also there is an episode of the Baymaw podcast where they talk about the flood and 47 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,640 they're going to get into some more of the chiastic things that are going on inside of 48 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:20,640 there. 49 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:21,640 Yep. 50 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:22,640 Yeah. 51 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:27,040 So there is lots of literature and there is lots of media that is that's going to be helpful 52 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,920 for pulling apart that part. 53 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:29,920 Yeah. 54 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:30,920 So let's take a look here. 55 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:35,880 So in chapter six of Genesis, starting in verse 18, it outlines the covenant. 56 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:44,620 So initially God comes to Noah and in verse 18, he says this, I will establish my covenant 57 00:02:44,620 --> 00:02:46,320 with you and you will enter the arc. 58 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,720 You and your sons and your wife and your sons, wives with you. 59 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,020 You are to bring into the arc two of the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive 60 00:02:53,020 --> 00:02:57,080 with you to have every kind of bird of every kind of animal and have every kind of creature 61 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,400 that moves along the ground will come to with you to be kept alive. 62 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,940 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and stored away as food for you 63 00:03:03,940 --> 00:03:05,300 and for them. 64 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:07,040 Noah did everything just as the Lord commanded. 65 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:08,040 Okay. 66 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:09,940 So there's this precedent set up. 67 00:03:09,940 --> 00:03:12,300 God says, I'm going to make a covenant with you. 68 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:14,180 Here's what you need to do. 69 00:03:14,180 --> 00:03:17,780 Go into the arc when I tell you to take these things. 70 00:03:17,780 --> 00:03:20,180 And then at the end, I'm going to establish my covenant to you. 71 00:03:20,180 --> 00:03:21,180 Right? 72 00:03:21,180 --> 00:03:24,600 So Noah has a, has a portion of his covenant that he's supposed to fulfill. 73 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:25,600 Yeah. 74 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,640 Which is that he has to build the arc, which no small feat. 75 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:28,640 Nope. 76 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:29,640 They have that. 77 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:31,920 Uh, is it in Kentucky or Kansas? 78 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:34,280 They have that arc that they built. 79 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,740 Uh, I don't remember where it's at. 80 00:03:37,740 --> 00:03:40,760 If it's even remotely accurate, the thing is massive. 81 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:41,760 Right. 82 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,360 And, uh, the arc is, is, is, is massive undertaking because, uh, luckily you don't have to actually 83 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,240 sell anywhere in it because they're not going somewhere. 84 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,160 They're basically just enduring the flood. 85 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:52,160 Yeah. 86 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,400 But, uh, they have to build this massive boat. 87 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,840 But then not only that, they have to gather two of all of the animals around the world 88 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,320 and put them on this arc. 89 00:03:58,320 --> 00:03:59,320 Yeah. 90 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,520 As well as, uh, right at the end there, it said that you actually need to, uh, take every 91 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,840 kind of food that is to be eaten and stored away as food for you and for them. 92 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:07,840 Yes. 93 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:08,840 Right. 94 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:09,840 So it's quite a bit in this. 95 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,280 There's quite a bit in like of activity that actually takes place in this. 96 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:19,200 Um, but this is the, this is the covenant from the very beginning and there's going 97 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,360 to be, uh, this onset of the covenant is this portion. 98 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:28,000 And then when we actually get to the end of, um, the flood narrative in chapter nine, God 99 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 actually comes and he, he actually outlines the covenant with Noah. 100 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,640 So I'm going to read this for you here. 101 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,520 Uh, it says, then God blessed no one, his son saying to them, be fruitful, increase 102 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:37,880 in number and fill the earth. 103 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:38,880 Okay. 104 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,160 So it's a lot like Genesis one, right? 105 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,600 Um, the fear and dread of you will fall on the beast of the earth and on the birds in 106 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,440 the sky and on every creature that moves along the ground and on all the fish in the sea, 107 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,040 they are given into your hands. 108 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,040 Okay. 109 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,920 That's different, right? 110 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,680 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. 111 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,760 Just as I gave you green plants, I now give you everything. 112 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:00,760 Okay. 113 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,360 So first covenant and Adamic covenant given all of the plants of the ground, uh, the earth 114 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,360 to eat. 115 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,360 Yeah. 116 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,040 And we have animals to eat too, and for that we thank God because bacon is delicious. 117 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,040 Right? 118 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,560 Um, some of you are going to be like, well, what about, you know, prohibition against 119 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:16,560 bacon? 120 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:17,560 We'll get there. 121 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,880 I'm a Gentile, so I don't have that prohibition. 122 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,960 Um, uh, verse four, but you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 123 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,280 And for your lifeblood, I will surely demand an accounting. 124 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:31,240 I will demand an accounting from every, every animal and from each human being too. 125 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,400 I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. 126 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,960 Whoever sheds human blood by humans shall their blood be shed. 127 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,880 And if we're in the image of God has God made mankind. 