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THE FORGING TABLE | Genesis 23 & 24 (Ep. 745)

April 20, 2025 53m 31s Full transcript available
THE FORGING TABLE | Genesis 23 & 24 (Ep. 745)
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In this episode of The Forging Table, we dive deep into Genesis 23 and 24, exploring the significance of Sarah's death and the divine orchestration behind Isaac's marriage to Rebecca. We discuss the importance of faith, God's promises, and the lessons we can learn from these biblical narratives.
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0:00 [Music]
0:20 This is Undaunted Life a Man's Podcast.
0:23 I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:27 Welcome back to the Forging Table.
0:28 The mission of Undaunted Life is equipping
0:29 then to push back darkness with content that forges
0:31 spiritual mental and physical resilience.
0:33 At the Forging Table, you'll see a group of regular guys
0:35 foraging resilience by digging in spiritual resilience.
0:38 If you're wondering which one, by digging into God's word
0:40 and we're welcoming all of you to come along on that journey
0:41 with us out of order, we're going mad,
0:42 we're going winkler, we're going browning.
0:44 I don't have anything funny at the beginning.
0:45 Does anybody have anything funny?
0:46 'Cause I kind of forgot.
0:48 'Cause I just say a bunch of pizza.
0:49 And that's all I can think about is how that's going to be
0:51 settling over the next 30 to 45 minutes.
0:53 I mean, I think it is funny that people think LeBron James
0:56 is the greatest basketball player of all time.
0:57 I know that we are talking about athletes, you know?
1:01 - Does anyone at this table think that LeBron James
1:03 is the best basketball player ever?
1:04 - Oh, absolutely not.
1:05 No, I mean, there's certain things that should be debated
1:07 that should be what's going on.
1:08 - Is there confidence that if I said name
1:10 the greatest basketball player of all time
1:13 in three, two, one, Michael Jordan?
1:15 Okay, just wanted to make sure
1:16 that we were all in the same place.
1:18 The debate actually does become second.
1:21 Who's the second best player of all time?
1:23 - Oh.
1:24 - 'Cause you got people that automatically go LeBron.
1:26 You got Wilt, you got Bill Russell people.
1:28 You got Larry Bird people.
1:29 - I'm Magic Johnson.
1:31 - Magic Johnson.
1:32 The Kobe one is interesting 'cause someone made a good point.
1:34 They're like, what is how many MVPs this Kobe had?
1:36 I think he only had one.
1:37 And so it's like he was only the best player in the league
1:41 once, like in his entire career.
1:44 And I was like, that's actually a pretty compelling point.
1:45 - He won a lot of rings with Shaq.
1:48 - Right, he won three with Shaq and two with Powell.
1:50 - Who would you say, Jake?
1:51 Was it a second?
1:52 - Magic Johnson.
1:53 That's a good pick.
1:54 What about you here?
1:55 - Wilt.
1:56 - I always say it, the reason I always put magic is number two.
2:00 He got more championships in bird.
2:02 Otherwise I'd have birded it to.
2:03 - Bird.
2:04 - But the reason I say that magic over bird is he's got more rings
2:08 and those two were slagging it out all through the eighties
2:11 and Magic probably would have won more rings
2:14 had it never won, not been for AIDS.
2:17 But number two, he also had this guy that he ran into
2:19 called named Michael Jordan who also kind of knocked him out
2:23 as well because Michael's first championship
2:27 was against the Lakers.
2:29 - What a great time in basketball history.
2:31 - Oh my gosh.
2:32 - Bad boy Pistons.
2:34 - Bad boy Pistons.
2:35 - Oh yeah.
2:36 - They had two years of just dominating
2:38 and then got really [inaudible] with the Bulls.
2:41 - Yeah, yeah.
2:42 I could see Magic Johnson.
2:43 Wilt's a good one too.
2:44 I don't know.
2:45 - So a lot of people will say Bill Russell
2:46 but the problem is there were eight teams I think
2:48 in the NBA when Bill Russell was winning championships
2:50 and so it's not saying that he's not great.
2:52 It's just like, well, you're playing the same eight teams.
2:54 Kind of like all the Yankees championships.
2:56 It's like they won the majority of their championships.
2:58 - Don't hate the player hate the game, stop it.
3:00 - Stop it.
3:01 There was like how many World Series of the Yankees win
3:03 where the playoffs were the World Series?
3:05 So as long as you won the pin it,
3:07 you got to go straight to the World Series.
3:09 Like so, and now all of a sudden they can't win
3:11 a World Series in decades.
3:12 It's like like Notre Dame.
3:14 They're like, we have the best teams ever.
3:16 He's like, man, you didn't play anybody.
3:18 - You beat Army five to two.
3:21 - In football, somehow.
3:23 - I don't know, I don't know.
3:25 - Okay, all right, life's the one
3:27 that you got to put the second on the goat list.
3:30 All right, who's the second goat?
3:32 So we've got Magic Johnson, Will Chamberlain.
3:35 - Oh man.
3:36 - I would probably say I'd probably have to go with Will.
3:40 - You'd have Wilt over Kareem?
3:41 Kareem never gets the play, man,
3:44 but Kareem actually played for a long time.
3:46 - Kareem got plenty of play apparently, so.
3:50 - No, Will got plenty of play.
3:51 - Will does well, okay, haven't he?
3:53 - Will does well, yeah, the will to the guy.
3:54 - Kareem played for like 25 years,
3:57 one several rings with Magic,
4:00 but then also like until LeBron recently passed him
4:03 was the all-time point scorer, leader.
4:06 I mean, maybe they actually did change the rules.
4:11 They outlawed the dunk because Kareem
4:14 was just dunking over everybody.
4:17 - Well, I mean, Kareem had six NBA championships,
4:20 Wilt only two.
4:22 He played 20 seasons versus 14 for Wilt, playoffs played.
4:26 He played an 18 playoffs versus 13 for Wilt.
4:30 All-Star games, 19, man.
4:32 - And I'm saying all this, Kareem's still not my number two
4:34 because Kareem still also played in that timeframe
4:37 where there just wasn't a lot of teams
4:40 and there wasn't a lot of competition.
4:41 - Yeah, a lot of centers were five foot two white guys.
4:45 - I would have been a center in the 1970s.
4:47 - You'd have dominated it.
4:49 - So as much as I don't like-
4:51 - They've gotten out of breath from that half court.
4:53 - [inaudible]-a-pee, [inaudible]-a-pee, mare-vitch.
4:55 That was unbelievable.
4:56 - As much as I don't like them,
4:57 I would probably have to put LeBron number two
5:00 on the goat list with all of his foibles,
5:03 with the complaining and the going from team to team
5:05 and the flopping and like all this kind of stuff.
5:08 - Of each book that he has.
5:09 - Yeah, I wanted it.
5:10 - Reading one page of like 70 different books.
5:12 - Just because-
5:14 - You should have him on the forging table.
5:15 I'm sure he would be riveting.
5:17 - Yeah, I bet.
5:18 - Read the first three sentences of each chapter.
5:20 - Because it's like, yes, he's won.
