When the skies of life darken with the storms of loss and health battles, where do we find the light? Mitchell and I, Michele, open our hearts about walking through these tempests, guided by a beacon of faith. We recount the poignant loss of our sister Missy, our father's sudden departure from a heart attack, and Mitchell's recent victory over cancer. These trials have not only tested but also strengthened our faith, becoming the cornerstone of our journey. Our candid conversation flows with the raw emotions that surge from memories, like the melody of a song that can whisk us back to moments with our dad, each note a tether to the past that informs our present resilience.
Transitioning from the depths of our trials, we invite laughter back to the table as we swap anecdotes of family life, woven through with faith and, of course, food. Imagine an avalanche of strawberries and the quest to conquer it, while also trying to appease the taste buds of the world's most discerning critics—our children. We mull over the joys and japes of introducing new flavors to young palates and the familial tapestry that extends from the dinner table to daily faith practices, including my own amusing mix-up with Bible study plans.
The episode then journeys through time, tracing the footsteps of Abraham, a paragon of faith from the scriptures. We ponder his story, from the call in Genesis to the reflection in Hebrews 11, and Stephen's recounting in Acts 7, drawing parallels to our struggles and the unwavering trust we strive to emulate. It's a reminder that our stories are but a small thread in a grand tapestry of faith stretching back through the ages. As we wrap up, we extend an invitation to our listeners to share their narratives of faith and resilience, hoping to foster a community of encouragement and inspiration. Join us, as we seek the spiritual rewards that bloom from living a life steeped in faith.
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When the skies of life darken with the storms of loss and health battles, where do we find the light? Mitchell and I, Michele, open our hearts about walking through these tempests, guided by a beacon of faith. We recount the poignant loss of our sister Missy, our father's sudden departure from a heart attack, and Mitchell's recent victory over cancer. These trials have not only tested but also strengthened our faith, becoming the cornerstone of our journey. Our candid conversation flows with the raw emotions that surge from memories, like the melody of a song that can whisk us back to moments with our dad, each note a tether to the past that informs our present resilience.
Transitioning from the depths of our trials, we invite laughter back to the table as we swap anecdotes of family life, woven through with faith and, of course, food. Imagine an avalanche of strawberries and the quest to conquer it, while also trying to appease the taste buds of the world's most discerning critics—our children. We mull over the joys and japes of introducing new flavors to young palates and the familial tapestry that extends from the dinner table to daily faith practices, including my own amusing mix-up with Bible study plans.
The episode then journeys through time, tracing the footsteps of Abraham, a paragon of faith from the scriptures. We ponder his story, from the call in Genesis to the reflection in Hebrews 11, and Stephen's recounting in Acts 7, drawing parallels to our struggles and the unwavering trust we strive to emulate. It's a reminder that our stories are but a small thread in a grand tapestry of faith stretching back through the ages. As we wrap up, we extend an invitation to our listeners to share their narratives of faith and resilience, hoping to foster a community of encouragement and inspiration. Join us, as we seek the spiritual rewards that bloom from living a life steeped in faith.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Pure Faith Podcast, a podcast where we discuss all things Bible. I'm Michelle and this is my brother, mitchell, and we're here tonight to give you a new episode, new type of episode, because I don't even know if we have notes.
Speaker 2:New.
Speaker 1:Because you have no iPad. So, anyhow, we do ask that you like this video, that you subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification icon to be notified when new episodes are released. So how are you? I'm good, okay, literally, mitchell just walked in the door and we just hit start recording. I didn't think we'd kick off yet we did pray, but we literally just hit start recording.
Speaker 2:Michelle had everything set up, so I sat down with trading.
Speaker 1:I was not late this time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was a little late.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, no worries I. I just saw, as you were walking in, that you didn't have your, your um iPad. So I was like I wonder if, um, he is even going to use his notes or if we're just going to do a fly by the seat of our pants. Episode.
Speaker 2:No, I know what we're talking about. I just don't have the iPad.
Speaker 1:Okay, perfect. So how's your week been?
Speaker 2:Crazy.
