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<v Speaker 2>Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I am Cory J.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Mahler. And I'm Wo.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Remember, O Lord what has befallen us, look and see our disgrace.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We have become orphans, fatherless.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Our mothers are like widows.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We must pay for the water we drink.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The wood we get must be bought.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Our pursuers are at our necks, we are weary, we are given</v>

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<v Speaker 2>no rest.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We have given the hand to Egypt and to Assyria, to get</v>

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<v Speaker 2>bread enough.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Our fathers sinned, and are no more, and we bear their iniquities.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Slaves rule over us, there is none to deliver us from their</v>

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<v Speaker 2>hand. We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of the sword in the wilderness.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>skin is hot as an oven, with the burning heat of famine.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Princes are hung up by their hands, no respect is shown to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the elders.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger</v>

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<v Speaker 2>under loads of wood.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The old men have left the city gate, the young men their</v>

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<v Speaker 2>music. The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dancing has been</v>

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<v Speaker 2>turned to mourning.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The crown has fallen from our head, woe to us, for we</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have sinned.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have grown dim, for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, jackals prowl over</v>

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<v Speaker 2>it, but you, O Lord, reign forever.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Your throne endures to all generations.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Why do you forget us forever?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Why do you forsake us for so many days?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Renew our days as of old, unless you have utterly rejected us,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and you remain exceedingly angry with us.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Today's episode of Stone Choir is a discussion around the idea of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>generations. That was uh opening reading from the end of Lamentations, discussing</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the generations that had been uh abandoned by God, cursed for their</v>

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<v Speaker 3>faithlessness. So we're talking today about what generations are, uh what they</v>

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<v Speaker 3>are in scripture, what they are just in in human life, and</v>

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<v Speaker 3>giving some specific modern examples of the generations that are extant today</v>

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<v Speaker 3>and how they're relevant to the problems that we face.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Uh the so the first part we're gonna discuss script scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The middle part we're going to talk about you know kind of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the current generations and how generations work in society.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the end we're gonna specifically talk about the boomer question.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We've had some people ask us to do an episode on on</v>

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<v Speaker 3>boomers in particular and it's an important subject.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So we're going to talk about why they're you know, why why</v>

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<v Speaker 3>why the boomer hate?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Why is one generation of all the living generations particularly singled out</v>

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<v Speaker 3>for criticism where when you look at the other generations, they're a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>mess too.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so we did some thinking and and some study and we're</v>

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<v Speaker 3>gonna talk today about why why there might be a difference there.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So we're gonna begin with you know scripture and in the history</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of the concept.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Before we get into the the direct application of why would it</v>

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<v Speaker 3>matter if the elder generation of our day isn't living up to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>their responsibilities?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But we're going to begin in scripture.</v>

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When

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<v Speaker 2>man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters</v>

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<v Speaker 2>were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of man were attractive, and they took as their wives any they</v>

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<v Speaker 2>chose. Then the Lord said, My spirit shall not abide in man</v>

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<v Speaker 2>forever, for he is flesh.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>His days shall be one hundred and twenty years.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>when the sons of God came into the daughters of man, and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>they bore children to them.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart</v>

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<v Speaker 2>was only evil continually, and the Lord regretted that he had made</v>

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<v Speaker 2>man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>So the Lord said, I will blot out man whom I have</v>

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<v Speaker 2>created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping</v>

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<v Speaker 2>things, and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have made them, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Lord. And so of course here in Genesis six we see</v>

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<v Speaker 2>really the first instance of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>an entirely pervasively wicked generation, because God wipes out everyone, except</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Noah and his immediate family with the flood.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God doesn't wipe out part of the earth.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God doesn't wipe out only certain people.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>He wipes out an entire generation of man and starts over in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>this case.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so, of course, that is an explicit argument against those who</v>

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<v Speaker 2>say the flood was regional.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The flood was not regional.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It speaks of all the high mountains under heaven having the floodwaters</v>

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<v Speaker 2>above them.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>This was a worldwide flood.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God wiped out everyone because of the wickedness of this generation.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Of course with the adults, with those who would be considered under</v>

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<v Speaker 2>secular considerations guilty of their crimes, all of the children are also</v>

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<v Speaker 2>wicked away because this is not a generation that has no children.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>This is not a world populated only by individuals who are twenty</v>

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<v Speaker 2>five or thirty and up.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>There are infants who are wiped away with the flood.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>This is all of humanity Humanity from the oldest however old he</v>

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<v Speaker 2>would have been in the antideluvian period, probably some hundreds of years,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to the youngest day old infant washed away in the floodwaters.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because the sins of the fathers do indeed fall on the sons,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and the children of wicked parents will in fact pay for the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>wickedness of their parents.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Not always, of course, but generally yes.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>If your parents were wicked, you most likely will suffer for their</v>

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<v Speaker 2>wickedness. Now you will suffer more if you are also wicked, you</v>

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<v Speaker 2>add wickedness to wickedness, but</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the sins of the fathers do fall on the sons.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is simply the way things work.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And just to start out, we could have, of course, started back</v>

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<v Speaker 2>earlier in Genesis because of original sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>One of the core truths, one of the core doctrines of our</v>

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<v Speaker 2>faith, is that children do in some ways pay for, suffer for,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the sins of their parents.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because original sin is inherited sin, it is ancestral sin, which is</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the term used in some translations in some languages</v>

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<v Speaker 2>original sin is sin that was committed by our first parents, that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>we inherit, and this we mean all of us who are born</v>

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<v Speaker 2>naturally of the union of man and woman.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Christ, of course, born without original sin because he was not born</v>

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<v Speaker 2>from the union of man and woman, and so he was not</v>

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<v Speaker 2>born from sinful seed.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is why Christ was born without sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We are born from the union of man and woman.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We are all born in and with sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We all inherit that from our first parents.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so sin is a generational curse.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>There is the original sin, which is the sin we all inherit,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and then there are other specific sins committed by previous generations in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>specific lines, and those who proceed from those lines will inherit to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>some degree the consequences of those sins.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We see that in many ways.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>There are certain lines</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of people who are given over to certain kinds of sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>This does not mean that if you come from that line, you</v>

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<v Speaker 2>must necessarily commit that sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>No. But you may very well have a predisposition toward that sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You may be more likely to engage in that sin, and that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>is a burden that you will bear because of being the progeny</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of that line, because of the sin of your forbearers.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And one of the best examples of this, really, one of the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>easiest for people to understand and immediately grasp would be if you</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have a lot of inbreeding in your family line, you are going</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to suffer very obvious consequences of that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because there are consequences in the flesh of that behavior, of that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>sin, because of course it is a sin because it is prohibited</v>

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<v Speaker 2>by God, and there are very obvious consequences for it in our</v>

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<v Speaker 2>fallen world.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But the the basic point is that sin does not fall only</v>

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<v Speaker 2>on the individual.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Sin also falls on those around the individual and particularly on that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>man's family, on his children and grandchildren, great grandchildren.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That can continue to pursue the family as it were for many</v>

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<v Speaker 2>generations. Now, of course, if you are a child of sinful parents,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>sinful grandparents, great grandparents, it is incumbent on you to try to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>do the best with what you have been given.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are not to follow in the steps of your sinful forebears.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, you still have to honor them.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The fourth commandment is still in play, we'll get into that more.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But it is incumbent on you to do the best you can</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to turn around that family tradition as it were, to not follow</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in those sinful footsteps.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And that's going to be a challenge, and we'll get into that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in other parts of this episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is part of the reason</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that certain generations are viewed in a negative light, particularly by their</v>

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<v Speaker 2>progeny, because of what those generations have placed as a burden on</v>

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<v Speaker 2>their children.</v>

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I

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<v Speaker 3>think Noah is such a good example because his family was saved</v>

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<v Speaker 3>for his sake.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I mean he he was a faithful patriarch, so his wife and</v>

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<v Speaker 3>his children were faithful in obedience to him, but all of his</v>

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<v Speaker 3>friends, everyone else he had ever known his entire life, They were</v>

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<v Speaker 3>all killed in the flood.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>everyone he had ever known, except for his own immediate family, were</v>

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<v Speaker 3>slaughtered by God justly.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And I think the reason that the flood is such an important</v>

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<v Speaker 3>example of God's judgment of generations, of groups collectively, is that although</v>

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<v Speaker 3>there was tremendous wickedness in that day, naturally some men were going</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to be more wicked than others.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Some men simply were doing more sin than others.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They got up earlier in the morning.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the idea that although there was a variability in the degree of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>their evil The punishment was the same as we've talked about in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>some past episodes.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>As men, we think, well, that's not fair.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Why would why would they all get the same treatment when they</v>

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<v Speaker 3>didn't commit the same crime?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Well, God judged the generation and he wiped them all out.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the only generation that he saved was Noah's immediate family.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's this is an episode that we're doing in part because we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>want to continue to whittle away at people's egalitarian enlightenment priors to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>believe that we are all individuals and everything that will ever happen</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to us is a product of us as individuals when that's simply</v>

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<v Speaker 3>not scriptural.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's not Christian.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So Corey said, You die because Adam ate the wrong piece of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>fruit, period.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You inherited that evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And it wouldn't have mattered if you lived a perfect life, you</v>

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<v Speaker 3>would still die because of what Adam did.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He is your father, you inherit his evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>On top of it, we of course, that's just off to the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>races, you know, as as men, we know that Adam eating a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>piece of fruit six thousand years ago is by far the least</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of our problems.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Nevertheless, that alone is sufficient for our death.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And it was the reason that God had to send his only</v>

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<v Speaker 3>begotten Son to save us from all of that sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The sin of history, the sin of our own personal action, all</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of it must be overcome on the cross because nothing else can</v>

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<v Speaker 3>make up for it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So that is fundamentally you know what libertarians today call collectivism.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know if if you have ever gone near libertarian thought, collectivism</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is the worst thing imaginable.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you'll be subject to any manner of insane belief if it protects</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you from the boogeyman of collectivism.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Well what God did to Noah's generation was I mean, it's we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>don't really think about in terms of collectivism, but that's what it</v>

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<v Speaker 3>was. He killed 'em all.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He wiped them all out.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He dashed every baby on the rocks.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The babies hadn't been doing as much evil as the old men,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>or the men who were in their prime as they were doing</v>

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<v Speaker 3>their evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Nevertheless, they all ended up dead.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They all ended up at the bottom of the ocean.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>An ocean hadn't even been there before God raised up oceans from</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the deep and from the skies, specifically to kill everyone, and it</v>

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<v Speaker 3>was only his mercy and in recognition of the promise that had</v>

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<v Speaker 3>been made to Adam to fulfill the promise of the Messiah through</v>

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<v Speaker 3>his bloodline.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So God had to preserve Noah so that he could keep his</v>

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<v Speaker 3>promise. And it's not God's hands being tied.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>God can't lie in the sense that whatever God says is true.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But that is the way that he fulfilled it by preserving them</v>

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<v Speaker 3>even as the entire generation itself was punished.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You touched on an important point there, and it ties back into</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the discussion of headship that we've gone over a number of times</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in a number of episodes</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But when it comes down to it, the basic fact of reality</v>

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<v Speaker 2>is that you are going to have one of two heads.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Originally, the head of humanity is of course Adam, ultimately</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God, because God is the head of Adam in the garden in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>his perfection.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But Adam is the federal head of humanity, and so we are</v>

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<v Speaker 2>all contained in a sense in Adam.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We all follow from Adam, we all flow from Adam.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Adam is our federal head, and so Adam's actions are imputed to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>us. They actually are in a very real way our own.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And you see this in scripture, for instance, when it speaks of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the Levites tithing to Melchizedek because they were still in Abraham at</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the time.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But in the case of humanity, in the fall, Adam chose to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have Satan as his head instead of God.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so for all of us who flow from Adam, Satan is</v>

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<v Speaker 2>now our federal head in our fallen state.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The only way to get out of that fallen state is to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have another federal head.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>In this case, Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Christ is your head if you are in Christ, which is to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>say if you have faith, if you are adopted into the family</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of God, you become a child of God, a son of God,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and Christ is your head.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And Christ being your head, you are now in Christ, you have</v>

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<v Speaker 2>his righteousness, instead of the wickedness</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of the old Adam.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because of course Adam also believed in the promise of the gospel,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and so Adam himself is in Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But that's the point.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You either have as your head Christ or Satan.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And that's the difference.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You either have eternal life in Christ, with him as your head,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>or you have eternal death with Satan in the pit prepared for</v>

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<v Speaker 2>him and his fallen angels.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And we really lose sight of that fact when we focus on</v>

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<v Speaker 2>individualism, on the individual, particularly in the modern egalitarian context.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because if you think of yourself simply as an individual, all of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>these things in Scripture seem very foreign.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>If I'm an individual, why does it matter what Adam did in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the far distant past, what he did six thousand years ago.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>How does that affect me?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not Adam.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's if you're an individual, you don't understand how this works.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you are affected by Adam because you flow from Adam, because you</v>

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<v Speaker 2>are in Adam, because you come from Adam.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The same as you are affected by the things your father did,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and his father did, and his father all the way back to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Adam.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are not an individual.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now when I say that, of course, that's going to set some</v>

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<v Speaker 2>people's hair on fire, because they think that we're denying some sort</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of central truth or fundamental aspect of reality, but really to some</v>

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<v Speaker 2>degree what we're just doing is attacking an idol.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>When I say you aren't an individual, what I mean is that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you are not the the libertarian or</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the modernist conception of an individual.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You're not a standalone island.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are connected to a vast number of people.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, in your daily life you're connected to people in all of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the the ways that should immediately come to mind.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Someone grows your food, someone made your clothing.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Chances are you didn't do either of those</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Just right now, I could start naming things on my desk that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>were made by other people, because all of them were made by</v>

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<v Speaker 2>other people, except for the handwritten notes.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I did happen to make those.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't make the paper or the pen that I used.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But even more fundamentally than that, you are not an individual because</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you are the son or daughter of your mother and your father,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and they are respectively son and daughter of their parents.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And that goes all the way on and back.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are a collection of all of the people in your line.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>it may be that you know you have your eyes from a</v>

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<v Speaker 2>great grandparent, and maybe someone who was alive at that time can</v>

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<v Speaker 2>see that person's eyes in you.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And you start to notice more of this as you you get</v>

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<v Speaker 2>older in life.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You'll start to see well that person has the same eyes as</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that person, or it's the same hair, or all these little things.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because you're not an individual.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God didn't make us to be isolated individuals.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's not what we are.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We</v>

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<v Speaker 2>are a species.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We live in communities first and foremost and fundamentally as a family.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And then from a family up to a clan or a tribe</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and then a nation, and eventually up to humanity as a whole.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But we all descend from Adam, and so we are all one</v>

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<v Speaker 2>greater whole in that sense.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, we are divided today into smaller groups, and we know that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Your immediate family is different in kind from the neighbor's immediate family.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You have different duties to your brother by blood than you have</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to that neighbor.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You still have duties to that neighbor, particularly because he is in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>fact a neighbor.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But they're different in kind Different in kind because there's a different</v>

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<v Speaker 2>relationship there, because God designed us to live in these relationships,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in these webs of relationships with other human beings.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so again, at risk of repeating myself ad nauseum, you are</v>

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<v Speaker 2>not an individual.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are a son or a daughter of your parents and grandparents</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and great grandparents.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And it is important to keep that perspective, because if you don't</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have that perspective, one, you are going to fundamentally misunderstand who and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>what you are, what God made you to be, but two, and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in this case, perhaps more importantly, you are not going to understand</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Scripture. Because you are going to be looking at Scripture with alien</v>

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<v Speaker 2>eyes, and you will never understand what it is telling you.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because when you read through the Genesis narrative, when you read through</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the fall, you're going to think, why does this apply to me?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it explains why the world is the way it is, but</v>

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<v Speaker 2>what effect does it have on me?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not in this story, you are in the story.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because you're in Adam, you're in Eve, you are contained in your</v>

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<v Speaker 2>first parents.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That history is your history.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>What happens there flows down to you in time.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so this is a fundamental problem with the pre Reformation sects,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>which is to say, Rome and the East primarily.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>They deny the reality of original sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And if you deny the reality of original sin, you will never</v>

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<v Speaker 2>understand the atonement.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You will never understand</v>

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<v Speaker 2>why it was necessary for Christ to die on the cross on</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the cross in order to save you and the rest of believing</v>

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<v Speaker 2>humanity. To atone for the entirety of creation, yes, but of course</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the benefit accrues only to those who have faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is the objective, the universal justification versus the subjective, the personal</v>

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<v Speaker 2>justification, the latter being applied to individuals.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But if you don't understand original sin, if you don't understand the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>fullness of the consequences of original sin, then you are going to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>miss the fullness of Christ's work.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are going to miss the nature of what He did on</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the cross.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are certainly going to miss the depth and the breadth of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>it, and there are Protestant groups that also do this, because they</v>

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<v Speaker 2>would limit the atonement to a tiny group of people, the elect.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>When in reality, that for which Christ atoned was not just the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>elect. He atoned for all of creation, because in Adam creation fell,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>because Adam was created as the head of creation.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is the purpose of man, that is the role of man.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We are the head of creation.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We are to represent God in creation.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's part of what it means to be the image of God.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's a more complicated topic that we may get to eventually.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But in being this representative of God in creation, in being the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>head of creation, what we do falls on creation, similar to what</v>

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<v Speaker 2>a father does falls on his children.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so in Adam the fullness of creation fell, and so in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Christ, being the greater Adam, being the antitype, to Adam's type.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>In Christ, the fullness of creation, was redeemed.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>He atoned for everything.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so that is the fundamental important point that we need to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>understand as Christians, and why we cannot come to this looking at</v>

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<v Speaker 2>it through alien eyes of a modernist believing himself to be an</v>

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<v Speaker 2>individual. You have to look at these relationships at this the fullness</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of this reality, the totality of what is happening, in Adam all</v>

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<v Speaker 2>fell. In Christ all is redeemed.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is the core of the Christian faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And if you look at this scripture, if you look at these</v>

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<v Speaker 2>threads, with, as I've said, alien eyes, you're going to miss that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not saying that you will necessarily be damned if you don't</v>

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<v Speaker 2>understand these things.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because of course you can still have faith in Christ, a saving</v>

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<v Speaker 2>faith in Christ, if you don't understand why modernist ideology with regard</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to individuals and collectivism, etc., is wrong.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>However, you are missing the fullness.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are not recognizing the true reality, the scope, and the scale</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of what Christ did for us in his life, death, and resurrection.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so you're missing the fullness of the faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Which is one of the things for which we are arguing so</v>

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<v Speaker 2>often on this podcast.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We're not saying that if you don't get this right, that if</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you miss this particular thing, that if you misunderstand this, what have</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you, we're not saying you will not be a Christian, or that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you are going to spend eternity in hell.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You can very well be a Christian and get many of these</v>

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<v Speaker 2>things wrong.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Plenty of Christians do.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But you are missing out on the fullness of the faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God wants to give you superabundant gifts.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God wants to give you more than you are ready to receive.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And if you close yourself off from that by ignoring the reality</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of what Scripture says, by filtering everything through this modernist false lens,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>then you are simply missing out on what you could be as</v>

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<v Speaker 2>a Christian.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, of course, much of this will be cleared up in eternity,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>but why not start to realize these things here in time, to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>benefit from the things that God wants to give you?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's why we are addressing these topics.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's why we bring up these issues.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because we want you to have a fuller, more profound faith, not</v>

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<v Speaker 2>drinking from the thimble that is modern theology, but drinking from the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>deep well that is scripture, that is the fullness of God's truth,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of all of the gifts that He wants to give</v>