5:23 Like I don't want to put him there, but it's just like,
5:26 he's not, he's not a killer, right?
5:29 So Bird was a killer, like Kobe was a killer.
5:33 LeBron's not a killer, but he was great.
5:35 - I can't put him there because he's lost more finals
5:37 than he's won.
5:38 - Also true.
5:39 'Cause the only one you can give him a pass for
5:41 was when he was like 14 years old
5:42 and they went up against the Spurs, right?
5:44 And so like the Eastern Conference was basically
5:46 a U tournament and then they got there
5:49 and then he, you know, they got swept by the Spurs.
5:52 But the rest of them, like they were a Chris Bosch rebound
5:55 and a Ray Allen like prayer three
5:58 from losing three of four in Miami.
6:01 - Yes, I mean, they put together like the, like the,
6:04 I mean-
6:05 - They got the Avengers out there in there.
6:06 - Super duper team out in Miami because, you know,
6:09 you can say the first,
6:10 this first Celtic squad with Garnet Allen and Pierce
6:15 was like the original super team,
6:16 but that was all done through trades and everything else.
6:19 This was just three guys deciding to sign at the same time
6:22 whenever they expanded the cap.
6:24 I can get real cap nerdy, I won't.
6:26 But they all just decided to join the same squad
6:29 and then they lost to the Mavs.
6:32 - Mavs first year.
6:33 - They beat the Thunder.
6:34 - The Thunder who were probably a year or two too early.
6:37 - Yeah.
6:38 - And then they beat the Spurs.
6:39 - They beat the Spurs.
6:40 - And they got destroyed by the Spurs.
6:41 - That's right.
6:42 - The Spurs win that they had, they were this close to nine.
6:47 And for those listening, my fingers are really close together.
6:50 - Yeah, game six.
6:51 - But they were, yeah, game six.
6:52 I mean, they were like literally a Chris Bosch rebound
6:55 and a Ray Allen three from losing that one.
6:58 - Lost in all this is Durgnavisky
7:00 when they won the Mavs won the championship.
7:02 The route that the Mavs went through to win that championship.
7:05 So they obviously beat, you know, the big three heat
7:09 in the conference finals.
7:10 They beat the James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Katie Thunder.
7:13 This round before that, they had swept Kobe
7:15 and pals Lakers coming off of a championship.
7:18 And in the first round, they beat like the Trailblazers.
7:20 And that was like Brandon Roy in the Marcus Aldrich.
7:22 - Yeah.
7:23 - And like pre knee problems, Brandon Roy was really good.
7:25 - Dirk, the 2011 Dirk run was insane.
7:30 I mean, 'cause it was literally.
7:34 - Maybe the greatest run in the history of the playoffs.
7:35 - Yes, I mean, yeah.
7:37 And I say that as someone who despises the Mavs,
7:39 but Dirk's run in 2011,
7:42 'cause who was the second best player on that team?
7:45 - Sean Marion.
7:46 - Yeah, or Jason Terry.
7:48 - Tyson Chandler.
7:49 - Yeah.
7:50 - I mean, we're not exactly talking about.
7:52 - Not complete game changers.
7:53 - No, there's no pippin' on that team.
7:55 - They're all role players, they're all role players.
7:57 - She did bury a lot of people.
7:59 And just as Dirk buried people,
8:02 we're going to talk about the burial of Sarah.
8:06 - Wow.
8:06 - So I would love to get into that.
8:08 I was waiting for the transition.
8:09 This entire time, I've been Matt.
8:11 Come on, transition, transition.
8:12 I was about to do a hard transition,
8:13 like a speaking of AIDS, Sarah.
8:16 (laughing)
8:17 It's Magic Johnson joke.
8:18 It's Magic Johnson joke, guys.
8:20 So Matt, since you had the beautiful
8:22 velvety transition, how about you keep it going?
8:24 You're going to read all of chapter 23.
8:26 - Before I go, I'm changing my pick to Magic Johnson.
8:29 I'm with Jake now.
8:30 I think he makes a good argument.
8:31 That's a good thing.
8:32 - I think Kareem is a pretty decent argument.
8:34 The problem is the competition, the level of competition.
8:37 Like there, well, here's the thing.
8:40 Sorry, sorry.
8:41 Wait, wait, wait, wait.
8:42 - Second way's done.
8:43 - You get, you're building a basketball team?
8:46 - I just derailed because I apologize.
8:47 - No, it's fine.
8:48 It's fine.
8:49 You're building a basketball team.
8:51 And this team has to win one game to save your life, okay?
8:56 - In what era?
8:57 - No, like, we don't have to worry about era.
9:00 Everything else is different.
9:01 Like Mr. Newmont.
9:02 - Right, okay.
9:02 Yeah, Captain Gray area over there.
9:05 So you got to pick one guy, one guy.
9:08 Yeah, don't even hit the timer now at this point.
9:10 You're fired like Zach Todd's fired.
9:11 Okay.
9:13 You have to pick one center to be on your team.
9:17 You're picking a starting lineup
9:18 and this starting lineup has got to win a game
9:20 to save your life.
9:21 'Cause I know who I'm picking.
9:23 He has not been named yet.
9:25 - Yeah, I know who I would pick
9:26 and he's not been named either.
9:27 - Three, two, one, Shaquille O'Neal.
9:28 Exactly.
9:30 No one's taking will ain't nobody taking Kareem.
9:32 No one's taking Bill Russell.
9:33 We're taking the DC.
9:34 - DC, yeah, you're taking Prime Shack, AKA Shazam.
9:37 AKA M Diesel.
9:38 - Hey, the big cactus.
9:40 - Yeah, the big share.
9:42 - AKA Shaq Fu.
9:43 - Yeah, Shaq Fu.
9:45 - He had a lot of names.
9:46 Not unlike our God who went by a lot of names.
9:49 And so let's get into that.
9:51 - Okay, Matt.
9:51 All right, we've done this.
9:53 We've done this on us.
9:54 You got us, you know, off on the tangent.
9:55 Now we're back here.
9:56 So here we go.
9:57 - All of Genesis 23.
9:58 - All of Genesis 23.
9:58 Okay, here we go.
9:59 Sarah lived 127 years.
10:04 These are the years of the life of Sarah.
10:06 And Sarah died at Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron,
10:11 in the land of Canaan.
10:12 And Abraham went into mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
10:16 And Abraham rose up from before his dead
10:18 and said to the Hittites,
10:20 "I am a sojourner and a foreigner among you.
10:22 "Give me property among you for a burying place,
10:25 "that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
10:29 The Hittites answered Abraham,
10:31 "Hear us, my Lord, you are a prince of God,
10:33 "among us, bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs.
10:37 "None of us will withhold from the tomb,
10:40 "his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
10:43 Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites,
10:46 the people of the land.
10:47 And he said to them, "If you are willing,
10:48 "that I should bury my dead out of my sight,
10:50 "hear me and entreat me for Hebron the son of Zohar,
10:55 "that He may give me the cave of Macpella,
11:02 "which He owns.
11:03 "It is at the end of His field for the full price,
11:06 "let Him give it to me in your presence
11:08 "as property for a burying place."
