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Lux. Which is Latin. Okay. English which, which you would say. Uh, after darkness comes the light. That's right. And you could go to PT L Bible. rebinding.com. Praise the Lord. That's right. Peter post 10 numbers Lux, actually to get an estimate, I would've been cost to rebind your Bible or the Bible of someone that you really love. And they have a worn Bible, which is a great thing to have, by the way, how many warm Bibles have you seen lately? I don't think I've seen very many. I've seen a handful every once in a while. You'll come across one. It's dude, you've had that for a long time. And isn't that so cool. What better way to keep that Bible intact and going for another 20 years and by getting it rebound, now we have no connection to these guys. I just recently come across them, but I come across them multiple times. I re. I'm realizing over the course of several years, just never getting in a second thought because I never had a desire to rebind one of my Bibles, but now I have a Bible that I love. And I read something about this recently. I'm like, I want to say, I want to see what these guys do. So I came to look at their website. They've got some really cool options, man. I'm excited about getting multiple ribbons. The Bible I have in front of me only has one measly ribbon. No. Just one. Yeah. What kind of Bible is this meant to be? I don't. This is a working man's Bible. So I need multiple ribbons. So I'm looking at them for that. Now, but if you want to get a Bible rebound, this looks like a really great website. They're expensive. Not going to lie. But they are the top tier of Bible

reminders they are. Yeah. Yeah. And you might be out there going, uh, can we define what rebinding is? Cause I'm not there. If you look at your Bible and you look at what's the spine of the Bible, which is the backside. If you kind of begin to, to peak around that, you're going to notice that it's either sewn in or some of them, the cheaper ones are just glued in that's your binding. And so if you want it to last, a lot of times, if your binding begins to wear, or your coverages begins to deteriorate, you can get it rebound. They'll take your cover off. They will separate it. They do it all in such a way to care for the text block, the main portion of the Bible. And then you get to choose the leather. You get to choose. The goat skin,

calf, skin, color, how many ribbons you want, if you want gilding, if you want to. Yap.

Yap. Yap. Yap is when the cover extends out beyond the text block and will actually lay over the text block a little bit. And what's the purpose of that? It's mostly aesthetic sometimes it's it's to protect the gilding. The gilding, by the way, is when you see a Bible that has color on the side, or it looks like it's got a silver or gold finish to it. That's the guilt that's on the edge of the pages there, and the app can help protect that. Um, so there's, you can. A full yap, which means that when you fold it together, it meets in the middle. And so that means it's, it's covering the whole thing. You can get a quarter yap half yet. There's all kinds of gaps that you can get out there. What is, this is zero yap right here. That's probably a myth. Yeah. That's, that's a very small,

yeah. That's. There's no yap. It's not very young. Basically. No. Yeah, yeah. So there's so many cool options here. I would encourage you that P T L Bible rebinding.com. This is super cool. What a great gift idea. This would be for someone who has a worn Bible. Um, you have to pry it from their hands, which I think is the hardest part of this. You do have to send your Bible and you have to send your Bible. What are you gonna do? You're not gonna read your Bible for six months, however long it takes to do this. I don't know what this takes, but, uh, yeah, it's, I'm looking at it. Um, I'm in love with it already. I want to find out what these guys do. So I sent them a form today to say, give me a quote for multiple ribbons. And maybe throw in a leather cover too. Oh, okay. So it's not just the ribbons you're getting, it's the, it's the coverage I wanted to, I want an estimate. If it's reasonable, then, then maybe it's worth having, because I love this Bible. I've always wanted an inter lead Bible. Now I have it, but I hate to cover this thing is basically it's. What would you call this? This is an imitation. Imitation leathers. It might be imitation plastic.

Yeah.

It's pleather. It wants to be plastic someday.

