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Verse 19, this is for that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts, even one

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thing befalleth them, as the one dieth, so dieth the other, yea, they have all one breath,

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so that a man, that hath no preeminence above a beast, for all is vanity.

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All go into one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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Who knoweth the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that

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goes downward to the earth? And the time of my sermon this morning is man's

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relation to animals, man's relation to animals. Animals play a very significant

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role in the Bible. And this morning I want to preach a topical sermon on the

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subject of animals, and how we as mankind are to relate to them. Now hold

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your place there in Ecclesiastes chapter 3, and go to Genesis chapter 1 if

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you will. Genesis chapter 1, what does the Bible say about animals? You know

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we're going to go through a lot of scripture today, so make sure you

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have your Bibles open, go to every reference that we talk about today, and

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we're going to demonstrate the purpose of animals, their end, the role that they

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play in reprobation, and God's judgment as well. Man's relation to animals. The

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first point I want to make this morning is that animals are not an

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afterthought in the mind of God, believe it or not. Animals are not an

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afterthought. In other words, animals are actually very important to God.

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They're very important to God, and this is an important point because of the fact

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that society today really exalts animals even above human life sometimes, right?

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And sometimes people can have this attitude that animals are way more

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important than children, than people, than human life, and this can really

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cause Christians to despise animals, and despise animal protection, and

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despise talking about or having animals, or even the life of an

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animal. But that's not a right attitude either because the Bible actually

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teaches us that animals are important to God. Look at Genesis chapter 1 if you

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wouldn't. In verse 20 it says,

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And God said,

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And God blessed them, and said,

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And God said,

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And let fowl multiply in the earth,

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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day,

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And God said,

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And God said,

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And we see here that God made animals on the fifth and sixth day prior to

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creating man, showing us that animals are not an afterthought in the mind of God.

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They actually had a priority even in the creation period. Now, this doesn't mean

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that they're superior to man, right? Because of the fact that we see

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subsequently they're placed under man's dominion thereafter, but it does

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show that they do play an essential part in God's original,

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sinless creation. Okay? Animals are not a created being that are insignificant to God.

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They're actually very much important to him. They were deliberately created in a

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sinless fashion in order to beautify the world, to beautify creation, so that

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we would honor and glorify God based upon what we're looking at. You look at

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the octopus, you look at the platypus, you look at the lion, you look at all

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of creation, and it should cause us to be in awe of the creator, the fact

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that he made all of these creatures, okay? They were included in this world that

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God pronounced to be very good, right? Demonstrating that God esteems the animal kingdom.

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Go to Psalms 104, Psalm 104 if you would. Animals are not an afterthought

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in the mind of God. They're very much important to God, not just in the

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creation period, but even today they're very much important to God, okay?

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Now as you turn into Psalm 104, I'm going to read to you from Psalm 50, verse 10,

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it says, for every beast of the forest is mine. Of course, this is God speaking.

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The Psalmist is writing on God's behalf and he's saying, and the cattle upon

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a thousand hills. Listen to this, I know all the fowls of the mountains and

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the wild beasts of the field are mine. So this is showing us that there's

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not a single creature on this planet, there's not a single animal, a single

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insect, not a single ant. Think about that that God doesn't know about.

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He keeps track of every single creature that exists in this world.

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Let me read to you from Matthew chapter 10, verse 29. Listen to this, it says,

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are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not

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fall to the ground without your father. This is showing us that even when

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birds fall to the ground and die, when an animal dies, it doesn't matter

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how small and insignificant they may mean to us. God knows of that death.

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God knows of that animal falling to the ground. He keeps track of all the

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creatures of the world. He knows every single bird that hatches,

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every single reptile, every single ant, every single insect that exists.

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God knows about it. In other words, he essentially keeps a catalogue

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of all of these creatures showing us that animals are very much

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important to God, right? Not only that, but we also see that he takes care

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of all these creatures as well. Look at Psalm 104 in verse number 10,

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if you wouldn't. Verse 10 of Psalm 104 says,

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he sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hills.

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They give drink to every beast of the field, the wild asses quench

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their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their

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habitation which sing among the branches. He watereth the hills

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from his chambers. The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

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He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service

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of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth.

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And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, oil to make his face

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to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

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The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon

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which he hath planted, where the birds make their nests,

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as for the storks, the fir trees are her house,

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the high hills are a refuge for wild goats,

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and the rocks for the conies.

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Showing us that God not only esteems animals,

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he takes it upon himself to take care of them every single day.

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All of the ecosystems of this world are set forth by God

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in order to take care of these creatures.

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Go to Deuteronomy 22, if you would.

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Deuteronomy 22, we're going to be all over the place

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in the Bible today, so make sure you have a piece of paper

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or a pen handy to mark some areas.

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Deuteronomy 22, I'm going to keep reading in Psalm 147,

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verse 9 says, he giveth the beast his food

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and to the young ravens which cry.

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So when the ravens and the birds are crying out for food,

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who feeds them?

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God is the one who's feeding them.

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God is the one who sets forth the systems in place

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in order to take care of all of these creatures.

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Matthew chapter 6 and verse 26, you're in Deuteronomy 22,

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Matthew 626 says, behold, the fowls of the air,

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for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.

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Yet your heavenly Father, listen to this, feedeth them.

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Are ye not much better than they?

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Now, this also demonstrates that in my opinion,

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mankind should avoid involving themselves

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in the preservation of animals,

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making sure they don't go extinct or something like that.

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It's just like, oh, save the whales or whatever.

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Save this particular bird or whatever.

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But you know what?

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If it's God's will for that bird to go extinct,

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then so be it.

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We shouldn't worry that a certain animal's going to go extinct

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or we're going to miss out on having these types of creatures

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or whatever.

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If God wanted to preserve that animal, he would.

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The only time we should really concern ourselves

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whether an animal goes extinct or not

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is if it affects our well-being.

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If it affects our food source,

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our well-being because of the fact that God prioritizes humanity

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over the animal kingdom.

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Yeah, they're important to him.

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Yes, he feeds them, but we are superior to these animals

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and God takes care of them in order to take care of us.

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Now, look at Deuteronomy 22, verse 6.

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It says here,

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If a bird's nest chance to be before thee

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in the way in any tree or on the ground,

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whether they be young ones or eggs

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and the dam sitting upon the young

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or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young,

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but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go

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and take the young to thee that it may be well with thee

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and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

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In other words, don't mess with the birds,

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don't mess with the ecosystem

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so that it can continue to produce more eggs,

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more birds for us.

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He said, for thee to prolong thy days.

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For your protein, for your food, right?

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For your well-being, this is why the creation

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and the animals are set in place.

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Go to Romans chapter 8, if you would.

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Romans chapter number 8.

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And so, you know, don't waste your time

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worrying about the extinction of this animal.

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Who cares about the dodo bird?

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Who cares?

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You know, obviously, I care a little bit about the Saber II Tiger

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that went extinct a while back

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because I wanted to see it in real life.

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But you know what? Who cares?

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Who cares if the T-Rex went extinct,

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went extinct, the Velociraptor?

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Who cares if there's an animal going extinct?

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Now, if God wanted to preserve that animal, he would.

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What about the condor?

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We should save the condor.

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I don't eat condor so it can go extinct.

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Don't really bother me.

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If God wants to do away with the condor,

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then so be it.

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That's his agenda.

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That's what he wants.

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If he wanted to preserve that animal, he would.

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You're in Romans chapter 8.

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The fact is that God esteems animals to the point

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that we see here that they get provided

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for by God.

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God takes care of them.