11:10 Now, Ephron was sitting among the Hittites,
11:12 and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham
11:13 in the hearing of the Hittites.
11:15 "Of all who went in at the gate of His city,
11:18 "know, my Lord, hear me.
11:20 "I give you the field, and I give you the cave
11:22 "that is in it.
11:23 "In the sight of the sons of my people,
11:25 "I give it to you, bury your dead."
11:27 Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land,
11:30 and he said to Ephron, "In the hearing of the people
11:33 "of the land, but if you will, hear me.
11:36 "I give the price of the field, except it from me,
11:40 "that I may bury my dead there."
11:42 Ephron answered Abraham, "My Lord, listen to me,
11:47 "a piece of land worth 400 shekels of silver.
11:51 "What is that between you and me?
11:53 "Bury your dead."
11:54 Abraham listened to Ephron,
11:55 and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver
11:58 that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites,
12:01 400 shekels of silver,
12:03 according to the weights current among the merchants.
12:06 So the field of Ephron in Macpella,
12:09 which was to the east of Mamre, Mamre,
12:14 the field with the cave that was in it,
12:16 and all the trees that were in the field,
12:18 throughout its whole area was made over to Abraham
12:21 as a possession in the presence of the Hittites,
12:23 before all who went into the gate of His city
12:26 after this, into the city, sorry.
12:29 I didn't see the period there.
12:30 After this, Abraham buried Sarah, his wife,
12:32 in the cave of the field of Macpella, west of Mamre,
12:36 that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan,
12:40 the field in the cave that is in it
12:43 were made over to Abraham as property
12:45 for a bearing place of the Hittites.
12:47 - Thanks, Matt. - Or by the Hittites.
12:48 - Thanks, Matt.
12:49 So Sarah, only gal in the Bible,
12:52 to have her age, death, and burial mentioned.
12:56 So that's either significant or non-significant.
12:59 I happen to believe that it's significant,
13:01 that we only get that level.
13:02 It's probably because the New Testament writers,
13:04 we're all members of the patriarchy,
13:06 and so at least that's what I've been reliably informed
13:09 by purple haired nose ringed morons on college campuses.
13:12 But yeah, let's talk about Sarah's death and burial
13:14 and anything that you guys wanna hit on chapter 23?
13:17 - Well, I mean, the significance of Sarah
13:21 bringing Isaac into the world, the child of promise.
13:24 I mean, I think there is some reverence here
13:27 that's being paid to her in that she,
13:30 like the mentioning of her age and her death,
13:34 and the stuff that Abraham goes through
13:38 to get a burial place for her.
13:41 I don't think we should miss that.
13:43 - Yeah, and she's mentioned at least two more times
13:47 in the Bible.
13:48 Here's one, first Peter is three, five, six,
13:51 says for this is how the holy women who hoped in God
13:55 used to adorn themselves by submitting themselves
13:57 to their own husbands as Sarah obeyed Abraham,
14:00 calling him Lord, and you are her children,
14:03 if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
14:06 So compare that to Mary.
14:10 I don't think she's mentioned anywhere else.
14:14 So there's a lot of weight put on Sarah.
14:17 I think she's mentioned again in Hebrews 11,
14:20 Hall of Faith.
14:21 - Yeah, that's the second time you mentioned the Hall of Faith.
14:24 Can you actually bring up the Hall of Faith
14:25 and so we can actually have those names while we do that?
14:29 But anything else on that?
14:30 - Yeah, I actually, ironically,
14:33 the accountant got really focused in on the 400 checkles.
14:35 - Nerd.
14:37 - Silver.
14:37 So just to kind of give some context here,
14:42 that's the equivalent of about seven
14:44 and a quarter pounds of silver.
14:45 You can compare that to some of the other land purchases
14:48 noted in the Bible, Omri bought the side of Samaria
14:51 for 6,000 checkles and first kings.
14:54 David bought the side of the temple
14:55 for 600 gold checkles and first chronicles.
14:58 The threshing floor itself fetched 50 checkles.
15:03 That's from second Samuel.
15:04 Jeremiah bought property at a greatly deflated price
15:07 of 17 checkles.
15:09 So Abraham's price here is more than likely
15:13 pretty exorbitant for what he was purchasing.
15:17 Which is interesting because you have Ephron
15:19 who's like, just take the land.
15:21 He just wants to give it as a gift
15:23 and Abraham's like, no, I'm gonna buy it from you.
15:26 And why would he do that?
15:29 You know, you would think, you know,
15:30 don't look a gift horse in the mouth, right?
15:32 He's just gonna give you the land
15:33 and yet you're gonna give him this exorbitant price
15:35 to purchase this land.
15:37 And if you kind of go back to like,
15:38 well, where does Abraham even get this funding?
15:41 Is that some of the Abimalek funding that he got
15:45 in restitution for Sarah itself?
15:48 So you kind of see that coming full circle
15:50 and that Sarah's death and her resting place
15:52 essentially could almost be looked at
15:54 as it's being financed by the indiscretion
15:56 that was made by Abraham with Abimalek.
16:00 But then turns around and makes sure he purchases this land
16:03 so that any future heirs of Ephron
16:07 could not come back and say, yeah, I want that back.
16:11 It's like, nope, ownership has been transferred.
16:14 It was sold, yeah.
16:15 Yeah, yeah.
16:16 Well, I mean, it had been promised to him, right?
16:20 But then he also purchased that, right?
16:23 And even if he bought it at a discount,
16:26 they could come back and be like, no, it wasn't enough.
16:28 Well, I was looking at that too.
16:29 Kind of as to the, like, what's culturally
16:32 how did this thing go down?
16:34 'Cause it was interesting how it was spelled out there.
16:36 The guy, you know, he's like, I'd like to have this land.
16:38 Abraham's like, I'd like to have this land.
16:39 And he's like, I will give it to you.
16:41 What I understand is that culturally,
16:43 that is how you were supposed to start negotiation.
16:48 The person that had the land was supposed to say,
16:50 I'll give it to you.
16:51 He's not really gonna give it to you.
16:53 That's just culturally how you do it.
16:55 And then you come back and he says, no, no,
16:58 I wanna buy it from you.
16:59 And then he says, okay.
17:01 And then he names a price.
17:02 And typically the price is high.
17:04 It's like a starting price that's exorbitant high
17:07 and then you negotiate from there.
17:09 But Abraham was like, all right.
17:11 Done.
17:12 I'm in.
17:13 Yeah.
17:14 So I think one of the other interesting points here
17:15 to talk about is also the fact that how much,
17:20 okay, so think about 400 shekels, okay.
17:23 A laborer at this time,
17:25 because I wanna go back to the point
17:26 that this is an exorbitant price.
17:27 And Abraham's basically just securing all future claims
17:31 to this potential land from Ephron's descendants.
17:34 Back then a laborer would make on average 10 shekels a year.
17:41 So it would literally take him a lifetime
17:45 to be able to purchase that.
17:47 Assuming that you live long enough,
17:50 because it's 10 shekels a year,
17:51 but it's also those 10 shekels
17:53 you gotta also pay for other things.
17:56 So how long is it gonna take you to save up 400
17:59 to purchase that?