128 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,840 Now once again, the Hill, her heralding back to this first covenant, we are made in the 129 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:45,840 image of God. 130 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:46,840 Yeah. 131 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:47,840 Right. 132 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:49,880 So you can't go and just kill a human because you're actually killing the very image of 133 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:50,880 God. 134 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,320 You could look at it when you commit murder as you're actually striking out against God 135 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,320 himself. 136 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:56,320 Yeah. 137 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:57,320 Right. 138 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,240 As for you be fruitful and increase in number, multiply on the earth and increase upon it. 139 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,680 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, I now established my covenant with you and 140 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,920 with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you, the birds, 141 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,240 the livestock and all the wild animals, all those creatures that came out of the arc with 142 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,080 you, every living creature on earth. 143 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:15,600 I established my covenant with you. 144 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,720 Never again will all life be destroyed by the floods or by the waters of a flood. 145 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,120 Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. 146 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,120 Okay. 147 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:24,380 So there's two different covenants here. 148 00:06:24,380 --> 00:06:28,620 One that's strictly for Noah's family and for humanity. 149 00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:30,920 And then one that's with the entire earth, right? 150 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,080 They're under the same covenant, but like there there's pieces that apply to specific 151 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,080 people. 152 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,080 It's not two different covenants. 153 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,080 Correct. 154 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,280 Two aspects of the same covenant. 155 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,500 So sometimes when we're going to be referring back to this, you need to be specific on which 156 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:45,080 part of the Noahic covenant are we talking about? 157 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:50,200 Because this prohibition against the flooding of the earth is actually for all of creation, 158 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:55,020 not just for not just for humanity. 159 00:06:55,020 --> 00:06:58,620 And God said, this is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living 160 00:06:58,620 --> 00:06:59,620 creature with you. 161 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:01,480 This is the covenant for all generations to come. 162 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,080 I have set my rainbow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me 163 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,280 and the earth. 164 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:09,120 When I bring the clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will 165 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,200 remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. 166 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,020 Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy our life. 167 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:18,480 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember it. 168 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,580 The everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth. 169 00:07:22,580 --> 00:07:26,060 So God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and 170 00:07:26,060 --> 00:07:27,960 all life on the earth. 171 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:28,960 Okay. 172 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:34,000 So when we read this last time when we were in Torah, we talked about how it repeats itself 173 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,100 a lot and there's a chiasm there. 174 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:37,140 Go check out that episode. 175 00:07:37,140 --> 00:07:38,140 Go check out the Baima episode. 176 00:07:38,140 --> 00:07:40,080 We're not going to get into that today. 177 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:46,680 But there is this idea of this covenant is he's not going to destroy the earth, that 178 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,360 you're going to be fruitful and multiply. 179 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,520 Same command is showing up in the Adamic covenant. 180 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:51,760 Like that hasn't changed. 181 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,160 You're still the image of God. 182 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,040 Don't strike out against the other image. 183 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,040 Right. 184 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,840 But I'm not going to destroy everything. 185 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:04,800 In fact, I'm going to give you a sign, a sign that you can actually carry with you and you 186 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,920 can't lose because I'm literally going to put it in the clouds. 187 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,800 And it's a, it translates as rainbow, but in the, in the Hebrew, it's actually just 188 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,760 bow, but we call it rainbow because that's, that's what it is in the sky. 189 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,000 But it's meant to represent a bow. 190 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,720 Now bow typically battle. 191 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,520 If you actually have a bow and it's curved upwards, where is it actually pointing towards 192 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,000 towards the heavens, towards the heavens. 193 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Yeah. 194 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,840 It's pointing towards God and God saying, I'm actually going to put a bow aimed at myself 195 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,040 every time this comes and I'm going to remember. 196 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:34,040 Yeah. 197 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:42,280 I am going to be the one who remembers because humanity, well, I, people are stupid and they 198 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:43,280 forget, right? 199 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:47,560 Uh, I personally like to quote from men in black who person is smart. 200 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:48,560 People are stupid. 201 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:52,760 That's, that's not exact quote, but, uh, but that's the idea. 202 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:53,760 Yeah. 203 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,760 Right. 204 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:55,760 Yeah. 205 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:00,960 So the no way at covenant really has a few aspects that are worth touching on. 206 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:06,440 One is, uh, the, uh, idea of mercy and patience, right? 