Speaker 1:Has it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been busy.
Speaker 1:Has it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so my boss at work, he was on vacation this week, oh so things just weren't going as well as they could have right and you leave tonight right some extra work that I had to do on top of the other stuff and the machines were breaking.
Speaker 1:Oh no, when it rains, it pours.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So and yes, I'm not going to be there tomorrow I'm leaving for military tomorrow morning, so I was trying to get stuff done and that's why it's kind of late. I'm actually half tempted to go back to work after this and finish it.
Speaker 1:I told you we could have just canceled. You have one in your back pocket, don't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:No worries for me either. I made dinner well before I came, so it's ready to be eaten when I get home. So yeah, so we talk about faith, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a crazy thing. Faith is To have faith in all that you do, and all that is what you can say is everything that's seen, everything is unseen, right? Yeah, yeah, it's crazy how the world works. I feel like we have been. I think we've been put down a path where we had to be very faithful in every walk of our life, like every step that we take. So the Lord seems to send us some curveballs every once in a while. Yeah, so what I was getting at is so you know, everybody knows that we lost Missy. It'll be five years in April.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Five years Missy's been passed away um from her cancer april 29th yeah, five years already. Um, dad, you know he's been gone two years now, with him collapsing from his heart attack. You thank goodness you're still here, because I don't know who we're putting this on, because I wouldn't be able to do it. You had this all set up perfect.
Speaker 2:But, anyhow, start recording.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't even have the microphone plugged in Well you see that's plugging one thing in. The Lord gives Mitchell some cancer to plow right through. Hopefully you're still cancer free. And then mom has a tumor in her Jowl, can you're still cancer free? And then, um, mom has a tumor in her, in her.
Speaker 2:Jowl.
Speaker 1:Can you say it for me?
Speaker 2:Salivary gland.
Speaker 1:Salivary gland and um, mind you, we have been told that it's benign at this point. So she, um, so she is going to have a procedure to have that removed. And you know, you, you talk to people and you be like, oh yeah, you know, this is the, this is our next, our next um, I don't even know what you call it Testimony.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:But anyhow. So I went with her to the ENT yesterday, to um, to Dayton, to to figure out when we're going to get this thing removed. We go through this whole thing. The doctor was fantastic, told us about the entire procedure. We felt very good when we left there. This is not her, this was not the original ENT that we had met with. This is a surgeon, so he specializes in this type of thing. But we left there and, no lie, we got in the car.
Speaker 1:Scars in Heaven came on and that's the song that we had at dad's funeral and we just really relate that song to our dad's passing, because if you listen to the words to that song, I mean in my eyes it was like his life, like they created that song for dad, and so, you know, that song came on and I was like, oh lord, here we go. This is gonna get really emotional here, um, but you know, I think we did really well, um, coming home and I thought, boy, I could really just like send a snapchat to Matt Mitchell with this song and I thought, better, not, because I don't want Matt breaking down. Love you, matt, he is our emotional one. But yeah, it was, you know it was just Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 2:You're saying he's the emotional one.
Speaker 1:Well, so listen, like I cry, but I don't, like I don't cry, I, I, I like tear up, like I can't tell you the well, I probably could tell you the last time I had like a sobbing cry, but I don't cry. Cry Like I get emotional, but like it's just like you'll just see tears stream down my face, but it's not like I'm crying crying. Does that make sense? It does Right.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:So, um, now, mind you, sunday at church I was crying because we prayed over mom. Sunday in church I was crying because we prayed over mom, so I was crying then, but anyhow, I just I felt like very at peace with everything. So you know, we talk about faith and you know we have. We have faith in this walk on this earth and and what's what's to happen and, like I said, people will be like boy, your family has just been been through a lot and I can't hardly say anything. I just tell people I'm at peace with all of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, whatever it is, it is at this point so yeah, so I like. I like when we can put all these things together and see how it works in our lives. So now Olivia and Owen's going to have to be faithful too, because they're going to be getting into a U-Haul vehicle and they're going to be hauling themselves to Salt Lake City, utah, here in the next couple of months, so they're going to be South of Salt Lake City, utah, but yeah, so they, they too, are following the path that God's created for them, so we wish them the best of luck too. So lots of things going on. It's never a dull moment in our lives, I don't think.