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you. I

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<v Speaker 3>think one of the best examples of how that plays into the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>way God uses generations goes back to our episode on election.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We spent the first half of that talking about how God used</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the propagation of the faith through time to bring some men to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>faith and other men were did not receive the faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That occurred generationally when we talked about how the Americas, North and</v>

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<v Speaker 3>South America America.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know, the men who came over on the land bridge, they</v>

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<v Speaker 3>did not propagate the faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Wherever it was lost between Mount Ararat and the Tower of Abel</v>

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<v Speaker 3>and you know the when they came across through Alaska or wherever.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We don't know when the Christian faith was lost, when they lost</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the knowledge of God, but we do know that it was lost.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And we know that for hundreds of generations the men who lived</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in the Americas and also the men who lived in in sub</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Saharan Africa.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know, when as we said in that episode, once you get</v>

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<v Speaker 3>away from modern day Ethiopia and Sudan, right there on the coast,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>there's no evidence that there was any Christianity, any faith of any</v>

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<v Speaker 3>kind in those parts of the world for thousands and thousands of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>years. And so those generations were all cursed by the faithlessness of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>their fathers, just as Noah's sons and their wives were saved by</v>

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<v Speaker 3>his faithfulness, they didn't necessarily do it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If they had had a different father, they would have been they</v>

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<v Speaker 3>would have died in the flood as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And this is something that pops up in a a smaller degree,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>not to the degree of a generation, but in the the story</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of Sodom and Gomorrah, when the angels came to Lot's house, after</v>

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<v Speaker 3>they realized how wicked the place was, and they saw with their</v>

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<v Speaker 3>own eyes as God has sent them, Their response was to say</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to Lot, get your your wife, get your daughters, get your son-in-law,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>any if you have family here, you need to get him out</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of town tonight because we're going to destroy this place.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And Lot went to his sons-in-law and said, Hey, God's gonna destroy</v>

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<v Speaker 3>this place, you better leave with me right now.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They laughed at him.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They thought he was joking.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They didn't take him seriously.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so they stayed behind.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Now I think that's an interesting example of when we're talking about</v>

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<v Speaker 3>generational guilt, because presumably his sons-in-law weren't the ones trying to rape</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the angels, and yet they still died in the conflagration that God</v>

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<v Speaker 3>sent because they were They were there.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They were judged.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They were destroyed for being there.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That doesn't sound fair.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know, all they had to do was not laugh at Lot.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>All they had to do was go with him, and they would</v>

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<v Speaker 3>have been saved too.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>His own wife looked over her shoulder.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>She looked back.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>She turned into a pillar of salt because they told them Leave.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>This place is is cursed.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>She left, but she looked over her shoulder, and that small amount</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of doubt cost her her life.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So the reason that the example of Lot and his family and</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Sodom and Gomorrah are important, we're talking about generations, is that God</v>

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<v Speaker 3>collectively judges.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Those that that entire area was incinerated, everything.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Not just people, animals, plants, everything was completely incinerated.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>God said, this area in particular, I am ending.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And Lot's family could have been saved if they had obeyed God,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>but because they disobeyed in the smallest possible ways, because they didn't</v>

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<v Speaker 3>take it as serious as they could have, they too died.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so when we talk about generations, again, we're just trying to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>make the basic crucial fundamental point that judging a generation is what</v>

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<v Speaker 3>God does.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Hundred and twenty generations in North and South America all went to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>hell. Why?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because their fathers were faithless generation after generation.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And once you've lost the knowledge of God, everybody goes to hell.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The only way that that can be undone is when someone else</v>

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<v Speaker 3>comes and brings the gospel, which was the the other half of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that episode on election, is that it was only once Europeans went</v>

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<v Speaker 3>into deepest darkest Africa, when they went into North and South America,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that they brought the gospel to a place that for the first</v>

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<v Speaker 3>time in thirty five hundred years hadn't had it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so for the very first time, all these generations that had</v>

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<v Speaker 3>belonged to Satan started Suddenly had the opportunity to hear the truth</v>

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<v Speaker 3>about God and to be saved by it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Part of the purpose of doing that election episode was to say</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that those generations of faithlessness were offset by, you know many centuries</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of faithfulness in Europe.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>When the Christian faith left where it was born in the Middle</v>

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<v Speaker 3>East, in the end, it basically only thrived in Europe.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There were a couple small corners elsewhere that didn't amount to anything</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in terms of propagating the faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It was only in the places where generation after generation faithfulness to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>God resulted in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>doctrine being preserved and in some cases corrupted.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know, we're we're Lutherans.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I think most people listening are probably at least some variation of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>post-Reformation. Things went wrong because there was not perfect faithfulness.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We can never be perfectly faithful.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And yet even at that, when those generations had preserved the faith,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>and then men started go getting on boats from Europe and traveling</v>

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<v Speaker 3>all around the world, what did they do?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They brought the gospel to places where for generations it had never</v>

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<v Speaker 3>existed. And so for the first time, in the fulfillment of the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Great Commission, those Christian conquistadors and others who went to various parts</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of the world They came flying the flag and they came carrying</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the cross.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And they conquered people and they subjugated them and they converted them.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, we talked in that episode as well, forcible conversion</v>

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<v Speaker 3>doesn't sound like something that Christians want to hear about, and yet</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the same story is is heard in Acts where a man would</v>

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<v Speaker 3>be baptized along with his whole household.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's a forcible conversion.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The babies, the children, the slaves don't get a vote.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If the man of the house says we are a Christian household</v>

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<v Speaker 3>now, it goes for everyone under his domain.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the same is true of kings.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so one faithful generation can turn back the clock, can undo</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the damage caused by previous generations.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But as long as you're just looking at things in terms of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>individualism, it's much harder to recognize what the fix is.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because yes, there is an aspect in which the fix is that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>each individual person needs to have the gospel brought to them, but</v>

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<v Speaker 3>at some point that doesn't necessarily scale.</v>

00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:21.600
<v Speaker 3>And that's not us, that's not me saying something negative about the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>power of God's word.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We know from history how God propagated his word.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And it wasn't simply individual missionaries going hat in hand and sharing</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the gospel.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It was often done under flag and under sword.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that is how God chose to spread his word.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Now we're not necessarily calling for that today, but it's an important</v>

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<v Speaker 3>recognition that when God used those means, they were efficacious.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We can't doubt the results.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so a faithful generation begets future faithful generations, just as an</v>

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<v Speaker 3>unfaithful generation will damn all generations after it, until someone else comes</v>

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<v Speaker 3>along and cleans up the mess.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>In the Americas and in Africa and in Asia Generation after generation,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>hellbound, hellbound, hellbound.</v>

00:34:10.240 --> 00:34:15.040
<v Speaker 3>Why? Because their inheritance from their fathers was not only original sin,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>but complete ignorance of the word of God.</v>

00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:20.720
<v Speaker 3>That's damning, all by itself.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so when a faithless generation comes along, it must be replaced.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You need a generation of faithful men to undo the damage by</v>

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<v Speaker 3>bringing something that had been lost.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so these conversations around individualism versus collectivism, however when you talk</v>

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<v Speaker 3>about it, they're fundamentally reaching the heart of the Christian faith, which</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is not individualist.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, I I have faith because God gave it to me personally.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The Holy Spirit was placed in me.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It wasn't placed over, you know, some zip code.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>However, I became a Christian because my dad was a Christian.</v>

00:34:58.640 --> 00:34:59.680
<v Speaker 3>My mom was a Christian.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They made me a Christian.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>God made me a Christian through my parents.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That generational bequeathing of the faith is how it works.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the reason that today we have faithless generations is that the</v>

00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:17.840
<v Speaker 3>inheritance from many of our own parents has not been one of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Christianity. And that's part of the reason for doing this episode is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that it kind of a tie-in to last week's where we talked</v>

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<v Speaker 3>about kind of the sum of the small things that we can</v>

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<v Speaker 3>do to try to undo some of the damage that's been done.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We need to recognize that there may be a generational discontinuity in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the Christian life.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If you were a new convert and you're listening or you know,</v>

00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:43.360
<v Speaker 3>if your parents were weak or whatever, if there was a lull</v>

00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:48.000
<v Speaker 3>in kind of the graph of of Christianity in your ancestry and</v>

00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.680
<v Speaker 3>you're back on the upswing</v>

00:35:50.720 --> 00:35:53.520
<v Speaker 3>Be consciously aware of that.</v>

00:35:53.520 --> 00:35:57.200
<v Speaker 3>Know that you are turning the tide, just as the tide has</v>

00:35:57.200 --> 00:36:02.400
<v Speaker 3>been turned many times before in many places, by a faithless generation</v>

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:04.240
<v Speaker 3>being replaced by a faithful one.</v>

00:36:04.240 --> 00:36:06.320
<v Speaker 3>It's okay to be conscious about this stuff.</v>

00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:11.360
<v Speaker 3>And in a situation like we're in today where civilization is literally</v>

00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:15.440
<v Speaker 3>on the line, it is imperative that we be aware of the</v>

00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:21.920
<v Speaker 3>fact that generational faithlessness is a death sentence to civilization, to everyone,</v>

00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:23.520
<v Speaker 3>to all future generations.</v>

00:36:23.520 --> 00:36:28.160
<v Speaker 3>If we lose the faith, all of our children for 120 generations</v>

00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:30.080
<v Speaker 3>after us will all go to hell.</v>

00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:33.760
<v Speaker 3>Unless God sends someone else to bring the gospel to them.</v>

00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.960
<v Speaker 3>But our task is to bring the gospel to them.</v>

00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:40.960
<v Speaker 3>It's not for that God will sort things out in his time,</v>

00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:43.920
<v Speaker 3>but if we are not a faithful generation, we have no reason</v>

00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:47.120
<v Speaker 3>to expect that our children and grandchildren will receive that.</v>

00:36:47.120 --> 00:36:51.440
<v Speaker 3>This is something that happens over and over in in Scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>When Joshua died, it describes</v>

00:36:56.000 --> 00:37:00.640
<v Speaker 3>his his death and his burial and it says and they buried</v>

00:37:00.640 --> 00:37:03.600
<v Speaker 3>him within the boundaries of his inheritance in the the hill country</v>

00:37:03.600 --> 00:37:07.680
<v Speaker 3>of Ephraim, north of the mountains of Gash, and all the generations</v>

00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.680
<v Speaker 3>also were gathered to their fathers.</v>

00:37:09.680 --> 00:37:13.120
<v Speaker 3>And And there arose another generation after them who did not know</v>

00:37:13.120 --> 00:37:16.000
<v Speaker 3>the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel, which</v>

00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:20.400
<v Speaker 3>is something that had happened in the previous generation with Moses, with</v>

00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:24.320
<v Speaker 3>the faithlessness of the Hebrew people, the Israelites, when they were brought</v>

00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:29.200
<v Speaker 3>out of Egypt, they immediately sinned against God, and so they wandered</v>

00:37:29.200 --> 00:37:32.800
<v Speaker 3>in the Zed Desert for forty years, specifically so that that entire</v>

00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:34.960
<v Speaker 3>generation could be judged and die.</v>

00:37:35.520 --> 00:37:38.400
<v Speaker 3>Not one of them was permitted into the promised land.</v>

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:40.240
<v Speaker 3>Moses was one of the last to die.</v>

00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:42.640
<v Speaker 3>He was able to go and see the land of milk and</v>

00:37:42.640 --> 00:37:44.800
<v Speaker 3>honey, and then God killed him on the spot.</v>

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:46.960
<v Speaker 3>He said, You can you can see it, but you're never going</v>

00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:47.520
<v Speaker 3>to be there.</v>

00:37:47.520 --> 00:37:49.280
<v Speaker 3>Because he disobeyed.</v>

00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.160
<v Speaker 3>Moses disobeyed in a small way, but it was enough for him</v>

00:37:52.160 --> 00:37:56.080
<v Speaker 3>to be included in the generation that never received the inheritance that</v>

00:37:56.080 --> 00:37:57.280
<v Speaker 3>had been promised to them.</v>

00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:01.600
<v Speaker 3>That inheritance was passed on to their children to receive as the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>next generation of believers.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so when Joshua was was raised up, he began circumcision again.</v>

00:38:08.640 --> 00:38:10.880
<v Speaker 3>There'd been no circumcision in the desert.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so</v>

00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.920
<v Speaker 3>a faithless generation was replaced by a faithful one.</v>

00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:20.320
<v Speaker 3>And still when you know when Joshua died, the cycle happened again.</v>

00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:23.600
<v Speaker 3>This is something that's always been a part of the faith and</v>

00:38:23.600 --> 00:38:27.200
<v Speaker 3>it's something that God continuously has to deal with us for.</v>

00:38:27.200 --> 00:38:32.880
<v Speaker 3>So when He operates against and for generations, that is something that</v>

00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:35.040
<v Speaker 3>is a part of the Christian faith.</v>

00:38:35.040 --> 00:38:40.160
<v Speaker 3>This stuff is it's intrinsic to how God operates in our lives,</v>

00:38:40.160 --> 00:38:41.760
<v Speaker 3>and we cannot ignore that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I think this is a good place to go over something that</v>

00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:49.760
<v Speaker 2>we actually haven't explicitly touched on yet in the podcast.</v>

00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:54.240
<v Speaker 2>And that is the the place of knowledge in the Christian faith,</v>

00:38:54.240 --> 00:38:57.520
<v Speaker 2>and what exactly we mean by knowledge when it comes to the</v>

00:38:57.520 --> 00:38:58.800
<v Speaker 2>Christian faith.</v>

00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:02.480
<v Speaker 2>And there are three different levels as it were when it comes</v>

00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:06.560
<v Speaker 2>to knowledge that are relevant for for belief.</v>

00:39:06.560 --> 00:39:11.840
<v Speaker 2>And those three levels are called notitia, ascensus, and fiducia, which just</v>

00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:15.920
<v Speaker 2>Latin for basically the first two you can probably understand, notice and</v>

00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.440
<v Speaker 2>ascent, and the last one is the Latin word from which we</v>

00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.800
<v Speaker 2>get fiduciary, so trust.</v>

00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:26.160
<v Speaker 2>And so essentially, this is you have to take notice of the</v>

00:39:26.160 --> 00:39:30.160
<v Speaker 2>fact, assent to the fact, and then trust in it.</v>

00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:32.560
<v Speaker 2>In the case of the Christian faith, of course, that is the</v>

00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:38.160
<v Speaker 2>core tenets of the Christian faith, you have to not merely know</v>

00:39:38.240 --> 00:39:41.680
<v Speaker 2>of them, assent to them, you have to also trust in them.</v>

00:39:41.680 --> 00:39:44.880
<v Speaker 2>That is what it means to have faith in Christ.</v>

00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:50.960
<v Speaker 2>But if that knowledge is lost, that does mean that the faith</v>

00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:52.000
<v Speaker 2>is lost.</v>

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.120
<v Speaker 2>If you don't know the content of the Christian faith, if that</v>

00:39:55.120 --> 00:40:00.080
<v Speaker 2>was not passed down to you by your forefathers, it's gone.</v>

00:40:00.080 --> 00:40:01.680
<v Speaker 2>You are not going to get it back.</v>

00:40:01.680 --> 00:40:06.800
<v Speaker 2>Yes, we have frequently spoken on this podcast about natural revelation, but</v>

00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.600
<v Speaker 2>natural revelation does not reveal the gospel.</v>

00:40:09.600 --> 00:40:12.720
<v Speaker 2>That has to be written down, that has to be recorded in</v>

00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:16.320
<v Speaker 2>some way, that has to be transmitted from one generation to the</v>

00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:20.400
<v Speaker 2>next. And if you lose that, if you lose the scriptures, if</v>

00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:22.960
<v Speaker 2>you lose the gospel, you are not going to find it in</v>

00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:24.240
<v Speaker 2>nature, you are not going to get it back.</v>

00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:27.680
<v Speaker 2>It will have to be brought to you by some other people</v>

00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:30.160
<v Speaker 2>who did not lose it.</v>

00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:34.800
<v Speaker 2>And so we could just look at a quick example of this</v>

00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:37.600
<v Speaker 2>in the natural world.</v>

00:40:37.600 --> 00:40:41.200
<v Speaker 2>If you're making whiskey, let's say there are five steps.</v>

00:40:41.200 --> 00:40:44.080
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna go with five, it's more complicated than that, we'll simplify</v>

00:40:44.080 --> 00:40:47.200
<v Speaker 2>it. You have to grow barley, you have to malt the barley,</v>

00:40:47.200 --> 00:40:49.600
<v Speaker 2>you have to grind it, you have to ferment it, and then</v>

00:40:49.600 --> 00:40:50.400
<v Speaker 2>you have to distill.</v>

00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:53.440
<v Speaker 2>That's how you make whiskey.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Any one of those steps, you could lose the knowledge necessary to</v>

00:40:58.160 --> 00:40:59.440
<v Speaker 2>perform it.</v>

00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:03.440
<v Speaker 2>If you lose that knowledge, you're never going to make whiskey.</v>

00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:07.120
<v Speaker 2>You may make something else, but you will not make whiskey.</v>

00:41:07.120 --> 00:41:10.160
<v Speaker 2>Because you need that knowledge at each one of those steps in</v>

00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:13.120
<v Speaker 2>order to make the actual end product.</v>

00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:16.400
<v Speaker 2>And so if you forget how to grow barley, well you're not</v>

00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:19.520
<v Speaker 2>going to make whiskey, at least not barley based whiskey.</v>

00:41:19.520 --> 00:41:22.000
<v Speaker 2>If you forget how to malt, you're certainly not going to make</v>

00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:23.600
<v Speaker 2>malt whiskey.</v>

00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:27.440
<v Speaker 2>If you forget how to ferment, you're not going to have the</v>

00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:32.160
<v Speaker 2>starting product you need for the distillation process.</v>

00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:38.160
<v Speaker 2>And so you need this knowledge to produce the desired end result.</v>

00:41:38.160 --> 00:41:40.080
<v Speaker 2>The same is true in the Christian faith.</v>

00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:44.800
<v Speaker 2>You need the knowledge of God, you need the knowledge of the</v>

00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:48.320
<v Speaker 2>gospel, you certainly need the knowledge of original sin and of sin</v>

00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:51.120
<v Speaker 2>generally, because if you don't have that, you're not going to think</v>

00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:53.920
<v Speaker 2>you need the gospel and you're never going to believe in it.</v>

00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:58.160
<v Speaker 2>But you need this knowledge in order to have faith.</v>

00:41:58.160 --> 00:42:01.520
<v Speaker 2>Faith is more than knowledge, as I said, three levels, the final</v>

00:42:01.520 --> 00:42:04.240
<v Speaker 2>being trust, which is actual living faith.</v>

00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:09.280
<v Speaker 2>But you need the other two upon which you build that faith.</v>

00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:13.680
<v Speaker 2>Because you have to know of the law, you have to know</v>

00:42:13.680 --> 00:42:17.200
<v Speaker 2>of the gospel, you have to assent to the truth of them,</v>

00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:20.160
<v Speaker 2>and then you have to believe in the gospel you have to</v>

00:42:20.160 --> 00:42:25.360
<v Speaker 2>believe that Christ died for you, washed away your sins.</v>

00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:30.320
<v Speaker 2>And so the point here is that if the forefathers of a</v>

00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.960
<v Speaker 2>particular people, if a particular generation at some point in the past</v>

00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:42.480
<v Speaker 2>failed to pass down this knowledge, the children of that generation and</v>

00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:46.880
<v Speaker 2>the grandchildren and the great grandchildren will all suffer for that wickedness,</v>

00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:50.880
<v Speaker 2>because they will all be damned, because they will not have the</v>

