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real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth equip the saints and impact our culture but when you love your enemy

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this changes everything your enemy knocks on the door and if your enemy says

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let's go ahead let's go go for something non that interested but if your enemy

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knocks on the door and says I just cut my finger off I need help you're gonna

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help them in an instant because you love them because Jesus loves them

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you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast

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today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us

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now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you here is Jack Kibs.

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The scripture teaches us regarding being a grateful follower there's an amazing

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precious event Mark chapter five you guys all know the story do you remember

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Jesus is ministering it's a very very cool thing Jesus is on the other side

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of the sea of Galilee and he's ministering to the people he gets in a boat and

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he goes to the other side it's about from that from Tiberius over to

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Godera to the gatherings it's about seven miles at most across the sea of

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Galilee that way and the Bible says the moment Jesus gets to the shore in

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Mark five that this there's a demonic act a man whose demon possessed who living

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among the dead in the tombs would cut himself self mutilation cry and scream in

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the night he was filled the Bible says with many demons but he was controlled by

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one by the way you read that you read Mark five it's very amazing because it says

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that he has an unclean spirit singular he's naked out of his mind scares people

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and some tried to bind him with chains and he would break the chains that's

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demonic power and so Jesus gets in the boat leaves Tiberius goes over the boat

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lands in Galilee as soon as Jesus steps out of the boat the Bible says that this

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demoniac came running can you imagine comes running out of the tombs and running

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straight to Jesus and says Jesus now son of God what would you have to do with

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us have you come to torment us before the time isn't it weird think about

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wait a minute Jesus we're a bunch of demons we know who you are we still have

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more time to terrorize people don't we times up have you come to torment us

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before the time and Jesus said listen Jesus said what is your name and he says

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my name is Legion there's many of us and the Bible has what's called a

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parenthetical insert it says and they were dwelling there 2000 swine then they

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baked Jesus do not send us it's Tardarus the abuso do not send us to the hell

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that's reserved for devils don't send us there this is so weird send us into

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the herd of swine and Jesus grants them the request all right and it says that

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they left the man they entered the pigs and the pigs ran crazy crazy nuts

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over the cliff and into the Galilee and drown the man had been completely

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delivered of the Donac spirit and the Bible says he's sitting in his right

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mind and he says to Jesus I will follow you anywhere you go by the way that

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should be our response and Jesus says what Jesus always says he always blows

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your mind he always you can never predict Jesus is nope not gonna happen can you

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imagine I want to you just you just saved me from Satan I'll follow you anywhere

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Jesus says no no you're not you're gonna go home I want you to go home now

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isn't that great the Bible we know that he lives in the decapolis decapolis for

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those of you who've been with us Israel the chief city of decapolis is

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ski topolis which you know it by its Roman name Bethesien and we've walked those

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streets it's one of the most beautiful preserved ancient Roman cities

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it's incredible that's where that man lived in in the decapolis it was the chief

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city it's pagan worshiping the man goes there and the Bible says that he went

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home and all of the decapolis marveled at him the man went home thankful the

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man went home grateful he told people listen I sure hope you have a testimony

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about Jesus I sure hope you have a story to tell others about who Jesus Christ is

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in your life don't tell people who Jesus Christ is in my life or your neighbor's

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life you need to have a message if you don't you better figure this out quick

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can you imagine this guy going home open the door you kind of look like our dad

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but he's running around in Gideira naked cutting himself and screaming like a wild

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lunatic filled with demons who are you I'm your dad what Jesus came into my life

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he transformed my life who's that the door kids mom it's dad she can you imagine she

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looks completely different life Jesus does this stuff he did it then he still

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does it he's still doing this you need to know that he's still doing it but it

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says in verse four not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance

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this is a humble witness where to be a humble witness Christian listen we are

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of very strange people we are very strange people we are humble because we've

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looked at his incredible greatness and we're so thankful and we've seen the

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power of God enough in our lives nothing compared to what's coming but we've

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seen enough to the point where we can't deny him even if we tried we would

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only be lying because we've been convinced the amazing thing is we are such a

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strange group of people because we're not arrogant but we're extremely

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confident right we we are not we are not bombastic but we're bold because we

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know him who we believe it we don't have everything that the world says we

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should have but we lack nothing how is it that it doesn't matter if we live in a

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mansion or on the side of a hill because we've learned great contentment and

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just knowing him and we look around the world that's imploding and it's only

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increasing our strength when I turn on Middle Eastern TV and I see Christians

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being marched through their death and then singing worship songs I say Lord

