Two Become as One
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Two Become as One
Genesis 8:13-14
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Noah's Faith, Humility, Trust, and Obedience to God and His plan for redemption and salvation for mankind and all the animals on the ark. The three calendars of Noah, Moses, and our Gregorian. A restocked earth of vegetation and plants.
Hi, this is Pastor Frank. And this is Luce. And this is our podcast, Two Become Is One. Just want to welcome you to this episode. Uh number 32. Amen. And in this episode, we are going to be covering Genesis chapter 8, 13 through 14.
SPEAKER_02Yes. And we've been away for a while. It's been almost a month. Yes. Time, life, things just kind of got away from us. So we apologize to those who have been following us on a regular basis. But we're back. We're here. And again, as uh Pastor Frank said, we are in Genesis 8, 13, and 14. Um, you know, just two scriptures. It might seem a little short, but um, there's a lot to say just on these two um um, I said scriptures, I mean verses. There's a lot to say on these two two verses, so um uh I'll let you two you begin um if you'd like. Or actually, you know what? I'll read it first. Yes, that'll be great. Sorry, I'm a little out of sync here. So um if you want to open your Bibles, um again, we are in the New King James Version, and but any version will do. And again, it's Genesis eight, thirteen, and fourteen, and it says, And it came to pass in in the six hundred and first year in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry, and in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. Okay.
SPEAKER_00So I want to start out, uh, and it seems like when you read this, and and for those who uh like to read the Bible, there's two ways you can read it read through it or study it. So we like to study, and sometimes we're gonna uh read through it only because uh there are things that you can read through, but to really find the meaning, it's good that you stop and you look up words and you look up references and you look up what you already know about the Bible already. So exegete. Um now in this particular two scriptures, specifically in 13, it says, and it came to pass in the 600 and first year, in the first month, in the first day of the month. Now I want to stop there only because you're like, well, which month is that? Right. And so you remember the author of the book of Genesis, well, of the whole Torah, is not author, but Well, he he okay, the the stenographer. Right. The stenographer of the Torah is Moses, the author is all obviously God. But Moses wrote this in perspective of oral Torah that was passed down orally throughout the generations through eyewitnesses. And I've always wondered why it was so clear, but this is the reason. So uh in coming from that perspective, when it comes about uh comes to about month, uh obviously they're talking about a calendar. And in this calendar, uh if you think about it, which calendar are they using?
SPEAKER_02Right, because there's so many that have come and gone over the years.
SPEAKER_00That's right. And so, believe it or not, a lot of the calendars that have come and gone are similar, but there are also calendars that come from other ancient civilizations uh that are not Jewish or not Hebrew or Israeli. And if you take a look at uh some of these different uh calendars, there are other people in history that have taken this on to try to figure it out. So there's a lot of commentary there. I'm not gonna point you to anybody specifically, but if you want to do that extra study, go ahead. So here, coming from Moses being the writer, Moses is writing this in perspective that Noah's calendar was a calendar that was based on a 360-day uh cycle of days. Uh, it was a solid 360. Now, in that, Moses uh being raised in Egypt, more than likely taught the Egyptian calendar. And the reason why I believe that God has given Moses a calendar in Exodus chapter 12 is to erase the Egyptian calendar from the memory and the hearts of the people of Israel, God's people, Israel, out of them. Because that's the calendar they were operating for over 450 years.
SPEAKER_02Right, when they were in their um in slavery.
SPEAKER_00In slavery, yes. So it is obviously a calendar of pagans. Now, the uh Egyptian calendar, I believe, is a lunar solar, but I think they relied a lot on the on the solar because they had sun gods and such.
SPEAKER_02But the Noah calendar.
SPEAKER_00But the Noah calendar is uh based, I believe, on lunar solar, so that's debated. And and when it talks about these months, so here specifically in 13 it says 601st year. That's referring to Noah's age.
SPEAKER_02Right. He's 601 years old at this point because if we um our listeners recall, when they entered into the ark and when the flood began, Noah was 600 years old. That's right, and they were on board the ark for a year or just over a year.
SPEAKER_00So that's Genesis chapter 7, verse 6. Uh it says that Noah was like, I don't know if it was his birthday, but it said it was 600 years old. Right. And uh and then it says here 601. So obviously that's one full year. Right. Now just reading that in it by itself, it's like, oh, that's interesting. But you have to remember when they got on this arc and got off the ark, it was one solid year. Right. So I kind of want to cover a little bit about the mindset of being in a space with animals, okay, with your family for a year. That would be tough. Yeah, not to go outside or right, exactly.