18:00 And again, going back to, well,
18:03 how did Abraham get that much?
18:05 And again, just this, it just--
18:07 He sold drugs.
18:09 Well, I just think it's--
18:10 Don't tell me you didn't think it.
18:12 Well, I mean, in a sense, he almost,
18:15 he kind of sold his wife, I mean, in a sense.
18:18 I mean, gave her to Abimaleg, it's my sister.
18:21 And then he was like, here's a thousand shekels,
18:23 like, sorry about that, please forgive me.
18:26 I mean, it's hard not to fathom
18:28 that at least some of these 400 shekels
18:30 were obtained through that initial indiscretion.
18:34 Right, right.
18:35 Anything else on Genesis 23, before we move on?
18:41 Is that a yes, or is that like a, you got gas, or?
18:44 Yeah, I may have a little bit of both.
18:46 Wow.
18:47 Well, no, I like the idea.
18:52 Here's what I wrote down.
18:53 I said, Jesus has rights, has all rights
18:55 because he created all things.
18:57 And then I put down, but he also has possession
19:00 because he purchased it with blood.
19:02 So like we've been twice owned or twice owned by Christ,
19:06 both once through creation and then once
19:08 because he purchased us through his blood.
19:11 So for trying to tie in a little bit
19:13 to this purchase of the land,
19:14 that's one thing we look back at,
19:16 because Abraham received this land through promise,
19:21 but he also purchased the land and has a deed on it.
19:27 Yeah, when you mentioned this is still around.
19:32 Yeah, earlier, yeah.
19:33 So where it's in Hebron, the West Bank,
19:36 there's a big building around it now.
19:39 Of course, the cave, and that's where all the patriarchs
19:41 are buried.
19:42 So Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, I don't know.
19:47 Sarah, Sarah, yes, of course.
19:50 Yeah, and I may be wrong.
19:53 I mean, there's more of those two I could pull it up,
19:56 but I don't remember.
19:58 Yeah, this gets mentioned quite a few times,
20:00 even in just in Genesis,
20:02 'cause Jacob asks Joseph to swear to take him back
20:06 when he dies, and then I think Joseph,
20:08 I'm pretty sure Joseph requests to be taken back there
20:13 when he dies.
20:14 So it's obviously a significant place and still still so.
20:19 And then you say it's the second holiest.
20:22 I believe so.
20:24 I mean, I could be wrong.
20:24 Some people say it's the second holiest site.
20:26 Okay, very good.
20:28 Well, we're gonna go ahead and get into Genesis 24.
20:30 Now, Genesis 24 is rather lengthy,
20:33 and so I thought it would be unfair
20:34 to have one of you lovely gentlemen read it.
20:36 So this is what we're gonna do.
20:38 We're gonna switch off every paragraph,
20:39 and we're gonna go, and we're gonna start clockwise.
20:42 I'll start us off, and then we'll go Jake,
20:44 and then we'll go Matt.
20:45 Most of the paragraphs are roughly the same,
20:47 some are rather short, and so I'm reading ESV,
20:50 Jake is ESV, Matt, ESV, Eric, same.
20:54 Very good.
20:55 All right, guys, well, let's go ahead and get in.
20:56 We're gonna talk about Isaac and Rebecca.
20:57 Genesis 24, starting in verse one.
21:00 Now, Abraham was old, well-advanced in years,
21:02 and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
21:04 Abraham said to his servant,
21:05 the oldest of his household,
21:06 who had charged all that he had,
21:08 put your hand under my thigh,
21:09 that I may make you swear by the Lord,
21:11 the God of heaven and the God of earth,
21:13 that you will not take a wife for my son,
21:15 from my daughters of the Canaanites,
21:17 among whom I dwell,
21:18 but will go to my country and to my kindred
21:20 and take a wife for my son, Isaac.
21:22 The servant said to him,
21:24 perhaps a woman may not be willing to follow me
21:26 to this land.
21:27 Must I then take your son back to the land
21:29 from which you came?
21:30 Abraham said to him,
21:31 see to it that you do not take my son back there.
21:34 The Lord, the God of heaven,
21:35 who took me from my father's house
21:37 and from the land of my kindred,
21:38 and who spoke to me and swore to me
21:40 to your offspring, I will give this land,
21:42 he will send his angel before you,
21:44 and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
21:47 But if the woman is not willing to follow you,
21:49 then you will be free from this oath of mine.
21:52 Only you must not take my son back there.
21:54 So the servant put his hand under the thigh
21:56 of Abraham's master and swore to him
21:58 concerning this matter.
21:59 Then the servant took 10 of his master's camels
22:02 and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts
22:04 from his master.
22:05 And he arose and he went to Mesopotamia
22:07 to the city of Nahor.
22:09 And he made the camels kneel down outside the city
22:11 by the well of water at the time of evening,
22:13 the time when women go out to draw water.
22:16 And he said, oh Lord God of my master Abraham,
22:18 please grant me success today
22:20 and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.
22:24 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water
22:26 and the daughters of the men of the city
22:28 are coming out to draw water.
22:30 Let the young woman to whom I shall say,
22:32 please let down your jar that I may drink
22:35 and who shall say drink and I will water your camels,
22:38 let her be the one whom you have appointed
22:41 for your servant Isaac.
22:42 By this, I shall know that you have shown steadfast love
22:46 to my master.
22:47 - Before he'd finished speaking,
22:50 ahold, Rebecca, who was born to Matthew Al,
22:54 the son of Milka, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother,
22:57 came out with her water jar on her shoulder.
23:00 The young woman was very attractive in appearance,
23:03 a maiden whom no man had known.
23:05 She went down to the spring and filled her jar
23:07 and came up.
23:08 Then the servant ran to meet her and said,
23:10 please give me a little water to drink from your jar.
23:13 She said, drink my Lord.
23:14 And she quickly let down her jar upon her hand
23:16 and gave him a drink.
23:17 When she had finished giving him a drink,
23:19 she said, I will draw water for your camels also
23:22 until they have finished drinking.
23:24 So she quickly emptied her jar and into the trough
23:28 and ran again to the well to draw water.
23:30 And she drew for all his camels.
23:32 The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord
23:35 had prospered his journey or not.
23:37 - When the camels had finished drinking,
23:39 the man took a gold ring,
23:41 weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her arms weighing,
23:44 10 gold shekels and said,
23:46 please tell me whose daughter you are.
23:48 Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?
23:51 She said to him, I am the daughter of Matthew Al,
23:53 the son of Milka, whom she bored in a whore.
23:56 She said, she added, we have plenty of both straw and fodder
24:02 and room to spend the night.
24:04 The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord and said,
24:06 blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham,
24:10 who has not forsaken his steadfast love
24:13 and his faithfulness toward my master.
24:16 As for me, the Lord has led me in the way
24:20 to the house of my master's kinsmen.
24:22 Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household
24:25 about these things.
24:26 - Rebecca had a brother whose name was Laban.
24:28 Laban ran out toward the man to the spring.
24:31 As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets
24:33 on his sister's arms and heard the words
24:34 of Rebecca, his sister, thus the man spoke to me,
24:37 he went to the man and behold,
24:39 he was standing by the camels at the spring.
