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Ed Young - Parenting: Glass Octopuses

May 5, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Parenting: Glass Octopuses
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Parenting: Glass Octopuses | May 5, 2026
  • If your child has more love and more
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  • Humility than you do,
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  • You need to place yourself
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  • Under your child and just sit there.
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  • Oh, he's rebellious, doesn't matter.
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  • Just place there and just listen.
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  • Because your child may have more of godliness than you do,
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  • Lest we have the faith of a child,
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  • The humility of the child, the purity of a child.
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  • So parents have to get under their children to this extent
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  • And be humble enough to see and discern
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  • How god has bent their life.
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  • The wisest thing anybody can do is to be humble.
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  • That's the wisest thing in us can do,
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  • And we have to be humble enough even to get
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  • Under our children.
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  • Let us look at to how we can indeed
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  • Have a healthy family.
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  • We have to go back to the beginning.
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  • All the way back to genesis.
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  • Look at genesis. you
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  • Gentlemen can find that it's the first book in the bible.
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  • Look at chapter one.
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  • Chapter one in genesis for just discussion and understanding
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  • Is basically tells us what god did in creation.
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  • That's chapter one.
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  • Chapter two is a commentary basically on chapter one,
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  • Which illustrates and tells us something of the purpose
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  • That was behind god's creation and how it all
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  • Began to transpire.
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  • So chapter one, this is what god did in creation.
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  • It's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good,
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  • It's good, it's good, it's good, it's very good.
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  • Then he said, it's not good for man to be alone.
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  • The first not good in the bible.
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  • And you move to chapter two is the commentary.
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  • And then you have a picture in chapter two of the pre
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  • Apple garden.
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  • Now don't write me and say
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  • The bible doesn't say it's an apple.
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  • I know that it's a fruit, but we're going to use the apple.
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  • Okay. that's all right.
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  • The pre apple garden.
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  • What's it like.
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  • Listen look at verse 22 chapter two.
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  • The lord fashioned into a woman the rib which he had taken
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  • From the man and brought her
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  • To him, by the way, remember, brought her to him.
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  • That's a picture in weddings, when the father brings
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  • A bride to the altar to give to the groom, that is god
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  • Bringing eve to adam.
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  • That's all pre presupposed here, all taught here.
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  • Then verse 22, the man said,
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  • Now god, you're provided with me
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  • A slave to meet all my needs, and to be at my beck
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  • And call 2007 and to do everything i want
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  • To do, and to be totally bowed before me
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  • At all times.
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  • No. what does it say
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  • When adam. so eve,
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  • He said, this is
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  • Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.
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  • She shall be called woman because she was taken
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  • Out of man.
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  • And this verse 24 for this reason shall a man
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  • Leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife,
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  • And they shall become one flesh, that the man
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  • And his wife were both naked, and they were unashamed.
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  • How beautiful that is
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  • In the pristine garden of eden pre apple,
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  • Adam and eve became one and they were mutually in charge.
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  • They were mutually superintendent.
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  • They were the ruler.
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  • They had supremacists and they reflected together
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  • The image of god in their love and their two becoming one.
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  • They reflected god's perfect image in that garden.
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  • What a magnificent thing we can't even imagine.
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  • I have not seen ear is not heard either.
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  • At enter the heart of man,
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  • What god has prepared for those who love him.
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  • They love god. god loved them.
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  • They had the whole universe under their control.
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  • What a magnificent, pristine world of love and freedom
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  • And spontaneity and creativity
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  • And joy and celebration and worship and praise.
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  • God met with him daily, continuously.
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  • What a moment in history.
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  • Now you have mutuality.
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  • You have mutual supremacy over all of creation
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  • And intimacy to become one.
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  • No shame.
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  • Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful preamble.
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  • Now the fall.
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  • Oh the fall.
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  • That decisive moment in history
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  • Of civilization and the creation.
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  • When something unbelievably tragic took place.
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  • The fall of mankind.
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  • And we read about it with.
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  • Words that are
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  • Hard to believe.
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  • Verse six, chapter number three.
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  • When the woman saw the tree was good for food,
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  • The woman saw the tree was good for food.
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  • God said, you can eat of all the trees.
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  • Don't eat of this tree.
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  • The woman saw it was good for food.
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  • Oh, it was good for food.
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  • She figured it out in her mind and she.