207 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,680 Um, which actually echoes back to Genesis chapter three, right? 208 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,520 Um, where, when Adam and Eve fell, they were closed. 209 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:14,520 Yeah. 210 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:15,520 Right. 211 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:16,520 The Lord closed them. 212 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,520 Right. 213 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,600 Um, and so, and then, uh, same here where after he fled the earth, he's like, here's 214 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,800 the sign I'm going to create to show that I'm going to be a merciful and patient God. 215 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:30,520 And then you actually see that nature of God reflected throughout the rest of the old Testament, 216 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:31,520 right? 217 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,400 Where he keeps waiting for his people to return to him. 218 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,920 Um, and he uses that rainbow as that sign, right? 219 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:39,400 Or that bow, right? 220 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,520 As the sign of this covenant to say, I am going to lean into who I am, a God of mercy, 221 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,920 a God of patience, a God of grace, a God of love. 222 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,640 Over the next few weeks, I really want to, I really want to focus on this idea of the 223 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:55,200 sign of the covenant, because, um, this is going to be really important, uh, in this 224 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:00,600 one in the, uh, Abrahamic, the mosaic, the Davidic and the mess, messianic. 225 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,980 These are going to be really important in the sign of the covenant. 226 00:10:02,980 --> 00:10:07,400 And it's going to be really important when we get to messiac messianic messiac. 227 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,400 That's not a word. 228 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:09,400 Nope. 229 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:10,400 It is not. 230 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:11,400 I made up that word. 231 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:12,400 You did, you did. 232 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,640 And you touched on this too, Ben, but there's a universal scope to this covenant, right? 233 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:16,640 Right. 234 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,040 So the covenant is not just for Noah. 235 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,080 It's for Noah and all his descendants, right? 236 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,040 For everybody to come after him. 237 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,040 Yeah. 238 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,240 And, and so like one of these things, this conversation comes in where people talk about 239 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:29,560 universal morality, right? 240 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:33,880 Uh, CS Lewis is well known for talking about this, that if you, uh, step outside of the 241 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,760 rules, there has to be a rule giver. 242 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,760 Yeah. 243 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:37,760 Right. 244 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,440 Um, why is it not acceptable anywhere in the world to commit murder? 245 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:42,560 Yeah. 246 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:46,200 Because there's a foundational covenant with the entire world, right? 247 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,360 When you, when you take blood in the image of God, that there is recompense. 248 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:51,360 Yeah. 249 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,360 Right. 250 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,840 Uh, the idea though is that there is some sort of like moral law that is, exists outside 251 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:57,840 of humanity. 252 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,080 It's this covenant with God that, uh, and there's a few things that go with that, but 253 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,520 we'll talk about that in a few minutes because a Jewish thought has some thoughts on that. 254 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:09,400 Um, but there's this, this moral law outside of humanity that actually says these are things 255 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:10,400 that aren't okay. 256 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,400 Yeah. 257 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,160 And it's, it's no coincidence that we keep coming back to those same fundamental truths. 258 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:16,160 Right. 259 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,560 So when Paul talks about the fruit of the spirit, right. 260 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,760 Uh, at the end of it, he says against these things, there is no law. 261 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:22,760 Yeah. 262 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:23,760 Right. 263 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,760 He's actually referring to that. 264 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:25,760 Yeah. 265 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:26,760 Referring back into that. 266 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,480 There, there is a natural, there is a natural way that we are supposed to live. 267 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:29,480 Of course. 268 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:34,320 Now, of course we have, uh, outside of Christ, we have a fallen world and things that are 269 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,440 going to tend towards destruction. 270 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:37,440 Yeah. 271 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:43,200 I mean, that's the story that comes before the flood is that every inclination of humankind 272 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,800 was to evil all the time. 273 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:45,800 Yeah. 274 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,400 And that's my, um, least favorite and also favorite verses because like that's terrible, 275 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,840 but also like there's no ambiguity there. 276 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,200 All of the thoughts of humanity were evil all of the time. 277 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,600 You know, it's not like these were kind of bad people. 278 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,400 No, every, every thought was evil all the time. 279 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,400 Yeah. 280 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:04,400 Right. 281 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,800 So you're talking about like this whole idea of like divine mercy and, and compassion and, 282 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:12,320 um, but there's also like the Adamic covenant, there's this, this, this portion of human 283 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,320 responsibility, right? 284 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,720 Like there is, there is a job to do. 285 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:17,720 Yeah. 286 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:24,440 Uh, it doesn't seem like the, uh, the covenant is conditional upon them doing it, but it 287 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,960 is a job that they're giving as part of the covenant. 