24:41 He said, come in, oh blessed of the Lord,
24:43 why do you stand outside?
24:45 For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.
24:47 So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels
24:50 and gave straw and fodder to the camels
24:51 and there was water to wash his feet
24:53 and the feet of the men who were with him.
24:55 Then food was set before him to eat.
24:57 But he said, I will not eat until I have said
24:59 what I have to say, he said, speak on.
25:01 - So he said, I am Abraham's servant.
25:04 The Lord has greatly blessed my master
25:06 and he has become great.
25:08 He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold,
25:11 male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
25:14 And Sarah, my master's wife bore a son to my master
25:17 when she was old and to him he has given all that he has.
25:21 My master made me swear saying,
25:23 you shall not take a wife for my son
25:26 from the daughters of the Canaanites
25:28 and whose land I dwell.
25:30 But you shall go to my father's house and to my clan
25:32 and take a wife for my son.
25:34 I said to my master, perhaps the woman will not follow me.
25:37 But he said to me, the Lord for whom I have walked
25:42 will send his angel with you and prosper your way.
25:45 You shall take a wife for my son, from my clan
25:47 and from my father's house.
25:49 Then you will be free from my oath.
25:52 When you come to my clan and if they will not give her to you,
25:55 you will be free from my oath.
25:56 - I came today to the spring and said,
25:59 oh Lord, the God of my master Abraham,
26:02 if now you are prospering the way that I go,
26:05 behold, I am standing by the spring of water.
26:07 Let the virgin who comes out to draw water
26:09 to whom I shall say, please give me a little water
26:12 from your jar to drink and who will say to me drink
26:15 and I'll draw for your camels also.
26:18 Let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed
26:20 for my master's son.
26:22 - Before I'd finished speaking in my heart,
26:25 behold, Rebecca came out with her water jar on her shoulder
26:28 and she went down to the spring and drew water.
26:31 I said to her, please let me drink.
26:33 She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder and said,
26:36 drink and I will give your camels, camels drink also.
26:40 So I drank and she gave the camels drink also.
26:44 Then I asked her, whose daughter are you?
26:46 She said, the daughter of Bethwell, Nehor's son,
26:49 whom milk aboard to him.
26:50 So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arm
26:54 that I bow my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord,
26:57 the God of my master Abraham,
26:59 who had led me to the right way to take the daughter
27:02 of my master's kinsmen for his son.
27:04 Now then, if you're going to show steadfast love
27:08 and faithfulness to my master, tell me,
27:10 if not, tell me, that I might turn to the right hand
27:14 or to the left.
27:15 Then Laban and Bethwell answered and said,
27:17 the thing has come from the Lord.
27:19 We cannot speak to you bad or good.
27:21 Behold, Rebecca is before you, take her and go
27:23 and let her be the wife of your master's son,
27:26 as the Lord had spoken.
27:28 - When Abraham's servant heard their words,
27:30 he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord.
27:33 And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold
27:37 and garments and gave them to Rebecca.
27:40 He also gave to her brother and to her mother,
27:42 costly ornaments.
27:43 And he and the men who are with him ate and drank
27:46 and they spent the night there.
27:47 When they arose in the morning, he said,
27:49 send me away to my master.
27:51 Her brother and her mother said, let the young women remain
27:54 with us a while, at least 10 days after that she may go.
27:58 But he said to them, do not delay me,
27:59 since the Lord has prospered my way,
28:01 send me away, then I may go to my master.
28:04 They said, let us call the young woman and ask her.
28:07 And they called Rebecca and said to her,
28:09 will you go with this man?
28:11 She said, I will go.
28:13 So they sent away Rebecca, their sister and her nurse
28:17 and Abraham's servant and his men.
28:19 And they blessed Rebecca and said to her,
28:21 our sister, may you become thousands of 10,000s.
28:25 And may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him.
28:28 - Then Rebecca and her young women arose
28:33 and rode off, erode on the camels and followed the man.
28:36 Thus the servant took Rebecca and went his way.
28:40 Now Isaac had returned from Bierhala, Roy,
28:43 and was dwelling in the neck ab.
28:46 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening.
28:51 And he lifted up his eyes and saw and behold,
28:53 there were camels coming.
28:55 And Rebecca lifted up her eyes.
28:57 And when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel
29:00 and said to the servant, who is that man
29:03 walking the field to meet us?
29:05 The servant said, it is my master.
29:07 So she took her veil and covered herself.
29:10 And the servant told Isaac all the things he had done.
29:13 Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah,
29:17 his mother, and took Rebecca.
29:18 And she became his wife and he loved her.
29:21 So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
29:24 - Okay, very good.
29:26 Well, first time for everything.
29:27 That's first time we did a team reading
29:28 of a very, very long chapter.
29:30 So gotta be honest, I was a little bit concerned
29:33 about this chapter, but Jake and I actually talked about it
29:35 in Sunday school 'cause it's not called ABF.
29:37 It's not called adult bible fellowship
29:39 because that would be stupid.
29:40 So in our Sunday school class this morning,
29:42 we were talking about Genesis 24.
29:44 And you had a very interesting kind of thought experiment
29:46 as a pertain to the scriptures, so go ahead.
29:48 - Yeah, so I think it's kind of interesting here.
29:51 One of the first things the servant does
29:53 is he's asking for a sign from God.
29:55 Okay, and I think all of us could probably point to a time
29:58 in our lives where we go, you pray and you're just,
30:01 if you will just show me a sign.
30:03 If you will just show me a sign.
30:04 And honestly, I think we would have a very, very difficult
30:07 time pointing that out, which would mean obviously
30:12 this person you would think would have a difficult time
30:15 pointing out like, well, okay, I asked her for a drink
30:19 and then she offered to water the camels.
30:20 Okay, but you need to understand how,
30:23 like what task he's asking.
30:27 Because a camel that has gone a few days without water
30:30 can drink as much as 25 gallons of water.
30:33 Ancient jars used for drawing water
30:35 usually held no more than three gallons.
30:38 In other words, the offer, what he's asking here,
30:42 would have involved perhaps 80 to 100 drawings from the well.
30:46 So it would have been like what she's doing in hours.
30:51 Yeah, keep in mind, keep in mind.
30:53 This is not something where she's like,
30:54 he's asking for a drink and then he says,
30:56 oh, and water my camels, she's offered.
30:58 She's offered to water the camels.
31:01 And so this is such a clear sign because there's no way
31:05 that anyone would offer to water to do 80 to 100 drawings
31:09 from a well over hours at a time.
31:12 No one else would offer that except for someone
31:15 who has been placed there by God to do so.
31:19 So it was such an obvious sign.
31:21 And I think that there's, I'm gonna point out
31:25 to another interesting like historical sign.
31:28 In 1429, the prince who was later to be crowned Charles
31:31 the seventh of France was told that a teenage girl
31:34 have reportedly received messages from saints
31:37 urging her to support his kingship
31:39 and drive the English out of France.
31:41 After he agreed to give her an audience,
31:43 he decided to conduct a test.
