1 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 2: The earth was without form and void, and darkness was 3 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 2: over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of 4 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 2: God was hovering over the face of the waters. This 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: is the beginning of Christian economics, and I think it's 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: very important for us to realize that it starts there, 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 2: but it doesn't stop there, because we're going to get 8 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: seven days described in a lot of detail, and all 9 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 2: of that is relevant. 10 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: To Christian economics. 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: So sometimes in the world of Christian worldviews, we take 12 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 2: some basic principles from the Bible or basic revelation and 13 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 2: we abstract them creator creature distinction. And it sure seems 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: like there's a creator creature distinction here, so I don't 15 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 2: want to play that. And then we'll take that bit 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 2: of revelation and then run with it to great detail 17 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: and apply that to a sphere. Nothing wrong with that. 18 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 2: We take the Bible and we kind of summarize it 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 2: down to a worldview. That's a worldview. Is this is 20 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: not a worldview. We build a worldview on this. This 21 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 2: is a testament, this is a covenant, this is a library, 22 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 2: and it's a good thing, not just to have a 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 2: summary of that and a worldview applied to every sphere 24 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 2: of life, but to open up the book and let 25 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 2: the details speak to our present age. Some very kind 26 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 2: things were said about my book. Really, I should say 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 2: hard book. Susan and I did that together, the maker 28 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 2: versus the takers. What we endeavored to do in that 29 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: is there was a lot of good stuff out there 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 2: about the Bible and economics, but it was largely let's 31 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: start off with a basic worldview that God likes liberty. 32 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: Therefore, you know, Jesus would probably like liberty. 33 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 2: So when Jesus says something got economics, since Jesus is good, 34 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 2: he probably agrees with me, and he probably agrees with 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: our principle. So we're gonna say that Jesus, you know, 36 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: he talks about liberty means economic liberty in a small state. 37 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 2: Now I think he believes that, you know, believes and 38 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 2: believed it still does in economic liberty and a small state. 39 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 2: But the Gospels are stuffed with detail about that, and 40 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: we have to kind of unpack that worldview back to 41 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 2: the revelation. And I think if we're going to do 42 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 2: economics correctly, it really starts with Genesis one and not 43 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: just the broad idea that God is the creator, but 44 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: the specifics, the highly detailed content of how God is 45 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 2: the creator. Now, time does not permit going through that 46 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 2: highly detailed content. I mean, I could read it all 47 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 2: and explicate it, but that's something I think I'm gonna 48 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 2: earn you at the end of this when we get 49 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: into the sermonic portion, to do that for yourself as 50 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 2: a spiritual discipline. But we see something, but we see 51 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 2: a lot of details, and we see a pattern here, 52 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: and what is that pattern? 53 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: In the beginning? God he founds something. So there's a 54 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: little bit. 55 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: Of I'm going to ask you to sort of like 56 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 2: take something that I'm going to say that there's just 57 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: no way that there's time to prove out, so you 58 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: hold them as a possibility. Let me say in my 59 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: defense that Susan and I spent six years studying the 60 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 2: Hebrew text of Genesis one through three and then onto 61 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: Genesis one through nine every single day, and then I 62 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 2: wrote a two hundred and forty page STL thesis about it. 63 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: So I'm not saying that I'm right, but I'm just 64 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 2: saying I'm not winging it. 65 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: And since then we picked it up again. 66 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 2: So it's ten years of iterating through this text, I'm 67 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 2: going to suggest that in the beginning, God created the 68 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: heavens and the earth is not mainly a metaphysical statement, 69 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 2: although metaphysics is implied in it, mainly a scientific statement. 70 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 2: It's mainly a statement about authority. In the beginning, the 71 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: first barasheet is the Hebrews. So I have my palanteer 72 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 2: stone here and the algorithm didn't give me this, but 73 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 2: there it is barashet, barra eloheim, hushamin vekaritz in the 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: beginning barashie. Every time that barashet is used. Every single 75 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: other time that that's used in the Bible, it is 76 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 2: used as part of regnal dating. If you heard of 77 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 2: regnal dating the first you know, the fifteenth year of 78 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 2: Tiberia is such and such happened. 79 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: The first year. 80 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 2: Every single time it's regnal dating for the beginning of 81 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 2: a king's reign. 