00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:54.880
<v Speaker 2>knowledge necessary to have the faith.</v>

00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:59.840
<v Speaker 2>And so a prior generation, a wicked generation at some point in</v>

00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:06.080
<v Speaker 2>the past, can damn every generation that proceeds from it, unless some</v>

00:43:06.080 --> 00:43:10.320
<v Speaker 2>outside party comes in and re delivers the truth</v>

00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:17.280
<v Speaker 2>and transmits that knowledge that the wicked generation failed to transmit.</v>

00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:19.920
<v Speaker 2>And we see that as with the whiskey example.</v>

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:24.880
<v Speaker 2>This is very obviously something that can happen in reality, there are</v>

00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:28.480
<v Speaker 2>things that our ancestors in some distant past knew how to do</v>

00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:31.920
<v Speaker 2>that we don't really know how to do today, and we could</v>

00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:36.720
<v Speaker 2>very easily lose things that we know how to do today tomorrow.</v>

00:43:36.720 --> 00:43:41.440
<v Speaker 2>The faith is not different from these things that we see in</v>

00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:47.360
<v Speaker 2>the so-called secular world, at least not different in kind.</v>

00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:50.960
<v Speaker 2>Because it is still knowledge, and knowledge has to be transmitted.</v>

00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:56.400
<v Speaker 2>And if the knowledge is not transmitted, you can never achieve the</v>

00:43:56.400 --> 00:44:00.560
<v Speaker 2>end goal for which that knowledge is necessary.</v>

00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:03.760
<v Speaker 3>One last verse that I wanted to pull in just to establish</v>

00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:07.760
<v Speaker 3>the legitimacy of speaking of generations</v>

00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:12.480
<v Speaker 3>as having properties comes from Jesus Himself.</v>

00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:16.320
<v Speaker 3>When the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say say this generation</v>

00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.520
<v Speaker 3>is an evil generation, it seeks for a sign, but no sign</v>

00:44:19.520 --> 00:44:22.720
<v Speaker 3>will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah, for as</v>

00:44:22.720 --> 00:44:25.760
<v Speaker 3>Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the</v>

00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:28.160
<v Speaker 3>Son of Man be to this generation.</v>

00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:32.160
<v Speaker 3>Now, when Jesus said that, the disciples were present.</v>

00:44:32.160 --> 00:44:36.560
<v Speaker 3>There were obviously some living Jews in that day who received faith,</v>

00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:39.600
<v Speaker 3>who believed in him, and who were saved.</v>

00:44:39.600 --> 00:44:42.480
<v Speaker 3>And yet he said, this is an evil generation.</v>

00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.320
<v Speaker 3>Jesus did not meet misspeak when he said that.</v>

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.880
<v Speaker 3>Jesus was describing accurately the generation of Jews in that day, and</v>

00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:56.720
<v Speaker 3>frankly, every generation since, because their inheritance was one of rejecting Christ,</v>

00:44:56.720 --> 00:45:01.440
<v Speaker 3>which is why Christianity ended up leaving the Middle East and being</v>

00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:06.320
<v Speaker 3>eventually all but exterminated there.</v>

00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:10.880
<v Speaker 3>When we speak about generations, just as when we speak about races</v>

00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:16.080
<v Speaker 3>or when we speak about sexes, these are properties of the world,</v>

00:45:16.080 --> 00:45:17.600
<v Speaker 3>they're properties of creation.</v>

00:45:17.600 --> 00:45:18.560
<v Speaker 3>They're how God</v>

00:45:19.520 --> 00:45:20.480
<v Speaker 3>makes us.</v>

00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:23.920
<v Speaker 3>You know, I am born of a certain generation.</v>

00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:28.320
<v Speaker 3>Someone who's 40 years younger than me is clearly a different generation.</v>

00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.080
<v Speaker 3>That's the way it works.</v>

00:45:30.080 --> 00:45:32.640
<v Speaker 3>You're born, you live, you die.</v>

00:45:32.640 --> 00:45:35.120
<v Speaker 3>This is you know it's a recurring theme in scripture, it's a</v>

00:45:35.120 --> 00:45:39.280
<v Speaker 3>recurring theme in everything because it is the recurring theme of the</v>

00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.680
<v Speaker 3>universe. You know, we know from astronomy even stars have a birth,</v>

00:45:43.680 --> 00:45:45.280
<v Speaker 3>life, and death cycle.</v>

00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:47.040
<v Speaker 3>It's the way everything works.</v>

00:45:47.040 --> 00:45:48.640
<v Speaker 3>God is immortal.</v>

00:45:48.640 --> 00:45:50.800
<v Speaker 3>Everything else comes and goes.</v>

00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:54.880
<v Speaker 3>And so a generation more generally kind of now moving away from</v>

00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:58.640
<v Speaker 3>scripture a little bit, a generation is just the current people who</v>

00:45:58.640 --> 00:45:59.600
<v Speaker 3>are living.</v>

00:45:59.600 --> 00:46:03.280
<v Speaker 3>And I think that's one of the important things to to deal</v>

00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:05.040
<v Speaker 3>with in this section is that</v>

00:46:06.160 --> 00:46:09.920
<v Speaker 3>historically it's always been understood that your generation is just whoever's alive.</v>

00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:14.240
<v Speaker 3>You know, the generation of Noah is It wasn't people between 25</v>

00:46:14.240 --> 00:46:15.200
<v Speaker 3>and 54.</v>

00:46:15.200 --> 00:46:17.680
<v Speaker 3>You know, it wasn't the the key demo.</v>

00:46:17.680 --> 00:46:18.560
<v Speaker 3>It was everyone.</v>

00:46:18.560 --> 00:46:20.800
<v Speaker 3>Whoever's alive is the current generation.</v>

00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:23.200
<v Speaker 3>Jesus was referring to the same thing in his day when he</v>

00:46:23.200 --> 00:46:24.000
<v Speaker 3>was preaching.</v>

00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:25.360
<v Speaker 3>This is an evil generation.</v>

00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:26.560
<v Speaker 3>It was all the people who were alive.</v>

00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.000
<v Speaker 3>The former generation wasn't being spoken to.</v>

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.640
<v Speaker 3>The next generation wasn't being spoken to.</v>

00:46:32.640 --> 00:46:36.000
<v Speaker 3>So I think that generations are slightly distinct from some of the</v>

00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:39.280
<v Speaker 3>other categories that we've talked about in the past for for the</v>

00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:45.600
<v Speaker 3>reason that it's an inherent property not based on how you're begotten,</v>

00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:47.440
<v Speaker 3>but when you're begotten.</v>

00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:51.360
<v Speaker 3>So I think everybody knows at this point, if you believe me,</v>

00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:52.960
<v Speaker 3>I'm a white guy.</v>

00:46:53.120 --> 00:46:56.400
<v Speaker 3>If someone is a black guy, he might be my neighbor, but</v>

00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:58.400
<v Speaker 3>he's not my brother according to the flesh.</v>

00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:00.880
<v Speaker 3>I would hope that he would be my brother according to the</v>

00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:03.600
<v Speaker 3>faith. He may well be in my generation.</v>

00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.320
<v Speaker 3>If we were born in a similar time, if we had similar</v>

00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:11.280
<v Speaker 3>experiences in the more narrow modern idea of a generation, if we're</v>

00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:15.280
<v Speaker 3>roughly the same age with similar socioeconomic status, white guy and a</v>

00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.440
<v Speaker 3>black guy, absolutely the same generation.</v>

00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:20.720
<v Speaker 3>Because we're alive at the same time, experiencing many of the same</v>

00:47:20.720 --> 00:47:25.120
<v Speaker 3>things. I think one of the things that white people really do</v>

00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:31.520
<v Speaker 3>kind of ridiculously coming coming from libs primarily is when when African</v>

00:47:31.600 --> 00:47:35.840
<v Speaker 3>Americans talk about having black culture, we try to say no, you</v>

00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:37.040
<v Speaker 3>don't. you're American.</v>

00:47:37.040 --> 00:47:37.840
<v Speaker 3>You have American culture.</v>

00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:38.960
<v Speaker 3>You don't have black culture.</v>

00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.840
<v Speaker 3>Well, A, that's false on its face, but B, they have their</v>

00:47:44.240 --> 00:47:45.680
<v Speaker 3>stuff and they want it.</v>

00:47:45.680 --> 00:47:48.400
<v Speaker 3>And if you want to make a value judgment about whether one</v>

00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:51.440
<v Speaker 3>culture is better than another, that's entirely legitimate.</v>

00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:54.880
<v Speaker 3>But it's not legitimate to say no, you don't have any culture</v>

00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:55.520
<v Speaker 3>at all.</v>

00:47:55.520 --> 00:47:58.000
<v Speaker 3>Because if I'm born at the same time as a black guy</v>

00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:02.000
<v Speaker 3>and yet we have very different upbringings and very different experiences, which</v>

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:06.800
<v Speaker 3>is usually the case, we're in overlapping generations, but there's not the</v>

00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:10.080
<v Speaker 3>familiarity of brotherhood that would be there if we had the same</v>

00:48:10.080 --> 00:48:11.600
<v Speaker 3>sort of upbringing.</v>

00:48:11.600 --> 00:48:14.480
<v Speaker 3>And so I think that's one of the things that makes discussion</v>

00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:19.200
<v Speaker 3>of generation today trickier is that it just happens by virtue of</v>

00:48:19.200 --> 00:48:20.640
<v Speaker 3>when you're born.</v>

00:48:20.640 --> 00:48:24.640
<v Speaker 3>And it used to be that when you were born didn't have</v>

00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:27.760
<v Speaker 3>it had a much broader impact than I think it does today</v>

00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.640
<v Speaker 3>because there was much more of a monoculture in the past.</v>

00:48:30.640 --> 00:48:33.520
<v Speaker 3>What I mean by that is that with the advent of mass</v>

00:48:33.520 --> 00:48:37.360
<v Speaker 3>media and then today almost micromedia.</v>

00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:42.160
<v Speaker 3>We moved away from being shaped by by our family and by</v>

00:48:42.160 --> 00:48:46.080
<v Speaker 3>our faith and by our you know the nations that we lived</v>

00:48:46.080 --> 00:48:50.480
<v Speaker 3>in and became more and more shaped by pop culture, by culture</v>

00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:54.000
<v Speaker 3>that could be brought by a salesman selling you a book or</v>

00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:57.200
<v Speaker 3>a movie or a video game or whatever it is today.</v>

00:48:57.200 --> 00:49:00.080
<v Speaker 3>Something that can be brought in that you can say, yes, this</v>

00:49:00.080 --> 00:49:02.240
<v Speaker 3>is where I'm gonna spend my time and my energy and my</v>

00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:07.360
<v Speaker 3>focus on, can very easily become your own personal culture that you'll</v>

00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:11.040
<v Speaker 3>share with other people, you know, with similar interests.</v>

00:49:11.040 --> 00:49:15.680
<v Speaker 3>And so what's happened is that before mass media, before all of</v>

00:49:15.680 --> 00:49:19.200
<v Speaker 3>this stuff was so readily available, people pretty much were on the</v>

00:49:19.200 --> 00:49:20.160
<v Speaker 3>same page.</v>

00:49:20.160 --> 00:49:23.760
<v Speaker 3>And what's happened really in the last century or two is that</v>

00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:27.040
<v Speaker 3>we've begun more and more and more to bifurcate so that although</v>

00:49:27.040 --> 00:49:30.720
<v Speaker 3>I was born at a certain time and I have some commonality</v>

00:49:30.720 --> 00:49:34.160
<v Speaker 3>with people born in my age, I had so many options available</v>

00:49:34.160 --> 00:49:36.400
<v Speaker 3>to me that what the books that I read, the movies that</v>

00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:40.240
<v Speaker 3>I watched, the you know summer camps that I went to, all</v>

00:49:40.240 --> 00:49:45.600
<v Speaker 3>those things that produce the particularity of my interests and in who</v>

00:49:45.600 --> 00:49:49.040
<v Speaker 3>I am today may be completely alien to someone else.</v>

00:49:49.040 --> 00:49:52.160
<v Speaker 3>And so although we may be from the same generation, it may</v>

00:49:52.160 --> 00:49:52.960
<v Speaker 3>not matter anymore.</v>

00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:56.240
<v Speaker 3>And I think one of the things that's worth thinking about is</v>

00:49:56.560 --> 00:49:58.800
<v Speaker 3>personally I think that's incredibly unhealthy.</v>

00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.280
<v Speaker 3>I think for so many people to be living in the same</v>

00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:05.600
<v Speaker 3>place at the same time and to have mutually alien experiences is</v>

00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:10.160
<v Speaker 3>fundamentally harmful because if somebody was born at the same time as</v>

00:50:10.160 --> 00:50:13.200
<v Speaker 3>me, but I have nothing in common with them, except for maybe</v>

00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:16.000
<v Speaker 3>religion, but even that only goes so far.</v>

00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.720
<v Speaker 3>Like there's a lot to talk about in life besides religion.</v>

00:50:18.720 --> 00:50:21.840
<v Speaker 3>If all your experiences are alien to me, what are we gonna</v>

00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:22.240
<v Speaker 3>talk about?</v>

00:50:22.240 --> 00:50:25.680
<v Speaker 3>Like you're gonna talk about how weird your childhood was?</v>

00:50:25.680 --> 00:50:28.880
<v Speaker 3>Like it's at some point you have to have commonality, and so</v>

00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:33.280
<v Speaker 3>it's exciting to meet someone with similar interests with similar background because</v>

00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:36.720
<v Speaker 3>you feel that you're part of a mutual generation.</v>

00:50:36.720 --> 00:50:39.760
<v Speaker 3>What's changed is that those generations have been winnowed, so they're now</v>

00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:44.000
<v Speaker 3>kind of we call them subcultures really, but it's kind of it's</v>

00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:48.000
<v Speaker 3>like a generation doesn't have the same continuity that it used to.</v>

00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.120
<v Speaker 3>And that's I think it's something that's really hurt us as human</v>

00:50:51.120 --> 00:50:55.440
<v Speaker 3>beings to to be chopped up in these bits and pieces based</v>

00:50:55.440 --> 00:50:59.840
<v Speaker 3>on distinct experiences that can be radically different from someone maybe even</v>

00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:03.440
<v Speaker 3>just living down the street because he was visiting different web forums</v>

00:51:03.520 --> 00:51:06.560
<v Speaker 3>and you, or because he played sports and you didn't, because you</v>

00:51:06.560 --> 00:51:08.400
<v Speaker 3>know, not everyone played sports anymore.</v>

00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:11.920
<v Speaker 3>Whatever the differences are, when you start charging people up to the</v>

00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:15.120
<v Speaker 3>point that they can be neighbors, they can be from the same</v>

00:51:15.120 --> 00:51:19.040
<v Speaker 3>blood, but they can have a fundamentally alien culture, it kind of</v>

00:51:19.040 --> 00:51:23.360
<v Speaker 3>breaks the generational cohesion that I think God has always wanted for</v>

00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:23.840
<v Speaker 3>us.</v>

00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:24.000
I

00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:26.480
<v Speaker 2>think for those of us who grew up in large cities we</v>

00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:28.720
<v Speaker 2>can see this even more distinctly.</v>

00:51:28.720 --> 00:51:31.600
<v Speaker 2>Because if you grew up in a a small town, you know,</v>

00:51:31.600 --> 00:51:36.320
<v Speaker 2>five hundred people, fewer even, perhaps, there are going to be a</v>

00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:40.800
<v Speaker 2>lot of similarities simply because of the scale of things.</v>

00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.600
<v Speaker 2>You are going to have done fairly similar things during the summer</v>

00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:50.000
<v Speaker 2>in your childhood, you are going to have gone to the same</v>

00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:51.760
<v Speaker 2>places after school, etc.</v>

00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:54.080
<v Speaker 2>things like that.</v>

00:51:54.080 --> 00:51:56.880
<v Speaker 2>But if you grew up in a really big city, in my</v>

00:51:56.880 --> 00:52:01.520
<v Speaker 2>case, I grew up in LA, there are many, many different little</v>

00:52:01.520 --> 00:52:03.200
<v Speaker 2>subcultures here and there.</v>

00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:06.720
<v Speaker 2>And you're going to have that even within, say, your own high</v>

00:52:06.720 --> 00:52:08.720
<v Speaker 2>school. Granted, my high school was fairly large.</v>

00:52:08.720 --> 00:52:11.920
<v Speaker 2>I think my graduating class was over a thousand students.</v>

00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:16.880
<v Speaker 2>But you're going to be divided into these little groups and not</v>

00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:22.240
<v Speaker 2>really have a shared culture as would have been the case in</v>

00:52:22.240 --> 00:52:23.280
<v Speaker 2>the past.</v>

00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:27.040
<v Speaker 2>Now we're not saying that everyone has to be conformist, as it</v>

00:52:27.040 --> 00:52:31.600
<v Speaker 2>were, and everyone have exactly the same preferences and the same hobbies,</v>

00:52:31.600 --> 00:52:34.240
<v Speaker 2>and no that's not the point.</v>

00:52:34.240 --> 00:52:39.760
<v Speaker 2>But the issue is if there's no overlap, then you're really living</v>

00:52:40.080 --> 00:52:45.200
<v Speaker 2>in a nation of aliens, everyone being alien from his neighbor and</v>

00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:47.120
<v Speaker 2>everyone else.</v>

00:52:47.120 --> 00:52:52.720
<v Speaker 2>If you don't have these things in common, then you don't have</v>

00:52:52.720 --> 00:52:55.600
<v Speaker 2>anything you share with your neighbor.</v>

00:52:55.600 --> 00:53:00.560
<v Speaker 2>And that makes him your neighbor by virtue only of proximity.</v>

00:53:00.560 --> 00:53:03.440
<v Speaker 2>Which, yes, that is the core sense of what it means to</v>

00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:04.080
<v Speaker 2>be a neighbor.</v>

00:53:04.080 --> 00:53:06.960
<v Speaker 2>A neighbor is the person next door.</v>

00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:11.520
<v Speaker 2>But in a functioning society, the person The person who is next</v>

00:53:11.520 --> 00:53:14.640
<v Speaker 2>door will also share many things with you.</v>

00:53:14.640 --> 00:53:16.240
<v Speaker 2>You'll have the same religion.</v>

00:53:16.240 --> 00:53:18.480
<v Speaker 2>You'll have some of the same tastes, you'll have some of the</v>

00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:19.360
<v Speaker 2>same hobbies.</v>

00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:22.080
<v Speaker 2>You will be able to get along with and talk to this</v>

00:53:22.080 --> 00:53:25.600
<v Speaker 2>person about more than just what you did for an hour on</v>

00:53:25.600 --> 00:53:29.120
<v Speaker 2>Sunday. It's not to say that church is not important.</v>

00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:30.320
<v Speaker 2>Of course it is.</v>

00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:32.880
<v Speaker 2>It is among the most important things in life, but it is</v>

00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:35.440
<v Speaker 2>not the only important thing in life.</v>

00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:38.640
<v Speaker 2>And so we really need to think about what it is that</v>

00:53:39.200 --> 00:53:44.000
<v Speaker 2>we have had handed to us by previous generations and what we</v>

00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:46.720
<v Speaker 2>have continued to make our own.</v>

00:53:46.720 --> 00:53:48.720
<v Speaker 2>Because, yes, this</v>

00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.960
<v Speaker 2>fracturing of the culture, these microcultures, that are that were created in</v>

00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:59.440
<v Speaker 2>decades past, they were passed to us, but we've entrenched them, and</v>

00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:03.040
<v Speaker 2>we continue to engage in them, and we don't really cross these</v>