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He creates an ecosystem that's conducive to their health,

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to their food, but at the end of the day,

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it's for our well-being.

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Let me also say this.

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God does esteem animals not only to the point

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that he feeds them, but he also allows them,

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listen to this, to participate in the regeneration,

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referring to the resurrection,

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referring to the millennial reign of Jesus Christ,

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referring to the new heaven and the new earth,

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believe it or not.

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Now look at Romans chapter 8, if you would.

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You're like, what?

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Is that true?

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Do all dogs go to heaven?

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Is that really true?

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Because everyone wants to believe that their little dog

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or little cat that passed away is going to be in heaven.

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Well, I hate to break it to you, but no,

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that's not going to happen.

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Your animal, just silence now.

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Your animal does not go to heaven when it dies.

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It does not have a spirit that can be redeemed.

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Just as we have spirits that can be redeemed by salvation.

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But here's the thing though, is that there are animals in heaven.

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It's not because they got there through salvation.

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It's because of the fact that in heaven,

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you have these creatures known as cherubim,

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which we would classify as being what?

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An angel.

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And these angels, which are called cherubim,

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they're basically these anthropomorphic creatures

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that have four faces of an animal.

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It has one face of a lion, another face of an eagle,

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another face of an ox.

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And then it does have the face of a man,

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but it doesn't mean that that is an actual man

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because there's a lot of creatures that God creates

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that have humanly features.

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Think of monkeys and chimpanzees and apes.

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There's even fish out there that have human features.

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There's a blobfish.

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If you look up blobfish, you're like,

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this looks like a miserable person.

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I'm not kidding you, it looks like an actual miserable person.

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And it has these features.

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It doesn't mean it's a human, it's a fish,

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but it's just created by the same person.

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So in heaven, you have these creatures.

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They're called beasts, and so they can be classified as animals.

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They're just simply a celestial beast

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known as cherubim that we would classify as angels.

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Now look at verse 19.

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So let's talk about the fact that animals will be in the millennial reign.

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They will benefit from the resurrection.

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Look at verse 19.

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It says,

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What does that mean?

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It means that all of creation,

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dogs, lions, monkeys, all types of creatures,

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they're all anticipating the resurrection.

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When it says the manifestation of the sons of God,

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that's referring to the resurrection.

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That's when the sons of God,

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which are those who believe on Jesus Christ,

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are fully redeemed, right?

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And they are anticipating that moment.

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Why?

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Look what it says in verse 20.

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So in other words, creatures live and die.

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They eat each other.

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Super violent, right?

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And it says here that they are subject to vanity,

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meaning that like, you know, animals,

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they don't really have any significant eternal purpose.

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They did in the Garden of Eden, right?

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But they don't really serve any eternal significance right now.

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So they just have a vain life.

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You and I, we have purpose, right?

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We have a purpose.

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The Bible tells us,

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For we are as workmanship created in Christ Jesus,

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unto good works which God has before ordained

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that we should walk in them.

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God has a purpose for us to be conformed

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to the image of Jesus Christ.

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Animals do not.

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They are subject to vanity after the fall, okay?

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He says they're subject to vanity,

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not willingly.

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In other words, they didn't choose that.

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They're subject to that because of Adam's transgression.

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Verse 21 says,

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Because the creature itself also shall be delivered

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from the bondage of corruption

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into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

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So that's showing us that in the millennial reign,

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in the new heaven and new earth,

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there will be everlasting animals as well.

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Creatures will not die in the new heaven,

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in the new earth.

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And so, you know, that's one part

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that the Jehovah's Witness got right

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on their little pictures.

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You know, they always have these pictures

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where people are like walking in a forest

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with all types of animals

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and they're hugging, you know, the bears or whatever.

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That's true.

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They're not going to see that,

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but it is a real thing, though.

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And so, good job on the illustration there.

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But it says here that they will be delivered

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from the bondage of corruption,

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meaning that they're not going to die anymore.

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They will live.

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They will benefit from the liberty

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of the children of God, okay?

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The residual blessings of the resurrection

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even affects all of creation and animals as well.

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Look at verse 22.

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For we know that the whole creation

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groaneth and travaileth in pain together

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until now.

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It's basically stating that all of creation,

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the animal kingdom, they are groaning.

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They're almost just awaiting.

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They're anticipating.

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They're in pain.

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They're complaining.

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Why?

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Because they just live and die,

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live and die with absolutely no purpose behind it.

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It says in verse 23,

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and not only they, but we ourselves also,

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which have the first fruits of the Spirit,

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even we ourselves groan within ourselves

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waiting for the adoption to with the redemption of our body.

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So obviously the purpose of the text here

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is to demonstrate that we groan within ourselves as well,

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meaning that, you know,

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oh wretched man that I am,

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who shall deliver me from this body of death?

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You know, we struggle with sin.

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We are tempted to sin.

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We have this corruptible flesh that is constantly

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just fighting against us.

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We got to walk in the Spirit, intentionally live for God.

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And so I was just like, man, I hate my flesh.

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I hate the fact that I'm tempted.

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We groan within ourselves.

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And God is trying to communicate here

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that to a lesser extent,

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the animal kingdom does the same thing.

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Because they're subject to vanity,

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not willingly, but because of Adam, right?

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Just as we kind of complain

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over the fact that we live and die,

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we're tempted in like manner the animal kingdom does the same.

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So, you know, your dog does not go to heaven.

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He will not meet you there in heaven.

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I'm sorry to break that to you.

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But, you know, there are creatures in heaven

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and animals in general will inherit the kingdom of God.

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Okay, there will be animals in the millennial reign.

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Now, go back to Genesis chapter one again.

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Genesis chapter one.

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Let me read you from Isaiah chapter 11

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in verse number six.

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This is a picture of the millennial reign.

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Some can say it's also possibly talking

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about the new heaven and the new earth.

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But it says in Isaiah chapter 11 verse six,

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the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb

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and the leopard shall lie down with the kid

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and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together

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and the little child shall lead them.

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So this is showing us that there is going to come a time

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where the spiritual atmosphere is completely transfigured

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to the point where a wolf that would typically consume a lamb

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will actually dwell together.

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They'll be friends again, okay?

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You know, the fox and the hound, right?

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You know, the leopard shall lie down with the kid,

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the calf and the young lion

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and to just add to the extreme, you know, transformation here.

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It says that a little child will lead them.

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You'll play follow the leader with the wolf and the lamb,

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the leopard and so forth, the lion.

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It goes on to say in verse seven,

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and the cow and the bear shall feed.

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Their young ones shall lie down together

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and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

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So obviously the biology has also changed

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within that millennial reign and the new heaven and new earth

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among the animal kingdom to the point where the Bible says

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that the lion who once previously ate, you know,

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meat and killed and drank blood

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and all that is now eating straw like an ox.

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It says the sucking child shall play on the whole of the asp

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and the wean child shall put his hand in the cockatrice's den.

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In other words, you know, this is going to be

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such an extraordinary transformation

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that babies can stick their hands

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inside of a hole of a rattlesnake,

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of a cobra, a den of some sort of venomous viper

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and it's not going to bite them.

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It poses no threat, no harm.

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This is the transfiguration that's going to take place.

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They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.

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For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord

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as the waters cover the sea.

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What is the same?

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It's showing us that though we get to benefit from

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the millennial reign, the new heaven and new earth,

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guess what the animal kingdom does as well, okay?

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Now a lot of times people ask me,

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so do you think a T-rex will be there?

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Are we going to be able to see the pterodactyl?

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Are we going to see?

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I don't know, I hope so, you know,

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but the text doesn't really explicitly say it,

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and so maybe animals who have already gone extinct

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are just extinct forever.