82 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: So what I'm going to. 83 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 2: Suggest is that the first thing that God creates is 84 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 2: not stuff. The first thing he creates is authority. He 85 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 2: doesn't create a thing and then go on and kind 86 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 2: of exercise his lordship. He doesn't create a thing and 87 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 2: then say, well I created it, so it's mine. So 88 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 2: I'm now going to claim it. The claim is prior 89 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: to the creation. The claim. The first thing he does 90 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 2: us is founds something. But Barrah, Barrah create. People like 91 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: to say it means creation nextly, hello crazy. Oh sorry, 92 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 2: that was more latin by violated. Like my pledge creation 93 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 2: from nothing. It doesn't mean from creation from nothing, because 94 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 2: God barra's Adam and he makes them out of the 95 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 2: dust of the earth. There's barrain going on throughout the Bible. 96 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: It doesn't mean creation from nothing. Metaphysically, it means the 97 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 2: creation of something that's a founding of a direct zone 98 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: of authority from God with no mediator, no helpers. This 99 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,799 Speaker 2: isn't divine council stuff. There's divine council stuff in the Bible. 100 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: But God didn't confer with anybody. He didn't have a 101 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: parliamentary meeting in order to decide whether to create heaven 102 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 2: and earth. That was a unilateral decision on his part, 103 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 2: and I think we should all be grateful for that 104 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 2: because it makes us possible. So there's a focus here 105 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 2: on authority and organization. Now, of course there's metaphysics implied 106 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 2: with that. We're different from him. Creating us means that 107 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 2: we're not the same thing. Right, there's structure, there's order, 108 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: there's essence. We are because but that is made essentially 109 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 2: subordinated to the authority command. He creates something for a 110 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: purpose under his authority, and then the way he creates 111 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 2: it is fit for purpose. Purpose is not imposed on 112 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 2: it as an external constraint. Fitness is not an adaptation 113 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 2: to the reality of it. The fitness is after downstream 114 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 2: from that authority. All right, So then what does God 115 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 2: go on to do? He does a whole lot of things. 116 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 2: So he creates something, He creates this zone of authority, 117 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: and then he starts doing things like saying, let there be. 118 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 2: I did not have Jeff Montrello doing let there be 119 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 2: rap on my bingo card. 120 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 1: Let there be. 121 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: It was so, Let there be, and it was so, 122 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: all right, let there be, and it was so, and 123 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 2: then there was we're going to add to the rabbit. 124 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: Let there be, and it was so, and then there 125 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: was all right. 126 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: Does anyone sense that there's something maybe a little off 127 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: about that or confusing? Let there be and it was so, 128 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: and then God made Does it seem out of order? 129 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: Right now? 130 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: When the Bible seems out of order, we're out of order. 131 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: But the answer is not to say, well, you know, 132 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 2: it's not super detailed. 133 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: He doesn't really mean it literally, it's just like the 134 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: main point. No, that's not the way to do it. 135 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 2: When we're out of it, when it clashes for us, 136 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: then get in there deeply and try to figure it out. Now, 137 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 2: in some of our analysis, looking at the Book of 138 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 2: Genesis and Hebrew wheels that went to the Septuagen, which 139 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 2: is the Greek translation, and I saw that the rabbis 140 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 2: who translated into Greek into the septuogen fixed it. They 141 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 2: changed the order to fix it. And it's like, hmm, 142 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 2: Now you're not supposed to fix it. It's supposed to 143 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: fix you. So let's ask some hard questions. By he Kane, 144 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: it was so, what does cain mean? It can mean so, 145 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 2: it can mean thus, it can mean established, it can 146 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: mean right. So let's let's do something a little different here. 147 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: Instead of it was so it was decided, Let there 148 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 2: be I can't I can't wrap it. 149 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: Is there something we need? Something short? 