288 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,040 Like what I mean is that God is not going to not destroy the world if they don't do 289 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,040 their job. 290 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:36,160 Like he's made the covenant on his terms, like he's going to fulfill this. 291 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:37,160 Yeah. 292 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:41,120 But inside of that, there is this commission to be fearful, multiply and actually rule 293 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:42,120 the earth. 294 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,560 For example, like good parents are going to be good parents, whether the kids are obeying 295 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:46,560 or disobeying. 296 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:47,560 Hopefully. 297 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:48,560 Yeah. 298 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:53,480 I said good parents are going to be good parents, whether their kids are obeying or disobeying. 299 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,480 Right? 300 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:55,480 Yeah. 301 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,800 Like we have a covenant as parents to be like, we are going to raise our kids to the best 302 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:58,800 of our ability, right? 303 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,440 We're going to raise them up in the way of the Lord. 304 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,760 They are given a moral responsibility, right? 305 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:07,120 Uh, but it's not conditional upon God fulfilling his side of the covenant. 306 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:08,120 Right. 307 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,120 Right. 308 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,040 Like God's not going to abandon his side of the covenant because they failed their moral 309 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,200 responsibility, which by the way, Noah does at the end of the story. 310 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:15,200 Yeah. 311 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,200 Yeah. 312 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,200 If you, I'm, I'm hopefully I'm not spoiling anything. 313 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,600 You've read the book before, but there is a, in the next couple of chapters, Noah, Noah 314 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,880 kind of, uh, fails on that, on that aspect of walking forward with that. 315 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:29,120 Um, and, uh, but there's, there's going to be also this trend moving forward that God 316 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,520 is going to fulfill his end of the covenant. 317 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,280 No matter what, whenever God makes covenants, he's going to make sure that his side is taken 318 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,720 care of, which is really key because, uh, as we're going to find out, we've talked about 319 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,000 in the past, God typically will actually find a way to fulfill both sides of the covenant. 320 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Yes. 321 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,920 Um, like a good parent, he's like, Hey, I bet you they're not going to do great at this. 322 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,920 Yeah. 323 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:49,920 Right. 324 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,680 Uh, and then once again, we want you to, we, the sign of the covenant is a big deal to 325 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:54,680 pick away from this. 326 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:58,080 Um, is that the, this is the first one that a sign is given, right? 327 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,360 And the sign of something that you can't lose. 328 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,440 One of the just interesting things, like whether this has weight or no weight at all is there 329 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:10,480 actually was more dietary permission and prohibition given in this one. 330 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:11,480 Yeah. 331 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,880 Where instead of like, instead of you hinted at it earlier, but instead of just plants, 332 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,880 like, Oh, here's everything. 333 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:17,880 Yep. 334 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:18,880 Yep. 335 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,080 And, uh, here's everything, but here's also, you can't take something with the lifeblood 336 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,080 in it. 337 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:24,080 Yeah. 338 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:25,080 Right. 339 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:26,680 Uh, which we're going to talk about in a minute because that actually, uh, coincides with 340 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,320 some ways that the Jews have interpreted that over the years. 341 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,320 Yeah. 342 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,320 Right. 343 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:32,880 Uh, some older sage wisdom is what I'm going to call it. 344 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:33,880 Uh-huh. 345 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:39,200 So it's no longer just, um, every good plant don't eat this. 346 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,440 Now it's like, okay, well you had the plants and you also have the, the animals. 347 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:43,440 Yeah. 348 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:49,480 But there's also a certain amount of responsibility because, uh, now you have animals. 349 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,560 Like if you kill all the animals and you won't have that animal anymore, right? 350 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,320 If you don't plant and you just keep reaping, then you're never going to actually have things 351 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:58,320 that grow. 352 00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,320 Yeah. 353 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:00,320 Right. 354 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,560 It's kind of like the start of like, now there's actually additional responsibilities. 355 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:10,440 Like when you have, uh, you're entrusted with more options, there's now more responsibility 356 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,000 put on your shoulders to actually, how are you going to steward that? 357 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Yeah. 358 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Right. 359 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Yeah. 360 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:21,880 So in this covenant though, uh, one of the things that I absolutely love about a lot 361 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,640 of these covenants is that there are no strings attached. 362 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:29,320 Like, yes, we're given moral responsibility, but as far as God fulfilling his side of it, 363 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,320 there's no strings attached. 364 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:31,320 Right. 