31:45 He had someone else sit on his throne
31:47 while he himself stood among the courtiers in attendance.
31:50 He thought if the girl were receiving supernatural guidance,
31:53 she would immediately detect the imposter
31:55 and pick him out in a crowd, though they had never met.
32:00 He was impressed when the girl walked into the throne room
32:02 and after only a minute of indecision turned away
32:05 from the throne, strode up to him and bowed before him.
32:08 He took this as a divine sign
32:09 that the girl Joan of Arc had been chosen by God
32:13 to liberate France, okay?
32:15 Now, you don't have to really know the story,
32:18 I think most of us know the story of Joan of Arc
32:20 and what happened there.
32:21 The English were driven out of France.
32:23 She met a pretty dreadful end.
32:27 And she did have some initial success
32:30 and the dolphin was crowned the king
32:33 in the wake of her success, but it was short-lived.
32:36 And so to him, he's looking for this same type of sign, right?
32:41 Was she truly divinely inspired?
32:44 If she is, then she would know to find me in the crowd.
32:47 But it's so hard to kind of point to say,
32:51 okay, here's this thing I think I can point to that.
32:54 This is a clear sign from God that this is what I'm supposed to do.
32:58 I think it's a lot easier to see the fingerprints of God
33:01 after you've been through stuff.
33:03 So you can, so, you know, and I say the fingerprints
33:06 because those are left behind.
33:08 You know, it's stuff that's happened.
33:10 You could see his hands in it.
33:11 It's like, you know what?
33:12 I went through this scenario and then later on,
33:15 I can actually look back on that and go,
33:18 there's no way I would have gotten through that without God.
33:20 So I can see his fingerprints all over that.
33:23 So I think that, I think it's interesting here
33:26 because he's asking for such an outlandish sign.
33:30 And I think that would be kind of an interesting experiment
33:33 for all of us to do.
33:34 It's like, when you pray and you are asking for these signs,
33:37 how outlandish are you,
33:38 'cause things outside the scope of what God can do,
33:41 how outlandish are you being?
33:42 Anyways, so that's, I mean,
33:47 I think there's probably a discussion around like, you know,
33:50 signs and I have some stories about some personal stuff
33:54 that if we have time, I could share, but.
33:57 - It seems like, you know,
33:59 there's to be caution thrown to the wind here on signs,
34:04 'cause some people will take that too far.
34:08 They'll be seeing images in the clouds
34:12 and then be like, well, that's clearly a sign
34:13 and I should go do this thing.
34:15 You know what I mean?
34:16 - Right.
34:17 - Yeah.
34:18 - So I do think there's some short,
34:19 I think there's some shortfalls for folks on that, right?
34:24 - Well, you can kind of look at it if you,
34:27 I mean, it's almost like Oracle type thinking, okay?
34:30 Like, I consult the Oracle and they say,
34:32 here's the sign I'm seeing
34:34 and this is what you're supposed to go do
34:36 that kind of puts God on a corner, right?
34:38 It's like, I'm trying to decide this one thing.
34:41 The alternative would be to kind of leave matters open-ended
34:45 and to simply look for God's hand in circumstances
34:48 as he sovereignly works them out, okay?
34:50 So again, I'm not saying that there won't be any signs
34:55 from God, but I think that they're so hard to see
34:58 and can be, I think, so unclear
35:02 that I think until you actually go through things
35:06 and I wanna talk about the open-ended state,
35:07 when until you go through those instances
35:10 and you can kind of see how God's in his sovereignty
35:14 has worked through those instances
35:16 and you can see his fingerprints all over what happened.
35:20 I think that's whenever it makes things a little clearer.
35:23 That whole footprints in this hand,
35:28 there was two sets of footprints and then I only see one.
35:31 Yeah, that's 'cause I was carrying you.
35:33 - I remember being a really immature believer
35:37 that was struggling with just the omnipresence of God
35:41 and this is gonna sound so silly.
35:43 Now, I've got to know that we've got to follow up on it,
35:44 and then I'm driving and I have had these hiccups
35:48 for like 45 minutes, it's super annoying.
35:50 And I just remember going, you know what, God?
35:52 I know you literally can do anything.
35:54 Can you take away my hiccups for me right now?
35:55 And literally they stopped immediately.
35:57 (laughing)
35:59 Could I point that, you know, is that a miracle?
36:01 I don't know, not necessarily that, but I mean,
36:04 they went away and I was like, cool, that was awesome.
36:08 But I also didn't take that and go,
36:10 maybe I should do that next time I have hiccups
36:12 and people in the car and be like, check this out.
36:14 Go and take away my hiccups.
36:14 You know, I didn't take it like that.
36:16 Now, later on I was having an issue with some anger
36:20 and literally to the point where I felt like I could feel
36:24 the presence of demons, like literally oppressing me.
36:28 And I do remember like very fervently praying one night.
36:33 I was just like, I can't do this anymore.
36:34 This is it, I can't do this, it's overwhelming
36:37 and I asked for that to be removed.
36:39 And then I went to sleep and I remember waking up
36:41 and feeling like a weight of a thousand pounds
36:46 had been just taken off of me.
36:49 And it was obvious in that moment
36:52 that God had done something miraculous in my life
36:55 and not really show me a sign as much as just answer prayer.
36:58 So I don't know where I was going with that other than
37:01 just those were my two basic, like very immature experience
37:04 and then maybe a little bit more mature experience with God.
37:07 - Yeah, faith is built in the rear view mirror.
37:09 I think that's why it's important to write out our prayers
37:11 and then write how, come back to those and write
37:15 how God has answered those prayers
37:17 'cause then we can go back and look
37:19 at how those have unfolded.
37:22 And those can be our kind of modern day standing stones.
37:26 Yeah, I think those are all really cool examples.
37:31 - I think Matt, there's a,
37:33 so there's difference between what you're describing
37:35 which is what Jack said, which is fingerprints.
37:37 So you can't connect with the dots looking forward.
37:39 You can only connect the dots looking backwards.
37:41 But then there's also the idea of being expectant for signs.
37:45 Like I'm expecting God to show me something.
37:48 And what I mentioned this morning,
37:49 Jake is kind of what Jobius said it's about.
37:51 At certain points you have to pray guests go.
37:54 So I was on a couple of coaching calls
37:56 with some guys in our Dominion program here recently.
37:58 And we were talking about,
38:00 I was trying to explain to them the concept of being
38:01 over the X 'cause some of these guys
38:03 are in different places in their career.
38:05 And the concept of being over the X
38:07 is like if you're in a military plane
38:09 and you're dropping a payload,
38:10 let's just say it's a bomb over an enemy place.
38:12 There's an X to where that means
38:14 you're exactly where you're supposed to be.
38:16 If you're a click or two away from that spot,
38:18 the payload's not gonna go where it needs to go.
38:20 But when you're over the X,
38:21 you're exactly where God has you exactly where he should be.
38:25 And I remember a few years ago,
38:28 there was a guy that was basically trying to get me
38:30 to come to work for him.
38:31 And I was like, bro, I'm over the X
38:32 when it comes on dawn in life.