Speaker 2:Maybe a dull day every now and then.
Speaker 1:I think the only thing that's dull is the chainsaw, when you don't sharpen it.
Speaker 2:No, not my souls. Oh, shoot yeah.
Speaker 1:Like I said, it's just, it's a neat. It's neat to see how the Lord works in your life. So hopefully you all have some type of a story or you have something that you can reflect on and see the way that God's working in your life as well and to stay faithful in all of it. So what do you got to say?
Speaker 2:I'm hungry.
Speaker 1:I know, me too. I brought some strawberries. I see that those are for your boys. That's why I wanted to know if you were going to go home, because I cut up a whole bunch of strawberries and I'm like, what am I going to do with all these strawberries? I'm like, oh, I bet the boys would eat them.
Speaker 2:You know, the funny thing is I had a meeting with Paige's brother.
Speaker 1:Andrew.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, nobody knows who, Andrew and Cassandra are no you're right, but it's Paige's brother. I'm doing their wedding.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I'm officiating their wedding. Okay.
Speaker 2:So I had the meeting with them last night. Well, they ended up giving me two things of strawberries.
Speaker 1:Wait, did they order them from the Versailles Student Council?
Speaker 2:No, andrew teaches at Milton Union.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's from the Milton Union, ffa.
Speaker 1:Oh well, yeah, I donated money towards the school too, and I got all of these strawberries. I get so many strawberries. I'm like, what am I going to do with all these? I'm going to give some to Jenna so she can make strawberry pie. I'm going to give some to Mitchell's boys, because they'll eat them Right out of that bag. I don't even know if that bag is going to last.
Speaker 2:I got like three or four of these bags, so I thought I'd bring a couple See, since those are already cut up.
Speaker 1:Oh, they're already cut up, see, and that's why I thought I'll cut them up. That way they can just, you know, either Paige can just kind of put them on a plate or what have you. She doesn't have to worry about cleaning them and cutting them.
Speaker 2:So is yeah, they want the actual stem gone. So we have this little scooper thing. Oh, it's actually a de-seeder for peppers.
Speaker 1:But it works, perfect you just scoop it right out. Speaking of your picky kids, I had them last Saturday and I was told that they love cheeseburgers, or that Zeke loves cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, did you not make it right?
Speaker 1:Oh, I made it good. It was a good cheeseburger.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:He didn't like my bun and Shell. I don't like this kind of bun.
Speaker 2:What kind of bun was it?
Speaker 1:Sesame seed bun.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we've never given him sesame seed buns.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I had to cut the whole top of the bun off.
Speaker 2:Standard bun.
Speaker 1:And then it didn't feel right in his hand. Oh my gosh. Yeah, you tell your wife that one too. Maybe you should start introducing some sesame seed buns in your house.
Speaker 2:Maybe you should not have sesame seed buns.
Speaker 1:That's the kind daniel will eat like that's. What he loves is a sesame seed bun. So that's what that's what we get, but he wasn't having it, was not having it that's funny well, now you do.
Speaker 1:He was not happy. He started first picking each one of the seeds off. I'm like, just cut it Like this is so crazy. And then the yogurt I had wasn't the right yogurt packet. I'm like, whatever I said, if you want it, either eat it what we have or you don't need it at all. He's like all right, I'll eat this and don't want to eat my yogurt because it's not in the right packet.
Speaker 2:Piggy, piggy, piggy, piggy yeah, I don't know oh, it was funny, we've been fighting him with that since he was born his bickiness he's always been picky yeah, like well, I guess I can't say much about the first year of his life because I wasn't here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were not here for the first year of his life. Kelsey probably could tell us more about that. Yeah, um, well, I, he, he is. So, oh, he loves chicken, he loves IGA chicken. Okay, I get IGA chicken and I don't know what it is about me having an IGA chicken, but he doesn't want to eat it Whatever, and I just want pancakes. I want pancakes.