365 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,280 So if you fulfill his side of it, spoil alert read through the Bible, you will find that 366 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,720 true in the messianic covenant as well. 367 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,360 Uh, he is going to fulfill his covenant. 368 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:41,360 Yeah. 369 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,520 Cause you don't see Noah going, Hey God, can you on your side of the covenant, make sure 370 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:47,280 that you don't destroy the world with water again? 371 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:48,640 Cause building this arc was real hard. 372 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:49,640 Yeah. 373 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:50,640 Right. 374 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:51,640 Like that's not something that comes up. 375 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:52,640 No. 376 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,800 Um, the, the only exception is where I think where somebody's going to have a question 377 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,480 about that is actually going to be in the Abrahamic, which comes up next. 378 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:04,040 Uh, we're not going to talk about that till next week, but, um, but in this one, Noah 379 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:05,720 doesn't ask for a sign of the covenant. 380 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,840 He doesn't ask God, uh, to put the conditions as something that God does proactively in 381 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,080 Noah's favor and humanity's favor. 382 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,080 Yeah. 383 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:15,080 Yeah. 384 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,840 And so, um, those are, to me, those are the big things in the covenant. 385 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,820 Well, and I think one of the things that we, we maybe misunderstand because we're not Jewish 386 00:16:23,820 --> 00:16:28,520 and we're, you know, in south, southeast Alaska, like we're used to being around water all 387 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:29,520 the time. 388 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:30,520 Yeah. 389 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,320 And so we don't necessarily think of it as chaos, even though water is fairly chaotic, 390 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:38,080 but we don't think of it as a, uh, like, uh, like in the deep or evil or anything like 391 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,080 that. 392 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,920 But that's not necessarily going to be true in, um, middle Eastern culture in that time 393 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,440 because, uh, they, they looked at like the water is the place that you go. 394 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,240 The shale is underneath the water that you have, like the water and then you have the 395 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,520 ferment and you have like, you know, like it's underneath and maybe I'll put a picture 396 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:57,960 in the show notes, but, um, it's, uh, this like biblical view is that, you know, the 397 00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:59,480 water was deep chaos. 398 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:00,560 Right? 399 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,440 And so like, it's not just that God's promising not to flood the earth again. 400 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,240 He says, I'm never going to plunge you back into chaos. 401 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,600 That's not why I'm here. 402 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,720 It's not like, I'm not here to plunge you into chaos. 403 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,320 So water, yes, is water, but your water is also a metaphor for chaos. 404 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,840 And like, God is not bringing chaos back into this world. 405 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:24,440 And anytime that the rain falls and you might think that the world's coming to chaos, God's 406 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,560 like, no, look at my covenant and remember that I'm not doing that. 407 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:28,560 Right? 408 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:33,080 And like, that is a, that is a profound truth that we're going to see in each of the covenants 409 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,440 is that God is saying like, we're not leaning towards chaos. 410 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:41,720 We're moving towards Shalom, which is what we had in the garden and was broken, but it's 411 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,000 what we want again. 412 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Yeah. 413 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Right. 414 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,400 So one of the things I find pretty interesting here is, um, in this, in this text in chapter 415 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:55,160 nine, um, so I went and was taking a look at, uh, basic moral laws of the Jews came up with 416 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,000 from the no egg covenant, right? 417 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,920 Uh, so there's seven, seven Noah hide laws. 418 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:01,920 That's what they call them. 419 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,200 The first is prohibition of idolatry, uh, that you're not supposed to worship idols 420 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,880 or engage in, in idolatry, recognizing the one true God. 421 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,280 This is very apparent by you are made in the image of God image being the word that we 422 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,280 get idol from. 423 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:13,280 Yep. 424 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:14,280 Right. 425 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,680 You are a representation of God, right? 426 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,040 Makes sense that they would, that's the takeaway they have. 427 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,360 There's this prohibition against murder. 428 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:24,160 Once again, somebody made in the image of God, you don't take strike out against God. 429 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:29,040 Uh, there's prohibition against theft, stealing or taking what does not belong to oneself. 430 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:37,320 Prohibition against sexual immorality, um, prohibition against, uh, of blasphemy and, 431 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,360 uh, prohibition of eating flesh taken from a living animal. 432 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:41,680 This is where we were talking about. 433 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,840 You can't eat meat that has its lifeblood in it. 434 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,600 In other words, you don't eat an animal while it's still alive. 435 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:48,600 Yeah. 436 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,960 You, uh, you slay the animal, you drain the blood and you eat the animal. 437 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:52,960 Yep. 438 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:53,960 Right. 439 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,360 And then there's the judgment of courts of justice. 440 00:18:55,360 --> 00:19:00,320 This is once again that blood for blood and, uh, universal morality. 