00:54:03.040 --> 00:54:04.960
<v Speaker 2>little lines that we've built.</v>

00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:09.600
<v Speaker 2>And so you know the the Goths go over here, the jocks</v>

00:54:09.600 --> 00:54:13.120
<v Speaker 2>go over here, the the coffee culture goes over here.</v>

00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:16.480
<v Speaker 2>It's all these little groups of the various little hobbies that people</v>

00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:20.160
<v Speaker 2>have. And that's not how human beings are supposed to live.</v>

00:54:20.160 --> 00:54:23.920
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it's important to have your core group of friends, and that's</v>

00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.560
<v Speaker 2>fine. That's important, that's part of life, that's part of what it</v>

00:54:26.560 --> 00:54:28.400
<v Speaker 2>means to be a human being.</v>

00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:31.120
<v Speaker 2>But the fullness of what it means to be a human being</v>

00:54:31.120 --> 00:54:32.960
<v Speaker 2>is greater than that.</v>

00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:36.480
<v Speaker 2>And church can of course help with that, because just by the</v>

00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:41.120
<v Speaker 2>very nature of church you are going to have some crossing of</v>

00:54:41.120 --> 00:54:45.040
<v Speaker 2>these microcultural lines we'll call them.</v>

00:54:45.040 --> 00:54:49.360
<v Speaker 2>Because you're going to have people together on Sunday, preferably for more</v>

00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.160
<v Speaker 2>than just an hour, but together on Sunday for at least an</v>

00:54:52.160 --> 00:54:56.880
<v Speaker 2>hour, who have different hobbies, who have taken very different paths in</v>

00:54:56.880 --> 00:55:01.520
<v Speaker 2>life, who have very different jobs, and it's important to have that</v>

00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:04.640
<v Speaker 2>mixing as it were in society.</v>

00:55:04.640 --> 00:55:09.360
<v Speaker 2>Because if you start to stratify and isolate and fracture your society</v>

00:55:09.520 --> 00:55:14.480
<v Speaker 2>down into these tiny groups, you no longer have a nation, you</v>

00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:16.720
<v Speaker 2>no longer even really have a culture.</v>

00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:19.920
<v Speaker 2>And that is what we see today.</v>

00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:25.440
<v Speaker 2>The US, as I've said before, really America, if I want to</v>

00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:29.360
<v Speaker 2>be more specific, the US is a number of nations.</v>

00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:34.960
<v Speaker 2>America is also to some degree not one fully cohesive nation because</v>

00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:42.000
<v Speaker 2>you have different subgroups, subnations really, within America, partly due to</v>

00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:47.920
<v Speaker 2>geography, because the US is vast by historical standards.</v>

00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:50.080
<v Speaker 2>And of course, there are going to people who think, well, Rome,</v>

00:55:50.080 --> 00:55:52.000
<v Speaker 2>etc., were fairly large.</v>

00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:54.240
<v Speaker 2>Yes, of course.</v>

00:55:54.240 --> 00:55:57.840
<v Speaker 2>But Rome never contended to be one nation.</v>

00:55:57.840 --> 00:55:59.200
<v Speaker 2>Rome was an empire.</v>

00:55:59.200 --> 00:56:03.920
<v Speaker 2>An empire is a collection of nations, or a collection of countries</v>

00:56:04.240 --> 00:56:06.880
<v Speaker 2>under one central authority.</v>

00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:12.080
<v Speaker 2>America is a nation, but it is a nation that increasingly shares</v>

00:56:12.080 --> 00:56:14.480
<v Speaker 2>little in common with itself.</v>

00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:18.240
<v Speaker 2>Which is to say, again, we have a neighbor, but we don't</v>

00:56:18.160 --> 00:56:20.480
<v Speaker 2>necessarily share anything with him.</v>

00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:26.640
<v Speaker 2>We should be making an effort as Americans and also as Christians</v>

00:56:27.120 --> 00:56:30.080
<v Speaker 2>to actually have something in common with our neighbors, to share something</v>

00:56:30.080 --> 00:56:34.240
<v Speaker 2>with them more than simple proximity.</v>

00:56:34.240 --> 00:56:38.640
<v Speaker 2>Because God wants us to have more than what we have built</v>

00:56:38.640 --> 00:56:40.400
<v Speaker 2>for ourselves.</v>

00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:44.240
<v Speaker 2>God didn't design us to spend all of our time in our</v>

00:56:44.240 --> 00:56:49.760
<v Speaker 2>own homes isolated, consuming media tailored to us and ignoring the greater</v>

00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:53.840
<v Speaker 2>world. That's not what it means to be a human being.</v>

00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:58.480
<v Speaker 2>We have created these little fractured worlds for ourselves that are mere</v>

00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:04.240
<v Speaker 2>shadows of what God clearly wanted for us, what He gave us.</v>

00:57:04.240 --> 00:57:08.240
<v Speaker 2>And so part of this is going to be that this generation</v>

00:57:09.120 --> 00:57:11.600
<v Speaker 2>is going to have to put in a lot of hard work</v>

00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:16.240
<v Speaker 2>in order to break what has become a cycle, an attempt to</v>

00:57:16.240 --> 00:57:23.680
<v Speaker 2>restore actual normalcy, what it means to be a human being living</v>

00:57:23.680 --> 00:57:26.160
<v Speaker 2>in society among other human beings.</v>

00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:28.560
<v Speaker 2>And that is going to be a challenge.</v>

00:57:28.560 --> 00:57:30.400
<v Speaker 2>Like I said, that is going to be hard work.</v>

00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:32.960
<v Speaker 2>None of this is going to be easy.</v>

00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.040
<v Speaker 2>Because by and large, we become accustomed to something that is totally</v>

00:57:37.040 --> 00:57:42.720
<v Speaker 2>unnatural. And human beings are very good at becoming accustomed to things.</v>

00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:47.520
<v Speaker 2>We can adjust to or at least suffer through almost anything.</v>

00:57:47.520 --> 00:57:49.360
<v Speaker 2>Just look at prisoners of war.</v>

00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:55.440
<v Speaker 2>They can survive sometimes many years, sometimes more than a decade, in</v>

00:57:55.760 --> 00:58:01.280
<v Speaker 2>extremely harsh conditions because humans are very adaptable.</v>

00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:03.840
<v Speaker 2>That can be used for good or for ill.</v>

00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:08.800
<v Speaker 2>When it is used as resiliency, it is used to survive periods</v>

00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:11.920
<v Speaker 2>of stress and trial, that is good.</v>

00:58:11.920 --> 00:58:17.440
<v Speaker 2>When it is used to adjust to what we have today to</v>

00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:21.840
<v Speaker 2>a fundamental inversion of what society and culture should actually be, it</v>

00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:26.320
<v Speaker 2>is no longer good because we have misused it, we have misapplied</v>

00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:29.520
<v Speaker 2>it, we have used it toward wicked ends.</v>

00:58:29.520 --> 00:58:33.360
<v Speaker 2>That's not to say that it started out, used toward wicked ends,</v>

00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:38.160
<v Speaker 2>because to some degree the younger members of Gen X and millennials</v>

00:58:38.240 --> 00:58:41.600
<v Speaker 2>and we'll get more into these lines in a little bit, but</v>

00:58:41.600 --> 00:58:44.400
<v Speaker 2>to some degree, we were born into a world where this was</v>

00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:46.880
<v Speaker 2>already the case.</v>

00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:51.600
<v Speaker 2>And so this was merely adapting to the world which was given</v>

00:58:51.600 --> 00:58:53.280
<v Speaker 2>to us.</v>

00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:55.920
<v Speaker 2>That's good to some degree because yes, you have to survive in</v>

00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.320
<v Speaker 2>the world that was handed to you by your parents and your</v>

00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:02.400
<v Speaker 2>grandparents. But that doesn't mean that you keep it the way that</v>

00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:05.520
<v Speaker 2>they made it if it is not good.</v>

00:59:05.520 --> 00:59:08.960
<v Speaker 2>And so part of our task is to reverse some of these</v>

00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:13.200
<v Speaker 2>things, to return to a more natural natural way of living to</v>

00:59:13.200 --> 00:59:18.720
<v Speaker 2>align ourselves with what God clearly wanted for humanity instead of what</v>

00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:22.640
<v Speaker 2>we have built in the last say hundred, hundred and fifty years</v>

00:59:22.640 --> 00:59:23.680
<v Speaker 2>in the modern world.</v>

00:59:24.160 --> 00:59:29.200
<v Speaker 3>One of the things that changed about man's understanding of generations in</v>

00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:32.880
<v Speaker 3>the last hundred, hundred and fifty years, was that it went from</v>

00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:37.600
<v Speaker 3>being just those who were alive during a certain period to really</v>

00:59:37.600 --> 00:59:43.120
<v Speaker 3>being more about these smaller cohorts that today most of the discussion,</v>

00:59:43.120 --> 00:59:46.320
<v Speaker 3>pretty much all the discussion that you hear today around generations, like</v>

00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:50.640
<v Speaker 3>the baby boom generation, for example, That's a marketing term that was</v>

00:59:50.640 --> 00:59:52.160
<v Speaker 3>specifically designed.</v>

00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:59.200
<v Speaker 3>It's something that's used by marketers to figure out the purchasing cohort</v>

00:59:59.200 --> 01:00:02.880
<v Speaker 3>for preferences in a capitalist sense.</v>

01:00:03.200 --> 01:00:08.400
<v Speaker 3>Who wants to buy cruises and timeshares versus who wants to buy</v>

01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:09.760
<v Speaker 3>whatever else.</v>

01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:11.920
<v Speaker 3>You know, you have some people with a lot of money and</v>

01:00:11.920 --> 01:00:13.120
<v Speaker 3>they have certain tastes.</v>

01:00:13.120 --> 01:00:17.520
<v Speaker 3>You have other people with less resources and different tastes.</v>

01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:19.920
<v Speaker 3>There tend to be generational breakdowns there.</v>

01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:22.080
<v Speaker 3>So let's call those the generations.</v>

01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:24.160
<v Speaker 3>And that's really where we are today.</v>

01:00:24.160 --> 01:00:26.320
<v Speaker 3>And that's where most of the conversation is around.</v>

01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:28.800
<v Speaker 3>So one of the reasons that you know, we're we're talking about</v>

01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:31.600
<v Speaker 3>this today, and we're going to end by specifically talking about baby</v>

01:00:31.600 --> 01:00:35.600
<v Speaker 3>boomers, was that if your view of what a generation is is</v>

01:00:35.600 --> 01:00:40.800
<v Speaker 3>shaped entirely by marketers, then yes, it would be absolutely unfair to</v>

01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:43.680
<v Speaker 3>say what Jesus said, that this is an evil generation.</v>

01:00:43.680 --> 01:00:44.800
<v Speaker 3>How could you say that?</v>

01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:47.760
<v Speaker 3>Like how, you know, if if I look at the sins of</v>

01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:50.720
<v Speaker 3>the baby boomers and say, well, this is bad and this is</v>

01:00:50.720 --> 01:00:54.080
<v Speaker 3>bad, and they retort, as they always do, by saying, Well, what</v>

01:00:54.080 --> 01:00:56.880
<v Speaker 3>about what this generation does and this thing and this thing?</v>

01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:58.560
<v Speaker 3>They're not wrong.</v>

01:00:58.560 --> 01:01:03.120
<v Speaker 3>These things are regardless of whose sin is worse or who who</v>

01:01:03.120 --> 01:01:07.920
<v Speaker 3>has accumulated a greater amount of sins, there's something wrong with every</v>

01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:10.960
<v Speaker 3>generation, beyond any shadow of a doubt.</v>

01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:15.040
<v Speaker 3>So if the generations as as they're described today, you know, these</v>

01:01:15.200 --> 01:01:20.080
<v Speaker 3>these smaller generations, if it's really just a marketing cohort, then yeah,</v>

01:01:20.080 --> 01:01:20.640
<v Speaker 3>who cares?</v>

01:01:20.640 --> 01:01:24.800
<v Speaker 3>Why would you pick on the older people when the younger people</v>

01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:28.320
<v Speaker 3>have these different problems that are in some ways worse?</v>

01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:31.600
<v Speaker 3>And so I think it's important to understand that one of the</v>

01:01:31.600 --> 01:01:37.680
<v Speaker 3>things that we've lost by comprehending ourselves in terms of those marketing</v>

01:01:37.680 --> 01:01:41.440
<v Speaker 3>cohorts is that if you think of all the living as sort</v>

01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:45.520
<v Speaker 3>of a a horizontal stack, you know, where you have the the</v>

01:01:45.520 --> 01:01:48.560
<v Speaker 3>oldest at the bottom and then the youngest at the top.</v>

01:01:48.560 --> 01:01:52.560
<v Speaker 3>If you think about everyone who's alive at a certain point in</v>

01:01:52.560 --> 01:01:57.360
<v Speaker 3>terms of uh continuity, it's very different than if if you turn</v>

01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:01.440
<v Speaker 3>think about it in terms of this Of this discontinuous marketing segmentation</v>

01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:02.480
<v Speaker 3>that we have.</v>

01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:06.560
<v Speaker 3>So, you know, if it used to be the generations of, you</v>

01:02:06.560 --> 01:02:12.320
<v Speaker 3>know, for example, fathers, children, grandchildren, those are generations too.</v>

01:02:12.560 --> 01:02:13.360
<v Speaker 3>that's something we all understand.</v>

01:02:13.680 --> 01:02:15.920
<v Speaker 3>And we're not trying to redefine it.</v>

01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:17.200
<v Speaker 3>But as</v>

01:02:18.080 --> 01:02:20.960
<v Speaker 3>people have been having kids older and older, it means that you're</v>

01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:25.040
<v Speaker 3>less and less likely to ever know your grandparents or certainly your</v>

01:02:25.040 --> 01:02:25.760
<v Speaker 3>great grandparents.</v>

01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:29.040
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure there are many kids alive today who were born after</v>

01:02:29.040 --> 01:02:30.960
<v Speaker 3>their great grandparents were dead.</v>

01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:32.720
<v Speaker 3>That didn't used to be the case.</v>

01:02:32.720 --> 01:02:36.000
<v Speaker 3>Generations used to be closer together, you know, the father to son</v>

01:02:36.160 --> 01:02:41.600
<v Speaker 3>sort of generation Such that the living generation could very easily encompass</v>

01:02:41.600 --> 01:02:44.480
<v Speaker 3>four or even five generations.</v>

01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:50.000
<v Speaker 3>When we lose that, we're losing the sort of vertical continuity of</v>

01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:54.080
<v Speaker 3>family that going back to the first segment is so such a</v>

01:02:54.080 --> 01:02:58.640
<v Speaker 3>vital part of perpetuating not only faith but also culture in general.</v>

01:02:58.640 --> 01:03:02.800
<v Speaker 3>You know, one of the things that's terrible about the so-called modern</v>

01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:06.800
<v Speaker 3>family is that there's typically no extended family around.</v>

01:03:06.800 --> 01:03:10.240
<v Speaker 3>So when a couple, you know, they're thirty-three, thirty-four years old, they</v>

01:03:10.240 --> 01:03:13.600
<v Speaker 3>have their first kid, we're the grandparents.</v>

01:03:13.600 --> 01:03:16.240
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, usually grandma might, you know, fly out for a couple months</v>

01:03:16.560 --> 01:03:17.040
<v Speaker 3>to help.</v>

01:03:17.040 --> 01:03:20.240
<v Speaker 3>And then she goes home and mom's by herself again.</v>

01:03:20.240 --> 01:03:21.360
<v Speaker 3>That's messed up.</v>

01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:23.520
<v Speaker 3>You know, we talked last week about how much I had moved</v>

01:03:23.520 --> 01:03:26.560
<v Speaker 3>around as a kid and hoping that as a culture will get</v>

01:03:26.560 --> 01:03:28.000
<v Speaker 3>away from doing that.</v>

01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:31.840
<v Speaker 3>Think about what that does for family formation when the older generations</v>

01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:33.200
<v Speaker 3>are nowhere to be found.</v>

01:03:33.200 --> 01:03:35.920
<v Speaker 3>Even if they exist, even you see them at Christmas or whatever</v>

01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:38.880
<v Speaker 3>and they send presents and you know we have FaceTime video and</v>

01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:43.680
<v Speaker 3>things, so you can have some kind of socialization, but it's nothing</v>

01:03:43.680 --> 01:03:47.280
<v Speaker 3>like having your mother and your aunts and your cousins and your</v>

01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:50.400
<v Speaker 3>grandmother all there to help care for you a new baby.</v>

01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:52.400
<v Speaker 3>That's a fundamentally different thing.</v>

01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.960
<v Speaker 3>And so I think one of the things that we've lost by</v>

01:03:55.600 --> 01:04:01.440
<v Speaker 3>believing the modern marketer version of generations where you have these adversarial</v>

01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:07.120
<v Speaker 3>groups of purchasing cohorts, it turns us into these economic cogs and</v>

01:04:08.080 --> 01:04:13.360
<v Speaker 3>strips us of the vertical orientation that we have relative to each</v>

01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:17.360
<v Speaker 3>other when it comes to taking care of family.</v>

01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:20.640
<v Speaker 3>You know, Corey spent a lot of time emphasizing the family nature</v>

01:04:20.640 --> 01:04:25.120
<v Speaker 3>of generations, that's something that you lose when you just think about</v>

01:04:25.120 --> 01:04:27.200
<v Speaker 3>it in terms of demographics.</v>

01:04:27.200 --> 01:04:31.120
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you can you can wrap data science around this stuff all</v>

01:04:31.120 --> 01:04:35.200
<v Speaker 3>you want, but in the end, it's fundamentally a question about do</v>

01:04:35.200 --> 01:04:39.360
<v Speaker 3>we have r relationships with older and younger generations in our own</v>

01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:41.440
<v Speaker 3>families, and then more broadly.</v>

01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:45.280
<v Speaker 3>I can tell you one of the things that's really surprised me</v>

01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:47.280
<v Speaker 3>for the last few years, and one of the reasons I wanted</v>

01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:50.240
<v Speaker 3>to do this episode in particular is that a lot of guys</v>

01:04:50.240 --> 01:04:52.800
<v Speaker 3>I talked to are about half my age.</v>

01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:57.440
<v Speaker 3>And I'm thankful to talk to those guys so frequently because if</v>

01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:02.880
<v Speaker 3>I didn't hear them talking about their own lives, I would say</v>

01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:07.280
<v Speaker 3>the stupidest things imaginable about what their lives would be like or</v>

01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:10.000
<v Speaker 3>should be like or how they could do things differently.</v>

01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:13.600
<v Speaker 3>Because if I were just sitting resting on my own laurels from</v>

01:05:13.600 --> 01:05:17.680
<v Speaker 3>my experience growing up, you know, not that many years prior to</v>

01:05:17.680 --> 01:05:22.960
<v Speaker 3>them, I'm a reasonably intelligent guy, I have pretty good common sense,</v>

01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:26.400
<v Speaker 3>I generally have some degree of wisdom in most things, and yet</v>

01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:29.920
<v Speaker 3>my conclusions if I weren't talking to these younger men would be</v>

01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:31.200
<v Speaker 3>utterly retarded.</v>

01:05:31.200 --> 01:05:35.360
<v Speaker 3>I would be saying the stupidest, most pernicious things imaginable because I</v>

01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:37.520
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't have known what their experience was.</v>

01:05:37.520 --> 01:05:39.920
<v Speaker 3>I I would assume that well was a little bit different than</v>

01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:42.000
<v Speaker 3>mine, but it can't be that much different.</v>

01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:46.400
<v Speaker 3>I'm here to tell you, if you are not talking to young</v>

01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:50.960
<v Speaker 3>men and women in their teens and early 20s, you have no</v>