150 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 2: It was decided and then God made. In other words, 151 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 2: there is a consensus building thing going on here. This 152 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 2: is divine council stuff. After God creates heaven and Earth, 153 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 2: and after presumably he creates angels. It's not really clear 154 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 2: in the text whether there's angels, but he's talking to somebody, 155 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 2: and these somebodies seem to be associated with the heaven 156 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 2: and the earth and the stars and everything. So I 157 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 2: think Calvin suggested that these natural phenomena were run by 158 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 2: arch angels. And I know that sounds weird, but it 159 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 2: seems right to me that archangels are running these things, 160 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: you know, quantum reactions all the way up to giant 161 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 2: thermonuclear reactions. So God says, I call Heaven and Earth 162 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 2: as witnesses. Well, how can they be witnesses if there's 163 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 2: no personalism to them. They're in the council. This is 164 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 2: a chronicle. This is a royal chronicle document. And once 165 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: we see that that all that language about, well, you've 166 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: got a greater light to rule the day and the 167 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 2: lesser like to rule than I was. Is the metaphor 168 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: they're not really ruling. I think they're really ruling, and 169 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 2: don't they Right, you get up early in the morning, 170 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 2: the sun is ruling. Right at night. Something happens when 171 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 2: there's darkness and you get a little sleepy there's a ruling. 172 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 2: It's ruling the creation, which means that not only did 173 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:48,599 Speaker 2: God found, not only did God create, He he delegated 174 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 2: power almost immediately to inferior offices inside his kingdom. He 175 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 2: starts separating things, as Jeff said, formless and void. Tohu 176 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 2: vavo who uh, formless and void? And the host sheck, 177 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 2: it's dark. 178 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: So he fixed. He's fixing those things. 179 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 2: It's dark. He's gonna turn on the lights. Don't you 180 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: do that at the beginning of your work day, turn 181 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 2: on the lights. So he turns on the lights, and 182 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 2: it's formless. So he starts organizing it by separating things, 183 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: and then he starts filling it. And and and if 184 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 2: you're going to have these separations, you're gonna do what 185 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 2: we call these in politics, provinces states. They are jurisdictions, 186 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 2: and but they're empty. They're they're formed, but they're not failed. Okay, Sun, 187 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 2: you've got a job, not s o n s u 188 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 2: n Moon. 189 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: You've got a job. 190 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 2: The greater light to rule the day, the lesser light 191 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 2: to rule the night. This isn't all a whole bunch 192 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 2: of At some point you stop saying, well, what's the 193 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: all political metaphors and saying, well, wait a minute, maybe 194 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: it's political. Maybe it's a courtly chronicle of a king 195 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 2: who creates a parliament, creates a creates a zone of authority, 196 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 2: direct representation, creates a parliament, involves them in the decisions. 197 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 2: Let there be what do you think it is right? 198 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 2: And then God does and then immediately gives authority to 199 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 2: these bodies which have tremendous authority over the sun and moon, 200 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: have tremendous authority over our lives, and so and so 201 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 2: he does that, and see he's moving forward. And then 202 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 2: you have evening and you have morning. You know, the 203 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 2: first day, the evening and morning, the second y the 204 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 2: era VI he voke care And I don't want to 205 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 2: get into the quarrels about time or whatever. I think 206 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 2: clearly there's time here, right. And some people have emphasized 207 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 2: that's got to be a literal little day, and some 208 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: people have emphasize day age. I have very definite opinions 209 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 2: on this that I'm not going to share because that's 210 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: going to be a whole different thing. But I think 211 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 2: the text is true. Let me just say the text 212 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 2: is true, and this is not just poetry. There is 213 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 2: time being marked here. But air evan vocare don't just 214 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 2: mean evening and morning, and they mean time of uncertainty, 215 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 2: confusion or lack of clarity, and then clarity. So there's 216 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 2: a time when things are dark, they're not clear. What's next. 217 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 2: God did a thing, everyone agreed to it. 218 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: What about are we done? 219 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 2: God? Byr helhe Tobe saw that it was good. Okay, God, 220 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 2: we're done. Let's sleep on it. You're gonna sleep. I'm 221 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 2: not gonna sleep. I'm God, I never sleep, but I'm 222 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 2: gonna There's gonna be a period of on clarity, not 223 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 2: unclear to me as God, but it's gonna be unclear 224 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 2: to everybody else, and then there'll be a dawn and 225 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 2: a time of clarity. And doesn't our life work that way? 226 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: How many times I can't solve a problem in business 227 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 2: and then I sleep on it and the next morning 228 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: there's clarity. There's a vote here, there's a there's a 229 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,839 Speaker 2: there's a bursting out. And so I'm making these analogies 230 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 2: between between God and us because we're analogus of God. 231 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 2: Everything he's doing, we do something like it, except we 232 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 2: can't create out of nothing that He withholds that for 233 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 2: himself that it's not possible for us to have that, 234 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 2: because then we'd be God. And so what is he? 235 