441 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,200 We talked about that with this foundation of God's intentions for humanity and it became 442 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,640 this foundation for civilization for them moving forward. 443 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,960 This this idea of, uh, there's some sort of universal code that we're supposed to live 444 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:12,960 by. 445 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:13,960 Yeah. 446 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:14,960 Right. 447 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,280 And, uh, really impacted the way that they started to interact with the world around 448 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:18,280 them. 449 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,120 And whenever they veered from that, it ended badly for them. 450 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:22,920 And when they really lived into that, there was a blessing. 451 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,080 Just like most covenants, there's blessings and there's curses. 452 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:27,080 Yep. 453 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,240 Um, I think sometimes when we hear that, we hear, oh, if you do what the covenant says, 454 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:31,240 God's going to bless you. 455 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,240 And if you don't do it, he's going to curse you. 456 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,520 But the reality is there's a certain way that the world is meant to work. 457 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,800 According to, cause God built it, um, that there's a certain way that life is supposed 458 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:42,800 to be. 459 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,320 And when you live into the way the life is supposed to be, the natural result is blessing 460 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,160 because that's the way the world is supposed to work because you're living into God's design 461 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,120 under God's creation in the world that he put together. 462 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:58,560 But when you live outside of that, curses are the natural production of living outside 463 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:03,120 of the way that God called the world B. It's not that he's bringing curses into your life. 464 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:05,240 He's saying, if you do these things, this is what happens. 465 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,880 It's like if you tell your kid, if you play with that knife and swing it around, eventually 466 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,200 you're going to cut yourself and then they swing it around and then they cut themselves. 467 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,720 I didn't cause them to cut themselves because I told them about the consequences of swinging 468 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:16,720 a knife. 469 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:17,720 Right. 470 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:18,880 By the way, we don't parent that way. 471 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,240 Yeah, we don't parent that way. 472 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:22,600 Yeah. 473 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,800 If you have a stick of TNT, no, but you know what I mean? 474 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,560 And so I think a lot of the times when we hear these blessings and curses, we're like, 475 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:34,040 Oh, God's just waiting for me to break the law so that he can lay the smack down on me. 476 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,480 But that's not really what's going on at all. 477 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,440 What God is saying is if you choose to live here, like I made this world, this is how 478 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,720 it's meant to operate. 479 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,120 If you operate outside of that, you're going to find brokenness and curses. 480 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:47,120 Right? 481 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:48,120 Yeah. 482 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:51,560 And one of my favorite examples of this is, and this is going to get real nerdy for people 483 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:56,760 who don't like computers, but computers have a certain design to them and they're meant 484 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,960 to operate within certain parameters. 485 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,840 And when you operate outside of those parameters, you get corruption and corruption typically 486 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,920 spreads to the point that it can actually lock up your entire computer. 487 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:06,920 Yeah. 488 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:07,920 Right. 489 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,320 Because you're operating outside of the parameters and it can start small, but it grows over 490 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:16,840 time and that corruption spreads to the point where eventually you have to have a, you have 491 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:21,440 to reformat and ready reset to the default setting on your computer. 492 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:22,440 Yep. 493 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,440 Or you might burn your high drive like the app demo if possible. 494 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,440 Or just gotta get a new computer, like throw out the old, get a new. 495 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:29,440 Yeah. 496 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,440 Right. 497 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,960 Like take out, take out your hardest stone and get a new one. 498 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:33,960 Yeah. 499 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,360 Um, and so like this, this idea, nobody will look at a computer and be like, Oh, well the 500 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:41,040 computer is bringing curses on me for doing no, you're using it incorrectly. 501 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,040 Yeah. 502 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,200 Not in the way that it's designed to be. 503 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,000 And then it's not working. 504 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,760 Like you should not, if you use it in an unconventional way, don't be surprised if it breaks. 505 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:50,760 Yeah. 506 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:51,760 Right. 507 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,680 Um, speaking of that life hacks, like when people do life hacks, sometimes they use things 508 00:21:54,680 --> 00:22:01,520 in unconventional ways and then it blows up in like fantastical and often amusing ways. 509 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,600 Sometimes it works though. 510 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:03,600 Sometimes it does work. 511 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:08,760 Um, like, like I saw an Instagram real earlier this morning where it was a guy, he took a 512 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,640 mop head and he attached it to the end of a weed eater. 513 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:12,640 Perfect. 514 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:13,640 And mopped the kitchen floor with it. 515 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:18,480 And I was like, this is, I was like, I don't know if this is like stupid or brilliant, 516 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:19,480 right? 