Speaker 2:Pancakes or waffles. I want pancakes, pancakes or waffles.
Speaker 1:He loves pancakes With sprinkles.
Speaker 2:We don't do sprinkles. Huh, he's never even asked me for sprinkles.
Speaker 1:He knows where the sprinkles are in my house. And you don't put the syrup and the sprinkles on the pancakes. You cut the pancakes, you put a thing of syrup on the side and you and the sprinkles on the pancakes. You cut the pancakes, you put a thing of syrup on the side and you put the sprinkles in the syrup.
Speaker 2:Nope, See we do the syrup on the side?
Speaker 1:You put the syrup on the side. You put the sprinkles beside the syrup, because one time I put the sprinkles in the syrup. Oh my gosh and Chell, this is not right. Okay, let's start over.
Speaker 2:I would just tell him to suck it up buttercup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't do that.
Speaker 2:That's probably why he doesn't ask for sprinkles at our house. Probably.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness. Okay, well, I really didn't start a timer, but we probably should get started on a Bible study. What do you?
Speaker 2:think yeah, all right, so we are going to. Oh, I need to start out with saying I lied last.
Speaker 1:Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2:It was unintentional.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:But I didn't realize how much Abraham was talked about in Hebrews 11. There's actually, I think, four verses.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, because you said no, was the one that was mostly spoken of. Is that what you said?
Speaker 2:No, I just said that I was only going to try to do one episode per character. That's not going to happen with Abraham. I'm going to get at least two. So I did break it up. So we're going to do verses 8 and 9 is where we're going to pretty much cover tonight. Okay, at least try to whatever we get through, and then we'll save 10. Pretty much covered tonight. Okay, at least try to whatever we get through, um, and then we'll save 10. Well, 10 and 11.
Speaker 1:I don't know how about we'll do what we we'll get through, whatever we get through.
Speaker 2:Because at verse 11, then they bring Sarah into the picture. Oh, so I mean, it's still about Abraham, but now it's also bringing Sarah in and Sarah's faith, but it's still Abraham and Sarah. So yeah, I'm just trying to say that I probably won't get through all of Abraham in this episode, but we are going to.
Speaker 2:We'll start out by reading. I'm going to read 8 through 10. So this is Hebrews 11, 8-10. By faith, abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, and he went out not knowing where he was going. By faith, he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise, for he was looking forward to the city that has foundations whose designer and builder is God. So, yeah, so this is going to be about faith. Yeah, so this is going to be about faith. So, again, we've been taking a look back at the original stories to an extent, and this original story is in Genesis 12. Yeah, I got to do some jumping here because I don't have the iPad.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So Genesis 12, 1 through 4. I'm not going to read all four, but the first part of four. So this is the call of Abraham. So this, I'm just going to go ahead and read it. So this, I'm just going to go ahead and read it. So this reads Now the Lord said to Abram Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you and I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and him who sorry. I will bless those who bless you and him who dishonors you. I will curse, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram went, as the Lord had told him.
Speaker 2:So we have to remember the whole reason why we are talking about Hebrews 11, 8, while we're talking about Hebrews 11 in general that because we're talking about faith and how these characters mentioned in Hebrews 11, how they had faith and the way they showed faith, and the biggest aspect, or the biggest thing that we're going to see, that all of these characters have in common and we talked about this especially with Noah last week you're doing something or these characters are acting in a way that you know they don't know what the future is. Right, that's what faith is Faith?
Speaker 2:is a blind wall, yes, um, walking by faith means you don't know what the outcome is, and so for Abraham, or Abram, I'm going to say Abraham, you have to put yourself in his scenario, okay, so actually, before I go into that, because, well, because we're also going to go to Acts 7, if my phone works.
Speaker 1:Acts 7.