38:34 This is before we became the number one show from in,
38:36 the Christian men and this was before dominion
38:38 and before any of that.
38:39 I was like, no, I'm over the X.
38:40 I'm exactly where I need to be.
38:41 And I can tell it wasn't exactly landing
38:43 with them no pun intended.
38:44 But what I basically said is like,
38:46 have you ever tried to navigate a trail
38:47 with a crappy flashlight?
38:50 And like, even if you haven't,
38:51 you can at least understand what that looks like.
38:52 So you got this crappy flashlight.
38:53 Maybe it's going dead or it's just a bad flashlight.
38:56 And so when you point it down the trail,
38:58 you can tell it's a trail, you could surmise.
39:02 Okay, I think it's gonna bend to the left up here.
39:04 Okay, that's a bush or a bear, not quite sure.
39:06 Like you're looking out in the distance.
39:08 But if you point it at your feet,
39:11 you can take the very next step with full confidence, right?
39:14 And so that's one of the things I tell people with God
39:17 is it's like, what is it?
39:18 Was it a tozer or somebody where it's like,
39:21 it's obedience in the same direction, right?
39:23 Over time, yeah, it's something like that.
39:26 So you're going in the same direction,
39:27 but it's like, the word is a lamp unto our feet,
39:29 but we want it to be a floodlight.
39:31 We want to be able to see the entire pathway
39:32 as we go forward.
39:33 So that's my personal concern.
39:35 And we talked about a little bit this morning
39:37 about waiting for signs.
39:39 And the sign is always from people,
39:41 it's never about what's right next step.
39:43 They always want a sign about what the end of the trail
39:46 looks like.
39:46 It's like, bro, you got a crappy flashlight.
39:48 Just like the end of the trail,
39:50 you'll get there when you get there kind of thing.
39:51 - Little wins in the right direction.
39:53 - Right.
39:54 - I mean, that's it.
39:55 I mean, and I do like the, I mean,
39:57 I think if you're looking for signs
40:00 in terms of long-term direction,
40:03 I don't, you're not going to get those.
40:05 I'm sorry, I mean, I think the signs, again,
40:10 I think if you were going to, I'll share one story.
40:13 So when my mom passed away,
40:17 I remember just being out, it was rainy.
40:20 And I was just by myself and was praying
40:22 and just was just, I went two weeks after she passed.
40:27 I was just an unbearable grief.
40:29 And I remember just saying, like,
40:31 I just want to know that she's with you
40:34 because faith was not something
40:37 that was super promoted in our home
40:40 and was just so like, I just,
40:42 I was like, I know she believed,
40:44 but I don't know, I don't know that she really believed.
40:49 And so I was just like, God, I just want to know,
40:51 like just give me some sort of sign,
40:54 like just that she's with you, that she's okay.
40:57 And like right around that time, a cricket,
41:02 a cricket just came up and started chirping in the rain.
41:09 I don't know if you guys know this, but they don't do that.
41:12 And so I don't know if that was a sign.
41:15 I've taken it as such, and I think a lot of times,
41:18 but I think a lot of times maybe that we just have
41:21 these things that it could have been a sign
41:24 and maybe I'm just clinging to it.
41:25 I don't know, but I've decided that it's like,
41:28 no, this is something that was meaningful
41:30 to me in that moment, that it's like,
41:32 if this is true, if that really was a sign from God,
41:35 that my mom's there with him and happier
41:39 than I can ever possibly fathom, I'm gonna take it.
41:43 - Right.
41:44 - I'm gonna take it.
41:45 If it's not true, then fine, I'll find out later.
41:47 - Sure.
41:48 - Well, I think, to tell us earlier point,
41:50 I think we can become paralyzed with the weight of signs
41:54 and we can pray for signs.
41:56 And most of the time when that happens,
41:57 I would say that we're paralyzed
42:00 because we're praying in generalities
42:02 or in like the long-term outlook of our life.
42:06 And so we are looking for this,
42:08 like if I'm looking at a career change
42:12 or I'm looking at the college to go to
42:14 or whatever, the girl I'm gonna marry,
42:16 it's like we want the finished product.
42:20 And so I think we can get paralyzed.
42:22 And I think, what did you say earlier, pray?
42:24 - Pray gesco.
42:25 - Pray gesco, yeah.
42:26 And I think looking back to Nehemiah,
42:29 what a perfect example of that book is of pray.
42:32 I mean, he prayed, he knew, and then he went.
42:34 Like he was the epitome of, I know this is God,
42:39 I know God is in the work,
42:40 but I also know that God expects me to be a part of the work.
42:45 And so we shouldn't get paralyzed and stop.
42:49 And because if you're not moving forward,
42:51 like you're moving backwards and you're,
42:56 I think you're in danger of being in sin
42:59 by not acting at all because you're paralyzed
43:02 looking for this grandiose vision or sign from God.
43:05 And I think God sometimes like, take a step.
43:08 - Yeah, that whole thing of,
43:11 there's the old, I guess it's a joke.
43:13 I don't really know if that would be the right way
43:15 to praise it, but the guy standing on the roof
43:18 and the, with the flood waters rising.
43:20 And the, he's standing on the roof and they send a car through
43:25 and they said, hey, there's a big storm coming,
43:28 where's it gonna flood, gotta evacuate you,
43:30 let's get you out of here.
43:31 He's like, nope, God's gonna save me.
43:33 Water start rising, boat comes by.
43:35 Hey, get on the boat, you gotta get out of here.
43:39 Nope, God's gonna save me.
43:41 He's gonna, he's gonna save me.
43:43 Water's rise even further to the point
43:45 that boats can't even come get him
43:46 and a helicopter comes by and he's like, all right,
43:47 we gotta get you out of here.
43:48 We're evacuating and he's like, nope, God's gonna save me.
43:52 Water's rise up even further, develop him, he drowns,
43:56 he dies, he goes to heaven, gets in front of God
43:59 and he says, why didn't you save me?
44:02 I asked you, you guys, I sent a car, I sent a boat,
44:04 I sent a helicopter.
44:06 (laughing)
44:08 It's like, what are you looking for?
44:09 - You gotta do something.
44:11 - That's right.
44:11 - Well guys, as we wrap up our discussion of Genesis 23 and 24,
44:16 to put a bow on this whole basketball thing.
44:19 (laughing)
44:21 Now we can't spend a whole lot of time on this
44:22 'cause we gotta get out of here
44:23 and there's been a couple of weird little edit things
44:25 on this episode already.
44:27 You've gotta give me your starting five
44:30 and your sixth man, okay?
44:34 This is the team that they gotta win a game.
44:37 It doesn't matter who the other team is, right?
44:39 So don't get into the, well, this team's bitter defense
44:41 in the blah, blah, blah system.
44:42 Nope, nope.
44:43 Same head coach, same stadium, same crowd, all that.
44:45 A starting five and a sixth man,
44:47 you gotta, they've gotta win this game for you to survive.
44:50 Do y'all want me to go first or last?
44:52 'Cause I already know mine.
44:53 I wrote it down.
44:54 - I already know mine.
44:54 - I don't wanna influence it.
44:55 I don't wanna influence it.