01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:56.400
<v Speaker 3>idea. And I say this specifically because if you're giving them advice</v>

01:05:56.400 --> 01:05:59.600
<v Speaker 3>and you're not first listening to them, you're going to give them</v>

01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:00.720
<v Speaker 3>terrible advice.</v>

01:06:00.720 --> 01:06:03.440
<v Speaker 3>I know this because I would be giving terrible advice.</v>

01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:07.600
<v Speaker 3>I would be making stupid inane comments all the time about things</v>

01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:10.720
<v Speaker 3>if I weren't hearing them and listening to them talk about what</v>

01:06:10.720 --> 01:06:11.920
<v Speaker 3>they deal with.</v>

01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:15.600
<v Speaker 3>Because it's utterly alien to my experience in ways that I can't</v>

01:06:15.600 --> 01:06:17.600
<v Speaker 3>understand. And it's mutual alienation.</v>

01:06:17.600 --> 01:06:20.320
<v Speaker 3>They have no idea what it was like growing up in my</v>

01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:24.400
<v Speaker 3>generation. And that's something that's totally unnatural.</v>

01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:27.520
<v Speaker 3>The world is not supposed to be changing that rapidly.</v>

01:06:27.680 --> 01:06:30.880
<v Speaker 3>That's something we were talking about the last segment is that the</v>

01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:36.000
<v Speaker 3>duty of the elder generation is to prevent such chaotic change from</v>

01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:40.080
<v Speaker 3>occurring in the younger generations because it just tears everything apart.</v>

01:06:40.080 --> 01:06:45.840
<v Speaker 3>How can you possibly propagate wisdom of In a society when the</v>

01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.400
<v Speaker 3>guy who's 20 and the guy who's 40 and the guy who's</v>

01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:53.360
<v Speaker 3>60 and the guy who's 80 all have such completely different experiences</v>

01:06:53.520 --> 01:06:56.720
<v Speaker 3>that if the 20-year-old asks the 60 or the 80-year-old or even</v>

01:06:56.720 --> 01:06:59.440
<v Speaker 3>the 40-year-old, he's gonna get bad advice.</v>

01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:03.120
<v Speaker 3>He's gonna say, What do I do about girls these days?</v>

01:07:03.120 --> 01:07:05.840
<v Speaker 3>These old guys are gonna they're just gonna have a head full</v>

01:07:05.840 --> 01:07:06.640
<v Speaker 3>of rocks.</v>

01:07:06.640 --> 01:07:09.520
<v Speaker 3>They're whatever advice they have, even if it was good advice when</v>

01:07:09.520 --> 01:07:13.760
<v Speaker 3>they were kids, it's gonna be bad advice because they're not dealing</v>

01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:16.320
<v Speaker 3>I hate to say, but in the same context.</v>

01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:19.200
<v Speaker 3>You know, that's a weasel word that a lot of people abuse.</v>

01:07:19.200 --> 01:07:24.640
<v Speaker 3>But unless you're seeing and experiencing how much things have changed, you</v>

01:07:24.640 --> 01:07:27.920
<v Speaker 3>don't understand how much worse it is for the younger generations.</v>

01:07:27.920 --> 01:07:29.520
<v Speaker 3>And we've done that to them.</v>

01:07:29.520 --> 01:07:32.560
<v Speaker 3>We have given them a world that is on fire and they</v>

01:07:32.560 --> 01:07:33.600
<v Speaker 3>don't know any better.</v>

01:07:33.600 --> 01:07:38.720
<v Speaker 3>If young people knew the world that boomers had, there would be</v>

01:07:38.720 --> 01:07:39.760
<v Speaker 3>a bloodbath.</v>

01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:41.840
<v Speaker 3>And I think that's part of the reason that there's a lot</v>

01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:46.320
<v Speaker 3>of boomer hate today is that when younger people see high school</v>

01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:51.360
<v Speaker 3>videos from the nineties and eighties, you know, film, they don't believe</v>

01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:52.640
<v Speaker 3>it's real.</v>

01:07:52.640 --> 01:07:54.800
<v Speaker 3>Whereas someone who's from that period, when they look at it, they</v>

01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:55.840
<v Speaker 3>think, well, that's high school.</v>

01:07:55.840 --> 01:07:57.360
<v Speaker 3>Of course that's what it looks like.</v>

01:07:57.360 --> 01:07:59.840
<v Speaker 3>And in some cases, you look at high school today and high</v>

01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:02.880
<v Speaker 3>school then School then, and an older person maybe looks at it</v>

01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:04.560
<v Speaker 3>and can't even tell the difference.</v>

01:08:04.560 --> 01:08:09.200
<v Speaker 3>But a younger person sees a world that they've never even known.</v>

01:08:09.200 --> 01:08:14.240
<v Speaker 3>That's the kind of alienation that's occurred because generations are not seeking</v>

01:08:14.240 --> 01:08:14.640
<v Speaker 3>to preserve</v>

01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:18.240
<v Speaker 3>sanity for their own children.</v>

01:08:18.240 --> 01:08:21.360
<v Speaker 3>And so I hope that if you get nothing else from this</v>

01:08:21.360 --> 01:08:26.720
<v Speaker 3>episode, please consider actually talking to and listening to younger people and</v>

01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:29.520
<v Speaker 3>not not in some hippie oh we gotta learn from the children</v>

01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:31.920
<v Speaker 3>thing. A lot of times these guy these young guys have no</v>

01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:33.200
<v Speaker 3>idea how bad it is.</v>

01:08:33.200 --> 01:08:36.480
<v Speaker 3>So I listen to them and I I understand in some ways</v>

01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:38.400
<v Speaker 3>what they're saying better than they do.</v>

01:08:38.400 --> 01:08:42.720
<v Speaker 3>But if I weren't listening to them, I would have idiotic things</v>

01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:45.440
<v Speaker 3>to say about what their lives are like because I wouldn't know</v>

01:08:45.440 --> 01:08:46.560
<v Speaker 3>the specifics.</v>

01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:50.240
<v Speaker 3>They have the specifics, but they don't understand the context historically, or</v>

01:08:50.240 --> 01:08:54.560
<v Speaker 3>the context of even what their parents and their grandparents experienced.</v>

01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:59.120
<v Speaker 3>It was so different than them that there's a mutual unintelligibility.</v>

01:08:59.120 --> 01:09:03.920
<v Speaker 3>That's it's really a crisis for a civilization when a father and</v>

01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:08.000
<v Speaker 3>a son can't talk about something and reach a sane conclusion.</v>

01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:09.680
<v Speaker 3>That is terrible.</v>

01:09:09.680 --> 01:09:12.480
<v Speaker 2>To some degree, that's really the story of the last</v>

01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:19.200
<v Speaker 2>say century and a half, since maybe the eighteen eighties to well</v>

01:09:19.280 --> 01:09:21.920
<v Speaker 2>today, but we don't know when it will stop yet.</v>

01:09:22.960 --> 01:09:27.760
<v Speaker 2>We've just had constant upheaval every decade or so.</v>

01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:28.080
<v Speaker 2>And</v>

01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.040
<v Speaker 2>it is getting worse.</v>

01:09:31.040 --> 01:09:34.640
<v Speaker 2>To some degree, the more recent generations</v>

01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:40.560
<v Speaker 2>have made it worse in a way that is different in degree,</v>

01:09:40.560 --> 01:09:42.640
<v Speaker 2>but so almost in kind</v>

01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:45.280
<v Speaker 2>from previous generations.</v>

01:09:45.280 --> 01:09:48.640
<v Speaker 2>Because you have these major upheavals, and we could of course go</v>

01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:53.600
<v Speaker 2>over the the history, but most people probably know the rough outlines.</v>

01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:56.640
<v Speaker 2>You have, of course, the world wars, you have the Great Depression,</v>

01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:00.240
<v Speaker 2>you have the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Spanish American War.</v>

01:10:00.240 --> 01:10:04.960
<v Speaker 2>Something that many people forget is the American Indian Wars didn't end</v>

01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:08.800
<v Speaker 2>until the nineteen twenties, started in the sixteen hundreds, went for the</v>

01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:10.480
<v Speaker 2>fullness of three centuries.</v>

01:10:10.480 --> 01:10:14.160
<v Speaker 2>All of these upheavals, many of them have been to some degree</v>

01:10:14.160 --> 01:10:19.520
<v Speaker 2>externally caused, but the difference in kind for the baby boomers is</v>

01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:23.040
<v Speaker 2>that many of the problems they have given to their children and</v>

01:10:23.040 --> 01:10:28.240
<v Speaker 2>grandchildren were not externally caused.</v>

01:10:28.240 --> 01:10:31.760
<v Speaker 2>The baby boomers imported these issues.</v>

01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:35.040
<v Speaker 2>The baby boomers created these issues.</v>

01:10:35.040 --> 01:10:38.480
<v Speaker 2>And that is part of why you see this growing resentment on</v>

01:10:38.480 --> 01:10:42.320
<v Speaker 2>the part of millennials and younger when it comes to the older</v>

01:10:42.320 --> 01:10:47.120
<v Speaker 2>generations. Because as was mentioned, millennials and younger see what these older</v>

01:10:47.120 --> 01:10:48.000
<v Speaker 2>generations had</v>

01:10:49.200 --> 01:10:53.760
<v Speaker 2>and what we do not have, which means that the baby boomers</v>

01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:57.600
<v Speaker 2>failed to preserve it and failed to pass it on, which of</v>

01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:02.320
<v Speaker 2>course is one of the fundamental duties of older generations, of parents,</v>

01:11:02.320 --> 01:11:05.680
<v Speaker 2>is to pass to their children what was passed to them by</v>

01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:10.240
<v Speaker 2>their parents, and to do so in a way that is better.</v>

01:11:10.240 --> 01:11:13.680
<v Speaker 2>It is not just to preserve the principle, but to grow it</v>

01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:17.200
<v Speaker 2>and to pass more to the future generation than was passed to</v>

01:11:17.200 --> 01:11:19.440
<v Speaker 2>you by previous generations.</v>

01:11:19.440 --> 01:11:24.560
<v Speaker 2>And in the case of the baby boomers, they were handed more</v>

01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:27.520
<v Speaker 2>than almost any other generation in history.</v>

01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:33.040
<v Speaker 2>Particularly in the American context, there are obviously some nuances in some</v>

01:11:33.040 --> 01:11:37.120
<v Speaker 2>contexts in other parts of the world, particularly Central Europe recovering from</v>

01:11:37.120 --> 01:11:41.600
<v Speaker 2>the world wars and having to deal in the East with communism,</v>

01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:43.680
<v Speaker 2>with the USSR.</v>

01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:48.000
<v Speaker 2>But in the American context, you had a peaceful society, you had</v>

01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:54.560
<v Speaker 2>a prosperous society, you had almost everything going for that generation.</v>

01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:57.680
<v Speaker 2>You could go out and get a job simply by walking in</v>

01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:00.080
<v Speaker 2>somewhere and talking to the owner.</v>

01:12:00.080 --> 01:12:05.040
<v Speaker 2>Many baby boomers will tell younger generation today, well, you should just</v>

01:12:05.040 --> 01:12:08.080
<v Speaker 2>go hit the pavement with your printed resume, and that's not how</v>

01:12:08.080 --> 01:12:08.720
<v Speaker 2>it works now.</v>

01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:10.640
<v Speaker 2>They don't understand.</v>

01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:13.920
<v Speaker 2>You wind up having to fill out a thousand applications on a</v>

01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:17.760
<v Speaker 2>bunch of different websites and then maybe someone calls you back.</v>

01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:20.320
<v Speaker 2>These are fundamentally different worlds.</v>

01:12:20.320 --> 01:12:23.440
<v Speaker 2>And so as was mentioned, the older generations give terrible advice on</v>

01:12:23.440 --> 01:12:27.360
<v Speaker 2>these things because they do not understand the reality of the modern</v>

01:12:27.360 --> 01:12:31.440
<v Speaker 2>world. If you ask for advice from the older generations about the</v>

01:12:31.440 --> 01:12:35.760
<v Speaker 2>opposite sex, you you will get fundamentally terrible advice in the modern</v>

01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:39.840
<v Speaker 2>context because they do not understand the world that they created and</v>

01:12:39.840 --> 01:12:41.200
<v Speaker 2>pass to their children.</v>

01:12:41.200 --> 01:12:45.440
<v Speaker 2>Because don't forget, they were the ones who created this by doubling</v>

01:12:45.440 --> 01:12:50.560
<v Speaker 2>down on what happened in the sixties, by doubling down on the</v>

01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:55.200
<v Speaker 2>evils of their parents and passing that on to their children.</v>

01:12:55.200 --> 01:12:58.240
<v Speaker 2>Because when you look at the reality of what we have today,</v>

01:12:58.240 --> 01:13:03.440
<v Speaker 2>the absolute chaos between the sexes, and you have</v>

01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:08.880
<v Speaker 2>an untold number of women producing pornography in their spare time, as</v>

01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:14.480
<v Speaker 2>it were, you have men who don't even consider dating, and of</v>

01:13:14.480 --> 01:13:17.920
<v Speaker 2>course I could just continue listing the problems, they are legion at</v>

01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:18.960
<v Speaker 2>this point.</v>

01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:24.880
<v Speaker 2>But all of these problems are the progeny of the profligate nature</v>

01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:29.760
<v Speaker 2>of the behavior of those who live through the sixties.</v>

01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:34.800
<v Speaker 2>We are living in the consequences of the sexual revolution.</v>

01:13:34.800 --> 01:13:37.440
<v Speaker 2>Of course it is still getting worse because as we have mentioned</v>

01:13:37.440 --> 01:13:39.360
<v Speaker 2>many times before, there is no floor.</v>

01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:41.200
<v Speaker 2>With sin it can always get worse.</v>

01:13:41.200 --> 01:13:42.720
<v Speaker 2>There is no bottom.</v>

01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:45.360
<v Speaker 2>Things can always get worse.</v>

01:13:45.360 --> 01:13:47.760
<v Speaker 2>And so there is no point at which you should say, well</v>

01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:50.000
<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't bother to do anything because this is as bad as</v>

01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:51.200
<v Speaker 2>it can get, no it can get worse.</v>

01:13:52.080 --> 01:13:55.840
<v Speaker 2>And so you should always try to arrest the free fall and</v>

01:13:55.840 --> 01:13:58.480
<v Speaker 2>to turn things around.</v>

01:13:58.480 --> 01:14:00.960
<v Speaker 2>But we're living in that, and so if you ask the older</v>

01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.920
<v Speaker 2>generations for advice on dating, they will give you advice that maybe</v>

01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:05.440
<v Speaker 2>made sense in the fifties or</v>

01:14:06.400 --> 01:14:09.040
<v Speaker 2>even perhaps in part of the 60s, if you weren't in the</v>

01:14:09.040 --> 01:14:14.720
<v Speaker 2>worst areas of the country, but certainly won't make sense today.</v>

01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:18.800
<v Speaker 2>And this causes a real divide between these generations.</v>

01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:22.160
<v Speaker 2>You have essentially the older generation and the younger generation.</v>

01:14:22.160 --> 01:14:25.280
<v Speaker 2>Yes, we could divide things up in, you know, the lost, greatest,</v>

01:14:25.280 --> 01:14:29.440
<v Speaker 2>silent boomers, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z, bo and Gen Alpha,</v>

01:14:29.360 --> 01:14:31.760
<v Speaker 2>now the more recent one, but why?</v>

01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:35.600
<v Speaker 2>It really comes down to there is a fundamental divide between those</v>

01:14:35.600 --> 01:14:38.240
<v Speaker 2>who belong to the older generation, which you can use the baby</v>

01:14:38.240 --> 01:14:41.520
<v Speaker 2>boomers as a shorthand, and those who belong to the younger generation,</v>

01:14:41.520 --> 01:14:44.480
<v Speaker 2>which is basically millennials and younger.</v>

01:14:44.480 --> 01:14:48.240
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Gen X, we do realize that you exist, but you don't</v>

01:14:48.240 --> 01:14:49.520
<v Speaker 2>really exist.</v>

01:14:49.520 --> 01:14:52.240
<v Speaker 2>Because the older members of Gen X are baby boomers, the younger</v>

01:14:52.240 --> 01:14:54.400
<v Speaker 2>members of Gen X are millennials.</v>

01:14:54.400 --> 01:14:56.320
<v Speaker 2>That's how this really plays out.</v>

01:14:56.320 --> 01:15:00.080
<v Speaker 2>Because it's sort of a before and after watershed moment</v>

01:15:01.360 --> 01:15:09.520
<v Speaker 2>where you have those who lived in this almost idyllic, almost paradisical</v>

01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:14.400
<v Speaker 2>reality of the post-war period in the US.</v>

01:15:14.400 --> 01:15:19.280
<v Speaker 2>And those who were born after that had all been squandered.</v>

01:15:19.280 --> 01:15:22.480
<v Speaker 2>That's the divide between these two generations, really.</v>

01:15:22.480 --> 01:15:28.240
<v Speaker 2>And that is why many in the younger generation feel enmity with</v>

01:15:28.240 --> 01:15:31.040
<v Speaker 2>the older generation.</v>

01:15:31.040 --> 01:15:34.640
<v Speaker 2>For those anyway, who recognize what has been lost, as was mentioned,</v>

01:15:34.640 --> 01:15:38.800
<v Speaker 2>many in the truly younger part of the younger generation don't recognize</v>

01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:39.840
<v Speaker 2>what was lost.</v>

01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:42.080
<v Speaker 2>They did not grow up with it.</v>

01:15:42.080 --> 01:15:44.240
<v Speaker 2>They didn't even grow up with the promise of it.</v>

01:15:44.240 --> 01:15:46.880
<v Speaker 2>They didn't even grow up with the idea of it.</v>

01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:49.920
<v Speaker 2>Because it is so alien to them, because what they were given</v>

01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:54.880
<v Speaker 2>by their parents and grandparents is so fundamentally different that they cannot</v>

01:15:54.880 --> 01:15:58.880
<v Speaker 2>even conceptualize what the world was like in the US in the</v>

01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:01.200
<v Speaker 2>forties and the fifties.</v>

01:16:01.200 --> 01:16:05.360
<v Speaker 2>And And there's no chance they could conceptualize what it was like</v>

01:16:05.360 --> 01:16:11.920
<v Speaker 2>in the tens and the twenties, before of course the depression hit.</v>

01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:16.000
<v Speaker 2>But for millennials for the older millennials, in this case this would</v>

01:16:16.160 --> 01:16:20.720
<v Speaker 2>I am an older millennial, born in nineteen eighty five.</v>

01:16:20.720 --> 01:16:24.640
<v Speaker 2>We are to some degree on the cusp of it, because yes,</v>

01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:28.240
<v Speaker 2>for the younger members of Gen X, they got to experience some</v>

01:16:28.240 --> 01:16:32.000
<v Speaker 2>of the good times as it were, and then watch, and they</v>

01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:35.040
<v Speaker 2>are still watching of course as things are getting worse.</v>

01:16:35.040 --> 01:16:39.760
<v Speaker 2>But millennials we were the turning point, really, in very many ways.</v>

01:16:39.760 --> 01:16:44.080
<v Speaker 2>Because we were the ones who could see what our parents had</v>

01:16:44.080 --> 01:16:46.240
<v Speaker 2>when they grew up, so we understood that.</v>

01:16:46.240 --> 01:16:48.480
<v Speaker 2>We saw what the world was like for them, and it still</v>

01:16:48.480 --> 01:16:50.400
<v Speaker 2>was in some parts of the country.</v>

01:16:50.400 --> 01:16:53.520
<v Speaker 2>And then, particularly for those of us who grew up in some</v>