SPEAKER_02I mean, it it's like, and not to compare it to this, because I know it's not this, but can you be imagine being on house arrest, not being able to go past your probably your front door or your front gate, you know, or just just the you can't leave a certain area. And and of course, as I said, Noah was not on house arrest, but it's similar because they couldn't go anywhere but be in the ark. And that the amount of patience that somebody would have to have uh to have possessed, you know, the mental fortitude and their mental fortitude and their that's that's tough. Yes.
SPEAKER_00That's tough. And uh given the fact that the ark was large and they were busy with the animals and such, uh, it'd be like being on a floating farm, you know, and you had your day cut out or your your time cut out for you because of how busy you'd have to be for the animals. Right. And the reason why you had to do it. Right. I mean you're doing it to preserve these animals for the rest of time. Right. Right, be to repopulate the earth.
SPEAKER_02Exactly right. That's a huge task to to have to um uh worry about. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Okay but oh go ahead. No, I was gonna say also that um how it says here that it well in the in verse 13 it says uh that it came to pass in the 601st year, the first the first the first month on the first day of the month, and then it goes on the 14th, I mean verse 14 it says the second month on the twenties uh on the twenty-seventh day. So from verse 13 to 14, you know, if you follow, you know, traditional weeks and so forth, this is nearly another like almost like two months later from verse 13 to 14. And what I I I kind of have to take myself there mentally, and what I'm seeing in my mind is because it says here Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. You know, I just imagine Noah just peeping his head outside and just looking around and being like, okay, yep, it's the ground is getting dry, but it's not quite there. So he went back inside the ark, and here we go. Fast forward, you know, seven, eight weeks, and he's looking around again. And then it the earth was at that time, it says it was dried. Yes. So, you know, I don't know, just like I just seemed like a little, you know, like a little gopher. You know, he just kind of goes up, you know, peeps around and yeah, you have to see what's going on, you know.
SPEAKER_00So you know, I want to also add to I think one of the reasons why God didn't use a specific calendar, like how we use a calendar today to plan things and such. As you read earlier in Genesis, it reads that the stars, the moon, the sun is all for seasons for time for measurement. Right. Okay, and so I I kind of thought of this as this is just me. I do this every now and then. Uh, I don't believe that Adam and Eve were even privy to a calendar or even thought that there would be sh would be a reason for a calendar. And the and the calendar really wasn't really measured too much by uh months and and and things like that, or even necessarily seasons, because you're talking about before sin. This is this is the what man would have been living in, what uh the the the communion that God and this and the Sabbath rest as we know it. This was the seventh day, even though there was day eight, nine, ten, eleven, but it was a seventh day and the continuous aspect of the seventh day, which was a Sabbath, a rest in God. They didn't do anything other than to live and to be in communion with Him. Right. Now, if you think of that is the benchmark, okay, it doesn't say how long that lasted. The benchmark is when sin entered into the world. Right. And that's when it says you will die.
SPEAKER_02Right. And if you notice the calendars change whenever there is a significant event, yes, biblically speaking, yes. Think of the original sin when that took place, that changed the course of the entire world with the flood, catastrophic event wiped the slate uh completely clean, and human life, animal life, everything changed completely. You know, even the topography of the earth changed drastically. And that's a that's a good point.
SPEAKER_00The topography of the earth, tectonic plates, flood, upheaval, okay, would create mountains.
SPEAKER_02Water, the force of water, water pressure. I mean, all of that has um its role in shaping things as well.
SPEAKER_00That's right.
SPEAKER_02And another uh, of course, the most significant event of all is the birth of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00You know, that changed everything as well. That's absolutely true. So here, uh Genesis chapter 5, verse 5, it says, so all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. So that is a huge milestone benchmark, okay, for scholars, for us, for anybody to say, okay, so Adam was like not born from a woman, so he was created directly from God, directly from God, but not necessarily on day one. Right. So how old was he when he was created? It could have been 30, could have been 25, could have been who knows? But he was young.