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We don't know, okay?

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But something can change, I don't know.

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So the point that I'm making here is that

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animals are not an afterthought in the mind of God.

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They actually have some importance in the eyes of God, okay?

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Point number two is that animals,

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and I mentioned this a little bit in the first point,

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animals are inferior to mankind

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and should be dominated by man, okay?

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They are inferior.

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It doesn't mean they're not important,

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but they're not as important as us.

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So stop calling your animal, your little pet,

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more important, stop calling them a child, okay?

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It's not right, it's not biblical,

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it's nonsense, it's foolish

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because animals are animals,

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and in God's eyes they are inferior to man, okay?

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Never put an animal on the same pedestal

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as a human being, especially a child.

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So the Bible tells us that it teaches us

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that animals are inferior to mankind

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and should be dominated by mankind as well.

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Look at Genesis 1 again in verse 26.

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It says in God said,

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let us make man in our image after our likeness

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and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

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over the fowl of the air,

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over the cattle and over all the earth

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and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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So God created man in his own image,

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in the image of God created he him,

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male and female created he them, verse 28,

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and God blessed him and said unto them,

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be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.

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Listen to this, and subdue it, okay?

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And have dominion over the fish of the sea

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and over the fowl of the air

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and over every living thing that moveeth upon the earth.

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Go to Genesis chapter 9, Genesis chapter 9.

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So we see explicitly in the very first chapter of the Bible,

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God says, he creates man, he says,

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you are the ruler of this world, okay?

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Over the creation you're supposed to dominate

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the birds, the fish, the beast of the field,

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everything that creepeth,

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you are at the top of the food chain, okay?

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You are essentially the one who dominates the entire world

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and that's how it should operate, okay?

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Now obviously this doesn't mean that creatures are,

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you know, some creatures in this world are, you know,

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they were stronger than them or something like that,

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but obviously we have the spirit of God

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and we have a mind that is able to subdue animals, okay?

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We have a mind that's able to hunt animals

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and subdue them and use them for our benefit and so forth.

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Look at Genesis chapter 9 and verse number 2,

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it says, the fear of you and the dread of you

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shall be upon every beast of the earth

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and upon every fowl of the air,

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upon all that moveeth upon the earth

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and upon all the fishes of the sea

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into your hand are they delivered.

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So when it says that the fear of you

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and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth,

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this doesn't mean that all creatures will fear you

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to the point where they will flee from you, okay?

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This basically means that creatures will view you as a threat.

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Because they're afraid of you, they will view you as a threat, okay?

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You know, this is why, for example,

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sometimes people will go hiking, especially now,

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a lot of this is going on,

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and they will accidentally step on a rattlesnake

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and a rattlesnake will strike them, right?

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Or they'll just, you know, walk near a bush

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and a rattlesnake will come out and strike them

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because they either view them as a threat

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or they view them as food.

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So this should not be used as a text to say,

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oh man, animals are just afraid of us, period,

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and therefore we can play these psychological games with them

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or whatnot.

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Obviously this is simply referring to the fact

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that there's a major distinction between us

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and we can't necessarily abide together in harmony, okay?

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They view us as a threat, they are afraid of us

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and they will strike, of course, and attack if need be.

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Go to Exodus chapter 21, Exodus chapter 21.

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Psalm chapter 8 and verse 6 says this,

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as you're turning to Exodus 21,

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thou madeest him, referring to mankind,

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to have dominion over the works of thy hands.

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Thou hast put all things under his feet,

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all sheep and oxen yea the beasts of the field,

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the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea,

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and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas, okay?

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And we started off in Ecclesiastes chapter 3

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talking about the fact that, you know,

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the Bible tells us that the spirit of man

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goeth upward and the spirit of the beast

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goeth downward to the earth.

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What does that mean?

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It's referring to the fact that the breath,

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the spirit, man is made with the spirit

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but it's a living spirit that can be redeemed

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and it can go to heaven.

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Whereas animals, once they die,

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they just stay in the earth.

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They go back to the dirt.

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That's their end.

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They don't have a spirit or a soul

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the way we would communicate to be

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an actual spirit or soul that is able to worship God

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and desire salvation and so forth, okay?

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So animals are inferior to us

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and we're to dominate them according to the Bible.

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Now this means a few things, okay?

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Number one is that the life of an animal

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should never be prioritized over the life of a human, okay?

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So that means if some dumb idiot

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climbs over the fence into some lion's den, okay?

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And you know, his life is in danger

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and people kill the lion,

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no one should mourn over the death of the lion.

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Now I'll be it, the guy's an idiot for climbing over

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but it's still, he's still more important than the lion.

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But they're endangered.

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Yeah, we're about to make them more endangered, okay?

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Because the life of a human

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is far more important than the life of a lion.

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Now obviously, you know, people have done this

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throughout the years where they,

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a child falls over or something like that.

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You know, people are still mourning,

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what's that stupid ape's name?

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Maranbe, right?

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Oh, Haranbe, whatever, you know?

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It's an ape.

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I'll call him Maranbe, okay, just to spite him.

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You know?

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Oh man, I can't believe that.

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And you know what, you'd be surprised,

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you go on the comment section of these videos

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and how much people are like condemning

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the fact that he died

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and they wish the person who shot them

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would have died instead

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and they prefer the life of the beast

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over the life of the animal,

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excuse me, over the life of the human being

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and that's godless, okay?

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Humans have a priority over the animals

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and they should never be prioritized

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as being, you know, oh, they're far more important,

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you know, you're the one who caged them,

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a free willy or whatever,

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and you know, SeaWorld,

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and look folks,

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SeaWorld is a godless organization

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that wants to make money

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and look, if you've seen Blackfish,

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you know what I'm talking about, okay?

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You know, they capture these killer whales,

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okay?

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Which I think is the right thing to do,

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it's okay to do that.

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According to the Bible,

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you can capture animals

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and use them for your entertainment and amusement,

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yes, we're going to get into that just a bit.

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And I could see people getting all mad

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as though I don't think that's right, you know?

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That's because you don't really have

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the biblical perspective here

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that humans are more important

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and God literally made a zoo for Adam, okay?

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You're just like, name him what you want, you know?

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It's just like Maranbe, it sounds good.

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You know, who cares, right?

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But you know, you have Blackfish

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that capture these animals for entertainment,

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but here's where they went wrong,

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is they allowed people to get in the water

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with these killer whales.

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You know, they're called killer whales, okay?

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And so they're getting in the water

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with these killer whales

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and these animals are literally killing a ton of people.

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I mean, as far as I know,

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what's the...

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Tilikum was the name of the major culprit.

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He killed like five people, including one of the trainers.

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He mutilated its trainer.

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And I'm talking about like mutilated and paraded.

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A homeless man, like prior to that,

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had climbed into SeaWorld that night

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and went into the water

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and Tilikum like mutilated him

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and paraded him on his back, okay?

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I mean, talk about a killer, a murderer, a murderer as well, right?

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But what do you expect, okay?

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It's a massive creature

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and you know, just enjoy it through the other side of the glass.

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You don't got to get in there with him, okay?

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You know, I'm all for enjoying animals and such,

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but you know, I'm not for sticking my hand

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inside an alligator's mouth

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to show you how fast it can snap down

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before I can take away my hand or something like that.

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Now, I'll gladly enjoy people who make those videos though.

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Right?

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The Yoink guy on Instagram.

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I love watching his stuff, right?

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You know, I'm in the Florida Everglades

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and he's like yoinking alligators

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and yoinking, you know, rattlesnakes or whatever,

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cotton mouths and he's just grabbing poison, venomous things.