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  • She looked to her mind. oh, me.
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  • Have we run into kant again in genesis?
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  • She decided it was good for food.
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  • She does her head. she used her common sense.
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  • That tree is okay. it's good for food.
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  • She loses her mind.
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  • Then she said she saw there was a delight to her eyes.
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  • Delightful. oh, emotion. passion.
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  • The heart.
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  • May we're back with rousseau again,
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  • Man. she saw a delighted her eyes.
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  • Emotion must be all right, because it'll taste good
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  • And it'll feel good. okay, that's.
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  • I will make my decision about right and wrong on that basis.
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  • And look at the next thing.
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  • And that the tree was desirable to make one wise.
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  • Oh, wisdom is power.
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  • Oh, i'll be wise.
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  • I'll be controlled.
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  • What happened in the fall here?
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  • What happened?
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  • It is adam and eve decided that we're tired
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  • Of being dependent on god.
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  • We want to be independent from god.
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  • We don't want to be subject to what god wants.
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  • We want to run our own show and run our own lives.
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  • And that's the same guys that satan uses
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  • To bring you down and to bring me down.
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  • Satan has no new game plans, ladies and gentlemen,
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  • Because it keeps on working every time with human beings.
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  • Exactly.
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  • In the garden
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  • You go all the way to first john, chapter number two.
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  • What is the deal?
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  • The lust of the eye,
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  • The lust of the flesh, the pride of life.
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  • The same thing, man.
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  • Use your mind to decide what's right along.
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  • Use your feelings to decide what's right and wrong.
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  • Boy, if you're powerful enough to do it, you can do it.
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  • Same place, same game.
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  • Plan over and over and over again.
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  • You can trace it through history in the bible
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  • And the history of your life and my life.
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  • The fall of man,
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  • The fall of man.
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  • And now everything changed.
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  • Everything changed.
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  • And now we have the curse that is place
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  • The penalty on god.
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  • Backing up from man is man backed up from god, and man
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  • Declared his independence instead of being dependent.
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  • And look at the curse.
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  • We see this in chapter
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  • Three, verse number 16 to the woman he said,
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  • I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
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  • In the path you will bring forth
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  • Children, in the pain you will bring forth children.
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  • This is it.
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  • Yet your desire
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  • Will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
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  • There's a curse.
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  • Your desire will be for your husband.
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  • That's the curse on the woman.
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  • And by the way, the word desire here
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  • Is the same word found in the very next chapter.
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  • In the seventh verse it says, god says cain.
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  • Sin is crushing at your door, and sin desires
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  • You who are sin desires to control you.
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  • And the idea of the woman
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  • And desire is not related to a sexual thing.
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  • It's the idea here.
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  • The curse is the woman wants to control things,
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  • That one wants to control the relationship.
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  • And then in the next verse, the curse on the man is
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  • A man wants to rule over the woman.
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  • So you have both of them wanted to be in charge.
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  • That's the curse that came upon us.
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  • And by the way, we don't have to live
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  • Under that curse, but a lot of us do.
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  • Genesis 316 tells us the curse we're under and declaring
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  • Our independence and saying, i want to be in charge.
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  • Oh, i want to be in charge.
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  • The answer for the curse is john 316.
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  • Jesus 316 is following the fall, and the curses
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  • Place there
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  • All but the answer is john 316 but even when we
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  • Come to christ individually, still a lot of marriages
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  • And a lot of families operate on the auspices of the curse.
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  • How do we reverse
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  • The curse and move from a curse full relationship in marriage
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  • To a spiritual relationship in marriage?
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  • We go to ephesians chapter five.
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  • Now i have taught this and heard this in so many,
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  • Many ways. let me say something up front.
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  • Most of the time ephesians five is taught like this.
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  • Follow me.
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  • Ephesians five said, here is god's chain of command,
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  • And here's the husband.
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  • And the wife is to be submitted to the husband.
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  • He runs a home.
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  • That's how it's taught.
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  • Then the next channel
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  • Is, well, here's the parents, and the children
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  • Will be submissive.
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  • The parents they run the home
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  • And i vocabulary instead of slave and servant
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  • To be his an employer and the employees
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  • Are to be submissive to the employer.
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  • That's how we've heard ephesians five
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  • Taught most every time i can tell you there's nothing
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  • Wrong with that, except it's not biblically true.