517 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,520 It's somewhere in there, somewhere in there. 518 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:22,520 Right. 519 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:23,520 Yeah. 520 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,840 Um, granted it was a gas powered weed eater that he was running in his kitchen. 521 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,240 So that was probably stupid, but probably didn't smell great. 522 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,240 He brought, yeah. 523 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,080 So, but I was like, I was like, man, if I was just a battery powered weed eater, that'd 524 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,080 be like perfect. 525 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,960 Well, and can you imagine though that if he did that and then he, uh, tried to see the 526 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,160 manufacturer of the weeder who's like, now my house smells like gas. 527 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,320 So like, it's not meant to be run indoors. 528 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:45,320 Yeah. 529 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,320 You know? 530 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,840 And like, you're getting mad at the designer for when you took the product and you used 531 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,720 it incorrectly, that it didn't work the way it was supposed to. 532 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:53,720 Yeah. 533 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,560 I was like, well, you didn't use it the way you're supposed to. 534 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,560 Yeah. 535 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:01,200 And a lot of like, with, uh, with this, this, like this foundational covenant has got saying, 536 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,800 Hey, there's a way that the world works. 537 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:03,800 Right. 538 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,720 And then the Adamic covenant, the way the world worked, you're supposed to subdue the 539 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,960 earth, fill it, um, be fruitful and multiply. 540 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:10,960 Yeah. 541 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:11,960 Right. 542 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,720 Like the tree, like those, those sort of things. 543 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:19,120 That's how the world worked and spend your time with God live in day seven, go and, uh, 544 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:21,160 make the whole earth look like the garden of Eden. 545 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,160 Right? 546 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,440 Like that was it. 547 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:24,440 Yeah. 548 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,720 In the, in the time of Noah, he's saying, Hey, there's a little bit different. 549 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,160 You're still going to be fruitful and multiply. 550 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,760 You're still going to, but now, uh, everything's going to be fair game for you as you go out 551 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:33,760 there for eating. 552 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:34,760 Yeah. 553 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,480 Um, but you need to be really careful not to like strike down somebody who's made in 554 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:39,480 the image of God. 555 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,480 Yeah. 556 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,480 Because that's a strike against me. 557 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,480 Yeah. 558 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:43,480 There's a way that the world's meant to be. 559 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,440 And there's these ideas that they come away with, like these general, like universal truths 560 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,000 that you're going to walk with. 561 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,080 And when you walk outside of those, not surprisingly, yes, you're going to have curses, but you're 562 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,120 really just taking the natural consequences of doing what you're not supposed to do in 563 00:23:58,120 --> 00:23:59,920 a world that was created for a specific purpose. 564 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:00,920 Yeah. 565 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:05,760 So kind of hit the bullet points of the covenant here is one is, uh, there's element of mercy 566 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:06,760 and patience. 567 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:07,760 We're talking about that, right? 568 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,440 God saying he's going to be merciful and patient with this creation. 569 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:11,440 Yeah. 570 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,240 Uh, there's no strings attached to God fulfilling it. 571 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,240 Correct. 572 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,240 Or God fulfilling his side of the covenant, right? 573 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,200 He's going to fulfill his side of the covenant, whether we live into our side or not. 574 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,800 He's still going to fulfill his side of the covenant. 575 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:32,040 Uh, the, um, one of the other ones is that, uh, well, obviously the rainbow, we've got 576 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,040 to talk about the rainbow. 577 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,040 Yeah. 578 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,280 I can't believe I almost skipped over that, but the rainbow. 579 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:37,280 Trying to skip it. 580 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:38,280 No, I wasn't trying to skip it. 581 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:39,280 It's beautiful. 582 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:40,280 Yeah. 583 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:41,280 Yeah. 584 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,200 And then there's the, there's a universal scope. 585 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:44,200 It's meant for everyone. 586 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,200 Yeah. 587 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,200 Right. 588 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,640 This isn't meant just for Noah. 589 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,760 It's not meant just for Jewish people. 590 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,040 It's meant for the whole world. 591 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,040 Correct. 592 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,040 Right. 593 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,520 Like it is meant for everyone. 594 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,400 Uh, and there's, and lastly, there's moral responsibility, right? 595 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,480 Like there are things that we are responsible for. 596 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:06,760 We have been given responsibility, uh, charged to care for the earth, charged to steward it 597 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,760 well. 598 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,360 Right. 