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I mean, I'm all for watching,

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but everyone says in the comment section,

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like one day we're going to stop seeing videos

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and we're going to know why.

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It's true because it's just, you know,

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it's not safe to do, right?

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But you know, when Tilikum,

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this great whale, this killer whale,

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he killed its trainer.

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You know, this is what should have happened.

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It should have been put down.

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It should have been put down long ago

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when it killed the first person.

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But you know, after that,

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but this is what the people say,

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they're like that whale is worth a lot of money

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that trainer had to go.

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You know?

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And obviously now, you know,

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they had some new things or whatever,

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where they're not allowing people to get in the water

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or whatever, that's a smart move.

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But here's the thing,

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is according to the biblical standard,

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any animal that injures a person,

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bites a person, gores a person,

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causes any bodily injury to a person,

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needs to be killed.

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Look at Exodus 21, verse 28.

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If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die,

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then the ox shall be surely stoned

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and its flesh shall not be eaten,

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but the owner of the ox shall be quiet,

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the Bible says.

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But if the ox were want to push

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with its horns in times past,

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then it has been testified to its owner

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and he has not kept a man,

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but that he had killed a man or a woman,

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the ox shall be stoned

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and his owner also shall be put to death.

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The Bible is saying here,

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if your pit bull has attacked someone,

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has bitten the child,

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that dog should be put down.

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Now, if the pit bull has attacked someone

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and then you find out its history,

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that it's accustomed to attacking people,

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it's bitten other people in times past,

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the biblical standard is not only that

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the animal should be put to death,

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the owner is also put to death.

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That's what the Bible teaches.

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You say, oh, it says ox.

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Well, you can apply this all across the board.

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You can apply this to a cat if you want.

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You can apply this to any animal.

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Any animal that causes any type of injury,

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what is it showing us?

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It's showing us that God prioritizes

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the life of a human over the animal.

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Put down the pit bull.

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Put down the rottweiler.

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Put down the chihuahua.

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Now, I'm just kidding.

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I don't know how much bodily harm

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a chihuahua can cause.

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Little ankle biters.

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But put down the animal

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that actually harms another human being.

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They're like, well, it grew up with us.

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It's like our family.

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Yeah, but according to biblical standards,

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the Bible teaches that

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things should be put to death.

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And if you don't, in God's eyes,

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you should be put to death

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if that thing attacks another person again.

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And look, this is why I can't understand

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when owners of dogs,

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let me just vent real quick.

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You want to have a dog?

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More power to you.

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Keep that thing on a leash.

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When you're out in public,

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keep that thing on a leash.

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One of the things that just boils my blood

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is when we're at a park

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that's made for children.

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There's like a playground.

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And then they just let their dog

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run without a leash.

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And it's just like,

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you know, oh, no, it's friendly.

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Don't worry, it's never been in the soul.

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Yeah, but it might see the color purple

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on my kid's shirt and just flip

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and then just go bite him or something.

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You know, a couple months ago,

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maybe it was like a year ago or something,

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my wife had taken my kids to a particular park.

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I think it was in Corona.

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Is that right?

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It was in Corona.

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And my wife was in the van

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and I don't know who else was in the van,

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but like four of my kids

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were out playing on the playground.

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And this person comes

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with pit bulls off the leash

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just running in the playground, right?

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And so it spots my kids

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and it just starts charging after my kids, you know?

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And Quicksilver over here, as I is,

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you know, everyone just books it,

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you know, right?

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They all start, obviously they say

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you shouldn't run,

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but what do you expect the kids to do, though?

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I say that you shouldn't run.

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I'll probably run if a pit bull came out.

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I mean, you know, it's just a natural thing.

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But, you know, they start running

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and Helen was the only one who literally

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just stood her ground and just stood there

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and just like looked at it.

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But once Isaias ran, like it ran after them

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and Isaias ran so fast towards the van

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that he like dove through the window.

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He was like...

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He just dove through the window, you know?

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And he was screaming.

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I mean, he's like...

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You know?

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And the dog didn't end up doing anything.

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He's probably tripping out like,

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damn, that kid can jump, you know?

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I've never seen that.

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But, you know, the owner comes or whatever

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and grabs the dogs or whatnot

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and is just like, have some common sense.

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You know, if you're going to have an animal,

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be responsible, keep that thing on a leash.

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Oh, it's never bitten anybody.

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So do you want to try,

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do you want to like change that?

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You know, because it could potentially change

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now that you have them off of a leash

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and it sees someone and it bites them.

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That happens all the time.

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Just look up stories about pit bulls

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killing children.

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It happens a lot, okay?

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And we as Christians need to recognize,

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go to Matthew chapter 10,

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if you would, in Matthew chapter 10,

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need to recognize that animals

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should not be prioritized over humans.

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If they injure a child, a human,

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they should be put to death, okay?

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You know, I remember when we were living

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in Huntington Beach, one of our neighbors

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had one of those small dogs,

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not a Chihuahua, but like a little bigger

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than a Chihuahua.

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It's one of those annoying, expensive dogs, okay?

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You know?

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And my wife was walking with my kids

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and they see the neighbor

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and they had this dog

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and you know, if you have a dog

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like that, just don't tell me.

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But you know, the dog was right there

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and the dog just bit my wife's ankle

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and my wife was pregnant at the time, okay?

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Which actually can cause a lot of problems

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for the pregnancy if that happens.

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And then the owner's like,

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did my dog just bite you?

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And my wife was like, yeah,

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he's like, okay, I gotta go now

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and she just takes the dog,

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she just walks away.

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You know, no sorry, no no.

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It's just like, sometimes dog owners

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are just loony, okay?

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Don't be a loony dog owner, okay?

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The point being here is that

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animals should be put to death

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if they attack people, okay?

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Tillicum should have died a long time ago.

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Harambe, you know,

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if it poses a threat to a person,

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you know, good that it died.

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Just go get another ape.

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It's not hard, bro.

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Just a ton of them all over the world.

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Just go get it.

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Name a Harambe.

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It's not not hard at all, okay?

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You know, what's Tillicum's stage name?

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Shamu.

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You know, just kill Tillicum,

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get another whale, call it Shamu.

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No one's gonna know the difference, okay?

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It's real simple.

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You're in Matthew chapter 10.

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I'm gonna read you from

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Matthew chapter 8.

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And you say, well, is this really like

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a legitimate position?

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Well, think about this.

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You know, in Matthew chapter 8,

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God delivers a man

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from an evil spirit known as

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legion.

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And these demons

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petition the Lord

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to go into the swine, okay?

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And then they are drowned

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in the sea.

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So in order to spare

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one man's life, an entire legion

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of demons go into

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the swine, the

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ton of swine, and they just run off

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to cliff and drown in the sea.

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And the Lord wasn't like,

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man, what a waste.

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Oh, man, you know, this is sad.

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You know, let's mourn for the pigs or whatever.

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You know, he's just like,

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see, the man's life is more important than that.

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Okay?

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So man is more important

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than animals.

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Look at Matthew chapter 10, verse 30.

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It says,

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but the very hairs of your head

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are all numbered.

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Fear you not therefore.

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Listen to this.

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Ye are of more value

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than many sparrows.

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So even though he feeds the sparrows,

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he provides for the sparrows,

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he creates the perfect atmosphere

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for the sparrow to replenish, to multiply,

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to be fed, to live its life cycle.

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The Bible says here that we

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as humans are of more value

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than many sparrows.

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Look at chapter 12, if you would.

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Matthew chapter 12, verse 11,

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says this.