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  • That's how the ephesians operate anyway.
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  • How did the pagan culture operate?
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  • Man, the father is in charge of the wife.
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  • He could just throw out,
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  • Get rid of her, marry somebody else, man.
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  • That's how their pagan culture operated, didn't it?
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  • That's nothing new.
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  • If not, if that's what paul is teaching.
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  • That's nothing new that parents are over their children
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  • And their children are to be subject to them.
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  • Well, that's what they taught.
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  • If you didn't want a little girl, just throw away.
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  • Matt is a boy.
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  • Just kick him out. kill him.
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  • Total life or death will kill him.
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  • That was a pagan culture.
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  • Nothing new about that.
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  • Employer employees, slave owners, slaves, nothing
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  • New about that.
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  • So what is paul saying
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  • If he's not setting up some kind of
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  • Dogmatic chain of command, what is he saying?
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  • And the key verse is found here.
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  • Look at ephesians chapter five.
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  • Stay with me.
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  • This is rich territory.
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  • Nuff said. verse 18.
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  • And do not be drunk with wine, for that is dissipation,
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  • But be filled with the spirit.
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  • Now somebody said, well,
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  • Being filled, the spirit is like being drunk.
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  • No, it's the very opposite of being drunk.
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  • When you're drunk, you don't hear very well.
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  • You certainly don't see very well.
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  • You can't speak very well, and you certainly
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  • Don't have compassion over anybody else
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  • That's being drunk, being filled the spirit.
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  • You've got new ears, you've got new eyes,
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  • You've got a new tongue
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  • And you've got new compassion over everybody else.
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  • It's totally different.
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  • He says, don't be drunk like he used to be.
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  • He said, be filled and your brand new
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  • And by the way, be filled is a command, and it's a command.
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  • If he's continually keep on being filled, but
  • 00:12:33.698 --> 00:12:38.436
  • Is in the the passive voice, it means you don't command.
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  • I feel me, lord.
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  • It's not something you do.
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  • It's not something really.
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  • You request be done.
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  • You make yourself, as a christian, available
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  • To be filled.
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  • That's how it happens.
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  • I am available to be filled by the holy spirit.
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  • I don't commanded there's nothing i can do to get it.
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  • I'm just available as a son and daughter of god.
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  • It's availability to be filled by the holy spirit.
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  • See, that's different,
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  • When i was a boy, there
  • 00:13:15.073 --> 00:13:16.541
  • Was a popular little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • And then the
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  • Characteristics of the spirit for your life speaking.
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  • You say, well, i'm spirit filled. i've got to speak.
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  • Oh, no, it's a byproduct of being full of
  • 00:14:37.689 --> 00:14:40.525
  • For the holy spirit, full of christ, full of god. see?
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  • I'm speaking.
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  • I'm gregarious and they're singing,
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  • And that's that's what we want our homes to sing.
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  • We will not marriages to sing.
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  • Maybe not just musically, but to have a rhythm and.
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  • And a purpose and a rhyme and a joy and a freedom
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  • And a light in it.
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  • We were, we, we're seeing now.
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  • The spirit gives us the ability.
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  • It's just a natural.
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  • We can't help but sing and work things out together.
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  • Then there's thanking.
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  • There's gratitude.
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  • I like to be around people who are grateful,
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  • And i'm thankful for this.
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  • I'm thrilled with this. i, i thank god for that.
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  • I'm privileged to be your friend.
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  • I love being around people.
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  • An attitude of gratitude
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  • Is a distinguishing mark of a christian.
  • 00:15:21.699 --> 00:15:25.136
  • And then finally, look at this verse.
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  • Here's our verse we've been trying to get to all the time.
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  • Look at verse 21 and be subject to one another
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  • In the fear, in the worship and the reverence of god.
  • 00:15:35.313 --> 00:15:38.716
  • In other words, it says we are to
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  • Be mutually submissive to one another,
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  • And to be subject means to position yourself under.
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  • Listen carefully.
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  • To be subject means to position yourself under.
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  • And then you have the very next verse.
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  • It says, wise,
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  • Be subject to your own husbands as to the lord.
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  • You notice in your bible the word subject is in italics.
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  • It's kind of written different. you see that?
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  • Look at your bible.
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  • You know what that means?
  • 00:16:07.912 --> 00:16:09.781
  • It's not there in their original.