Yep. So it's not even leather, right? Yeah, but it's, but it's affordable that way. Which by the way, this is a great way. Cause sometimes you can go to evangelical bible.com, which is another website. If you are looking to purchase a really nice Bible that from the get go has a great cover on it. Whatever evangelical Bible. Tom has a lot of really good options. But if you had only three ribbons at the most guys, only three, right. Is. Is that, is that the Bible you want really clearly not. Yeah. Um, But it's, uh, it's uh, if you have a Bible that you bought and you bought it off of Amazon, or you bought it at Mardel or whatever, and it's a cheaper Bible, and yet you love it because you know where everything is. It's you've got to memorize. You got your notes in it. This is a great option. Like pastor rod said to extend the life of your Bible, maybe to, to pass it on to a future generation as well, so that they will have it and be able to see what God was working on in, in your noodle. As you read the Bible, I'm excited about that. Well, speaking of the Bible, let's jump into Genesis 27. And, uh, we'll throw in a couple other chapters there. 2 27, 28, 29 in today's reading for free, for free. Or free. Anyways. Uh, Genesis 27 in this chapter is one of the most common. Uh, C's that we think of when we think of the Jacob and Esau story, this is the chapter where Rebecca and Jacob, and again, and I think this goes back to Genesis 25, 23. Uh, where God told Rebecca that the younger was going to rule over the, the older, the one she'll be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger. So Rebecca heard that while they were still in utero. These twins. And so I think that led to her having a special, uh, affinity for Jacob. And here we see that lived out has. Isaac. Uh, to your point that you said yesterday believes that life is drawing to a close for him. So he thinks it's time to do the blessings and to get ready to die. Although he's going to live for. Another 80 or so years. He calls Esau and says, Hey, go out and get some game and prepare a meal for me and bring it to me. And I will give you my blessing. And, uh, Rebecca eavesdrops on this conversation and she. Plots and in contrives this plan with her son, Jacob, to deceive Esau. And she's really the driving force because Jacob's like, well, what, I'm not Harry, like my brother is, I don't smell like my brother does. And. She's got answers for all of it. And she's sitting there thinking to herself, Hey, this is going to happen and I'm going to make it happen. And the plot does. Come to fruition as, as you would think it

does. Is it possible for a blessing or a curse to skip somebody and go to somebody else? Cause she suggests that to him saying if your father curses, you let it be on me. I don't know that it works that way. What do you think.

Yeah, I don't think so. But we would often say, Hey, I'll, I'll take the, the, the hit on that one. Right. For example. I with, with our kids, as our kids have been grown up and I've had conversations with some of Josh and Danny have both made, I think what are legitimate professions of faith at this point. But there were times when they were younger that they would come and say, Hey, Dad. I want to be baptized at, I, I want to be a, I think of a Christian. I think I've saved. And I've always told my kids, there's no age limit to salvation, but I always also want to make sure that there's genuine fruit there. I want to make sure that it's it's real. And so they've said isn't it important to be baptized? And so one of the things that I've told them is, Hey, I'm going to take responsibility for being the one that right now is telling you. It's not time for you to be baptized right now. So if, if you are genuinely saved right now, And you're saying I desire to be baptized and that's a good thing. Hey, as your dad, I'm going to take the hit on that one. If God. Desires that sooner than later, I will be the one that's responsible for that as I'm stepping in and covering you. In my leadership. So in that sense, I don't, this is, is more nefarious than, than that situation. What, what she's doing here with, with him. But I think that's what she's basically implying. Hey. I'll take the hit on this one. I'll take the blame. If this goes sideways. And it doesn't go sideways and that's, what's always so puzzling to me. I just, how did he not know? Hey, she puts goatskins on his arm. She, she glues the hair of a wild goat. Dude was old. Yeah, but he even says, it's the voice of my son, Jacob. Doesn't trust his senses. I hear you're still

a young buck. So when you get older, you realize. I'm 40. You said 40 is so old. That's true. Say that I did say that you're right. Uh, but in, in a more comparative sense to an older population, maybe your senses start to deceive you a bit. And he's,

he's used to this. I imagine I, yeah, I guess so. But, uh, he gives the blessing to. Uh, T

to Jacob here now, which again comes back to my challenge. Uh, does a blessing work that way? It's like, I'm, I'm giving this in my mind. I'm giving this to Esau, but Jacob's sitting in front of me, so, oh, I guess it actually goes to Jacob because he's the one who was sitting in front of me, even though I'm intending it to be for Esau. It must because when Esau comes back, he says, don't, you have a blessing for me, father.

And it's not as though. Um, I'm still trying to figure out how that works. Uh, but this is not the Abrahamic blessing. Right because God is going to show up later on with Jacob and reconfirm the specific Abrahamic blessing. And so I think there's a distinguishing here between the blessing that Isaac provides, which is more of a fatherly blessing and the divine blessing. Being given there.