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And he said unto them, verse 11,

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he said unto them,

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what man shall there be among you

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that shall have one sheep

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and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day,

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will you not lay hold on it

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and lift it out?

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How much then is a man better

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than sheep?

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Wherefore, it is lawful to do well

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on the Sabbath days.

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What is Jesus doing?

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He's prioritizing the life of a human

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over the life of an animal.

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Let's go back to the Old Testament,

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Deuteronomy chapter 12.

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Deuteronomy chapter 12.

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The point being here is that

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man is far more important

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than animals.

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Animals are not an afterthought.

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They are valuable in the eyes of God.

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However, they are inferior.

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The life of an animal should never be prioritized

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over the life of a human.

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Number two is that animals are to improve.

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Listen to this.

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Animals are to improve

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man's quality of life

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through food,

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entertainment, and companionship.

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This is the purpose of

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animals in this world.

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They are to improve our quality of life

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through food, entertainment,

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and companionship.

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Think about this.

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From the beginning it was so.

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In Genesis 3, after the fall,

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what does God do to

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clothe Adam and Eve

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and protect them from the elements?

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He kills an animal

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and clothes them with skins.

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We see in Exodus chapter 12,

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the Passover lamb being instituted.

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We have in Exodus 29

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animals that are repeatedly

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every single day

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being sacrificed.

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Every single

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morning and night

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animals are continuously

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sacrificed in Israel.

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The smell would have been delicious.

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Burn offerings,

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barbecue every single day.

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And this is from God's command.

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He's slaughtered these animals

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every single day to atone for the sins

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and eat their off.

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We're not going to let it all go to waste.

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You have numbers

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29 to 29, where you have

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the regular feast day sacrifices

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and so forth.

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They're improved the quality of life through food,

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entertainment, and companionship.

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You're in Deuteronomy 12.

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Let me reach you from Genesis 9 verse 3.

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Every moving thing that liveth

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shall be meat for you.

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Even as the green herb,

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have I given you all things?

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Look at Deuteronomy 12 verse 15.

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Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh

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in all thy gates. This is referring to animals.

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Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,

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according to the blessing

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of the Lord thy God,

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which he hath given thee, the unclean

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and the clean may eat thereof

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as of the robe buck and as

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of the heart. So we're saying here,

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you know, eat the food

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and it's a signal that God is blessing

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you with flesh to eat.

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Look at verse 20.

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Deuteronomy 12 verse 20 says,

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when the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border

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as he hath promised thee

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and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh

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because thy soul longeth to eat flesh.

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Thou mayest eat flesh.

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Whatsoever thy soul lusteth

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after, the Bible says. Go to Job chapter

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41.

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So this is showing us

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that the Bible does not promote

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a vegan or vegetarian diet.

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Now initially,

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during the

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creation period prior

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to the fall, believe it or not,

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everyone was vegetarian.

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And when I say everyone,

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I mean just Adam and Eve.

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Not even their kids, just them.

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Obviously,

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the eating of flesh was introduced

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after the fall because after the fall

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animals are being killed, they're being

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offered in sacrifices and so forth.

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And this is a point that vegans and vegetarians

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would try to make from a biblical perspective.

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Like, well, you know, Adam and Eve,

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they didn't eat flesh

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and so eating flesh

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is a sign of the fall. Yes, of course.

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We agree with that 100%.

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The problem is this is that trying to go back

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to the garden of

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Eden atmosphere without

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Christ. You cannot become

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a vegan or vegetarian and use the

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Bible to substantiate that position

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because according to the Bible, we're not going to be

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vegetarians until the millennial

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reign. When Christ returns,

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it begins to transfigure the world once

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again and our diets

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are changed. Now, even then, in the millennial

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reign people are still eating meat.

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The new heaven and new earth is where

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meat is completely removed and

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we're just eating fruits and vegetables

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or whatever. And so,

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you know, eat up now because there's going to

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come a time when we're not going to be able to do that anymore.

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The point being here is that

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you know, just because

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they were vegetarians in the garden of Eden

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doesn't mean that's what we're supposed to do

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now because obviously there's

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a major change that has taken place

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between the garden of Eden and the fall.

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Look at Job chapter 41. Let me

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read to you from

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1 Timothy chapter 4.

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You say, well, you know, okay, I get

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it, but

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you know, I think there's only certain meats

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you're supposed to eat. I think we should

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hold to Old Testament dietary

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laws, no shrimp,

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no catfish,

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no pork or whatever.

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That sounds like a miserable existence, okay?

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You know, no bacon,

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no sausage,

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but the Bible actually teaches us in the New Testament

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that these things are permissible.

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Now obviously these things were not

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permissible in the Old Testament under

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the mosaic dietary laws,

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but not because it posed a moral

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problem, but because

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it was proposing just

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disobedience to God's

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command to not eat of these animals because it

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pictured sin,

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a picture being a participant in

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other peoples, other nations' transgressions

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and cultures and beliefs.

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But that was just a short window

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of time where that was imposed.

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In fact, the Bible literally says

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that meat, drinks, and diverse

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washings, carnal ordinances

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were imposed upon them

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until the time

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of Reformation.

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Referring to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross,

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he's the culmination of all those Old Testament

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pictures, and now he says,

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rise, kill, and eat.

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Says that in Acts chapter 10, right?

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Rise, kill, and eat, clean, and unclean.

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And look folks, if you run into

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a person that tells you, oh,

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the Bible teaches that you

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can't eat pork, and so therefore

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you're sinning. According to the Bible,

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they're teaching a doctrine of devils.

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If they have

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that preference for themselves,

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it's different. If they say

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the Bible does not prohibit

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this, but I just feel like I shouldn't

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eat pork, I'm not going to eat shellfish,

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I'm not going to eat shrimp, I'm not

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going to eat whatever, you know, that's

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okay. But when they begin to teach

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it as a commandment of God,

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now it's a transgression.

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Because the Bible says that the

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Spirit speaketh expressly, then in

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the latter times some shall depart

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from the faith, giving heed to seducing

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spirits and doctrines of devils,

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speaking lies and hypocrisy,

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having their conscience seared with the hot iron.

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Listen to this, forbidding to marry

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and commanding to abstain from

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meats.

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And then it says this, which God

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has commanded to be received

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with Thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

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And then he says, for every

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creature of God is good

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and nothing to be refused

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if it be received with Thanksgiving.

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So look, obviously this is

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giving us permission to eat any type of animal,

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it doesn't mean you should though.

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Like, bats

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you know.

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You know, dogs

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not interested.

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But you know, there's countries out there

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that do that stuff, you know.

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Southeast Asia is one of them.

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Well, they'll eat dogs, okay.

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And some of you might have participated

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in such, I'm not going to look at anybody right now

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but I'm trying not to,

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you know.

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But it is true, Asians often,

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I know Asians

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that have eaten dog, okay.

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But I can't say they're sinning by doing that

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because every creature of God is good

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and nothing to be refused, okay.

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And so, you know

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they are meant for our food.

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But as I mentioned, they're also meant

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to entertain us

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and provide amusement for us.

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Okay.

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And this is why zoos

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are biblical.

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Wild Animal Park,

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Sea World,

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the Los Angeles Zoo,

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all these things are appropriate to have.

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There's nothing wrong with having zoos

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and in fact, Solomon was so rich

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that he imported

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all types of exotic animals.

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Barbara literally says

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that he imported gold and silver

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apes and peacocks.

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He's not eating them.

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He just wants to look at them.

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He just got animals

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just so he could look at, right.

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And so, you know, oh man

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but it's so wrong to keep these animals

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in cage. No, it's not.

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No, it's not.