  • 00:16:09.781 --> 00:16:12.316
  • It's not there.
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  • It was added.
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  • Oh, really?
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  • Yeah. look, i will be translated.
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  • It said wives be to your own husbands as to the lord.
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  • I've married a lot of companies.
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  • Well, well, you don't put that part in there.
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  • But the byes wives being submissive.
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  • Pastor.
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  • It's not in the book.
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  • Not in the book.
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  • It says wise as unto the lord before you run off
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  • And say he don't know what he's talking about, stay with me.
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  • I'm going to show you something else.
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  • For the husband is the head of the wife,
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  • As christ is the head of the head of the church,
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  • He himself being the savior of the body.
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  • But as a church
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  • Is subject to christ, so also the wives
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  • Ought to be to their own husbands in everything.
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  • Husband loved your wife as christ loved the church.
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  • Now watch this.
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  • This is important.
  • 00:16:58.996 --> 00:17:00.898
  • The verse says, be subject one to another, right?
  • 00:17:00.898 --> 00:17:03.935
  • You get that verse.
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  • Otherwise we're to position ourselves under one another.
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  • Okay.
  • 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:10.274
  • Then it says wives as unto the lord.
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  • And really it would say husbands as unto the lord.
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  • Now i want to ask you something.
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  • How did you get under the authority of jesus christ?
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  • How'd you get there?
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  • Did jesus come and say, i'm taking authority
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  • Over your life?
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  • I am your savior and your lord.
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  • Didn't happen that way, did it?
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  • How did you and i become subject to the lord?
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  • It's when we bent the knee.
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  • And it's when we placed ourselves
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  • Under him as our lord and our savior.
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  • How did the lord
  • 00:17:49.046 --> 00:17:51.816
  • Reach a place where we placed ourselves unto him?
  • 00:17:52.850 --> 00:17:56.721
  • Did he come out of heaven?
  • 00:17:56.721 --> 00:17:58.489
  • And god say, this is my beloved son.
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  • You bow and scrape to him.
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  • He is in charge.
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  • He is the ruler of the universe.
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  • What did he do?
  • 00:18:06.063 --> 00:18:07.131
  • No god in christ came and placed himself
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  • With us, under us.
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  • Took our sin upon himself,
  • 00:18:15.773 --> 00:18:19.210
  • Died for us.
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  • Jesus came under us, and he made such statements
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  • As the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
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  • Whoever heard of such a thing?
  • 00:18:29.620 --> 00:18:31.055
  • If you lose your life, you'll find your life. man,
  • 00:18:31.055 --> 00:18:34.058
  • That's crazy thinking somebody asks you to go one mile.
  • 00:18:34.058 --> 00:18:37.662
  • Go with him two miles.
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  • What kind of deal?
  • 00:18:38.896 --> 00:18:40.331
  • How did jesus come to a position of lordship
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  • Over the church he placed himself
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  • Under by the giving of his own life and his blood.
  • 00:18:47.004 --> 00:18:53.911
  • So what does this say about the relationship
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  • With the husband to a wife and a wife to her husband?
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  • How is leadership there?
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  • It is when we full of the holy spirit
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  • And the fullness
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  • Of the holy spirit as we're available to him.
  • 00:19:10.595 --> 00:19:13.197
  • By the way, it's incorrect to say,
  • 00:19:13.197 --> 00:19:14.765
  • There goes the man, the spirit field. oh, no!
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  • See, we're spirit filled
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  • Now we're spirit filled now we'll spirit filled.
  • 00:19:18.169 --> 00:19:20.938
  • Now it's present its own going.
  • 00:19:20.938 --> 00:19:23.608
  • And when we're full of the holy spirit, then we're able to
  • 00:19:23.608 --> 00:19:26.377
  • Place ourselves under our husband
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  • And place ourself under our mate.
  • 00:19:28.412 --> 00:19:30.648
  • And, by the way, to place ourselves under our children.
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  • It doesn't say, parents say, all right, here's
  • 00:19:34.252 --> 00:19:37.154
  • The bible says, children, obey your prayer.
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  • Oh no, no, no, no.
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  • Parents place himself under their children to
  • 00:19:40.591 --> 00:19:43.294
  • Is the way they get their authority and leadership.
  • 00:19:43.294 --> 00:19:45.496
  • So how does this work?