Speaker 2:Acts 7, 2 through 5 is where we're going to start, and this is a speech that Stephen gives and this reads, and said to him Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you. Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran, and after his father died, god removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2:So I wanted to read this because this talks about how, whenever Abraham was younger, he left with his father and went to what was it? To? The Chaldeans? So he was in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran, and then he went to Haran. So he lived in Haran and then he went to. Then he went to Haran, so he lived in Haran. So he already made one step of this move.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:He went from the Chaldeans to Haran, so he was living there with his father and a bunch of his family. His father passes while he is there in Haran, and so again, let's put ourselves of his family. His father passes while he is there in Iran, and so again, let's put ourselves in his shoes. He has the Lord. Come to him and tell him I want you to pack up all your stuff, your wife, your livestock, you know basically everything that you own and I want you to move, travel, travel To a destination, but I'm not going to tell you what that destination is.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I mean he had to have given Abraham at least a general direction, Like hey, go east, young man, and Right or is go east young man Right, or is it go west young man?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:What's the song? Or maybe go north to alaska that's a different movie, that was a john wayne movie, anyways. Um, so he's telling him to to go, yeah, to pack up all your stuff and go. It's like abraham doesn't know where he's going. He has to know a general direction, but he doesn't know where he's going. He doesn't know when to stop. He's just and it's not like he's by himself and he's traveling light. No, he's got a wife, he's got his, his nephew, lot and lot, and all of his family are going with him and their lifestyle like like everything.
Speaker 2:Like it's not just them, I mean, it's a it's a huge group of people and it's not like they're going to be moving fast. I mean that many people back in those days a lot of travels by foot and it's just a slow process. And what? And Abraham just does it Right.
Speaker 1:And Abraham just does it Right.
Speaker 2:And God promises later on, whenever they finally get to that land, god promises to give this land to Abraham's descendants. But at that point Abraham didn't have any kids. His wife, sarah was bar point. Abraham didn't have any kids. His wife Sarah was barren. She couldn't have kids. So now he's getting a promise that he's going to have a son and his son is going to inherit all this land, but his wife can't even have a kid.
Speaker 1:Right, they laughed at it, yeah. They literally laughed at it, laughed at it Right, they laughed at it. Yeah, they literally laughed at it, laughed at it Right.
Speaker 2:And you know they tried different things. Let's not go too deep into the whole.
Speaker 1:Abraham era.
Speaker 2:Hagar story. Right but eventually they do have a child, mm-hmm they do have a child. But the thing is in Abraham's life he was never actually given the land of Canaan.
Speaker 2:It wasn't until 400, 500 years later that they were actually finally given the land that they were promised. The land that God promised to Abraham wasn't actually taken, you know, as a possession until 400 to 500 years later. I knew that Because let's look at everything that happens. So here abraham is, is told all this stuff and that all of his possessions want to have great nation, um, through his descendants. Well, abraham was 100 years old right or yep, isaac is even born right yep and then not only was there isaac, then there was jacob.
Speaker 2:You know, isaac abraham was the father of isaac, isaac was the father of jacob and jacob became israel, who would then become the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. But then you have the whole story of Joseph getting sold into slavery and going to Egypt, and that whole story, and then that famine, and then all of Abraham and all again, all of his possessions, all of his kids. Actually, it wasn't Abraham, it was Jacob, sorry. So Jacob was older and they brought all their family to Egypt.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because Joseph had plenty of stuff for them to eat. He was in very high status with Pharaoh, and so they sojourn in the land of egypt. Well, that sojourning turned into slavery and they ended up being slaves in egypt for 400 years. That is right so it wasn't until after moses right led them out of egypt, yeah, but then they still had to go, spend 40 years in the desert. Right, so right, there is 440 years.
Speaker 1:Oh, and they weren't happy about that either.
Speaker 2:No, and then they went in to possess the land. Oh, so that's kind of what we're focusing on when it comes to faith in this faith of Abraham, and that's what is mentioned. Let me go back to find Hebrews again. So by faith, verse 9, by faith, he went to live in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. So this promise goes back to that original promise that Abraham was going to receive the land of the Canaanites the promised land, the promised land.