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But that's being cruel. Well, cruelty

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is forbidden in the Bible for sure.

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But cruelty means like not feeding them.

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Cruelty means like

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you are like, you know

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physically being abusive to them. You're

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beating them. You're maiming them, right.

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You're mistreating them.

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Putting them in a cage

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according to the biblical standard is not mistreatment.

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It's not. Because it's for our

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amusement. If they're getting food, you know

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they don't have to go out and kill

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some sort of animal to get it. We're just

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bringing it to them. There's actually nothing wrong with that.

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The Bible does not condemn it.

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All you animal lovers are out there

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all mad or whatever. That's what the Bible says.

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James 3.7 tells us

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for every kind of beast and of birds

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and of serpents and of things in the sea

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is tamed and

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has been tamed of mankind.

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You know what that means? Like there are instances

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throughout history where people have taken a lion

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and they muzzled it

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and they have a chain on it and it's been

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tamed of it. Oh, that's wrong too.

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No, it's not. God says we have dominion over

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these things and we should have

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the privileges to be able to tame

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them and use them for

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amusement.

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Solomon did it. James 3 talks

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about taming animals. Look at Job 41

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in verse number 5.

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It says,

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in Job 41

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we have a description

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of Leviathan.

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Leviathan is this

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monstrous sea creature

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that no longer exists today.

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And based upon

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the description, it's actually

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depicting a dragon.

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So dragons were real.

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We have it described here

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in Job 41 and it actually

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breathes fire.

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You can look at all of the details it gives

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is pretty much an actual literal dragon.

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You're like, do you believe in dragons?

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I mean the Bible talks about dragons.

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You know

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here's the thing folks, you have all these cultures

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all around the world that depict an actual

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dragon. Somehow that's like a mythical creature.

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You think someone just made amongst all these other

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you know the Chinese calendar has all these

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real animals and then just this fake animal

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or something like that. No, it's probably a real creature

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that exists at one point.

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And the Bible refers to him as Leviathan.

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Now why does it exist?

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Why did God create it?

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Or why is it being spoken of? Well, Leviathan is

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actually a picture of Satan.

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Because he's the dragon.

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And you look at all the parallels between

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what the Bible says in Job 41

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and Satan that kind of match up

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and in other passages that talk about Leviathan.

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Now, Leviathan is actually

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the

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exception to the rule of Taming.

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Because

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the Bible says we can have dominion over all animals

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but Job 41 along with

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other passages that talk about Leviathan

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seem to indicate that no man

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could tame Leviathan. It was too large.

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Okay?

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They couldn't even pierce its heart with spears.

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They couldn't fight against it.

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They couldn't do anything. So the way

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it had to be killed was through God.

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God specifically takes credit

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for breaking the heads

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of Leviathan and giving

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the meats of that creature

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to the people, to the inhabitants

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of the land. This is what it says in the book of Psalms.

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Okay?

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And so, you know, here in Job 41

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he's describing this large

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sea creature and he's saying

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are you going to play with them as with the bird?

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Is this like any other creature that you contain?

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And he says, are you going to bind him

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for your maidens?

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What does that mean? Well, he's basically saying

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you know how you take a monkey and you bind

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the monkey and you're kind of showing it off to the ladies?

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Right? You got a little monkey

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and you're showing it off. You got a little alligator

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and you're showing it off to the girls.

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You're kind of, you know, you're over here

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trying to oar a farm or whatever

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and you're showing off these animals.

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You're like, ah, look what I've done. I've tamed this thing, you know.

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And the ladies are like, ah, you know.

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He's saying that you can't do this

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with Leviathan. Leviathan cannot be tamed.

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So this is the exception to the rule.

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And the spiritual application there obviously

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is that we cannot tame Satan.

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Right? We are

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to flee Satan, right?

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Resist the devil and then he will flee from you.

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You know, flee from the temptations

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of Satan and so forth. The point that I'm making here

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is that the Bible obviously

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tells us that there are instances

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where people have bound and tamed animals

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for the entertainment even of the

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maidens. I'm telling you right now

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Solomon probably got the apes and the peacocks

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in order to show him off to his 700 concubines

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or whatever. You know, give him

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something to do.

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Right?

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You guys bored? I just brought some peacocks.

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You guys want to go look at the apes and the peacocks

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or whatever? So that's what it's for.

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Okay? Go to Genesis chapter 2.

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So, you know, it's not wrong

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to trap animals

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and have them for your entertainment.

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Obviously the Bible expects us to

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be kind to animals

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and not to be cruel.

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And you know what? I'm not going to take my definition

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of cruel from animal lovers who hate God.

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Yeah, you said not cruel, but putting them in a cage

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is cruel. You don't know what you're talking about.

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You're an unsafe person. I'm talking

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about from a biblical perspective,

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a biblical standard

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and I don't take my philosophies

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and my ideologies from Christ's

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rejecters. Okay?

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You're in Genesis too. So

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animals are created

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for our food. Every creature of God

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is good. They're created

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for our entertainment. Go to Sea World.

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Go to Wild Animal Park.

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Go look at the giraffes

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and the lions and be entertained by

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go knock on the glass or whatever.

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You don't like it.

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You can go somewhere else, amen.

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We have dominion over them. This is what the Bible teaches.

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But they're also made for our companionship

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as well. Okay?

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Here's for you softies out there.

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You're bleeding hearts now. Here's the part

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that you like. Okay? It's true.

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They are made for companionship.

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It's a biblical thing.

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I mean, think about this in 2 Samuel.

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When Nathan is

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confronting David,

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he uses the illustration of a man

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who had one U-lam.

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And he says, in that story

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the U-lam was like raised

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with them and it became like a daughter unto them.

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Right? It was just like a part of their family.

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It just kind of grew up with them.

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Their hearts were endeared

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to the U-lam. And obviously

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the illustration was used to demonstrate

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that David was an adulterer. Okay?

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But the point being here is that

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this is a legitimate thing where

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you have animals for companionship.

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Look at Genesis 2. This is the original

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purpose of animals.

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Genesis 2 verse 18 says the Lord God

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said, it is not good

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that man should be alone.

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I will make him and help meet for him.

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So what does he do?

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And out of the ground the Lord God formed

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every beast of the field,

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every fowl of the air,

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and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them.

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And whatsoever Adam called

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every living creature, that was the name

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they're of. So the solution

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to Adam being alone

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was God said, let's give him a zoo.

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Now keep in mind, the animals

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had already existed at this point.

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They were created on the fifth and the sixth day, right?

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They're the beast of the land

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and so forth were already created.

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These animals that he's bringing to Adam

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were like new animals that got

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formed in the Garden of Eden

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specifically for Adam.

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Understand? So he's just like, well

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I don't want Adam to be alone.

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I want him to have some companionship.

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I want him to interact.

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Let's give him a bunch of animals and have them

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name him. So he brings this animal

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out and he's just like

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long neck, yellow thing.

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Long horse, yellow neck

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or whatever. You know, gray fat

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whatever for the elephant. And he's just naming

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all these animals. But here's the

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problem. Verse 20

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Adam gave names to all the cattle

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and to all the fowl of the air to every beast of the field

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but for Adam there was not found and helped me

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for him. What does that tell us?

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It tells us that animals provide

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great companionship but

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it's insufficient.

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Meaning that

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you're a little doggy

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okay, is a great companion

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to you but you know what? You also need to

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talk to people.

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You need to interact with human

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beings. I just relate

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better to animals.

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Okay cat lady.

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You know, uh, no that's not

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God created us to be social creatures

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with other people.