01:16:53.520 --> 01:16:59.040
<v Speaker 2>of the coastal regions or larger cities, we watched the whole progression</v>

01:16:59.040 --> 01:17:01.440
<v Speaker 2>as things collapsed.</v>

01:17:01.440 --> 01:17:04.800
<v Speaker 2>And we were given the terrible advice all along the way.</v>

01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:09.680
<v Speaker 2>Gen Z, as it were, and younger don't necessarily ask boomers and</v>

01:17:09.680 --> 01:17:12.880
<v Speaker 2>older for advice because in part they recognize they're going to get</v>

01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:15.280
<v Speaker 2>terrible advice, and in part they just don't do it.</v>

01:17:15.280 --> 01:17:18.800
<v Speaker 2>But for millennials, well, the baby boomers were our parents.</v>

01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:22.000
<v Speaker 2>So of course, we were given advice by them all along the</v>

01:17:22.000 --> 01:17:26.560
<v Speaker 2>way. But as a generation, I don't mean just to complain as</v>

01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:30.160
<v Speaker 2>a millennial, I'm simply highlighting the reality of what happened, both for</v>

01:17:30.160 --> 01:17:33.280
<v Speaker 2>the younger listeners and for the handful of older listeners we have</v>

01:17:33.280 --> 01:17:33.600
<v Speaker 2>to understand</v>

01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:38.080
<v Speaker 2>the perspective, understand what happened to the younger generations.</v>

01:17:38.080 --> 01:17:41.680
<v Speaker 2>But for millennials, one of the most common refrains that we heard,</v>

01:17:41.680 --> 01:17:44.240
<v Speaker 2>and talk to any millennial, and he will agree with me on</v>

01:17:44.240 --> 01:17:46.880
<v Speaker 2>this Me on this one, we were told you have to go</v>

01:17:46.880 --> 01:17:49.520
<v Speaker 2>to university or else you'll work at McDonald's.</v>

01:17:49.520 --> 01:17:51.120
<v Speaker 2>And it was always McDonald's.</v>

01:17:51.120 --> 01:17:52.080
<v Speaker 2>Almost always, anyway.</v>

01:17:52.080 --> 01:17:54.400
<v Speaker 2>I assume some parts of the country maybe it was Burker King</v>

01:17:54.400 --> 01:17:58.240
<v Speaker 2>or Carls Jr., what have you, but it was go to university</v>

01:17:58.320 --> 01:18:00.720
<v Speaker 2>or you'll work in fast food.</v>

01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:03.920
<v Speaker 2>And so many of us went to university.</v>

01:18:03.920 --> 01:18:10.640
<v Speaker 2>We are probably the most educated generation possibly in history.</v>

01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:14.640
<v Speaker 2>We have some of the most degrees and advanced degrees, and so</v>

01:18:15.040 --> 01:18:19.200
<v Speaker 2>we were told if you go to university, if you get this</v>

01:18:19.200 --> 01:18:21.920
<v Speaker 2>degree, if you put in this work, this time, this effort, if</v>

01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:26.080
<v Speaker 2>you devote these four years of your life and leaving aside all</v>

01:18:26.080 --> 01:18:29.920
<v Speaker 2>the problems that cause, particularly with female students, we were told you</v>

01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:31.120
<v Speaker 2>would have a good job.</v>

01:18:31.120 --> 01:18:33.360
<v Speaker 2>It would be waiting for you, and you could build a good</v>

01:18:33.360 --> 01:18:35.600
<v Speaker 2>life like your parents and your grandparents had.</v>

01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:38.560
<v Speaker 2>You would be able to get the big house and the dog</v>

01:18:38.560 --> 01:18:41.280
<v Speaker 2>and go on vacations and all of these things, all the things</v>

01:18:41.280 --> 01:18:44.640
<v Speaker 2>the boomers have and took for a given.</v>

01:18:44.640 --> 01:18:46.640
<v Speaker 2>And that didn't happen.</v>

01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:51.920
<v Speaker 2>Because boomers crashed the economy and wiped out those jobs and then</v>

01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:56.480
<v Speaker 2>imported millions of foreigners to destroy the labor market.</v>

01:18:56.480 --> 01:19:00.960
<v Speaker 2>And so when millennials graduated, those jobs didn't exist.</v>

01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:05.040
<v Speaker 2>And then came the second punch from the the boomers as it</v>

01:19:05.040 --> 01:19:09.200
<v Speaker 2>were. Millennials were told after we had been told when we were</v>

01:19:09.200 --> 01:19:12.880
<v Speaker 2>younger, you have to go to university or or you'll work at</v>

01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:15.120
<v Speaker 2>McDonald's, who were told, Oh, are you too good to work at</v>

01:19:15.120 --> 01:19:17.120
<v Speaker 2>McDonald's with your bachelors?</v>

01:19:17.120 --> 01:19:19.040
<v Speaker 2>And that's what happened.</v>

01:19:19.040 --> 01:19:21.120
<v Speaker 2>And that's just been the case all along.</v>

01:19:21.120 --> 01:19:23.680
<v Speaker 2>There are so many examples of this that could be given.</v>

01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:27.040
<v Speaker 2>There's the example of student loans where you had the boomer generation</v>

01:19:27.120 --> 01:19:31.600
<v Speaker 2>who could pay for university with a summer job versus millennials</v>

01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:37.200
<v Speaker 2>where for many it was six figures, low six figures, but still</v>

01:19:37.200 --> 01:19:38.000
<v Speaker 2>six figures.</v>

01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:41.200
<v Speaker 2>So you would come out of university a hundred thousand dollars in</v>

01:19:41.200 --> 01:19:45.920
<v Speaker 2>debt if you went on to get A master's degree, God help</v>

01:19:45.920 --> 01:19:50.560
<v Speaker 2>you, you came out of university $200 plus thousand dollars in debt.</v>

01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:56.080
<v Speaker 2>And so sometimes what millennials and younger, but very much millennials in</v>

01:19:56.080 --> 01:19:57.920
<v Speaker 2>this case, would hear from boomers</v>

01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:02.080
<v Speaker 2>Is that they started with nothing and they had to build up</v>

01:20:02.080 --> 01:20:04.240
<v Speaker 2>and build this life for themselves.</v>

01:20:04.240 --> 01:20:06.960
<v Speaker 2>Millennials didn't start with nothing.</v>

01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:12.000
<v Speaker 2>Millennials started in a really deep hole because the housing market had</v>

01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:14.480
<v Speaker 2>skyrocketed, so you couldn't buy a house.</v>

01:20:14.480 --> 01:20:17.920
<v Speaker 2>You came out of university with this massive debt burden, so you</v>

01:20:18.080 --> 01:20:21.040
<v Speaker 2>you couldn't possibly save for a down payment, even if you could</v>

01:20:21.040 --> 01:20:23.200
<v Speaker 2>afford the house.</v>

01:20:23.200 --> 01:20:26.320
<v Speaker 2>Because you couldn't get the good job, and so you couldn't get</v>

01:20:26.320 --> 01:20:30.000
<v Speaker 2>the vacation time, you couldn't start to build a family, etc.</v>

01:20:30.080 --> 01:20:35.040
<v Speaker 2>etc. And so that is the reason, one of the main reasons,</v>

01:20:35.040 --> 01:20:37.920
<v Speaker 2>that the fertility rate in the US has absolutely collapsed.</v>

01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:43.120
<v Speaker 2>Millennials simply did not have very many children, still haven't had very</v>

01:20:43.120 --> 01:20:50.240
<v Speaker 2>many children, because of the economic situation in large part, because we</v>

01:20:50.240 --> 01:20:55.760
<v Speaker 2>know that there is a direct correlation between economic stability and well</v>

01:20:55.760 --> 01:21:00.960
<v Speaker 2>being, between financial security and number of children.</v>

01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:04.480
<v Speaker 2>Now, that's a mixed bag, because yes, you should trust God and</v>

01:21:04.480 --> 01:21:07.760
<v Speaker 2>that He will provide, because children are a blessing from God, and</v>

01:21:07.760 --> 01:21:11.120
<v Speaker 2>He will provide for you if He gives you that blessing.</v>

01:21:11.280 --> 01:21:14.160
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you still have to put in the work, of course.</v>

01:21:14.160 --> 01:21:14.480
<v Speaker 2>But</v>

01:21:15.360 --> 01:21:19.120
<v Speaker 2>human beings do respond to incentives to some degree.</v>

01:21:19.120 --> 01:21:22.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm not giving too much credit to economics, but I'll give some</v>

01:21:22.320 --> 01:21:24.000
<v Speaker 2>credit where credit is due.</v>

01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:28.720
<v Speaker 2>Humans do respond to incentives, and if you have an economy that</v>

01:21:28.720 --> 01:21:33.920
<v Speaker 2>is stable, where people can earn a living, where wives can stay</v>

01:21:33.920 --> 01:21:36.640
<v Speaker 2>at home to keep the home and raise children, you are going</v>

01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:38.800
<v Speaker 2>to have a higher fertility rate.</v>

01:21:39.280 --> 01:21:44.400
<v Speaker 2>And that collapsed because of the actions of the baby boomers.</v>

01:21:44.400 --> 01:21:50.080
<v Speaker 2>Millennials understand that, particularly older millennials, because we watched it happen.</v>

01:21:50.080 --> 01:21:54.320
<v Speaker 2>The younger members of the younger generation, so Gen Z and younger,</v>

01:21:54.320 --> 01:21:58.240
<v Speaker 2>don't really see this because they didn't live through it.</v>

01:21:58.240 --> 01:22:01.680
<v Speaker 2>Some of them have gone back and looked at what happened and</v>

01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:03.120
<v Speaker 2>realized it.</v>

01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:08.320
<v Speaker 2>understood what was done to millennials and what was therefore sort of</v>

01:22:08.320 --> 01:22:12.800
<v Speaker 2>by proxy done to the younger generations as well, but they didn't</v>

01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:13.840
<v Speaker 2>live through it.</v>

01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:15.440
<v Speaker 2>But this is why you see</v>

01:22:16.320 --> 01:22:17.120
<v Speaker 2>that enmity</v>

01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:23.760
<v Speaker 2>from younger generations toward baby boomers and older is not because</v>

01:22:25.040 --> 01:22:29.360
<v Speaker 2>it's not youthful rebellion, which sometimes baby boomers will try to argue</v>

01:22:29.440 --> 01:22:30.640
<v Speaker 2>that it's youthful rebellion.</v>

01:22:31.280 --> 01:22:33.280
<v Speaker 2>Millennials now are turning forty.</v>

01:22:33.440 --> 01:22:35.840
<v Speaker 2>This is not youthful rebellion anymore.</v>

01:22:35.840 --> 01:22:37.440
<v Speaker 2>Our knees crack when we stand up.</v>

01:22:37.440 --> 01:22:40.000
<v Speaker 2>It can't be youthful rebellion.</v>

01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:44.160
<v Speaker 2>But it's because when a generation is handed</v>

01:22:45.120 --> 01:22:50.320
<v Speaker 2>everything, handed great conditions and a good life, and that is not</v>

01:22:50.320 --> 01:22:54.400
<v Speaker 2>passed on to future generations, there is going to be enmity, and</v>

01:22:54.400 --> 01:22:57.920
<v Speaker 2>some of that is most certainly warranted, because it is the duty</v>

01:22:57.920 --> 01:23:01.920
<v Speaker 2>of parents to pass to their children a better world than was</v>

01:23:01.920 --> 01:23:05.200
<v Speaker 2>passed to them, and that has not been happening for the last</v>

01:23:05.200 --> 01:23:07.200
<v Speaker 2>handful of generations.</v>

01:23:07.440 --> 01:23:11.200
<v Speaker 2>It has in fact been accelerating in the opposite direction.</v>

01:23:11.200 --> 01:23:15.200
<v Speaker 2>Now there was a period of time where inertia carried things along,</v>

01:23:15.200 --> 01:23:18.800
<v Speaker 2>and things kept going they looked fine, regardless of all of the</v>

01:23:18.800 --> 01:23:23.440
<v Speaker 2>structural, foundational problems that were creeping in.</v>

01:23:23.440 --> 01:23:26.880
<v Speaker 2>But inertia doesn't last forever, and we're at the tail end of</v>

01:23:26.880 --> 01:23:29.760
<v Speaker 2>that now, and that's why we see things have fallen off a</v>

01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:33.360
<v Speaker 2>cliff. And so the younger generations</v>

01:23:35.200 --> 01:23:42.400
<v Speaker 2>don't have these feelings with regard to the older generations for no</v>

01:23:42.400 --> 01:23:46.160
<v Speaker 2>reason. Gen Z is a mess.</v>

01:23:46.160 --> 01:23:48.400
<v Speaker 2>So are millennials, so is Gen X.</v>

01:23:48.400 --> 01:23:51.440
<v Speaker 2>Every generation is a mess in some certain ways, but</v>

01:23:52.560 --> 01:23:56.800
<v Speaker 2>when we don't recognize that a lot of these problems arise because</v>

01:23:56.800 --> 01:24:00.720
<v Speaker 2>of the actions of previous generations, we not only place the blame</v>

01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:06.160
<v Speaker 2>on the wrong place, but we make it almost impossible to actually</v>

01:24:06.160 --> 01:24:08.560
<v Speaker 2>address the problem.</v>

01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:11.920
<v Speaker 2>And so you get those who will say, Well, just pick yourself</v>

01:24:11.920 --> 01:24:14.800
<v Speaker 2>up by your bootstraps, or if you just worked hard enough, or</v>

01:24:14.800 --> 01:24:17.280
<v Speaker 2>if you just did X, Y, and Z, and that's not the</v>

01:24:17.280 --> 01:24:21.840
<v Speaker 2>case. Some problems that we have in this life, some of the</v>

01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:26.800
<v Speaker 2>burdens we bear, are because of actions of those who came before</v>

01:24:26.800 --> 01:24:30.080
<v Speaker 2>us. So the best that we can do in some cases is</v>

01:24:30.080 --> 01:24:32.880
<v Speaker 2>to work as hard as we can to make sure that we</v>

01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:37.040
<v Speaker 2>don't pass those problems to our children and our grandchildren.</v>

01:24:37.040 --> 01:24:40.160
<v Speaker 2>And that is the reality of being a human being.</v>

01:24:40.160 --> 01:24:42.720
<v Speaker 2>That is the reality of the way the world works.</v>

01:24:42.720 --> 01:24:44.720
<v Speaker 2>These things are generational.</v>

01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:48.080
<v Speaker 2>Curses are generational, and so are blessings.</v>

01:24:48.080 --> 01:24:52.400
<v Speaker 2>If your parents failed in their tasks, you may very well suffer</v>

01:24:52.400 --> 01:24:53.600
<v Speaker 2>because of that.</v>

01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:58.000
<v Speaker 2>But, on the flip side, if you succeed in what you are</v>

01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:01.520
<v Speaker 2>doing, your children will benefit because of it, and so will your</v>

01:25:01.520 --> 01:25:04.240
<v Speaker 2>grandchildren and your great grandchildren.</v>

01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:08.080
<v Speaker 2>And that is one of the reasons that we fundamentally oppose this</v>

01:25:08.080 --> 01:25:12.000
<v Speaker 2>conception of the individual as the be all end all.</v>

01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:16.240
<v Speaker 2>Because if you conceive of yourself as an individual, and the individual</v>

01:25:16.240 --> 01:25:20.400
<v Speaker 2>is the only thing that matters, you are You are inevitably going</v>

01:25:20.400 --> 01:25:24.000
<v Speaker 2>to make decisions that will harm future generations.</v>

01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:27.040
<v Speaker 2>And that is what we have seen in the last handful of</v>

01:25:27.040 --> 01:25:28.000
<v Speaker 2>decades.</v>

01:25:28.400 --> 01:25:33.600
<v Speaker 3>I think the overarching reason that boomers in particular are</v>

01:25:35.360 --> 01:25:40.480
<v Speaker 3>seen as deserving of greater criticism is simply because they are the</v>

01:25:40.480 --> 01:25:42.000
<v Speaker 3>senior generation.</v>

01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:47.280
<v Speaker 3>And so as a result, they're basically in the position of Moses</v>

01:25:47.600 --> 01:25:52.480
<v Speaker 3>or of Lot, except they're not doing what they were supposed to</v>

01:25:52.480 --> 01:25:55.280
<v Speaker 3>do. They're not acting as the leaders.</v>

01:25:55.280 --> 01:25:59.440
<v Speaker 3>It's very much an entire generation of I got mine.</v>

01:25:59.440 --> 01:26:04.480
<v Speaker 3>And so on one hand you have some of the economic envy</v>

01:26:05.120 --> 01:26:08.240
<v Speaker 3>and jealousy in both directions.</v>

01:26:08.240 --> 01:26:12.240
<v Speaker 3>But on the other hand, if the boomers aren't going to lead,</v>

01:26:12.240 --> 01:26:15.120
<v Speaker 3>if they're not going to set a good example, if they're not</v>

01:26:15.120 --> 01:26:19.200
<v Speaker 3>going to take care of their children and grandchildren, who is?</v>

01:26:19.200 --> 01:26:22.560
<v Speaker 3>And so I think a lot of the the anger and the</v>

01:26:22.560 --> 01:26:28.640
<v Speaker 3>criticism, whether it's coming from a good place or not, I I</v>

01:26:28.640 --> 01:26:30.560
<v Speaker 3>think anger can come from a good place.</v>

01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:33.040
<v Speaker 3>It can also come from an evil, terrible place.</v>

01:26:33.040 --> 01:26:35.280
<v Speaker 3>And that's one of the reasons why we wanted to discuss this:</v>

01:26:35.280 --> 01:26:38.560
<v Speaker 3>is that the idea of boomer hate is wrong.</v>

01:26:38.560 --> 01:26:43.120
<v Speaker 3>You shouldn't just absolutely hate an entire generation because they have something</v>

01:26:43.120 --> 01:26:44.400
<v Speaker 3>and you don't have it.</v>

01:26:44.400 --> 01:26:47.120
<v Speaker 3>I think that the much more fundamental issue, at least from my</v>

01:26:47.120 --> 01:26:54.720
<v Speaker 3>perspective, Is their abdication of their headship by them failing to propagate</v>

01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:59.760
<v Speaker 3>a Christian society in a Christian nation, by them failing to propagate</v>

01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:05.600
<v Speaker 3>economic and social policies that were going to feed family formation for</v>

01:27:05.600 --> 01:27:07.600
<v Speaker 3>their own children and grandchildren.</v>

01:27:07.600 --> 01:27:11.520
<v Speaker 3>They've left the world in a state where when they're dead and</v>

01:27:11.520 --> 01:27:14.720
<v Speaker 3>gone, who's gonna pick up the pieces?</v>

01:27:14.720 --> 01:27:19.760
<v Speaker 3>Because at this point, there's basically almost no one left, if there's</v>

01:27:19.680 --> 01:27:23.440
<v Speaker 3>anyone left alive, who's ever seen it done properly.</v>

01:27:23.440 --> 01:27:25.440
<v Speaker 3>And that's why headship matters.</v>

01:27:25.440 --> 01:27:28.960
<v Speaker 3>If you don't have anyone setting a good example, where are you</v>

01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:30.560
<v Speaker 3>going to get your example?</v>

01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:34.160
<v Speaker 3>I think that's one of the reasons that a lot of the</v>

01:27:34.160 --> 01:27:40.880
<v Speaker 3>trad memes up here online, it's frustration, it's it's understanding implicitly, even</v>

01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:47.600
<v Speaker 3>if not consciously, that we as the living generation need to leapfrog</v>