Speaker 2:But, like we just said, it was 500 years after Abraham or since this promise, from the original promise, before they actually inherited the land that God promised them. But that's what faith is.
Speaker 1:I was going to say it's a journey. It's not something that is happening right away. It's not something that you know you're going to see instantly. The answer no, I mean 500 years 500 years. Never would have they thought that it was going to take that long to inherit the promised land. Never.
Speaker 2:Never, yeah, and that's kind of what this whole concept of faith is, especially with those mentioned here is God gives a promise, yes, or like whenever we're talking about Noah, it was I'm going to send a flood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no idea when that's going to happen.
Speaker 2:Nope, but you built an arc, I want to send a flood. Yeah, no idea when that's going to happen. Nope, but you build an ark, I'm going to send a flood.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And I will save you.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:With Abraham. I'm going to you, know, pack up all your stuff and travel. I'm going to show you the land that I'm going to give to your descendants, even though you don't have any kids, even though your wife can't have any kids, though you don't have any kids, even though you your wife can't have any kids, even though you know there's no timeline when I'm actually going to do this and I'm like you're going to get there and I'm going to give you this land.
Speaker 2:No, abraham never seen the promise come to fruition in his life.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But yet he still acted.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:In a manner.
Speaker 1:And I'm sure he questioned, just like Noah questioned like what's rain? Like what am I doing? Where am I supposed to get the wood? What am I supposed to do? Like questioning things. I'm sure Abraham had the same thing. You want me to go in which direction? You want me to stop when? Like how long am I going to be traveling? There's lots of questions, but they still did it. Yeah, you can question things, you absolutely can question things in your walk, but just stay faithful that the promise will be. It'll be seen one day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's really what we're trying to, what we're trying to focus on here, and we can relate that back to our lives. Like you mentioned at the beginning of this, we've been through plenty of trials, oh yeah, missy's passing, dad's passing, my cancer, now mom's tumor. You know we've had a lot of stuff going on and this has all happened in the last five years.
Speaker 1:Five years.
Speaker 2:Yes, we've had a lot of stuff thrown at us, we've had a lot of trials and, like you're saying, we have to walk by faith Right, because we don't know what the outcome's going to be.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:We don't know where the finish line is, we don't know what any of it means, but we have to have the faith and trust in God that, whatever happens, whatever is put before us, whatever trials we have to go through, when we get to the other side of not only the other side of the trials but the other side of this life as we inherit our final rewards and all that once we get to heaven, Then you know, we may not see the results of the trials that we went through here in our lives.
Speaker 1:No of the trials that we went through here in our lives?
Speaker 2:no, but they may have effect on our children, our children's children we talk about inheritance.
Speaker 1:We talk about our heirs. Yeah, I mean in the bible it talks about your heirs, like our heirs who same thing I mean for us.
Speaker 2:You know, our typical lifespan is only 70 years. Yeah, we're only here for a short period of time, so we don't see the generations. We can go back and study in the Bible, where we have all these generations over thousands of years. We don't have that. We can't see that in the here and now. But that doesn't mean it's not happening right so I mean we are affected by things that our grandparents of old did yeah um, just coming to america yeah, exactly I mean, there's so many things that they did that have affected our lives, like why do we live where we live?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know Somebody's way back, when the member of our family was like this is where we want to live and we've been here ever since, right, so Exactly right. I don't yeah. So there, if you look at things from the big picture, if you step back and take your 10,000 foot view, you know we need to realize that we're not living in a box, that things are bigger than us.
Speaker 1:Exactly, it's very well said, it is. And that reward that we have, also in staying faithful in, you know, his word, is to hear the words well done, my good and faithful servant. Yep, there it is, and that's going to be our biggest reward after it's all said and done.
Speaker 2:Yep, so I think we're out of time.
Speaker 1:Yep, we are out of time, so we thank you for joining us. Please leave a comment on this video or go to our contact page at purefaithlivingcom to send us a message and, as always, if you like what you hear, then we ask that you share this show with others so we can all work together in spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. Don't forget to subscribe and we will see you again next time.
Speaker 2:Have a blessed day everybody.