No, because he says that people serve you nations bow down to you, Lord, over your brothers. Crispy everyone who curses you. This sounds like this is the Abrahamic blessing. There's parallels there for sure. But

it, but God has been the one that has provided that directly to,

oh, the affirmation of it, right. He affirms it and says, yes. You are the promise line, right? I think got a fro. Yeah. This doesn't change for me. The fact that this is still confusing. I think he's intending for this to be Esau. His mind is saying Esau. But because Jacob is actually standing or sitting in front of him, he receives it. This is confusing to me. And I'm not sure how I, I'm not sure I understand the dynamics of how a blessing or a curse for that matter is meant to work. If my intention doesn't change the actual receiving of it.

Yeah, I suppose. Had this not happen though. Esau was never going to get the Abrahamic blessing. Because of Genesis 25, 23. The older is going to serve the younger. Right, right, right. So. That was never going to be a reality. No matter what he was always going to be. Even if, if Isaac had blessed. Esau in the end, God was going to show up to Jacob. Not Esau Intel, Jacob, you're the son of the promise. And through you will come the blessing to all the nations. And so that's why I think there's just. I don't know that the power of the transfer of the blessing of the Abrahamic covenant is here in Isaac's word as much as it is when God shows up and reconfirms it specifically.

Hm. I'll have to think about this. Yeah. I was confused as a red and I thought, how does it, how does that work? I've read this multiple times and I've had the same thought. I just, this time felt different as I was working through it saying, how does this work? Maybe when you have a better cover and multiple ribbons that might help you'll know. And you'll be able to cross reference so much more quickly. I've only got one ribbon right now. You're in darkness, but after darkness, That's right. Post 10 Brum breast. Yep. Luxe. T 10 nebres Lux. Yeah. They're sort of trying to say, yeah, Alright, Genesis 28

then as the chapter ends in. Chapter 27. It's worth noting that Rebecca tells her son, you need to get out of here. Cause he sells not going to be happy. And so she tells Jacob to fleet of Laban and that's going to set up what comes after this. So. Uh, Jacob. Uh, goes to, to, to Laban. In fact, in 28, Isaac specifically sends his son to Laban to find a wife and, uh, transfers the blessings there. Uh, I think specifically, now we can save the Abrahamic covenant tune before he departs. And then Esau says, okay, we'll find, or I'm going to go over here. And he marries one of Ishmael's daughters to cause pain to, uh, to his parents. And to cause them consternation frustration. But meanwhile, Jacob goes, uh, off to visit Laban, but on the way he stops for the night. And in this stopping, he has this dream where, and he sees, uh, God is standing at the top of a ladder and this ladder is descending to earth and the angels are ascending and descending. On the ladder here. And so Jesus is going to pick up on this and John 1 51 and basically say, Hey, I'm the latter. Now I'm the bridge between heaven and earth. But Jacob has this dream. And sees these things taking place there, and then he gets up and he names the place Bethel or Bethel. Uh, now we've already read that it's called Bethel. We've read that back in Genesis chapter 12, verse eight, that Abraham came and he stopped between Bethel and AI. And built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord. So who named it? Bethel? I think the answer is Jacob did it, but Moses, as he's writing and recording Genesis 12, eight calls it Bethel at that point, because that was the common, no name for it. Even though Jacob was going to be the one that later on that, that calls it that. So at that time it seems like it was called Lutz or Louis. Um, back when Abraham had stopped there, but here it's now called the house of God because Jacob recognizes there's something significant happening here as he has this dream.

What does it mean? Do you think that the angels are ascending and descending on this ladder? What is Jacob meant to see from this.

I think that the idea of that, the bridge between heaven and earth, in fact, one person, one commentator that I read on this said in a time when people were trying to get from earth to heaven, all a babble, uh, this is showing that God is doing something here on earth with the creation that, that exists there. That is not about trying to get to God that God is going to do something. Through, uh, humanity and creation there.

