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Speaker 1: It's like June and I don't care how Roland, welcome

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Speaker 1: to a special edition of the Basin. But not in

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Speaker 1: the Basin. This is like a new thing that I'm trying.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's another effort to put God's words in

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Speaker 2: That's right in a beautiful space.

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Speaker 1: So, yes, this is one of our studios, and this

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Speaker 1: is one of my wives, my favorite. Not the Bible

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Speaker 1: says like do I have a sister wife? No? But

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Speaker 1: isn't it always funny in the Bible where it says

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Speaker 1: like where you're reading about that in the Old Testament

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Speaker 1: and you just gloss over it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like they just did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no big deal.

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Speaker 2: Lots of wives.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, his his other wife. No, No, that's just

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Speaker 1: that was his other wife.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I actually don't gloss over it because I

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Speaker 3: watched this reality show about sister wives.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I remember it.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh, and so's.

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Speaker 1: Sermon called sister Wives about Rachel Neil.

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Speaker 2: You did it was a brilliant title. You're so good

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Speaker 2: at titles. But anyway, okay, so I always think about

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Speaker 1: So, speaking of titles, that's what I want to do

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Speaker 1: right now. Okay, I throw away more titles per sermon.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to give us some of your titles

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Speaker 2: from this past weekend?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to do a cut I want to

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So we're talking about this past weekend semon.

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Speaker 1: I preached a message called Challenge the Shadow, which was phenomenal,

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Speaker 1: thank you. And it was pretty obscure because Hezekiah is

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Speaker 1: And the prophet Isaiah, who you hear about a lot,

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Speaker 1: Just because it seems like doesn't mean that that's the reality. Right.

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Speaker 1: So I got obsessed early in the week studying about

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Speaker 1: God would have to do that, right, Yeah, So that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is this is why when I'm done

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Speaker 1: And it's the idea that not only did God tell

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Speaker 1: No, but we got this six today, Holy, Holy, Holy,

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Speaker 5: But like looking back, we did it, and we we

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Speaker 1: Apply that same faith that you grew in that season

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