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 2: So he's so he's doing this evening and this morning, 236 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 2: and he's moving things forward, and he's improving things. He 237 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 2: is dissat Day one is good, and yet he's still 238 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: not satisfied. God's an entrepreneur. He's not satisfied. And we're 239 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 2: gonna and then we're gonna have another day. And at 240 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 2: the end he's gonna say, by our ill look him, 241 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 2: keep told God sol that it was good. We're done. God, No, 242 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 2: we're not done. Oh what are we gonna do? What's 243 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 2: what's next? Lord? I'm gonna let you sit with that 244 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 2: darkness for a moment, think it over. 245 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: But there's gonna be a dawn breaking out. 246 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna separate not just the waters above from 247 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 2: the waters below. Now I'm gonna separate the dry land 248 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 2: from the waters. Oh was it good by our you 249 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 2: told them? Yeah, so God saw that it was good. 250 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 2: We're done. 251 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: We're not done. We're gonna keep. 252 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 2: Now we're gonna fill that that with with the sun 253 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 2: and the moon and the stars. 254 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna do that. Uh. 255 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 2: And oh, they have a job. What's their job? They have? 256 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 2: Actually they three jobs? Right? What do the sun, moon 257 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 2: and stars do? Signs? Sees? Days? 258 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: Years? 259 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 2: They are the giant timekeepers. God is just splendidly wasteful 260 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 2: in that he decides to make a watch that is, 261 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 2: we don't have a number in the English language big 262 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 2: enough to describe how big that clock is, because there's 263 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 2: no scarcity in him, and he can create this giant 264 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 2: clock around us. People say, so big, we're so small. 265 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 2: We therefore there's no God. I don't quite get that, 266 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: because the Bible is already clear that we're small. But 267 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: they discover it. Well, that's how generous he is. His 268 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 2: grandfather's father clock. I guess he's father God. His father 269 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 2: clock is quintillions of quintillions of parsecs law for us, 270 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: so that we know, you know, when advent is or 271 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 2: when to go to bed or all those things. They 272 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 2: are servants of us, and so he gives them that authority. 273 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 2: And then are we done? God? No, So I'm going 274 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 2: to create things that create things. Let the waters team, 275 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 2: and are you getting a sense maybe the economics of this? 276 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 2: Let the waters team the abundance of God done? Yet? No, 277 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 2: we're gonna make a kind of fish that flies. And 278 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 2: so the water's gonna team, and the air is gonna 279 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 2: the rakia is gonna team as well. So we're gonna 280 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 2: create like we And so there's stuff in the water 281 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 2: and there's stuff in the air, and they're kind of similar, 282 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 2: the brightly colored uh, and they all kind of flock 283 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 2: together and they're they're similar to one another, and they're 284 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 2: created on the same day. Fins, Susan's motioning fins. 285 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: That's very cute. You're doing that. Fins and. 286 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 2: Wings let there be And it was so enough wings 287 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 2: and so he's making those and those are teeming. Again. 288 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 2: God is almost like racklessly generous with these things. We're 289 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: just gonna create a few trillion of these and I'm 290 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 2: gonna give them a job. So all right, are we 291 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 2: Are we done? It's good now? Oh yeah, it's good 292 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 2: by our Evan too. 293 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: It's good. 294 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 2: God solved it was good. So we're no, we're not 295 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 2: done now. So we're gonna create these things that live 296 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 2: in that in between and middle Earth the ground, and 297 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: we're gonna put things there that are going a little 298 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 2: out of worder. 299 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna put things. 300 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: These plants and they have their seed in themselves, so 301 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 2: they're exponential, or in finance, it's called compound compounding growth. 302 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 2: So Sarah Yovo, they have the seed in themselves. So 303 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 2: God is going to create things that create things, and 304 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: they create things and they create things that it fractals 305 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 2: out into something that it's so close to infinity, and 306 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: it's not really infinite, only God's infiniti but we can't 307 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 2: grasp it. So for all practical purposes, it's immense, immense, 308 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 2: immensine beyond our brain. Immense doesn't mean large, it means 309 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: beyond what your brain can So anything bigger than your 310 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 2: brain can handle is, for all practical purposes, infinite from 311 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 2: your standpoint, from my standpoint. So we're gonna do that, 312 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 2: and it grows on itself and it's just this amazing thing. 