  • 00:19:45.496 --> 00:19:46.530
  • What gives any parent authority
  • 00:19:46.530 --> 00:19:48.032
  • Over children is that you love more than your child does?
  • 00:19:48.032 --> 00:19:51.769
  • And what is the beginning of wisdom?
  • 00:19:51.769 --> 00:19:53.671
  • The beginning. boys with humility.
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  • If your child has more love and more humility than you do,
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  • You need to place yourself
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  • Under your child and just sit there.
  • 00:20:01.112 --> 00:20:02.913
  • Oh, he's rebellious, doesn't matter.
  • 00:20:02.913 --> 00:20:04.615
  • Just place there and just listen.
  • 00:20:04.615 --> 00:20:06.684
  • Because your child may have more of godliness than you do,
  • 00:20:06.684 --> 00:20:10.621
  • Lest we have the faith of a child,
  • 00:20:11.355 --> 00:20:13.557
  • The humility of the child, the purity of a child.
  • 00:20:13.557 --> 00:20:16.294
  • So parents have to get under their children to this extent
  • 00:20:16.294 --> 00:20:20.131
  • And be humble enough to see and discern
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  • How god has bent their life.
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  • The wisest thing anybody can do is to be humble.
  • 00:20:25.169 --> 00:20:28.272
  • That's the wisest thing in us can do,
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  • And we have to be humble enough
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  • Even to get under our children.
  • 00:20:32.777 --> 00:20:34.845
  • Now look what happens
  • 00:20:34.845 --> 00:20:35.880
  • When a wife gets under a husband
  • 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:37.415
  • And a husband gets under the wife,
  • 00:20:37.415 --> 00:20:39.083
  • That this whole attitude of submission and submissive.
  • 00:20:39.083 --> 00:20:41.719
  • I want you to see what happened.
  • 00:20:41.719 --> 00:20:42.920
  • Look at your screen.
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  • And i want you to nail down these words.
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  • This is what happens.
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  • First of all, look at it.
  • 00:20:48.326 --> 00:20:51.195
  • When the wife places herself under her husband
  • 00:20:51.195 --> 00:20:54.165
  • And puts to his service
  • 00:20:54.165 --> 00:20:57.234
  • Everything about her that is female
  • 00:20:57.234 --> 00:21:01.605
  • To enable her husband to come.
  • 00:21:02.206 --> 00:21:04.342
  • Everything god created him to be.
  • 00:21:04.342 --> 00:21:06.544
  • Now watch this. that's. that's not double talk.
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  • Stay with me.
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  • I want you to forget everything.
  • 00:21:09.847 --> 00:21:11.082
  • But remember this.
  • 00:21:11.082 --> 00:21:12.717
  • When a wife places herself under her husband,
  • 00:21:12.717 --> 00:21:17.054
  • Submissive, subjected to him, and give to her husband
  • 00:21:18.122 --> 00:21:22.059
  • Everything that is female about her,
  • 00:21:22.059 --> 00:21:25.262
  • Not just physical.
  • 00:21:25.696 --> 00:21:26.764
  • Everything men need everything that is female
  • 00:21:26.764 --> 00:21:30.334
  • To be in service to their life.
  • 00:21:30.334 --> 00:21:32.236
  • Then look what happens.
  • 00:21:32.236 --> 00:21:34.038
  • Then the man is enabled to become everything
  • 00:21:34.038 --> 00:21:37.174
  • God wants him to be.
  • 00:21:37.174 --> 00:21:40.044
  • Now flip it over.
  • 00:21:40.044 --> 00:21:41.679
  • When the husband places himself under the wife, look at it
  • 00:21:41.679 --> 00:21:47.318
  • And puts to her service everything about himself.
  • 00:21:47.318 --> 00:21:50.688
  • That a male is the words.
  • 00:21:50.688 --> 00:21:53.591
  • Here is a husband who places himself
  • 00:21:53.591 --> 00:21:57.495
  • Under his wife and gives to his wife
  • 00:21:57.495 --> 00:21:59.797
  • Everything that is male about him.
  • 00:21:59.797 --> 00:22:01.799
  • Wives need that male ingredient in their lives.
  • 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:05.236
  • Then what happens?
  • 00:22:05.236 --> 00:22:06.937
  • Look at the rest of it.