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And to supplement that

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companionship yeah, you can have a dog

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a cat, an iguana

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you know, or whatever

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something that can actually like interact with you

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okay, not a scorpion

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or a spider or something like that. You know

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uh, have some sort of creature

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that will provide some sort of companionship

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entertainment and so forth

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and yeah, you can love that thing for sure

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okay. There's nothing wrong

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with loving your dog, loving your cat

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your bird or whatever it may be

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but just know that it is subject to vanity

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it's gonna die okay. And also

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understand

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that that is not a substitute for real

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people.

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Okay, that's an important point

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and I know I'm offending people right now

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because you know, your little teacup

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dog is like means the world to you

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and you'd rather be with that dog than anybody

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else or whatever. I'm just giving you the

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biblical perspective on this

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that God wants you to interact with

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people. He wants you

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to socialize with actual

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human beings, okay

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animals can't talk

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what is it boy?

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Timmy fell down the well? No, he just

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he just

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crapped all over your floor is what he's saying

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this is like oh man, you know

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I know what he meant by that, this is what he means

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it can't talk

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all dolphins

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are just so intelligent

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no, they're dolphins

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but their brains are so big

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yet they get eaten up all the time

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by killer whales, not that smart

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they're animals

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I just wish I could be on an island with all these

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animals, you'd be on the top of the food

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chain or you'd be at the bottom of the food chain

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they would just eat you

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okay

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animals are great, you know

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when I was a kid, every kid wants an animal

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they want a little dog

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I had a dog

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I had a scorpion

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I had an iguana

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what else, I had a bird at one point

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but you know what, at the end

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of the day it gets boring

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and I want to go talk to actual people

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okay, I want someone to be able to interact

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with and you know what, an animal

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does not have a

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soul in the sense that it can

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feel and communicate

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you know, spiritual things

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right, that's what we need people

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for, okay

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and so that's important to know, I'm breaking everyone's heart

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here, but I'm just

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you know, you gotta hear it

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man is superior to animals, God also requires

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man to treat animals properly

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look at Proverbs chapter 12, if you would

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Proverbs chapter 12

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Proverbs chapter 12

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and look, we do live in a

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society that kind of

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esteems animals to the point

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where it's just beyond reason

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and people can become rude about it

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okay, you're like, well you're being rude

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about it, well why don't you listen to everything else

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that animal lovers say

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okay, you know animal lovers

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they can get extreme

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cat lovers can get extreme

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cat lovers can get very extreme

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dog lovers can get very extreme

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they just become so obsessed

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with their animal

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that to a point where it's just like

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you know, they prefer animals over

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human beings, that's not right

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but at the same time folks, you know

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this doesn't mean we should be cruel to animals either

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okay, look at Proverbs 12 verse 10

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this is a righteous man

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regarded the life of his beast

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but the tender mercies of the wicked

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are cruel

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so what this means is that if you're gonna have an animal

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make sure you take care of it, amen

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take care of it, feed it

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you know, give it the proper shelter

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you know, don't be mean

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to the animal, if you're being mean to the animal

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just give it to someone else

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because God commands you not to be cruel

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he wants you to be a good steward of the creation

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that he's provided, okay

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you know, I think about my mom, my mom had

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like these Maltese dogs

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you know, these, it was like three or four

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of them that just yapped all the time

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you know, all they're good for is just yapping

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okay, they're just like

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like shut up, you know

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and they just bark all the time

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but she loved those dogs and she took care

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of those dogs like really well

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like, I'm talking about like

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I'm like dang, these dogs eat better than I do

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so I'm talking about the world, you know

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just giving them good food

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and taking it to the vet or whatever

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one of them lived to like 17 years of age or something

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which is like beyond its life expectancy

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and so, you know, my mom took care of it

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she walked it, she fed it

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I think that's proper to do

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I don't think it's right to be cruel to animals

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I don't think, you know, people should be killing animals

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and killing cats

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and just abusing them

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and putting them into a sack

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and throwing them into a river or whatever

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these are things that people used to do back in the day

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you know, I don't think it's right to just intentionally run them over

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or something like that

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10 points, you know

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I do think that, you know, if you run into

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like for example

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if I run into a rattlesnake in my backyard

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I am going to kill it

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I'm not going to try to release it carefully

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because I got six kids

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I'm going to grab a shovel and just chop its head off

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you know what I mean?

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because that thing can kill someone

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it can kill my children, okay

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and so, you know, I don't believe that's cruelty

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that's me putting my children above the creature

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but in general

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we are not to be cruel to animals

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treat them right, feed them correctly and so forth, okay

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now go to Job chapter 12

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Job chapter 12

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Job chapter 12, if you would

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I'm going to give one last point

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in this regard

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because I'm going to

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this is going to pour into my Sunday night sermon

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and on Sunday night

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we're going to talk about this same subject

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but we're going to get into the uncomfortable subject

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of bestiality, okay

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and reprobation and so

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don't miss out on that

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make sure you're here for that, you'll learn a lot

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point number three regarding man's relation

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to animals is that animals are

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meant to illustrate spiritual truths

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and provide practical applications to man

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Proverbs chapter 12 verse 7 says this

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but ask now the beast

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and they shall teach thee

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and the fowls of the air

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and they shall tell thee

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or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee

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and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee

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who knoweth not in all these things

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that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this

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so what's the purpose of animals

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well according to the Bible we're to actually learn from them

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okay

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there's actually a lot of lessons

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that we can learn from animals

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go to Proverbs chapter 6

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so God says you know

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they're not just there for our entertainment

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for our food, for our companionship

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if we observe animals

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they can actually teach us

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a lot of spiritual truths

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you say what can we

01:00:02.460 --> 01:00:03.700
possibly learn

01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:05.600
from any animal

01:00:05.600 --> 01:00:07.660
what is it that we could possibly learn

01:00:07.660 --> 01:00:09.320
well look at Proverbs 6 verse 6

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says here in Proverbs 6 verse 6

01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:13.460
go to the end

01:00:13.460 --> 01:00:14.840
thou sluggard

01:00:15.520 --> 01:00:16.720
now what is the sluggard

01:00:16.720 --> 01:00:18.840
it means it's referring to a lazy person

01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:21.360
a person who does not want to work

01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:22.860
they don't want to get up in the morning

01:00:22.860 --> 01:00:25.100
they just doom scroll all day

01:00:25.100 --> 01:00:26.540
they don't have a job

01:00:26.540 --> 01:00:28.420
they don't lift, they don't work out

01:00:28.420 --> 01:00:29.920
they don't do anything with their lives

01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:33.340
the Bible says here that that is a sluggard

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he says go to the end thou sluggard

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consider her ways

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and be wise

01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:40.920
so it's like to the lazy person

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he says I have

01:00:42.900 --> 01:00:43.820
homework for you

01:00:43.820 --> 01:00:46.580
go outside and look how

01:00:46.580 --> 01:00:47.620
the ant operates

01:00:47.620 --> 01:00:50.060
verse 7 which having no guide

01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:52.340
overseer or ruler

01:00:53.060 --> 01:00:54.960
provided her meat in the summer

01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:56.920
and gathered her food

01:00:56.920 --> 01:00:58.320
in the harvest

01:00:58.320 --> 01:01:00.900
what is he saying he's saying if you go to the ant

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you'll realize that the ant is a very diligent insect

01:01:04.500 --> 01:01:06.420
meaning that right now

01:01:06.420 --> 01:01:08.480
in the summer it's working

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it's saving up food

01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:12.280
it's providing food

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because he knows that the harvest is coming

01:01:14.820 --> 01:01:15.680
he says in verse 9

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how long will thou sleep oh sluggard