SPEAKER_02His his physical self was probably somewhere in his twenties, you know, what a with a full-grown adult, young adult male would be in his prime. In his prime, um, maybe around 25.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I would assume so. I mean, same with Eve as well. And and if you take a look at that, but it doesn't measure it from there, it measures from his death. So it gives you an idea how old it is. And from Adam's death, okay, because of sin, which is the reason why I believe that God has measured everything according to the effects of sin, and how things started to degrade and to rot and and morally, and and and we our bodies started to decay, gray hair, you know, old saggy skin, whatever it was, they they eventually died. Okay, they didn't do the serpent said you won't die, well, not immediately, anyways, but over the period of time you will degradate and you will die. And so this is why I believe that uh the Genesis account, what we're reading now, is not necessarily a calendar is not really necessary other than to say this many days or at this time of year, or whatever, but really it's measured by by the effects of sin.
SPEAKER_02Right, right. And we were talking about how where you mentioned or brought it up that you know being enclosed in an area, regardless of the size, uh being in this ark, not being able to step outside the ark, and not just the the you know, the patience that's involved in that, but the the Bible specifically tells us that well has the scripture in Hebrews 11 7, is what I'm trying to say about Noah and his faith.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_02I mean it really describes Noah as being just a a great man of faith. And in Hebrews Hebrews 11 7 is it says, By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen and holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. So that right there, I mean, it's I mean that speaks volumes about to the kind of man that uh that we're that that God chose to build this huge vessel. Yes. And um and it would take someone of that great of that great of faith and patience caliber of caliber to and you know, this type, this character to build this to begin with, and then also to have the longevity to stay put, to stay the course, yeah, from beginning to end.
SPEAKER_00And the his caliber could not be half baked. No, it couldn't be, it has to be all or none, right? And and the all, those are a very few people to pick from. Right, and Noah's the one that God chose.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. And um going back to the uh 13 and 14 here, and in 13 again, how I mentioned, it says how Noah looked outside, or it says, remove the covering of the ark, and he looked, and it says and he noticed that the ground was dry. But obviously the ground wasn't dry enough yet to be able to step outside because he waited that additional almost two months, and then at the end of 14, it says the earth was dried. And the other thing to take away from this is that Noah knew, or Noah was at this point also being very obedient to God because he wasn't easily. What's that? He could have jumped out of the ocean. Exactly, exactly. But again, pointing to that mental fortitude and that faith and that patience and the level of obedience that this man had, he knew he had to stay the course and knew that he could not leave the ark without God saying so first.
SPEAKER_01That's right.
SPEAKER_02So he waited on God to tell him it's okay to step out.
SPEAKER_00So being able to step out in the first place, it the Bible said that it rested on Mount Ararat and that the top of the mountains were able to be seen before, but the there was no sail, so they weren't getting blown around by the wind, and there was no like turbulence, uh well, as good as it can be, the sea.
SPEAKER_02Well, well, yeah, I mean, because at first you think that being tossed to and fro by waves of the water, that was the movement they had. But like you said, there was no sail to be able to blow them around. There was no uh no way to steer this thing. This was just a huge floating box.
SPEAKER_00That's right. So and and being right above, hovering above in the water, above Ararat, and then when the water started to recede, it literally rested there. And I don't think that's by accident or chance either. And uh it was specifically that place that God wanted them to. So for whatever reason, and this is my reasoning, and this is me saying uh talking here, I believe because uh I like to think when I read the Bible, I like to, of course, I leave room for miracle, but I also like to think practical. Now, if you if the mountain started to show, okay, at a certain period of time, which is about a halfway through the flood, waters receded, the mountain started to show, you're talking like uh a year. Okay, they were on the ark, six months for the water to recede, and then you you would think that in that period of time, and if you give it months, you're talking eight months. Two, that he saw it was the water had receded but not dried. That's an additional two months to the six, that's eight. You're talking like three seasons worth of sun on the earth, seeds don't die, they become dormant. Okay, seeds are dry when you dry them, but when you hydrate them in soil with water and and soil and some sun, they start to grow like immediately. And that's one of the resilience I think is really interesting about seeds. Uh, if you figure you give, I mean, you can grow a garden in your backyard in a couple of months. You could start it in like, you know, late spring, plant your tomatoes and you know, uh jalapenos or whatever you're gonna grow. And then at the at towards the end of a couple of months, you have like a gigantic garden, especially tomato plant, just like probably like hundreds. They're so prolific. Yes. And and that's just one thing. And that's just tomatoes. Okay. So you're talking about other vegetables, and then also there are other vegetables that are are more winter and fall, harvest. Okay. Uh there are citrus, which is winter. So it doesn't surprise me that if God gave six to eight months as the water is receding and then an additional two months for the water to dry, or the land to dry in the lower parts of the valleys and such, I would assume by the time the animals got off of the ark that you had a fully stocked or as much as a fully stocked earth for the animals that were because there wasn't very many animals on the earthen compared to the world, right? Animal population, there was plenty to go around and then some.