  • 00:22:06.937 --> 00:22:08.205
  • Then his wife becomes everything
  • 00:22:08.205 --> 00:22:13.611
  • This is
  • 00:22:13.844 --> 00:22:15.079
  • Revolutionary, ladies and gentlemen.
  • 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:17.948
  • You see what happens then?
  • 00:22:18.516 --> 00:22:21.018
  • We give a chance for god
  • 00:22:21.018 --> 00:22:22.553
  • To change your husband and change your wife
  • 00:22:22.553 --> 00:22:24.688
  • When we put themselves under them.
  • 00:22:24.688 --> 00:22:26.490
  • And there is love there, and there is a fullness
  • 00:22:26.490 --> 00:22:29.360
  • Of the spirit there, that we're available
  • 00:22:29.360 --> 00:22:31.495
  • For him to feel and change the curse that is operated
  • 00:22:31.495 --> 00:22:35.232
  • Even in homes that inhabited by two christian.
  • 00:22:35.232 --> 00:22:37.902
  • And all of a sudden there is a spirit full home.
  • 00:22:37.902 --> 00:22:41.338
  • Let me tell you that home is electric.
  • 00:22:41.338 --> 00:22:45.309
  • God does the changing.
  • 00:22:45.776 --> 00:22:47.378
  • And then all of a sudden, the inside of our life is full
  • 00:22:47.378 --> 00:22:51.282
  • And the outside of our life is full,
  • 00:22:51.282 --> 00:22:53.684
  • And the inside of you is a with the outside of you.
  • 00:22:53.684 --> 00:22:57.955
  • And the inside of me is a with the outside of me.
  • 00:22:57.955 --> 00:23:00.991
  • And suddenly we're whole people in a broken world,
  • 00:23:00.991 --> 00:23:04.595
  • And we have marriages at our own fire for god.
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  • Place yourself under your spirit filled.
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  • You're able to do it
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  • And place yourself under give, give your husband.
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  • Everything is feminine.
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  • He needs, everything is feminine.
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  • And then you become all god intended you to be.
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  • Wise men, place yourself under your wife.
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  • Give to her
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  • Everything that is masculine, and then guess what?
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  • God will make her
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  • That person that he intends for her to become.
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  • He does a changing.
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  • He's the only one does it changing.
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  • We can't cover it up.
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  • We can't fix ourselves.
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  • We certainly can't fix anybody else.
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  • God does it.
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  • And this revolutionizes marriage.
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  • How do you sum it up?
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  • Well,
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  • I want everybody here to become
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  • A glass octopus.
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  • I want you.
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  • I want to become a glass octopus.
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  • And, well, that's great.
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  • Now, if you know the thing about octopuses, by the way,
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  • That's the right.
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  • That's the first pronunciation of octopuses.
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  • It can be octopi, i guess.
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  • You know, but octopuses,
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  • If octopuses generally stay at the bottom of the sea,
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  • They're dark.
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  • They camouflage themselves because they're leading
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  • Their food for sharks.
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  • So they and they had octopuses.
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  • They have those eyes that almost go three
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  • In a six degrees
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  • Where they can defend themselves,
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  • And they know how to hide
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  • And get out of the way of those sharks
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  • And other other effects that would prey on them.
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  • That's the typical octopus.
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  • But there is a glass octopus that's a different species.
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  • You you rarely see them.
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  • They're almost never photographed
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  • Because they're virtually translucent.
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  • And the glass octopus, they stay at the surface
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  • Of the ocean and their eyes are tubular.
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  • Their eyes are little rectangles.
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  • They have virtually no peripheral vision,
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  • And their eyes look up into the light.
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  • And when those eyes look up,
  • 00:25:09.820 --> 00:25:13.324
  • They could really be in the middle of a school of sharks
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  • And not be seen and be totally safe,
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  • Because they're always looking up into the light.
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  • To get it.
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  • If you and i will
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  • Look up to god and look up to the light
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  • And allow him, jesus christ, to come and be lord
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  • And savior of our lives, because he placed himself
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  • Under us on the cross,
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  • And we placed ourselves under him within the church.
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  • And then what happens?
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  • We're available to be filled by the holy spirit.
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  • And then i can place myself under my wife,
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  • And you can place yourself under your husband.
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  • We can place ourselves under the children,
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  • And suddenly there is not a curse for home.
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  • There is a spirit full home.
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  • And god then will change everything.
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  • When i was a boy,
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  • There was a popular little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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