Yeah, God is communicating through this. He's demonstrating that he's, he's revealing himself to Jacob. In a way that's unique and special. Jesus picks us up later on the gospel of John. Yup. Uh, in other words, God's spoken these ways, but now he's speaking to him. He's speaking through me, right? I am God's final word, Allah, Hebrews chapter one. So this is God's revelation, special revelation, unique to Jacob. You should not experience experienced this. Uh, well, You should not expect it to experience this. Right. I suppose God could, if you wanted to, we would challenge you probably on that. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. But there you go.

Yep. Yeah. We'll chapter 29. Then Jacob comes to a layman's house here and meets Rachel and Rachel catches his eye right away. And he asks Laban for Rachel Cendyn marriage. And Laban says, Hey, worked for me seven years and you can have Rachel. So. Uh, Jacob's love for Rachel is something that's always stood out for me, as it says, it seemed to him as his, nothing to work those seven years and those seven years up and here comes a Laban and Laban is going to deceive the deceiver because Jacob's name means deceiver. So layman's going to trick the trickster here and he does so by giving Leah instead of Rachel and without going into too much detail, that is unnecessary. You might think, how is that possible? I want to know, people want to know how that's possible. Th th the veils, the darkness, the ceremony. The circumstances. About

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voice.

Because you just said, Isaac should have known better, right? Why doesn't she know she's young, so she didn't have it. She can't say. I'm an old guy.

Intoxication I who knows. Wow. Who knows? But it wasn't as though they walked into fluorescent lights. And the current situation of our modern day weddings and everything else there, there, there were extenuating circumstances that. We're. Befitting the time and lack of elimination in other things like that, that probably did make this. I think Rachel

could have just said, Hey bro, just so you know. Here's what my brother has in store. Or here's at my, my father has in store. Uh, it just, this is one of those situations where, unless she

didn't know either

until night of. I mean this whole thing, such a deception it's painful to watch. It's, it's horrible to work through, but to your point, there's a million different ways this could have happened. Yeah. A million and maybe 10 billion more that God has access to that. You and I don't. So when you read stories like this and you're left, scratching your head saying. Come on really. Yes. Really really stranger things have happened. And what we're reading here is totally tenable. If you just allow for the fact that God is orchestrating everything to his good and sovereign purposes.

Yeah. And Leah is not. She's not a nefarious individual here. She is a poor thing, man. She really is. Yeah, because she ends up in a Loveless marriage in, and that's what it says is the text goes on. That she was hated and hated means that she was scorned. She, she had decreased status in the family between her and Rachel. And so God shows her kindness by giving her children before he's going to give any children to Rachel. So Rachel ends up bearing and we're going to see in tomorrow's episode. That Rachel is going to go to her husband and say, Hey, you need to fix this as though he has the power to do that. But meanwhile, Leah praise and God shows kindness to Leah as the one that was scoring the one that had decreased status in the eyes of her husband and gives her children and. They're significant children being the first born, but, but more than that, the last name they're in fact, two of the names are significant and two of the names are. A little bit. Uh, sham army. So the first two are the shim army ones, Reuben and Simeon. Uh, those guys are not going to be great in the long run. The next two though, are significant in the life of Israel. You should recognize them. Levi is one and from Levi is going to descend the tribe of Levi who become the Levis, who become political priesthood. That's significant and Leah is the matriarch of the Levitical priesthood. And then the next one there on the list of the last one for now that she has is Judah and Judah. The lion of Judah that that should ring a bell for you. Judah is the Royal line, which means Judah is the line of Christ. And so Leah. The despised wife, the hated wife, the scorned wife, that the wife of decreased status. She is going to be the one to give birth, to, and be the matriarch of the line of Christ here. And it's not going to be Rachel. The one that, uh, that Jacob loved more. Uh, is unique. It's God's kindness. I think towards Liam.

This is so cool because it shows us something about God, the rejected, an ugly spouse. Is the line of the Kings, the priests and the Messiah. This is so cool because I think it shows us that God. Looks at the overlooked. He's the kind of God who loves to take the downcast downtrodden. The despised and make something of them. In fact, this is what Paul's going to say in the new Testament. First Corinthians chapter one, it couldn't help, but think of this one. He says for consider your calling brothers. Not many of you were wise, according to the world, they standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth, but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, he chose what's weak to shame the strong he chose what is low and despised in the world. Even the things that are not to bring to nothing, the things that are, and the whole goal. Paul says this so that no one can boast so that God gets the glory. And certainly he's doing that here. I love seeing this. It shows you that all of us who are part of the body of Christ, most of us fit that description. We're not the best looking the best educated. We're not the most athletic. We're not the inventors are not the cream of the world they crop, but in God's eyes, he's the one who redeems us. He chose us before he turned it. He passed and now he's going to utilize us to bring him glory. And he's going to do great things through this body of believers, the lowly to despise the rejected. That's really cool.