44:56 You said you already know yours?
44:57 - I already know mine.
44:58 - Okay, so you go ahead and give me yours.
44:59 Browning's working on his and Matt, we'll see.
45:01 So give me your starting five, start with the one.
45:03 - Okay, one would be magic.
45:05 - Okay.
45:06 - Two would be Jordan.
45:08 Three, I would actually have Kobe play the three
45:11 'cause he could.
45:13 Four would be bird, playing power forward.
45:15 Five would be Shaq.
45:17 - And who's your sixth man?
45:18 - And my sixth man, mainly because I, honestly,
45:23 it would probably be LeBron.
45:29 - You said it, you already said it, all right.
45:31 Let's go Matt, give us your starting five.
45:34 Matt, a fantastic basketball player.
45:35 I'm sure you've thought about this before.
45:37 Start with the one.
45:38 This team's gotta win or you die.
45:41 - Okay, so I think I would go Magic Johnson number one,
45:46 one of the greatest point cards of all time,
45:47 if not the greatest.
45:49 Michael Jordan number two,
45:50 the greatest basketball player of all time.
45:52 I would go Larry Bird at number three.
45:54 I would go, oh man, I'd probably go
45:59 Kareem at the four and Shaq at the five.
46:04 - Twin towers.
46:06 - Like you gotta, yeah, you have to deal with the Twin towers.
46:10 - And if you double anybody on that team.
46:13 - Problem, and who's your sixth man?
46:15 - Sixth man, oh goodness.
46:17 - It's another center.
46:18 (laughing)
46:19 - No, I would probably go,
46:22 I'm a homer here, so I'll go with Isaiah Thomas
46:27 as a sixth man.
46:28 - That's not bad.
46:29 - Okay, all right, Browning.
46:31 - All right, I got Jordan one, Bird two,
46:34 Kareem, then Magic, then Shaq.
46:37 - Wait, so your Jordan's playing point guard?
46:39 - No, no, I just, I just put five people.
46:43 - No, no, no, no, no, who's your point guard?
46:46 - Magic.
46:46 - Okay, your shooting guard.
46:48 - Jordan.
46:50 - Small Ford.
46:51 - Bird.
46:52 - Power Ford.
46:53 - Kareem.
46:55 - Center.
46:55 - Shaq.
46:57 - Sixth man.
46:58 - Durant.
46:58 - Durant.
46:59 - Oh.
47:00 - Yeah.
47:01 - Oh.
47:02 - Cupcakes.
47:03 - Gross.
47:03 - You can't be the cupcakes with them.
47:06 - Where is our starting five the same?
47:08 - No, I have no idea.
47:09 - It actually was.
47:10 - Oh, wait, was it?
47:10 - Yeah.
47:11 - It sounded the same way.
47:12 - Well, I got good news for you.
47:13 All three of you are wrong.
47:14 You're all going to die because my team
47:16 is going to beat all those teams, okay?
47:18 - Oh, is it, is it the monsters?
47:19 (laughing)
47:21 - The monsters.
47:22 All right, so you got to think we got,
47:24 we got a new game here.
47:25 - That's funny.
47:26 - And so on a lot of y'all's teams,
47:28 a lot of size, a lot of ball hogging,
47:30 not a whole lot shooting.
47:31 Steph at the one.
47:32 - I mean, that's a good pick.
47:34 - MJ at the two.
47:35 So I think MJ is on everybody's team at the two.
47:38 I'm taking Bird at the three.
47:40 And I'm shocked that none of y'all
47:43 picked the big fundamental.
47:45 Timmy Duncan, the best power for ever.
47:47 - I actually thought about that.
47:49 - Ever, at the four, ever, at the four.
47:53 Shaq at the five.
47:54 Shaq are starting at the center forever.
47:56 - Yeah, that's consistent.
47:57 - And my first guy off the bench,
47:58 give me the mamba.
47:59 Give me Kobe coming off the bench
48:02 as a Thomas can go cry in the corner.
48:04 - Well, okay.
48:04 - All that now.
48:05 - My team with destroyals.
48:06 - No.
48:07 (laughing)
48:08 - All of those are good teams.
48:10 I gotta have some shooting.
48:11 - Gotta have some scoring.
48:12 - So what do you do though?
48:14 Because really it comes down to the differences.
48:17 Is does Isaiah Thomas beat Kobe in a one-on-one situation?
48:20 'Cause a lot of those guys are the same.
48:22 The answer is no to that, right?
48:23 Obviously.
48:24 - My issue with both of your teams.
48:26 Kareem and Shaq play by the basket.
48:29 And you are taking away your best player's strength,
48:32 which is getting to the basket.
48:34 Michael Jordan is going to get to the basket.
48:37 That's his biggest strength.
48:38 And you got two lane cloggers.
48:39 - So if I put Durant in there
48:42 and then bring Kareem off the bench,
48:43 you okay with that?
48:45 If you're just--
48:46 - You can put Durant at four.
48:47 - That would work.
48:48 - That would work.
48:49 - But then Timmy Duncan on my team
48:50 is just gonna eat Kevin Durant up from that little elbow.
48:53 Hit him with that big fundamental.
48:55 I'm telling y'all.
48:55 - Okay.
48:56 - Don't Tim Duncan love?
48:57 - Okay, let me--
48:58 - That's not for him ever.
48:59 - I would put him at the five.
49:00 - I wanna redo.
49:00 (laughing)
49:01 I want Chazi Billups.
49:03 I want Meta World Peace.
49:04 (laughing)
49:05 - Meta World Peace.
49:06 (laughing)
49:08 - Rashid, that's right.
49:09 - Rashid, that'd be a big fight.
49:10 - I want Jermaine O'Neal.
49:12 I want Ben Wallace.
49:15 - Yeah.
49:16 - And I want Rashid Wallace.
49:18 - You want the 19?
49:19 - You want the 2001 Pistons.
49:21 - Yeah, this team--
49:22 (laughing)
49:23 I don't know where wins did not play for the Pistons.
49:24 - This team wouldn't beat the Suns on a Tuesday.
49:27 But okay, yeah, hopefully your life's in line.
49:28 - Bunch, no.
49:29 - You just fight your Pistons.
49:30 - Yeah, we're on our test was on the Pacers
49:32 whenever that went down.
49:33 - My life's on the line, like yes,
49:35 that's probably not the team I'm going to pick.
49:36 But speaking of your life being on the line,
49:38 if you have not put your faith
49:42 in the Lord our Savior, Jesus Christ,
49:45 your life is on the line.
49:47 - And it doesn't matter who you put out.
49:49 - And it does not matter who you put out for.
49:51 But if you are in Christ,
49:53 you have salvation in the Lord on the day of judgment.
49:55 - I'm pretty sure that Matt just picked Jesus
49:57 as his point guard.
49:58 - Bam, Jesus sat the one, Jesus sat the one.
50:02 That was actually the answer.
50:03 Jesus is playing all five spots, guys.
50:04 So we're going to have to leave it there,
50:05 come back here next week
50:06 where we're going to be digging into just Genesis 25.
50:09 So Genesis 25, Regenesis 25, before next week.
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