01:27:47.600 --> 01:27:49.440
<v Speaker 3>our own ancestors.</v>

01:27:49.440 --> 01:27:53.920
<v Speaker 3>Not in terms of cultural progress or anything, just in terms of</v>

01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:55.600
<v Speaker 3>they screwed up.</v>

01:27:55.600 --> 01:27:59.040
<v Speaker 3>If we do what they did, we're only gonna make it worse.</v>

01:27:59.040 --> 01:28:03.840
<v Speaker 3>And so I think a lot of the nostalgia desire that's that's</v>

01:28:03.840 --> 01:28:06.240
<v Speaker 3>so prevalent, especially in in a lot of young people young people</v>

01:28:06.240 --> 01:28:11.440
<v Speaker 3>is just I want something that I'm told once existed and I</v>

01:28:11.440 --> 01:28:14.400
<v Speaker 3>don't know how to get it and I don't know of anyone</v>

01:28:14.400 --> 01:28:16.560
<v Speaker 3>alive who can show me how to get it.</v>

01:28:16.560 --> 01:28:18.880
<v Speaker 3>I think that's the single greatest failing.</v>

01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:22.560
<v Speaker 3>Even beyond the economic errors and the moral failings and all the</v>

01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:26.880
<v Speaker 3>rest, is that without a good example, there's simply you only have</v>

01:28:26.880 --> 01:28:28.240
<v Speaker 3>bad examples.</v>

01:28:28.240 --> 01:28:28.560
<v Speaker 3>And</v>

01:28:30.080 --> 01:28:32.960
<v Speaker 3>that's that's a death knell for a civilization.</v>

01:28:32.960 --> 01:28:37.600
<v Speaker 3>It's a death knell for a people when their elders are not</v>

01:28:37.600 --> 01:28:43.040
<v Speaker 3>acting in the best interests of their progeny, of their posterity.</v>

01:28:43.040 --> 01:28:46.960
<v Speaker 3>What happens when the parents and the grandparents are gonna spend all</v>

01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:50.720
<v Speaker 3>their money on cruises and jewelry and then they're gonna write their</v>

01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:53.600
<v Speaker 3>own kids and grandkids out of the will because I got mine</v>

01:28:53.680 --> 01:28:55.840
<v Speaker 3>and I don't want them to be brats, so I'm not gonna</v>

01:28:55.840 --> 01:28:57.360
<v Speaker 3>give them anything.</v>

01:28:57.680 --> 01:29:04.400
<v Speaker 3>On one hand, children aren't implicitly entitled in some small sense to</v>

01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:07.520
<v Speaker 3>just being given whatever their parents earned.</v>

01:29:07.520 --> 01:29:11.680
<v Speaker 3>But on the other hand, there's a strong moral case to be</v>

01:29:11.680 --> 01:29:14.640
<v Speaker 3>made. The parents have a duty, and this is something that's in</v>

01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:17.680
<v Speaker 3>scripture. Like it's not something we're just making up.</v>

01:29:17.680 --> 01:29:22.560
<v Speaker 3>All of human history has been defined in large part by parents</v>

01:29:22.560 --> 01:29:26.000
<v Speaker 3>bequeathing a better A better life for their children.</v>

01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:29.360
<v Speaker 3>Now the difference is that what was bequeathed from the boomers to</v>

01:29:29.360 --> 01:29:33.680
<v Speaker 3>their children and grandchildren was go into debt because you'll make so</v>

01:29:33.680 --> 01:29:35.920
<v Speaker 3>much money that you'll be able to pay for the debt and</v>

01:29:35.920 --> 01:29:38.080
<v Speaker 3>have all the nice stuff that we have to.</v>

01:29:38.080 --> 01:29:41.440
<v Speaker 3>That's clearly failed multiple generations.</v>

01:29:41.440 --> 01:29:45.040
<v Speaker 3>And so, yes, today when you look at particularly the zoomers who</v>

01:29:45.040 --> 01:29:48.800
<v Speaker 3>are really, I think the first generation that is</v>

01:29:50.080 --> 01:29:51.680
<v Speaker 3>split right down the middle.</v>

01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:53.600
<v Speaker 3>I don't think there are a lot of milktose zoomers.</v>

01:29:53.600 --> 01:29:58.720
<v Speaker 3>I think the zoomers are either radical, far right.</v>

01:29:58.720 --> 01:30:04.800
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna goose step our way back to civilization, or they're physically</v>

01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:09.680
<v Speaker 3>and mentally and spiritually destroying their bodies in the final throes of</v>

01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:11.600
<v Speaker 3>what boomers have given them.</v>

01:30:11.600 --> 01:30:17.760
<v Speaker 3>Utter profligacy, where there's no morality, there's complete self-definition.</v>

01:30:17.760 --> 01:30:18.640
<v Speaker 3>Do whatever you want.</v>

01:30:19.280 --> 01:30:23.040
<v Speaker 3>Because that is fundamentally the spiritual inheritance that the boomers have passed</v>

01:30:23.040 --> 01:30:24.960
<v Speaker 3>down since the 60s.</v>

01:30:24.960 --> 01:30:25.280
<v Speaker 3>And</v>

01:30:27.360 --> 01:30:31.040
<v Speaker 3>I'm glad to see that there are at least some Zoomers who</v>

01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:36.400
<v Speaker 3>they're doing some of the right things and they're trying to figure</v>

01:30:36.400 --> 01:30:37.600
<v Speaker 3>out the right ways.</v>

01:30:37.600 --> 01:30:41.440
<v Speaker 3>And the reason we're talking about this is that I wanted to</v>

01:30:41.440 --> 01:30:46.480
<v Speaker 3>talk about generations in particular because it is my belief that the</v>

01:30:46.480 --> 01:30:52.640
<v Speaker 3>boomer generation in terms of leadership is a total write-off.</v>

01:30:53.120 --> 01:30:56.800
<v Speaker 3>And I I agree with Corey, I don't think Xers even exist.</v>

01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:59.840
<v Speaker 3>I think the boomers basically start at about 50.</v>

01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:03.280
<v Speaker 3>What I bean by that, forget the marketing stuff.</v>

01:31:03.280 --> 01:31:06.800
<v Speaker 3>If you have an example of a question about some of these</v>

01:31:06.880 --> 01:31:10.640
<v Speaker 3>some of these things or let me give a specific example.</v>

01:31:10.640 --> 01:31:13.680
<v Speaker 3>I have a JPEG on my hard drive that's a map of</v>

01:31:13.680 --> 01:31:18.480
<v Speaker 3>Europe. It's a map of Europe from the mid-1940s.</v>

01:31:18.480 --> 01:31:23.120
<v Speaker 3>And on that map it shows the locations of where the Germans</v>

01:31:23.120 --> 01:31:25.280
<v Speaker 3>had certain types of camps.</v>

01:31:25.280 --> 01:31:28.640
<v Speaker 3>These were camps where they sent people who were arrested.</v>

01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:31.200
<v Speaker 3>Some of them were called concentration camps.</v>

01:31:31.200 --> 01:31:34.560
<v Speaker 3>Some of them were called death camps or liquidation camps.</v>

01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:37.680
<v Speaker 3>And so on this map you can see all these locations, some</v>

01:31:37.680 --> 01:31:40.480
<v Speaker 3>of the names you would recognize, they're names that are associated with</v>

01:31:40.480 --> 01:31:45.760
<v Speaker 3>horrors, and they elicit a visceral reaction when you hear the names.</v>

01:31:46.800 --> 01:31:50.240
<v Speaker 3>The reason I'm mentioning this map is that one of the most</v>

01:31:50.240 --> 01:31:55.600
<v Speaker 3>interesting facts about it is that it's also color-coded to show for</v>

01:31:55.600 --> 01:31:59.360
<v Speaker 3>those two different types of camps whether they were on the Allied</v>

01:31:59.520 --> 01:32:04.640
<v Speaker 3>side of the post-war lines or whether they were on the Soviet</v>

01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:08.480
<v Speaker 3>side. Because it turns out when you look at this particular map,</v>

01:32:08.480 --> 01:32:10.800
<v Speaker 3>it's not something you would get if you're just reading in text,</v>

01:32:10.800 --> 01:32:14.480
<v Speaker 3>but when you look at the map, it's plainly obvious that every</v>

01:32:14.480 --> 01:32:19.600
<v Speaker 3>single camp that we're told was a death camp where murder and</v>

01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:23.760
<v Speaker 3>cruelty was taking place, one hundred percent of those camps were behind</v>

01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:24.880
<v Speaker 3>Soviet lines.</v>

01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:27.840
<v Speaker 3>In other words Allied soldiers never went to them.</v>

01:32:27.840 --> 01:32:31.840
<v Speaker 3>Allied soldiers never went to a single camp where those horrors were</v>

01:32:31.840 --> 01:32:32.720
<v Speaker 3>taking place.</v>

01:32:32.720 --> 01:32:35.520
<v Speaker 3>They went to other camps where there were people who are sick,</v>

01:32:35.520 --> 01:32:37.920
<v Speaker 3>who were dying from starvation in some case.</v>

01:32:37.920 --> 01:32:41.840
<v Speaker 3>Some had typhus and so they looked very emaciated.</v>

01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:45.280
<v Speaker 3>But there was no mass torture and murder, as we're told was</v>

01:32:45.280 --> 01:32:47.520
<v Speaker 3>the was the narrative for those other camps.</v>

01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:49.600
<v Speaker 3>So the reason I bring this up is if I were to</v>

01:32:49.600 --> 01:32:56.320
<v Speaker 3>show this picture to someone who's over 50, I can guarantee that</v>

01:32:56.320 --> 01:32:59.760
<v Speaker 3>in basically every case the response that I'm going to get from</v>

01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:02.640
<v Speaker 3>them is going to be some sort of rote</v>

01:33:04.640 --> 01:33:07.920
<v Speaker 3>emotional response along the lines of the official narrative.</v>

01:33:07.920 --> 01:33:11.520
<v Speaker 3>And they will go probably so far as to say, well, yes,</v>

01:33:11.520 --> 01:33:14.720
<v Speaker 3>the communists were good allies against the fascists, thank God for the</v>

01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:18.160
<v Speaker 3>communists. Pretty much 50 and up, that's the only kind of response</v>

01:33:18.160 --> 01:33:20.720
<v Speaker 3>you're going to get from that map, from just facts.</v>

01:33:20.720 --> 01:33:23.920
<v Speaker 3>You know, w wh whatever you think about the story behind the</v>

01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:26.400
<v Speaker 3>map, the facts are indisputable.</v>

01:33:26.400 --> 01:33:29.680
<v Speaker 3>And the reason that I think that cutoff is about fifty is</v>

01:33:29.680 --> 01:33:32.320
<v Speaker 3>is seminal is that is that if I show the same map</v>

01:33:32.320 --> 01:33:36.080
<v Speaker 3>to someone who's 40 or 30 or 20, some portion of those</v>

01:33:36.080 --> 01:33:37.680
<v Speaker 3>people are gonna have their interest peaked.</v>

01:33:37.680 --> 01:33:39.280
<v Speaker 3>I think, wow, that's really weird.</v>

01:33:39.280 --> 01:33:41.840
<v Speaker 3>Why is it that all these camps that we have these terrible</v>

01:33:41.840 --> 01:33:45.440
<v Speaker 3>stories about only coming from Stalin.</v>

01:33:45.440 --> 01:33:48.800
<v Speaker 3>Why are they only coming from the communists who were stealing our</v>

01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:52.800
<v Speaker 3>nuclear secrets and plotting to overthrow and destroy the United States?</v>

01:33:52.800 --> 01:33:56.400
<v Speaker 3>Why did they find all those camps and then the other places</v>

01:33:56.400 --> 01:33:58.800
<v Speaker 3>where we went, we didn't find any of 'em?</v>

01:33:58.960 --> 01:34:02.560
<v Speaker 3>Regardless of what you think about the narrative of World War II</v>

01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:07.840
<v Speaker 3>and what happened in Germany and Greater Germany, the response to that</v>

01:34:07.840 --> 01:34:13.760
<v Speaker 3>picture is in my book, it's a litmus test of how open-minded</v>

01:34:14.000 --> 01:34:16.080
<v Speaker 3>someone is.</v>

01:34:16.080 --> 01:34:18.800
<v Speaker 3>Anyone over fifty is gonna have a knee-jerk reaction.</v>

01:34:18.800 --> 01:34:21.840
<v Speaker 3>I could write down half a dozen things, they're gonna say one</v>

01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:27.680
<v Speaker 3>or more of them automatically without any interest in the facts or</v>

01:34:27.680 --> 01:34:31.760
<v Speaker 3>any of the rest of it.</v>

01:34:31.760 --> 01:34:35.920
<v Speaker 3>When you're dealing with a generation that has been demoralized to that</v>

01:34:35.920 --> 01:34:40.480
<v Speaker 3>degree, that has been programmed to that degree.</v>

01:34:40.480 --> 01:34:43.680
<v Speaker 3>The reason that I think it's such a problem that the older</v>

01:34:43.680 --> 01:34:48.960
<v Speaker 3>generation is not fit to lead is that as Corey to talked</v>

01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:52.480
<v Speaker 3>about earlier with the fourth commandment, what do we do in a</v>

01:34:52.480 --> 01:34:58.560
<v Speaker 3>situation where we're to honor and obey our parents, but our elders</v>

01:34:58.560 --> 01:35:02.400
<v Speaker 3>are giving us the worst possible advice because we can't sin.</v>

01:35:02.400 --> 01:35:06.560
<v Speaker 3>We can't do something that's evil, we can't believe lies because old</v>

01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:08.080
<v Speaker 3>people say it's okay.</v>

01:35:08.080 --> 01:35:10.480
<v Speaker 3>They don't get to override God.</v>

01:35:10.480 --> 01:35:14.720
<v Speaker 3>And so I think that one of the tricks that we one</v>

01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:19.280
<v Speaker 3>of the hurdles that we have to overcome as this generation, by</v>

01:35:19.280 --> 01:35:22.880
<v Speaker 3>this generation, I mean those who are living.</v>

01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:26.560
<v Speaker 3>There's a set of people in my book, 50 and up, that</v>

01:35:26.560 --> 01:35:29.520
<v Speaker 3>you just shouldn't listen to at all when it comes to most</v>

01:35:29.520 --> 01:35:34.640
<v Speaker 3>things. Because they have been subjected to a degree of propaganda and</v>

01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:40.400
<v Speaker 3>life experiences that no longer have any basis in reality for what</v>

01:35:40.400 --> 01:35:41.360
<v Speaker 3>we're dealing with.</v>

01:35:41.360 --> 01:35:44.560
<v Speaker 3>And if we try to listen to them, all we're going to</v>

01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:46.960
<v Speaker 3>get is more of the same.</v>

01:35:46.960 --> 01:35:49.920
<v Speaker 3>And younger people do not want more of the same.</v>

01:35:49.920 --> 01:35:53.360
<v Speaker 3>They see that they're drowning in quicksand and they don't know how</v>

01:35:53.360 --> 01:35:54.560
<v Speaker 3>to get out of it.</v>

01:35:54.560 --> 01:35:58.080
<v Speaker 3>And that's an incredibly dangerous place for a sit a civilization to</v>

01:35:58.080 --> 01:36:01.600
<v Speaker 3>be because you have young people who are angry at older people,</v>

01:36:01.600 --> 01:36:05.840
<v Speaker 3>you have older people who are frustrated and disillusioned by younger people,</v>

01:36:05.840 --> 01:36:10.000
<v Speaker 3>and everybody just wants to go their separate ways and it's a</v>

01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:13.920
<v Speaker 3>it's a recipe it's a it's a setup for a bloodbath.</v>

01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:16.560
<v Speaker 3>It's a setup for horrors beyond imagining.</v>

01:36:16.560 --> 01:36:19.520
<v Speaker 3>And as Christians, that's absolutely what we don't want.</v>

01:36:19.520 --> 01:36:23.360
<v Speaker 3>And so the reason for us to mention this is I think</v>

01:36:23.360 --> 01:36:27.040
<v Speaker 3>that in good conscience, the best thing that we can do is</v>

01:36:27.040 --> 01:36:32.160
<v Speaker 3>recognize that although our elders are to be respected and they're to</v>

01:36:32.160 --> 01:36:37.280
<v Speaker 3>be loved, there are large swaths of decision making that we need</v>

01:36:37.280 --> 01:36:40.880
<v Speaker 3>need to make for ourselves and for future generations where we simply</v>

01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:41.840
<v Speaker 3>can't ask them.</v>

01:36:41.840 --> 01:36:43.600
<v Speaker 3>And most of them frankly don't care anyway.</v>

01:36:43.600 --> 01:36:46.640
<v Speaker 3>Like it's it's not like they're begging to give good advice.</v>

01:36:46.640 --> 01:36:48.960
<v Speaker 3>But I think that we need to recognize that we are a</v>

01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:50.560
<v Speaker 3>generation without a head.</v>

01:36:50.560 --> 01:36:53.120
<v Speaker 3>And I think that a lot of the boomer hate is rooted</v>

01:36:53.120 --> 01:36:59.760
<v Speaker 3>not simply in economic envy, but in a a slow growing realization</v>

01:36:59.840 --> 01:37:03.680
<v Speaker 3>that the men who should be in charge of providing wisdom and</v>

01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:05.760
<v Speaker 3>guidance, they're checked out.</v>

01:37:06.160 --> 01:37:08.320
<v Speaker 3>we're a headless generation.</v>

01:37:08.320 --> 01:37:11.760
<v Speaker 3>And I think the only way that we can fix that in</v>

01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:13.360
<v Speaker 3>order to create</v>

01:37:14.240 --> 01:37:16.640
<v Speaker 3>a future civilization.</v>

01:37:16.880 --> 01:37:18.480
<v Speaker 3>This is civilizational stuff.</v>

01:37:18.480 --> 01:37:21.440
<v Speaker 3>This isn't you know, we talked last week about small ticket.</v>

01:37:21.440 --> 01:37:22.880
<v Speaker 3>This is the big ticket.</v>

01:37:22.880 --> 01:37:25.280
<v Speaker 3>I think the only way to get from where we are today</v>

01:37:25.440 --> 01:37:28.240
<v Speaker 3>where we see things in free fall to a place where our</v>

01:37:28.240 --> 01:37:31.360
<v Speaker 3>children and grandchildren can be safe and not have to deal with</v>

01:37:31.360 --> 01:37:35.440
<v Speaker 3>these problems is if we explicitly acknowledge that we are headless.</v>

01:37:35.440 --> 01:37:39.360
<v Speaker 3>We cannot look to the older generation to answer these problems and</v>

01:37:39.360 --> 01:37:40.560
<v Speaker 3>to get it right.</v>

01:37:40.560 --> 01:37:43.440
<v Speaker 3>And so rather than going to them and deferring to them, I</v>

01:37:43.440 --> 01:37:47.680
<v Speaker 3>think we need to simply set them aside respectfully, not antagonistically.</v>

01:37:47.680 --> 01:37:50.080
<v Speaker 3>But I think that we need to realize that they are such</v>

01:37:50.080 --> 01:37:54.320
<v Speaker 3>a demoralized generation that the only thing that they can possibly do</v>

01:37:54.320 --> 01:37:56.320
<v Speaker 3>with their mouths is to cause harm.</v>

01:37:56.320 --> 01:37:57.440
<v Speaker 3>And I hate to say that.</v>

01:37:57.440 --> 01:38:00.400
<v Speaker 3>It's not it's it's the last thing that I want.</v>

01:38:00.400 --> 01:38:02.000
<v Speaker 3>And yet when</v>

01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:06.640
<v Speaker 3>doing the doing what they say to do is gonna do harm,</v>