It is really cool. We see that in the life of the disciples to Jesus, doesn't go out and go to the Sanhedrin, say, okay, who's your best and brightest. He's calling fishermen. He's calling guys that are ordinary people. Yeah. Yeah, Simon, the zealot. Uh, societal outcast and saying, Hey, come follow

me. And Levi Matthew, the tax collector, who would have been despised as well for being shady and a betrayer of his own people. Yep. He's still in the business of doing that, which is why as Christians, our job is not to go to the most powerful and the celebrity and say, Hey, would you please be a Christian? We'd love to utilize your influence. He's calling regular people like you like me, like maybe people that are listening to this. So please don't look down on somebody just because they don't fit the bill of what you think a Christian should look like, cast the net wide, let God be responsible for the results.

And don't get

overly

excited. I mean, get overly excited because it's a soul saved, but don't get overly excited when you hear about, well, this celebrity seems to be a Christian. Like the one that comes to mind right now is Russell brand. It seems to actually be. Genuine in his faith, as much as we can tell at this point. But the one most recently in, in the rear view mirror that we can all think back to is when Kanye came out and was doing his whole thing. And I know there were a lot of people that were like, isn't this awesome. He's not only a Christian, but he's in our camp theologically. Well, where is he now? Um, but of late somebody went on Joe Rogan and pronounce or, or shared the gospel pretty. Uh, pretty effectively pretty clearly on Joe Rogan. And then you've got Jordan Peterson out there and people like, well, Jordan Peterson, the same Jesus Christ as the son of God. And I think there's this excitement and this, like now we're really going to be taken seriously. If we could get this person to be a Christian and this person. We don't need that. And that's, I think what this is showing us, reminding us is God's going to do his work and he's the one that has all the power that we need. So if somebody gets saved, that's in a position of power and authority, great praise God like Nicodemus, Nicodemus is going to get saved and be a follower of Jesus. Praise God. But the gospel is not going to be more effective because Nicodemus is saved than it was when. Uh, got a saving Matthew and Simon and Peter. Uh, it's, it's the, power's not in the person. The power is in the person of Christ. The power is in the gospel itself. So. There is

something cool though that's happening. And I don't know what it is, but people have noticed that it seems like there is a more openness toward Christianity. There's a, there's more viability that people are seeing. Uh, someone said a while back. I'm not sure who said it, but there's this plausibility structure within our society that makes Christianity a non-starter. Yeah, but now it seems like perhaps the tide is shifting into something that's more reasonable. Christianity is not looked down upon in a scorned as. There's no possible way, because you have voices that are suggesting, and it's not just these celebrities. It's a lot of people saying, yeah, my, my allegiance to Jesus Christ and he deserves our praise. It's really interesting to see where this goes. Maybe God is doing something special. And if it is a God thing, we're not going to say, oh, this guy made it possible. It was this guy in Rogan, or it was Joe Rogan who got saved. We're going to point to Jesus. If it's a real revival, Jesus is gonna get the credit. Amen.

Amen. May it be so. Well, let's pray. And then we'll be done with this episode. God we ask for that. We, we pray for that. We don't know what you're doing right now in our country and our nation, but you do. And you have certainly done great things in the past and brought revival to our country and brought revival and other parts of the world. If that's what you're doing right now, Lord, we would say, let it be so amen, please. Uh, make it so that the church can thrive. We're committed in scripture, even to pray for the, the peace in the wellbeing of our nations, so that we might be. More effective as a church, more fruitful as a church. And so we want that to be true. And so God give us a season as it, maybe it appears that you were doing or setting up where we can really take off as the church and see many people come to faith in Jesus. If not Lord. Help us to be faithful on the other, other side of that, to whatever that might look like. But in the meantime, we just want to trust you. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Keep in your Bibles tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the daily Bible podcasts. Bye.