313 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 2: There's all sorts of things. There's cattle, and there's creeping things, 314 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 2: and we already have the birds and the fish, and 315 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 2: there's these there's these beasts of the field, these kind 316 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 2: of wild animals, all these details, and we think, wow, 317 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:14,639 Speaker 2: you know, it's all just foliage. 318 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: You know, we didn't need to get caught up in 319 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: the details. 320 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 2: The people to whom this was written were all foliage 321 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 2: all the time, right. I mean that's they knew the 322 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 2: difference between cattle and creeping things. It was part of 323 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 2: their job description. They were cattle farmers. They are really 324 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 2: tuned into these distinctions. And so on that goes, and 325 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: then it's all right, we've created those are we done? No? 326 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 2: Day six, by the way, ha shesh day. The six 327 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 2: Every other day is just yong yo mahad yo chinny 328 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 2: yo chi leish. But the sixth day is the day 329 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 2: these details matter. Something incredible happens. Now we have somebody, 330 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: we have something that takes all of those self replicating, expanding, 331 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: fractically out, compounding abundant things that God created to create, 332 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 2: and then makes every single one of them more productive 333 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 2: than it would be otherwise. So the seed is the 334 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 2: seed in itself, and the fig tree or the olive drops, 335 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 2: and there's a tree, but that all of that might 336 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 2: be too close to the olive tree, and so it 337 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 2: won't yield that much. And so along comes somebody else 338 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 2: who can say, well, wait a minute, we're gonna take 339 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 2: these seeds. We're gonna put them in a row. We're 340 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 2: gonna put a certain amount of distance between them, and 341 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 2: we're gonna water them, and we're gonna add an exponent 342 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 2: to the exponent of the productivity of the earth, you see, 343 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 2: and and and Adam does that, and and and God 344 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 2: doesn't even let rain happen first, because you have all this, 345 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 2: you have all this like disordered growth in the land. 346 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: Uh. 347 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 2: And so He's gonna hold that off until until God 348 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 2: can create man. And then God he says, I'm gonna 349 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 2: create man. And then there's this passage which starts talking 350 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 2: about the rivers of Eden, which is always that seems 351 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 2: kind of strange, doesn't it, Like, Oh, now we're talking 352 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 2: about the patient of man. Oh, but let's stop for 353 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 2: a moment and have a little travelogue about the rivers 354 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 2: of Eden. Might I suggest that God just said, we 355 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 2: have a hydrology problem. We're going if we have rain, 356 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 2: these things will grow to it. There's no one to 357 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 2: till the ground to take care of them. There's no 358 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 2: one to irrigate this properly. So I'm going to create 359 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 2: someone who's going to irrigate this properly. And then we 360 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,360 Speaker 2: have a story about rivers, because God is the first 361 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 2: hydroological engineer, and he has created these rivers, and he 362 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,479 Speaker 2: is saying to his son Adam, this is how we 363 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: do it, telling Adam, Oh, you're going to make little 364 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 2: rivers too, and you're going to use them to grow 365 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,119 Speaker 2: these plants, and you're going to take that productivity and 366 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 2: take it up a level. Okay, So now I'm going 367 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 2: to abstract a little bit and kind of take the worldview. 368 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: Aspect of this. 369 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 2: What it means is that the Bible, unlike every single 370 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 2: other creation document of the ancient world, has a forward 371 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 2: momentum to history, has a fruitfulness, explosive, exponential growth element. 372 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 2: Every other ancient whether it's Plato basically saying God creates 373 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 2: or God didn't create, God emanated a demiurge, and the 374 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 2: demiurge was kind of stupid, and he accidentally made a world, 375 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 2: and that's this terrible world. And some of the church 376 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 2: fathers come along and say, yeah, that's right, But there's 377 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 2: got to be a reason. Saint Cyril says, well, God 378 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 2: put us in this so that we would know the 379 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 2: world isn't really very good and the time is a 380 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 2: really very good, so that we would be able to 381 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 2: turn our hearts to eternity. That is not how this 382 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 2: text reads. God seems to really like what he's doing here, 383 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 2: and he gives it as a gift, and our deal 384 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 2: isn't going. Okay, you gave this to me. 385 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: Now I got to find out what's. 386 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 2: Wrong with it so that I know that, oh, really, 387 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 2: what I need is a disembodied life in heaven among 388 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 2: the eternal forms. God is pressing forward day to day, 389 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 2: and he creates things that press forward that are exploding outwards. 