01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:08.160
<v Speaker 3>we can't do it.</v>

01:38:08.160 --> 01:38:12.240
<v Speaker 3>And so the reason for talking about generations is there is a</v>

01:38:12.240 --> 01:38:17.360
<v Speaker 3>particular generation with a particular set of problems that is so wicked</v>

01:38:17.360 --> 01:38:22.720
<v Speaker 3>and so far gone that all we can do is pray for</v>

01:38:22.720 --> 01:38:26.000
<v Speaker 3>them to go to heaven and otherwise not really listen to what</v>

01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:26.800
<v Speaker 3>they say.</v>

01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:29.360
<v Speaker 3>It's not the way it should be, it's not the way any</v>

01:38:29.360 --> 01:38:30.640
<v Speaker 3>civilization should ever be.</v>

01:38:31.440 --> 01:38:35.120
<v Speaker 3>And yet, when we're looking at a civilization that's in free fall</v>

01:38:35.280 --> 01:38:40.000
<v Speaker 3>and a generation that despises God in every good thing, and you</v>

01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:43.760
<v Speaker 3>have some people who are younger in particular looking for something trad,</v>

01:38:43.760 --> 01:38:45.600
<v Speaker 3>looking for something older.</v>

01:38:45.600 --> 01:38:48.560
<v Speaker 3>I think we need to be free to recognize that maybe older</v>

01:38:48.560 --> 01:38:51.360
<v Speaker 3>is older than anyone who's living, which is part of the reason</v>

01:38:51.360 --> 01:38:53.920
<v Speaker 3>that a lot of what we talk about on Stone Choir is</v>

01:38:53.920 --> 01:38:55.440
<v Speaker 3>older doctrine.</v>

01:38:55.440 --> 01:38:56.800
<v Speaker 3>Doctrine shouldn't be changing.</v>

01:38:56.800 --> 01:38:57.680
<v Speaker 3>God didn't change.</v>

01:38:57.680 --> 01:38:59.040
<v Speaker 3>Christianity didn't change.</v>

01:38:59.040 --> 01:39:02.080
<v Speaker 3>But if some of this stuff fell by the wayside and nobody</v>

01:39:02.080 --> 01:39:07.280
<v Speaker 3>talked about it for a generation, for a century, I think that</v>

01:39:07.280 --> 01:39:09.760
<v Speaker 3>at some point we have to just recognize that and say it</v>

01:39:09.760 --> 01:39:12.560
<v Speaker 3>out loud and say, okay, the only way to get any of</v>

01:39:12.560 --> 01:39:16.800
<v Speaker 3>this back on track is to ignore what the boomers say and</v>

01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:20.000
<v Speaker 3>to go back further, to go back to the good advice that</v>

01:39:20.000 --> 01:39:23.680
<v Speaker 3>they ignored from their parents and grandparents, wherever this began, we need</v>

01:39:23.680 --> 01:39:27.040
<v Speaker 3>to find where the good ended and the bad began and refer</v>

01:39:27.040 --> 01:39:27.520
<v Speaker 3>to that.</v>

01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:30.560
<v Speaker 3>And as Christians, we know that above all else, Scripture is a</v>

01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:31.200
<v Speaker 3>source for that.</v>

01:39:31.200 --> 01:39:34.320
<v Speaker 3>That's why we began in scripture and we're wondering up by discussing</v>

01:39:34.320 --> 01:39:37.680
<v Speaker 3>the boomer question because I don't want there to be hatred.</v>

01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:40.720
<v Speaker 3>I don't want there to be slander and just disgust.</v>

01:39:40.720 --> 01:39:44.480
<v Speaker 3>But at the same time, like I said, I'm talking to guys</v>

01:39:44.480 --> 01:39:45.120
<v Speaker 3>half my age.</v>

01:39:45.120 --> 01:39:47.520
<v Speaker 3>If I gave them advice without having talked to them first, it</v>

01:39:47.840 --> 01:39:49.040
<v Speaker 3>would be idiotic advice.</v>

01:39:49.040 --> 01:39:50.640
<v Speaker 3>It would be the worst possible things.</v>

01:39:50.640 --> 01:39:53.280
<v Speaker 3>I know I would say stupid things to them.</v>

01:39:53.280 --> 01:39:56.720
<v Speaker 3>And so when I hear boomers saying the same stuff to them,</v>

01:39:56.720 --> 01:40:00.880
<v Speaker 3>it just makes me die inside Side because that complete alienation of</v>

01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:03.840
<v Speaker 3>the generations, it's intractable.</v>

01:40:03.840 --> 01:40:05.120
<v Speaker 3>It shouldn't be this way.</v>

01:40:05.120 --> 01:40:08.000
<v Speaker 3>But it's intractable to the point that the only thing we can</v>

01:40:08.000 --> 01:40:12.480
<v Speaker 3>do is try to build a future world where the next generation</v>

01:40:12.560 --> 01:40:17.040
<v Speaker 3>and then next generation after that won't have the same problems.</v>

01:40:17.040 --> 01:40:20.880
<v Speaker 3>I think that much of the people who are living today are</v>

01:40:20.880 --> 01:40:23.760
<v Speaker 3>in some ways a write-off and we have to figure out how</v>

01:40:23.760 --> 01:40:26.880
<v Speaker 3>to do that respectfully and in a way that's not destructive.</v>

01:40:26.880 --> 01:40:29.760
<v Speaker 3>And we have to look at rebuilding things that are good, even</v>

01:40:29.760 --> 01:40:33.920
<v Speaker 3>if it means ignoring maybe your own parents and grandparents.</v>

01:40:33.920 --> 01:40:35.840
<v Speaker 3>And so as Christians, we have to figure out how to do</v>

01:40:35.840 --> 01:40:39.200
<v Speaker 3>that in a way that doesn't violate violate the fourth commandment because</v>

01:40:39.200 --> 01:40:41.600
<v Speaker 3>we are to honor and obey our parents.</v>

01:40:41.600 --> 01:40:43.280
<v Speaker 3>So this is a tricky thing.</v>

01:40:43.280 --> 01:40:46.080
<v Speaker 3>And I we're not, again, that we're not giving a prescription here</v>

01:40:46.080 --> 01:40:48.960
<v Speaker 3>to say yes, absolutely do this, but I think that when you're</v>

01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:53.040
<v Speaker 3>looking at the advice coming from people who are 50 and up,</v>

01:40:53.040 --> 01:40:55.920
<v Speaker 3>if you listen at all, I think you need to give it</v>

01:40:55.920 --> 01:41:00.000
<v Speaker 3>the most extremely rigorous going over.</v>

01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:03.040
<v Speaker 3>And you may well be forced to to disregard it entirely.</v>

01:41:03.280 --> 01:41:05.920
<v Speaker 3>And if you do that, I think that there's probably a good</v>

01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:08.640
<v Speaker 3>case to be made for doing that with a clean conscience.</v>

01:41:09.120 --> 01:41:11.840
<v Speaker 2>So this is one of those episodes where some of the things</v>

01:41:11.840 --> 01:41:15.520
<v Speaker 2>we've said are not easy truths.</v>

01:41:15.520 --> 01:41:18.160
<v Speaker 2>They are they are hard truths.</v>

01:41:18.160 --> 01:41:20.080
<v Speaker 2>And that's part of life.</v>

01:41:20.080 --> 01:41:26.480
<v Speaker 2>Just because something is uncomfortable or unpleasant or what have you, doesn't</v>

01:41:26.400 --> 01:41:28.240
<v Speaker 2>mean that we get to ignore it.</v>

01:41:28.240 --> 01:41:32.400
<v Speaker 2>Particularly when it is as important as the things we are covering</v>

01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:35.200
<v Speaker 2>as we covered in this episode.</v>

01:41:35.200 --> 01:41:40.960
<v Speaker 2>There are some very real differences for very many reasons, some of</v>

01:41:40.960 --> 01:41:44.000
<v Speaker 2>which we covered in this episode, some of which we did not,</v>

01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:46.880
<v Speaker 2>because we didn't want to make this a forty part episode that</v>

01:41:46.880 --> 01:41:50.160
<v Speaker 2>lasts for a hundred and twenty hours.</v>

01:41:50.160 --> 01:41:53.760
<v Speaker 2>We're not going to go for three hours, I'm not implying that.</v>

01:41:53.760 --> 01:41:54.080
<v Speaker 2>But</v>

01:41:55.920 --> 01:41:59.280
<v Speaker 2>These are very real problems because of the very real differences between</v>

01:41:59.280 --> 01:42:00.400
<v Speaker 2>the generations.</v>

01:42:00.400 --> 01:42:06.880
<v Speaker 2>And as we mentioned in the last episode about the small stuff,</v>

01:42:06.880 --> 01:42:10.720
<v Speaker 2>we are to a very real extent, and by we I mean</v>

01:42:11.040 --> 01:42:16.160
<v Speaker 2>millennials and younger, as again a reminder, we are including the younger</v>

01:42:16.160 --> 01:42:19.200
<v Speaker 2>members of Gen X in that most certainly.</v>

01:42:19.200 --> 01:42:23.840
<v Speaker 2>But essentially those of us who are now living and not members</v>

01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:29.200
<v Speaker 2>of the older generation now retiring, exiting the workforce and positions of</v>

01:42:29.200 --> 01:42:35.360
<v Speaker 2>leadership, etc., it falls to us to be To be an interim</v>

01:42:35.600 --> 01:42:40.960
<v Speaker 2>generation. We have to rebuild all of the things that were torn</v>

01:42:41.280 --> 01:42:44.640
<v Speaker 2>down in the last century or so.</v>

01:42:44.640 --> 01:42:48.320
<v Speaker 2>And there is no roadmap for much of what we have to</v>

01:42:48.320 --> 01:42:51.280
<v Speaker 2>do. There's a roadmap for some of it, because of course we</v>

01:42:51.280 --> 01:42:55.520
<v Speaker 2>are Christians, first and foremost, and so we have God's roadmap in</v>

01:42:55.520 --> 01:42:58.560
<v Speaker 2>Scripture for many of these problems.</v>

01:42:58.560 --> 01:43:05.040
<v Speaker 2>But Scripture does not provide a complete roadmap for rebuilding a civilization.</v>

01:43:05.040 --> 01:43:10.080
<v Speaker 2>And more than rebuilding a civilization, we are rebuilding a civilization</v>

01:43:11.200 --> 01:43:14.400
<v Speaker 2>in a way that has not really been done before.</v>

01:43:14.400 --> 01:43:17.920
<v Speaker 2>And what I mean by that is that usually when a generation</v>

01:43:17.920 --> 01:43:23.200
<v Speaker 2>has to rebuild to the extent that we will have to rebuild,</v>

01:43:23.200 --> 01:43:26.880
<v Speaker 2>it is because they have just gone through an extremely destructive war</v>

01:43:27.280 --> 01:43:31.920
<v Speaker 2>or a plague or some sort of horrible natural disaster.</v>

01:43:31.920 --> 01:43:33.920
<v Speaker 2>And we aren't rebuilding from that.</v>

01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:39.040
<v Speaker 2>So when you look around, things don't look necessarily that bad unless</v>

01:43:39.040 --> 01:43:43.280
<v Speaker 2>you look too closely, particularly say at the downtown area of large</v>

01:43:43.280 --> 01:43:48.000
<v Speaker 2>cities. But you're probably living in a home, or an apartment or</v>

01:43:48.000 --> 01:43:51.600
<v Speaker 2>a condo, some sort of structure with a roof.</v>

01:43:51.600 --> 01:43:54.480
<v Speaker 2>Most Most people have food on the table.</v>

01:43:54.480 --> 01:43:57.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm in an air conditioned room right now because it's eighty some</v>

01:43:57.600 --> 01:44:01.200
<v Speaker 2>degrees outside already because I live in the south.</v>

01:44:01.200 --> 01:44:05.760
<v Speaker 2>There are things that are still functioning that still look good.</v>

01:44:05.760 --> 01:44:09.360
<v Speaker 2>But the core of our civilization, the core of our society, of</v>

01:44:09.360 --> 01:44:12.080
<v Speaker 2>our culture, has rotted away.</v>

01:44:12.080 --> 01:44:16.400
<v Speaker 2>And so we are rebuilding from dust and ashes, but not from</v>

01:44:16.400 --> 01:44:18.320
<v Speaker 2>visible dust and ashes.</v>

01:44:18.320 --> 01:44:21.840
<v Speaker 2>And that's a difficult position in which we find ourselves ourselves</v>

01:44:22.720 --> 01:44:25.200
<v Speaker 2>because we have to point out to our fellows</v>

01:44:26.320 --> 01:44:31.360
<v Speaker 2>that we are rebuilding from nothing in a very real sense because</v>

01:44:31.360 --> 01:44:32.720
<v Speaker 2>everything has been eroded away</v>

01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:40.000
<v Speaker 2>to the foundation, if not the foundation itself having been eroded away.</v>

01:44:40.000 --> 01:44:42.480
<v Speaker 2>That is a unique position.</v>

01:44:42.480 --> 01:44:45.840
<v Speaker 2>Because as I said, previous generations that have had to rebuild</v>

01:44:47.040 --> 01:44:52.000
<v Speaker 2>from nothing, have had to rebuild from nothing, from literal dust and</v>

01:44:52.000 --> 01:44:58.400
<v Speaker 2>ashes. And so we find ourselves in a position that is not</v>

01:44:58.400 --> 01:45:05.600
<v Speaker 2>only difficult, but difficult and without example, we don't have a road</v>

01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:10.800
<v Speaker 2>map. We are building this from the ground up as the first</v>

01:45:10.800 --> 01:45:12.400
<v Speaker 2>generation to do it.</v>

01:45:14.240 --> 01:45:17.840
<v Speaker 2>That doesn't mean that we're going to fail.</v>

01:45:17.840 --> 01:45:18.720
<v Speaker 2>I don't think we will.</v>

01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:19.680
<v Speaker 2>I think we can do this.</v>

01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:22.160
<v Speaker 2>I think we are up to this task.</v>

01:45:22.160 --> 01:45:24.160
<v Speaker 2>It is going to be difficult.</v>

01:45:24.160 --> 01:45:26.400
<v Speaker 2>But many of the things in life that are worth doing are</v>

01:45:26.480 --> 01:45:28.160
<v Speaker 2>in fact difficult.</v>

01:45:28.160 --> 01:45:31.040
<v Speaker 2>Just because something is hard does not mean it is not worth</v>

01:45:31.040 --> 01:45:33.760
<v Speaker 2>doing. In fact, many of the things that are worth doing are</v>

01:45:33.760 --> 01:45:35.360
<v Speaker 2>in fact hard.</v>

01:45:35.360 --> 01:45:40.000
<v Speaker 2>Staying in good shape physically is hard work, it's worth doing.</v>

01:45:40.000 --> 01:45:43.440
<v Speaker 2>Learning how to play an instrument is hard work, it's worth doing.</v>

01:45:43.440 --> 01:45:47.280
<v Speaker 2>Learning a new language is hard work, it's worth doing.</v>

01:45:47.280 --> 01:45:51.600
<v Speaker 2>Raising children is most certainly hard work, and it is most certainly</v>

01:45:51.600 --> 01:45:56.320
<v Speaker 2>worth doing, because children are a blessing from God.</v>

01:45:56.320 --> 01:45:58.320
<v Speaker 2>And that really is what we're doing.</v>

01:45:58.320 --> 01:46:04.240
<v Speaker 2>We are building rebuilding, our civilization, building a better tomorrow for the</v>

01:46:04.240 --> 01:46:07.520
<v Speaker 2>generations that will follow us.</v>

01:46:07.520 --> 01:46:12.000
<v Speaker 2>Because where the generations that came before us squandered what was given</v>

01:46:12.000 --> 01:46:16.000
<v Speaker 2>to them, and so burdened us with what we have today, we</v>

01:46:16.000 --> 01:46:20.000
<v Speaker 2>want to pass something better to future generations.</v>

01:46:20.000 --> 01:46:24.640
<v Speaker 2>We want to give them the things that we didn't receive, the</v>

01:46:24.640 --> 01:46:28.160
<v Speaker 2>things that our elders had when they were our age, when they</v>

01:46:28.160 --> 01:46:32.960
<v Speaker 2>were younger, but they did not pass to us.</v>

01:46:32.960 --> 01:46:37.520
<v Speaker 2>That is the task of this generation.</v>

01:46:37.520 --> 01:46:40.880
<v Speaker 2>And so there will be some rewards, some temporal rewards, there will</v>

01:46:40.960 --> 01:46:44.240
<v Speaker 2>certainly be eternal rewards, because these are good works.</v>

01:46:44.240 --> 01:46:47.600
<v Speaker 2>These are things on which God will smile, things that God will</v>

01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:51.040
<v Speaker 2>bless. Some of those blessings, because of the nature of how it</v>

01:46:51.040 --> 01:46:53.680
<v Speaker 2>works, will not accrue in our lifetimes.</v>

01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:58.320
<v Speaker 2>They will accrue to our children and our grandchildren.</v>

01:46:58.320 --> 01:47:01.520
<v Speaker 2>But again, you're not an individual.</v>

01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:04.320
<v Speaker 2>You are a link in the chain that extends all the way</v>

01:47:04.320 --> 01:47:06.320
<v Speaker 2>back to Adam and extends all the way down to</v>

01:47:07.200 --> 01:47:09.600
<v Speaker 2>whenever your line ends.</v>

01:47:09.600 --> 01:47:13.200
<v Speaker 2>Maybe it will be before the end, maybe it will be at</v>

01:47:13.200 --> 01:47:18.320
<v Speaker 2>the end when God returns.</v>

01:47:18.320 --> 01:47:22.960
<v Speaker 2>But your task as that link in the chain is to pass</v>

01:47:22.960 --> 01:47:26.160
<v Speaker 2>as much of the good as possible to those who will follow</v>

01:47:26.160 --> 01:47:28.560
<v Speaker 2>after you.</v>

01:47:28.720 --> 01:47:32.720
<v Speaker 2>And so we started with scripture and will end with scripture going</v>

01:47:32.720 --> 01:47:37.520
<v Speaker 2>to read from Psalm seventy eight.</v>

01:47:37.680 --> 01:47:41.520
<v Speaker 2>Give ear, O my people, to my teaching, incline your ears to</v>

01:47:41.520 --> 01:47:43.040
<v Speaker 2>the words of my mouth.</v>

01:47:43.040 --> 01:47:46.080
<v Speaker 2>I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark</v>

01:47:46.080 --> 01:47:50.000
<v Speaker 2>sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that</v>

01:47:50.000 --> 01:47:51.760
<v Speaker 2>our fathers have told us.</v>

01:47:51.760 --> 01:47:54.960
<v Speaker 2>We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the</v>

01:47:54.960 --> 01:47:59.040
<v Speaker 2>coming generation, the glorious deeds of the Lord in his might, and</v>

01:47:59.040 --> 01:48:01.200
<v Speaker 2>the wonders that he has done.</v>

01:48:01.200 --> 01:48:05.600
<v Speaker 2>He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,</v>

01:48:05.600 --> 01:48:09.360
<v Speaker 2>which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the</v>

01:48:09.360 --> 01:48:13.760
<v Speaker 2>next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and</v>

01:48:13.760 --> 01:48:16.960
<v Speaker 2>tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope</v>

01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:20.560
<v Speaker 2>in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his</v>

01:48:20.640 --> 01:48:24.960
<v Speaker 2>commandments, and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn</v>

01:48:24.960 --> 01:48:30.720
<v Speaker 2>and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit</v>

01:48:30.720 --> 01:48:32.800
<v Speaker 2>was not faithful to God.</v>