SPEAKER_02There would have had to, God would have ensured he wasn't just gonna let them off the the the ark with like, okay, well, here you go, and everything's all barren.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, make it make those reserves last.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. No, I mean, because whatever supply of food and such that they had on the ark, I mean, it's only gonna last so long, and it's only gonna keep so long.
SPEAKER_00That's right.
SPEAKER_02And so once they're stepping off, there had to have been something already grown enough for Noah and his family to to survive on. That's right. And to restart things. Um, but as you mentioned about believing in the miraculous, I I think, I mean, I believe, and again, no, I know this not in the Bible, but excuse me, God given who he is, not just being, you know, almighty, but being the loving pro father and provider he is for his creation, I think that he would have somehow sped things up, you know, the the natural growth rate of things of vegetation, of uh, you know, fruits and I think he would have sped up that natural accelerated. Yeah, accelerated that that uh that process in order to get things ready for Noah and his family to live on the earth again. So you know he had to step on the gas a bit.
SPEAKER_00Think about this, he created the uh everything in seven days or in six days. Why couldn't he do it there? And I and I agree with you. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_02You know, he wasn't like creating a whole new earth or a whole new he was just helping he was he just was accelerating the process to kind of bring the the the earth back together at that point.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_02You know, to make it habitable.
SPEAKER_00And what it did uh by by okay, some people say, well, why did he destroy the earth? Well, we could go back to your other episodes that we've done, you we'd explain that. But it is also to slow down wickedness and evil. Because if you think about the lifespans of the people in the Bible, six, seven, eight hundred, nine hundred years, can you imagine a despot or a dictator living 900 years?
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00That means 900 rule, 900 years of a rule of dictatorship or despotism. But now if it's kind of a I believe it's an act of mercy on God to be able to allow people's lives to only be up to 100, 220 years tops. That the quality of life as you continue after like 70 and 80 years old starts to diminish. Oh yeah. You see, and you know, working in the profession you do, I'm sure that you would uh know something like that. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Of course. You see the a huge difference between, you know, even in myself. You know, I not only see, but you I feel the difference from let's say now and let's say uh right now and like ten years ago, you know, there's things my body is doing that I never thought it would do, and I'm hurting in places I never thought I could hurt. It's like, really? Or you get up in the morning and you know, something is you know aching and sore, it's like, oh my god goodness, or you wake up with a bruise, it's like, what did I do to myself in the middle of the night? So anyway, I see what you're saying. You know, if you have a an evil person, uh, and they were they were and if they were able to live to almost the whole you know millennia, it's like seriously, or millennium, it's like I just you know, all the the reign of terror of evil.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. So here's the other thing: God also allowed long lifespans for being fruitful to repopulate, to populate or to repopulate after the flood, Noah and his sons. Well, Noah, I think he lived, I think, a couple hundred years after the flood, because he was already like 601. And then you have uh Noah's sons and their wives living also long lives to populate, and you could read the Ptoledote, okay, in the or the generations in the book of Genesis, and I believe it is chapter five. Uh, it talks about you know the generations of Seth and generations of uh um uh continue like also in Noah, and you'll see these this this generation after generation of men, and it talks about how they continue. So I would say that would be the expon one of many explanations, good ones anyways, uh, for longer lifespans. Now, you mentioned, you know, uh what you were talking about, you kind of emphasized about the dry ground and then dried.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. It's like I would I imagine is okay, you look at something like just like just a little bit ago, you know, cooking that rice, that Spanish rice. It's like, you know, it's supposed to be dry and flaky, right? It's like, you know, you look at it and it's like, yeah, it's drying alright. But it's not dry enough. Yeah. Sticky rice has its place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I like that too. But you wait a little longer, and then you go and you're like, ah, yes, that's perfect. Yes. You know, it's the right consistent or uh uh type of dryness. Yes, you know, so that's that's kind of what this is. It's like looking at the earth, yeah, ground is dry, but not enough. And so, well, you wait another couple of months.