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when thou will arise out of thy sleep

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yet a little sleep a little slumber

01:01:23.260 --> 01:01:25.420
a little folding of the hands to sleep

01:01:25.420 --> 01:01:26.960
so shall thy poverty come

01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:28.620
as one that traveleth and they want

01:01:28.620 --> 01:01:30.480
as an armed man

01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:32.520
so you know animals can

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provide a lot of wisdom

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it can teach you how not to be a lazy bum

01:01:37.160 --> 01:01:37.880
you know

01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:40.720
it can teach a person who lacks character

01:01:40.720 --> 01:01:42.280
and doesn't want to get a job

01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:43.680
and just sleeps around

01:01:43.680 --> 01:01:45.700
and each chips off his stomach

01:01:45.700 --> 01:01:47.420
and just plays video games

01:01:47.420 --> 01:01:48.940
and doom scrolls all day

01:01:48.940 --> 01:01:51.740
God says man the ant is more diligent

01:01:51.740 --> 01:01:52.440
than you are

01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:54.720
the ant will accomplish more

01:01:54.720 --> 01:01:56.420
in its tiny life cycle

01:01:56.420 --> 01:01:57.800
than most people today

01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:00.500
so he says hey you need to go to the ant

01:02:00.500 --> 01:02:02.640
and actually observe and realize hey

01:02:02.640 --> 01:02:03.900
I'm a lazy bum

01:02:03.900 --> 01:02:06.240
I'm a sluggard I'm a slothful person

01:02:06.240 --> 01:02:07.900
than I need to be

01:02:07.900 --> 01:02:09.580
diligent I need to work

01:02:09.580 --> 01:02:11.960
I need to plan and not sleep

01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:12.820
in all the time

01:02:12.820 --> 01:02:14.420
by the way sleep is good

01:02:14.420 --> 01:02:17.440
the Bible tells us that he giveth his beloved sleep

01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:20.260
and God provides sleep

01:02:20.260 --> 01:02:22.320
for us he wants us to get the rest that we need

01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:24.260
what this is talking about

01:02:24.260 --> 01:02:25.760
is someone who's a sluggard

01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:27.540
who just constantly sleeps in

01:02:28.740 --> 01:02:30.040
it's sleeping until

01:02:30.040 --> 01:02:32.000
you know afternoon

01:02:32.620 --> 01:02:34.220
even though he doesn't have a job

01:02:34.700 --> 01:02:35.180
okay

01:02:35.180 --> 01:02:37.520
and then he struggles to get a church on Sunday

01:02:38.260 --> 01:02:39.940
or he's just playing video games

01:02:39.940 --> 01:02:40.620
he's just living off

01:02:40.620 --> 01:02:42.760
he's 30 years old living with his parents

01:02:43.460 --> 01:02:45.000
not having a job or whatever

01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:46.780
this is a sluggardly person

01:02:46.780 --> 01:02:49.740
and God says it sounds like you need to take lessons

01:02:49.740 --> 01:02:51.340
from the creatures of this world

01:02:51.340 --> 01:02:53.740
in order to teach you some character

01:02:53.740 --> 01:02:54.460
and diligence

01:02:54.460 --> 01:02:57.880
so animals are meant to illustrate spiritual truths

01:02:57.880 --> 01:02:59.160
go to 1 Corinthians chapter 9

01:03:00.240 --> 01:03:01.600
1 Corinthians chapter 9

01:03:01.600 --> 01:03:03.740
and I'm going to stop right there

01:03:03.740 --> 01:03:05.000
actually I'm going to stop right there

01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.720
so what's the lesson from this morning sermon

01:03:07.720 --> 01:03:09.540
here's the lesson is that

01:03:09.540 --> 01:03:10.920
take care of animals

01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:12.180
appreciate animals

01:03:12.820 --> 01:03:14.840
but never hold them

01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:16.880
as being far more important

01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:18.960
in value than humanity

01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:19.600
okay

01:03:21.540 --> 01:03:23.200
I'm not saying be cold hearted

01:03:23.200 --> 01:03:24.160
if your dog dies

01:03:24.780 --> 01:03:25.340
okay

01:03:25.340 --> 01:03:27.500
but I'm also not saying

01:03:27.500 --> 01:03:29.880
that you should be shedding a tear

01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:31.700
if that animal died

01:03:31.700 --> 01:03:32.980
instead of a person though

01:03:33.820 --> 01:03:34.380
okay

01:03:34.380 --> 01:03:37.220
it's just like well you know I just think that

01:03:37.220 --> 01:03:39.260
you know I remember years ago

01:03:39.260 --> 01:03:40.980
I think it was like 2020

01:03:40.980 --> 01:03:42.960
during the whole COVID thing there's so much chaos

01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:45.760
that a person in New York

01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.140
had stolen

01:03:48.500 --> 01:03:49.620
a police

01:03:49.620 --> 01:03:51.200
horse right because they have

01:03:51.200 --> 01:03:53.160
horses out there they don't have cars

01:03:53.620 --> 01:03:54.780
they have horses

01:03:54.780 --> 01:03:56.980
and he had stolen the police horse

01:03:56.980 --> 01:03:58.580
and he was like filming himself

01:03:59.010 --> 01:04:00.620
and then someone had made a comment to me like

01:04:00.620 --> 01:04:02.180
oh man that guy should be put to death

01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:04.580
and I was like why

01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:06.480
and they're like because

01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:08.840
that police horse is basically

01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:09.980
like a police officer

01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:12.860
and I'm like no that's a horse

01:04:16.220 --> 01:04:17.080
that's glue

01:04:17.600 --> 01:04:18.060
okay

01:04:19.220 --> 01:04:19.680
okay

01:04:20.780 --> 01:04:21.480
that's a horse

01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:23.600
and it's just like yeah but it's not right

01:04:23.600 --> 01:04:24.740
to do yeah I agree

01:04:24.740 --> 01:04:26.620
you know being a thief is not right

01:04:27.860 --> 01:04:29.800
okay but the Bible never prescribes

01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:31.360
the death penalty for stealing

01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:32.480
unless you're stealing a man

01:04:33.680 --> 01:04:35.080
unless you're kidnapping someone

01:04:35.640 --> 01:04:37.380
you know that doesn't prescribe the death penalty

01:04:37.380 --> 01:04:39.480
it just prescribes you know

01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:40.280
restitution

01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:44.000
but this is the mentality and this came from a Christian

01:04:44.880 --> 01:04:45.660
they're just like oh

01:04:45.660 --> 01:04:46.840
that person should be put to death

01:04:46.840 --> 01:04:47.640
it's just like you

01:04:48.100 --> 01:04:50.420
are you worshiping the creature more than the creator or something like that

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how are you gonna say that this person's life

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is less valuable than a horse

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it's absolutely nonsensical

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you know and at the end of the day

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we have to understand that we cannot allow ourselves

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to become so enamored with the

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creation that we begin to

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violate biblical principles

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of human life

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okay and so very important let's pray

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Father we thank you so much for your word

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and thank you for the creation Lord

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thank you for animals

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we're thankful for their existence

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because it provides not just

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educational knowledge that we can learn

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but just we can be entertained

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by them we can glorify you on their behalf

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on their behalf and also

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they are food for us

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we're thankful that you provided for us whether it's

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meat it's chicken it's the eggs

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it's all types of sustenance

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that animals can provide today

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and I pray that you give us a proper biblical perspective

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of how animals

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should operate in our personal lives

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help us never to esteem an animal

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above the life of a human being

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and I pray that you bless us as we go on our way

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we love you we thank you

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pray this things in Jesus name amen