390 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 2: And every single deviation from true biblical economics, whether it's 391 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 2: Marxism or fascism, is based on the denial of the 392 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 2: generosity of that and of the move forward in history. 393 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 2: It is always an attempt to say the world is 394 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 2: too hard. Right now, something's changed. This machine has taken 395 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 2: away my job. You know, I'm a blacksmith, and nobody 396 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 2: needs my blacksmithry. Although I'm noticing a lot in the 397 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 2: Christian parallel economy, there's a lot of blacksmiths. I have 398 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 2: no idea that there was a growing need for this. 399 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 2: There's no need for me to be a blacksmith anymore, 400 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 2: because you have this internal combustion engine. And yeah, it 401 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 2: is painful if you're a blacksmith. But people learn and 402 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 2: they move on, and the economy is always moving forward 403 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 2: because God made the world to always move forward, and 404 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 2: he wants to bring it to an end, not an end, 405 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 2: but at Tilos, a goal, which is the exercise of 406 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 2: dominion over everything, and he's going to do it. The 407 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 2: only question for you and for me is are we 408 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 2: helping or are we standing in front of the bulldozer 409 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 2: of Providence saying no, not in my backyard. I don't 410 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 2: want my life to change at all. So, whether it's 411 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 2: Marxism or fascism, there's always that need to go back. 412 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 2: And you can't go back because free people are always 413 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 2: going to be trying to improve things because they're made 414 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 2: in God's image. So the only way to make you 415 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 2: go back is to have somebody so powerful that they 416 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 2: can stop it and then force it back. Not understanding 417 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 2: is such an important part of the kind of the 418 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 2: philosophy of history. If I'm at the one mile marker 419 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 2: on a highway and I go to the three mile marker, Okay, 420 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 2: we all do that, right. But if I'm at the 421 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 2: three mile marker and I decide to go back to 422 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 2: the one mile marker, that is a completely different thing. 423 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 2: You get that if you're going down the highway. That works. 424 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 2: If you want to put it into reverse, there's going 425 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 2: to be a lot of car crashes. That's the fashion 426 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 2: temptation to go back to some idealized moment in history, 427 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 2: politically or theologically. You don't want to get to theological. 428 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 2: But I'm seeing a whole lot of people. They're going 429 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: back to the true to the Council of Trent, they're 430 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 2: going to Roman Catholicism, or they're going to Eastern Orthodoxy. 431 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 2: If you're gonna go back further, I guess Eastern northo 432 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 2: Oxity has the better claim. But they're trying to go 433 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 2: back to something. But this going back to it doesn't 434 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 2: stop there. You can go back to paganism, and that's 435 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 2: the neopaganism we've been talking about. We're gonna go back 436 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 2: to that. That's literally what fascism is. The fastest was 437 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 2: the three sticks of the ancient Roman state. But it's 438 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 2: one thing to be the first ancient Roman state. It's 439 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 2: another thing two thousand years later to say let's go 440 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 2: back to that, which create means tremendous coerceive power to 441 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 2: force us back to that. But maybe paganism isn't enough. 442 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 2: So all the left wing ideologies trying to out do everybody, 443 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: they go back to the garden, And so we're gonna 444 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 2: have nudism and vegetarianism and communism, right, because these are 445 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 2: all going back to the garden. These are all the 446 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: denial of the imperative of God to move forward. 447 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: In history. 448 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 2: With cast. Not everything new is good, not everything new 449 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 2: is bad. This is where Aristotle went wrong on economics. 450 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 2: Aristotle said that money is barren. You take a denarius 451 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 2: and next to a denarius, and you put them in 452 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 2: a bag. You can shake them all day, but you're 453 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 2: not going to get a third denarius. They're not going 454 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 2: to breed. Aristotle said. What Aristotle didn't get is the 455 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 2: point is not that the money breeds. The point is 456 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 2: that the capital is invested in somebody, and so they 457 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 2: can eat while they're building something new, and so that breeds. 458 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 2: That has yield. The yield in finance is because there's 459 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 2: a yield, the seed yielding seed. The yield of the 460 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: creation is the basis of financial yield. 461 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: If the earth never changed, you never would be able to. 462 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 2: Pay interest on a loan, or you never would be 463 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 2: able to pay a dividend. But the fact that the 464 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 2: earth is made to grow means that I can invest 465 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 2: in somebody and they can make money, and I can 466 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 2: make money because. 