SPEAKER_00Dried doesn't mean bone dry. No. Or desert dry. It just means that it is, you know, like potting soil.
SPEAKER_02Not like the depict on the movies, you know. Remember that movie, The Bible, that from the 60s, yeah. When the animals got off of the ark and you see them running away, just a bunch of dust blowing up everywhere, and there's like nothing there. It's like, well, what are they gonna eat? Yeah, you know, but then again, you know, that's Hollywood, whatever.
SPEAKER_00You know, yeah. I mean, reading from scripture is completely different. You could actually see it unfold. And it you see, and for so for the people who need word for word, and they need to read it and see it, there's what they call inference. You could read into scripture, not necessarily morals and doctrine, but you could read into scripture what's not there just by reading what is there, right?
SPEAKER_02You see, and then on the opposite, sometimes you'll go and read something you've read before, you know, you reread it, and you pick up something entirely new. You're like, well, wait a minute, why didn't I notice that before? Why didn't I understand that before? Right.
SPEAKER_00I think also, too, for also being uh not completely dry, you have the danger, running the danger of animals getting stuck in mud and dying. And there's since there's only so many animals within that year that more than likely procreated and probably doubled or tripled its size while they were on the ark, it still put the lives of the animals in danger. So having the land dried would be far better than having it kind of more marshy or swampy only because of the of the uh what threat it may cause for their lives. Right. So verse 14 says, and in the second month, on the 27th day of the month, the earth was dried. So here's the other thing, too. It's just uh the fact that it extended it that second month, like you said, Noah's uh faith. Uh, like we said, he could have just jumped out and said, Hey, you know what, this is good enough. But the fact that he stayed faithful. So faith isn't necessarily believing in what God's going to do, faithfulness also means what God had already said, and you being obedient to it. Right. I believe there's a huge lesson in that. When it says that uh the hall of fame of faith, which is in Hebrews chapter 7, uh the one thing in common that they have is they listened to God. And and faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. So when you listen to God, your faith is actually developed through listening and being obedient to God. Obedience is better than sacrifice. So we want to be obedient. So uh the the obedience aspect has kept people alive. Obedience aspect has kept the animals alive. Okay, and the obedience aspect has kept you from, or has kept Noah and other people from very harsh judgment. Uh God, well, like in Sodom and Gomorrah, he says, Well, you judge us if there's fifty or twenty or ten. And they kept going. And they kept going lower and lower and lower, and they didn't even find five. Right. And so so sometimes the the the righteous sometimes gets caught up in the judgment and uh but uh not necessarily um killed, but necessarily judged.
SPEAKER_02What I was going to say, um, you know, because you're talking about Noah's level of faith and obedience. But moreover, in order to develop and have and to make maintain that level of obedience and faith, you have to be humble. Very good. Because without humility, you're not going to rely on God the way that Noah did. You're not going to be obedient till the end, like Noah was. Um, and the scriptures call for us to be humble people. Um, like in Matthew 18, 4, it says, those who humble themselves like like, you know, as a child, and this is not saying reading the scripture word for word, will be it says that if we have that childlike faith, that those those will be the greatest in heaven. So it just lets you know that when we are proud and rely only on ourselves and don't include God in the picture, usually things go bad. Yeah. When we don't maintain faith and obey his commandments and his the scriptures when it comes, you know, as a guide for our life.
SPEAKER_00A lot of things go wrong. I agree 100%. I think humility in that aspect is exactly what it's going to take. Because correction is hard to take from men, specifically. Correction is very difficult because what does it do? It messes with our pride. Right. And pride is the antithesis to humility. Right. So on the other hand, uh in a different uh perspective of uh humility is also viewed as weakness. So did did Noah was Noah weak? You know?
SPEAKER_02No. He was a very obviously a very strong person. That's right. And in humility. And we're not just talking like a physic a physically strong person, like a mentally strong person. Out of humanity. Spiritually, spiritually. Strength. Right. And safety. Right. He was a spiritually, that's what I should say, not mental, but spiritual. He was a spiritually strong person.
SPEAKER_00And you have to- And I think that spirituality weighs heavy on the mental only because you've made up your mind, this is what I'm going to do. Right. I'm going to operate in humility, obedient to God, and be patient. That's those are strong, very, very strong attributes in a person. Right. Think about it.