599 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:13,040 And so when you look at the, when you look at the covenants, most of this lies on God 600 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,040 fulfilling his side. 601 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,040 Right? 602 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,040 Yeah. 603 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,800 And then all God's asking is like, Hey, take care of what I've blessed you with. 604 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:24,240 Well, and, and because this came out on the heels of the flood, there's this, there's 605 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,720 this thing that's going to connect and continue on. 606 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,920 And Sandra Richter is going to talk about this in her book, um, epic of Eden. 607 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,240 And we're going to plug that again. 608 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,080 Um, also Peter Gentry's, uh, covenants kingdom covenant, I believe it was called. 609 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,400 I, every time I go to say it, I always forget what the book is called. 610 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,280 Um, kingdom of covenants, Peter Gentry. 611 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,280 Um, but in Richter, what she's going to talk about is that in the middle of the chaos, 612 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,280 God is always focusing on the hope. 613 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,920 And you're seeing the mercy in like, even with judgment, you see mercy. 614 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,360 It's always, God is always trending towards wanting to forgive and include and bring in 615 00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:58,000 and, and make a part of his family. 616 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,780 And she's going to connect that no way covenant. 617 00:25:59,780 --> 00:26:03,200 What happens here to later covenants, particularly the theme of judgment and grace. 618 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,200 Right? 619 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,480 So judgment is coming, but God wants to give grace. 620 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,480 Yeah. 621 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,480 Right. 622 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,640 Um, now Jenner is going to place it in the talk about more about how it fits in the near 623 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:12,640 east. 624 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,720 Um, once again, I want to stress that if you are not a details person, gentry's is probably 625 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,320 going to be a little heavy for you. 626 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,320 Right. 627 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,720 Uh, and he talks about how that the new covenant is a beginning for humanity, emphasizing the 628 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:27,000 fresh start and God offers after judgment, similar ideas, but he's going to be much more, 629 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:32,640 uh, talking about the no covenant, laying the groundwork for the, uh, Abrahamic covenant. 630 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,100 And he's going to talk about how they are progressively revelating revelation of God's 631 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:37,100 plan for humanity. 632 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:38,100 Yeah. 633 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:39,440 Both of those are great ways to view it. 634 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,440 Yeah. 635 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,440 Right. 636 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:42,440 I don't think that they contradict each other. 637 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,480 They're just two different scholars, ways of looking at the same events and, uh, the, 638 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,480 the, the, there is a really good marriage between those two ideas. 639 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,480 Yeah. 640 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:57,240 But understanding like the Adamic and Noahic, I really want to marry those two ideas because 641 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,960 they're, they're really in the first six, six, seven chapters of the Bible that God is, 642 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,040 he's saying you're here for a purpose. 643 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,040 You have a job. 644 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,480 I'm going to do my part. 645 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:08,480 Don't worry about that. 646 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,680 I'm going to make sure that chaos doesn't continually happen around you and that if 647 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,280 you live into what I'm calling you to do, you're going to find blessing and, uh, but 648 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,640 you do have a job and we need to get about it. 649 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:20,720 You're made in the image of God. 650 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,720 Go represent me in the world. 651 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,040 Yep. 652 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:26,240 Right. 653 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:33,080 If you have questions or thoughts or any of those things, uh, do send us an email at loveincontext 654 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,080 at gmail.com. 655 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,320 You can also comment on our social media pages. 656 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,640 If you're seeing this on YouTube, just write a comment underneath. 657 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,720 Um, we'll probably try to address those. 658 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,000 Uh, we do record a couple of weeks in advance, so you may recognize that we don't answer 659 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,440 a question for like four weeks. 660 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,280 Yeah, that's entirely possible. 661 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,080 Um, I cause cause Spencer has pity on me. 662 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:55,800 He doesn't make me record and edit and post in the same week because that would be a lot. 663 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:56,800 Yeah. 664 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,640 Um, but we actually do want to hear what you guys have to say. 665 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,520 Um, the, the covenants are really important to understand and the Noahic covenant is going 666 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,000 to have a connection when we get to the book of Acts too. 667 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,520 It's going to come back and talk about Noahic and Abrahamic covenant, um, in this conversation 668 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,520 with their first council of the disciples. 669 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,520 Yeah. 670 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,160 Well, until next time. 671 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,180 And that's a wrap for today's episode of love and context. 672 00:28:19,180 --> 00:28:23,100 We hope you enjoyed this engaging conversation and gained valuable insights into the powerful 673 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:25,120 message of love within the Bible. 674 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,200 We'd love to hear from you and continue the conversation. 675 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,840 Connect with 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