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All right, my Bible in 365. 
Brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at the beginning of the 
year and you are starting an 

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incredible journey and I am 
excited about it. 

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And we are starting with the 
book of Genesis, which of course

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is the book of beginnings. 
Now let me just remind you, if 

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you want to know more in depth 
information about the book of 

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Genesis, I have already made 3 
or 4 generations of videos on 

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the book of Genesis that you can
consult that has lots of 

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information about the book. 
Now what we're going to do this 

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year is I am going to pick out 
somewhere around five of the 

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most difficult questions that I 
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Not necessarily the most 
difficult, but the most commonly

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asked difficult questions that I
get about each book. 

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And I'm going to go over those 
questions as well as the 

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answers. 
And I think that's going to 

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bless you and give you a 
foundation, give you some food 

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for thought. 
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said, which each of these books,
with each of these books, I am 

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going to give you areas to 
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think you are going to be blown 
away when you give your 

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attention to this. 
So today we are in the book of 

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Genesis. 
And let's jump right into the 

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most common questions asked with
respect to the difficulties that

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people observe. 
Now, the first question, believe

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it or not, I get this a lot is 
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It is framed something like 
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Is Genesis meant to be taken 
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or even poetic? 
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obviously not poetic, OK? 
It's not one of the books of 

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poetry, but people do ask that 
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perceive to be the allegory that
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chapters, as there is an account
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And a lot of people don't take 
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Now, the answer to that is very 
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Genesis is written as a 
historical narrative, OK? 

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It is. 
It is a historical document. 

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It is not poetry. 
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It's not even really meant to be
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Now don't get me wrong, when you
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you look at the Hebrew 
structure, they, they, they 

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match the same type of function 
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the Bible do, which carry much 
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But there may be reasons why 
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because of the way that the 
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Keep this in mind. 
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interesting one in that it has a
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that you have to look at in 
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how it works. 
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metaphorical or allegorical 
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like genealogies, dates, 
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All of these things that you see
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that there is historical intent 
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Figurative language appears at 
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meaning, there's aspects of the 
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play on specific words. 
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It does not cancel any of the 
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OK, Just because I might use a 
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metaphorical in nature doesn't 
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the definitive nature of what's 
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So the other thing that you have
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is that Jesus in the New 
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Testament writers all treated 
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these people that we read about 
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literal, real people. 
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throughout the course of Jewish 
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And if Genesis isn't historical,
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into with our understanding like
sin and redemption, they all 

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lose their foundation. 
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So these are some important 
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Now, the second question that I 
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interesting one, and that is how
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And my statement to that is 
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lot of those teachings. 
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textbook, although it probably 
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It makes real historical claims 
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claims do contradict directly 
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taught in many schools and 
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The Bible begins with God as 
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that this was not some unguided 
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As a matter of fact, it tells us
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earth. 
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the earth was without form and 
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Meaning there's no gap between 
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material and then later on he 
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This is not some, you know, 
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natural process. 
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uniquely created in God's image.
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take place, they're going to 
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is broken because it's built on 
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looking at is skewed because it 
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history that we were not there 
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So that's very, very important. 
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science and the book of Genesis 
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disagreements agreement might be
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philosophical philosophical 
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instead of what I would deem as 
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being scientific. 
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made by the book of Genesis are 
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scientifically provable by the 
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in there that we just didn't see
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beginning to see now. 
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in the sense that modern 
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is looked at honestly, will 
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of Genesis. 
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the first humans? 
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But the answer, I said the 
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simple. 
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like when you're coming out of 
being sick and you're sleep 

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deprived, okay? 
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through. 
We're going to get through this 

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together. 
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Eve had many sons and daughters.
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at that and go, whoa, James, 
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OK, well, think about this. 
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And we know that Adam and Eve 
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populate. 
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note the fact that early 
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And of course, later on, God 
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As difficult as that answer 
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right there. 
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that I get, and that is why 
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a flood in Noah's time? 
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It's that simple. 
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extremely corrupt. 
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Human wickedness was widespread.
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The flood followed a long period
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I mean, God literally warned 
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and nobody listened. 
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righteousness while the ark was 
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But again, God, even with all of
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for salvation. 
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demonstration of God's justice 
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The very tool that people were 
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God's judgement. 
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salvation for the righteous. 
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about as believers because we 
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about the second coming of 
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And we often times get mocked 
speaking about the Bible, which 

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is in essence the ark for 
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Now, this is interesting because
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it is or was written thousands 
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fact that we have an origin, and
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exist. 
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came from and where brokenness 
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death was introduced. 
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redemption. 
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the book of Genesis, and Jesus 
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Genesis as authoritative truth. 
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the rest of the Bible loses 
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It loses meaning. 
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understand it. 
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you to focus on one section of 
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important. 
Now, this is a difficult section

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for me to talk to you about 
because it's hard to identify 

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just one area I want you to 
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thought you need to really pay 
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marriage, or you should pay 
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man fell, when sin happened. 
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want you to focus on. 
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think would be another great 
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be Genesis chapter 49. 
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Because 49 gives you a list of 
all of the blessings and curses 

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that Jacob Israel gives to his 
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And you learn so much about the 
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infrastructure that we see today
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You can learn a lot from that. 
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Genesis 50 will give you insight
as into trusting in God in the 

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most difficult times because God
is sovereignly doing something 

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for your benefit. 
And of course, Genesis chapter 3

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is going to show you so much 
about the origin of sin and the 

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tactics that the enemy uses. 
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Genesis 3. 
It shows us a great picture of 

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the fact that the enemy will 
seek to get you to focus so much

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on what you don't have that you 
throw away everything that you 

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do have. 
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So if I would pick an area for 
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creation, simply because we see 
that God told us that we were 

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created in his likeness and 
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And that's important. 
I would look at the fall of 

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mankind, and then I would look 
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all very powerful stuff. 
Genesis 4910, for example, is a 

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prophecy about Christ that ties 
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So there's so much there. 
It's great stuff. 

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And I truly hope that you guys 
will be blessed as you dig deep 

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into the study of Genesis. 
By the way, I taught through the

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book of Genesis recently. 
So if you want more information 

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on it, you can go to 
jamescadise.com and you can get 

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my most recent teachings on 
Genesis. 

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blessed. 

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With that said, I'm glad you're 
starting that journey with us, 

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the journey of reading the 
Bible. 

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And on behalf of my dear sister 
Erica Kirk and the amazing team 

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at Bible and 365, we are excited
to walk down this path with you 

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and we are looking forward to 
watching God doing great things.

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So get out there, fight the good
fight, read the Word of God and 

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watch God do amazing things in 
your life. 

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I love you guys and keep 
fighting the good fight. 

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