SPEAKER_02And you know, and then being humble, it also makes somebody teachable.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_02You know? So when God handed Noah the measurements for the ark, you know.
SPEAKER_00I mean, he could easily say, nah, I think this would work better. Right. Spring a leak, you know.
SPEAKER_02He goes, nah, I don't think we need that. Nah. You know, no, I don't want to use that kind of wood. We're going to use this one over here. You know, it's better. And then it sinks.
SPEAKER_00It's like. Yeah, it's just lighter because we don't have to lift it as, you know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. So, you know, so through, you know, through that humility, it made him a teachable person. Yes. He took on God's direction and instructions and followed it to the letter. Didn't make any kind of changes that he thought were more suitable.
SPEAKER_00That's true. You know, very, very true.
SPEAKER_02Kept it true to what it's supposed to be.
SPEAKER_00You know, and that's where I I think I get orthodoxy from. And I say, you know, people in orthodoxy, uh, you could define it however you want, but define orthodoxy basically means staying the course of what scripture says, or staying the course and what God had already said. And this eventually, and I was a little optophic, but it's not. It's called the remnant. We're a remnant of the earth's population who actually believed and listened to God's word.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02And may we be like uh the Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 4 7, he says, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith.
SPEAKER_00There it is.
SPEAKER_02So it's important words for us to uh remember.
SPEAKER_00I would say in summation for me, uh, that like you said, faith, humility, obedience, and uh keeping the commandments of God are essential to our walk because even when people don't read the Bible, they see us doing that is the Bible they probably will only read.
SPEAKER_02Right. I mean, people and just you know, feeding off of what you just said people will not usually remember what you've said, but they will remember what you've what you do. And the another thing too, they'll remember how you make them feel.
SPEAKER_00That's right.
SPEAKER_02So very true. Right. And my big takeaway is you know, looking at Noah's example and seeing the again, like we've emphasized, the level of faith and obedience, and also the humility he must have had in order to carry this through. Yeah. Letter, letter by letter, yeah, point by point, and not varying away. That's right.
SPEAKER_00So and see, this is why we read. This is why it's good to study, because you don't, if but by not sitting down and talking about this, you don't get to this place.
SPEAKER_02No, you don't. You just you read it and you're like, okay, yeah, that's cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I read it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's cool. All right, yeah, that's interesting. And then, but you're not taking anything deeper away from it. You're staying very surface, and and we're all guilty of that. I've I've done it plenty of times.
SPEAKER_00That's why we're saying it.
SPEAKER_02Right. Um, but this is just the way for all of us, for me, for Pastor Frank, for everyone to remember that when we do read something out of the scripture, is you know, remembering the the validity, the worth, the value, and taking our time to look into this more deeply.
SPEAKER_00Meditate, reflect.
SPEAKER_02Yes, exactly, and not just being superficial.
SPEAKER_00That's right. All right. Well, this is uh we're gonna bring this uh episode to an end, and I hope that you enjoyed this and had taken something away from it. Uh like we say in all our podcasts, you know, read your Bible. And not only that, but also use this as a devotional, uh, use it in Bible studies, use it and share with your friends and families for uh whatever it is. Maybe if we're on a walk, you know, um, and uh maybe at the gym, maybe on a long commute, maybe you have a long commute to your work, or you're going on a road trip. Just uh feel free, you know, to listen to this and uh take some time to reflect yourself on these things. We have take no glory in this. This is all glory to God that we're just being obedient to scripture.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we just encourage you to plug it in and listen up.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_02Um, and uh we thank you again for uh joining us on this episode. And as you you said, just please make sure to you know share with others because we just want God's word to be out there. And again, we apologize for being away like we were, and we're gonna try to think about life happens. Huh? Life happens. I know, I know, but I feel like I have to say that. Sure. And um, we're gonna uh do our best to get back on track and not necessarily do this on a weekly basis, but maybe bi-weekly, so every two weeks. Uh but we thank you for your time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, so uh one more plug, you know. Happy 250th, America. Oh, yeah, I know. Right? Yeah, we're coming up here on another July 4th, real soon. So another week. All right. Well, this is Pastor Frank.
SPEAKER_02And this is Luce at Tube.
SPEAKER_00God bless.
SPEAKER_02Thank you, Amen.