467 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: The earth is meant to yield. 468 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 2: The denial of markets is a denial of the creation order, 469 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 2: not just generally in the sense that God designs it, 470 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 2: but the details of the creation order, which is God 471 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 2: is always yielding things. 472 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 1: He's always pushing you forward. 473 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: Now, the great denial is foreshadowed in this, and that 474 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 2: is along comes the serpent, and the serpent tells the 475 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 2: lie of scarcity. Half God said you shall not eat 476 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 2: of any of the trees of the garden. Well, no, 477 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 2: of course he didn't. God didn't want them to starve. 478 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 2: He gave them all the trees but one. They had 479 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 2: plenty of trees, and they had cattle too. Let's not 480 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 2: forget they had cattle. Now, they couldn't eat the meat, 481 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 2: but they could eat the milk. They could have yogurt. 482 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 2: They could have kfir, right, seriously, I mean, I think 483 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 2: that's the part of the play of yogurt in kafir, 484 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 2: and you know other dairy products. They could have cheese. 485 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: Those would be the richest things they. 486 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 2: Would have in the garden. Or the only other would 487 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 2: be honey because bees or fly in and so this 488 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 2: is the first land flowing with milk and honey. I mean, 489 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 2: I really think that when the Bible describes Israel as 490 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 2: the land flowing with milk and honey, it's hedonic imagery. 491 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 2: Those would have been the richest foods available to the 492 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 2: prefallable in the garden. And Satan comes along and says 493 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: God's holding back, and the woman says, well, no, God 494 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 2: didn't say that. He said that we couldn't eat of 495 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 2: the Tree of the Knowledge or touch it. Well, he 496 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 2: didn't say don't touch it. So she's already a Malthusian 497 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 2: along with the devil. The devil's acting like God's really 498 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 2: withholding here. There's a real scarcity problem. Only one tree 499 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 2: was denied, but there's a scarcity problem. So that's one 500 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 2: minute again, so I'm really over right. 501 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: You flashed a minute before so that you don't have 502 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: a negative. 503 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 2: I get it. He creates a scarcity problem where there 504 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 2: is not one, and his solution is redistribution. Take something 505 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 2: that does not belong to you. Take the fruit of 506 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 2: someone else's labor. In this case, yahweys labor. He planted 507 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 2: the garden. Take the fruit of someone else's labor, and 508 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 2: take it to yourself and the result is what abundance 509 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 2: because that what you had almost everything, and now that 510 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 2: one thing is available to you, and now you have abundance. 511 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 2: No the codes vdar dar right, You're gonna have thorns 512 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 2: and thistles and sweat and hunger because if you deny 513 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 2: God's generosity and steal in order to achieve something to 514 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 2: get away from scarcity, you will have scarcity like you 515 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: cannot believe. And that's what we have, all right. So 516 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this. With my one minute over 517 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 2: number one, I would say, read the Creation Account as 518 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 2: often as you can as part of your work day, 519 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 2: and ask of yourself the thing that I'm going to 520 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 2: do today. Maybe I'm a janitor and I'm gonna separate 521 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 2: the waters above from the waters below. Maybe I'm maybe 522 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 2: maybe something needs to be formed that's formless. Maybe something 523 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 2: needs to be filled that's filled. Maybe I need to delop. 524 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 2: Maybe I need to create AI agents to just go 525 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 2: replicate themselves. You know, whatever it is, what am I 526 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: doing today, that's like God. You're allowed to do that 527 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 2: because you're made in his image. This is for you. 528 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 2: It's not impious to be like Father when. 529 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 1: He has said to be like him. 530 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 2: So part of your spiritual discipline is someone in the 531 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 2: marketplace is read this creational account. The second is lean 532 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:21,360 Speaker 2: into the growth, lean into the generosity of God. Your 533 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 2: economic assumption doesn't mean it won't be hard. It doesn't 534 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 2: mean there isn't scarcity, because there is after the fall. 535 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 2: But the scarcity can be overcome by God's grace and 536 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 2: diligence and wisdom. So start with the assumption that the 537 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 2: earth is just waiting for you to open it up, 538 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 2: that God is just saying when are you going to 539 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 2: do what I've asked you to do, and say, well, 540 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,719 Speaker 2: God is gonna be Oh yeah, it's gonna be very hard. 541 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: But do it anyway. 542 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 2: Lean into the generosity, solve the problems, grow the economy, 543 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 2: and that is your reasonable service. 544 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: Thank you.