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Speaker 1: Let us pray every moving thing that liveth shall be

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Speaker 1: given you all things Genesis nine three. Dear Heavenly Father,

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Speaker 1: I will not partner with others who choose to speak

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Speaker 1: the common language of pride and arrogance. I will remain

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Speaker 1: steadfast in your ways, Heavenly Father, When the temptation to

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Speaker 1: anything built outside of your will cannot stand. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for the truth, and thank you for creating leadership opportunities

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Speaker 1: through calamity. In Jesus' name, Amen, Thank you for praying

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Speaker 1: with us today. Continue your time with God by listening

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Speaker 1: to today's Bible story, brought to you by Bible in

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Speaker 2: After the Flood. Before this story, we learned about the

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Speaker 2: flood in Noah's Ark, God cleansed the world of unimaginable

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Speaker 2: evil through a flood preserved Noah and his family, then

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Speaker 2: that just because the flood is over does not mean

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Speaker 2: the dysfunction of people is over as well. Yet, God

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Speaker 2: still endures with people and has a plan to expand

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Speaker 3: Hello, I'm pastor Jack Graham with today's episode of the

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Speaker 3: Bible in a Year podcast. Today's reading picks up with

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Speaker 3: Noah and his sons after the flood. God has delivered

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Speaker 3: once again wreck havoc. Pride once again takes center stage

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Speaker 3: in today's reading is a theme we've seen before, and

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Speaker 3: As you listen, notice first how pride leads to family

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Speaker 3: be easy to hear these passages and fail to acknowledge

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Speaker 3: the role of pride in our own lives and the

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Speaker 3: remember that we too bear the seed of Adam's sin

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Speaker 2: Noah and his three sons, Ham, Shem, and Jaffith, along

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Speaker 2: after the flood, determined to live a new and holy

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Speaker 2: Just as his ancestor Adam, Ham, Shem and Jaffith multiplied

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Speaker 2: lead the first kingdom to rebel against God, Babel. The

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Speaker 2: So the Lord dispersed them all over the face of

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Speaker 2: most important among them being Abram, one of God's greatest

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Speaker 3: It was a brand new start for Noah and his descendants.

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Speaker 3: evidence of an ongoing struggle with pride. The first lesson

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Speaker 3: we learned today is how pride poisons family relationships. Three brothers,

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Speaker 3: the Triune God. We then turned to the story of Babel,

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Speaker 3: it is in line with God's will. Unity by itself

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Speaker 3: making a name for themselves, and not glorifying God. They

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Speaker 3: the wonderful sounds of different languages, the richness of expression

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Speaker 3: groups were the descendants of one of Noah's sons, Shim,

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Speaker 3: and from that line God was already working his plan

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Speaker 3: to bring about the ultimate redeas of the world, beginning

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Speaker 3: with a man named Abram, and we'll meet him in

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Speaker 3: our next episode. Heavenly Father, thank you for what today's

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Speaker 3: importance of being together for the purpose of glorifying you

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Speaker 3: and not ourselves. Thank you also for the wonderful beauty

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Speaker 3: of languages that we hear in our world today, and

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Speaker 3: how one day every tongue in every language will confess

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Speaker 3: that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God.

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Speaker 3: It is in that name of the Lord Jesus Christ

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