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that's not for me today but living for you is for me today so until that

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happens to me if it does what do you want me to do Jesus but what are what are we

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going to do today Jesus a proud Christian is an oxy what's known as an oxy

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moronic statement you cannot be a proud Christian nobody likes nobody nobody

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likes that okay what do you mean if you think you are better than anybody else

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than your Romans chapter 2 people that's what Paul is saying knock it off if we

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have encountered forgiveness it's going to be pretty easy to issue forgiveness

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towards other people and the people that we have a hard time with remember this

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Jesus said in Luke 6 love your enemies do good to those that drug your nuts listen

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he said love your enemies he didn't say like him I think it's very key you know

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like to like when you like somebody you hang out with them you want to go hang

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out we like him let's go spend some time together you don't like your enemy and

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probably walking in wisdom in Romans chapter 12 Paul said as much as it is

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possible live at peace with all people you know what that means that means some

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people you can talk up a storm with them some people it's all you should say is

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hello and you leave it is just like even in the family of God it's like oil and

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water with some people look from here on out I'm gonna say hi you're gonna say

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hi back that's it because it doesn't go good after that but when you love your

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enemy this changes everything your enemy knocks on the door and if you're

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enemy says let's go let's go hang out let's go go for something I'm not interested

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but if you're enemy knocks on the door and says I just cut my finger off I need

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help you're gonna help them in an instant because you love them because Jesus

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loves them and it's a very important thing because our witness should be

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humble we should never say well yes I'm a Christian you shouldn't do that and

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you see right here in verse four the word knowing Ignatio say Ignatio that sounds

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a lot like ignoramus because it is that's the word says right here if you

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don't recognize God's goodness and God's long suffering and his patience with

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you then what you're doing is you're being an ignoramus by the way cheer up the

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word ignoramus is the root word to agnostic the an agnostic to an agnostic I

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know agnostics here's the funny thing you know agnostics but the agnostics

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don't know themselves and agnostic means I believe God exists he just can't be

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known he's out there somewhere well how do you know I don't I just think he's

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out there somewhere that's what an agnostic is at least what I just be an

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atheist instead but an agnostic is like I don't know and I'm too lazy to care so

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I'm gonna say I'm an agnostic just know the Bible says you're an ignoramus you

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could know but you choose not to know don't tell me right I don't want to know he's

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out there but I don't want to talk to him no listen knowing that the goodness of

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God leads a man to repentance this is this is sweet God's goodness should cause

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you listen are you an atheist or an agnostic God's goodness should cause you to

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metanoya meta is to after think noya think thought after thought meta noya

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haven't after thought think again it means think again think again about who

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God is so he is good yeah he is good you're breathing right now that's him

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giving you breath in a moment you're gonna get up and you're gonna walk that's

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him giving you the power to do that we can't even fathom how much grace he gives

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us in one hour infinite some people think maybe you know if you don't turn and

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follow christ you're gonna burn I mean there is true that's true but you don't say

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hey there's what attention everyone so let you know you're gonna burn it doesn't

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go well and then yeah I know you turn on TV and there's a guy preaching I'm telling

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it to you gonna come to christ you need a Jesus now you're gonna go to hell in the

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flame the fire gonna look your face off and you're gonna burn and yeah and it's all

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this bomb and it's like oh man you're not helping that never does it and you see

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people I don't know why they always go to the beach you'd be having a perfect

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beach then there's some guy with a sign saying you a turn or burn you're seeing that

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guy it's always there it's weird they're like everywhere that doesn't work when

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you get them to listen the goodness of God leads you to change your mind that's there's

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power in that the goodness of God is available of course to the unbeliever and of course

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to the believer always so in Moses went to the mountain to speak with God God calls him

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to the mountain mountain sign 90s there the mountain is shrouded in smoke and fire and lightning

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and thunder and Moses is up in and Joshua sees him disappear into the mountain top and

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amazing and God says Moses I want you to go and tell these people that I am that I am and

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I'm leading them out of Egypt they're my people I'm gonna take them into the promised

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that and Moses is what if they don't believe me and God says take your staff throw it on the

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ground and he throws it on the ground it turns into a snake and the Bible says read it go read

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Exodus 4 Moses on the mountain top throws down his staff turns into a snake and the Bible says

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and Moses ran wouldn't you did I would do that I hate snakes this is the funny though God says

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this is how you this tell you how turn it on your your staff turns in a snake Moses runs

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God calls Moses back then he says it's not doesn't get better God says grab it by the tail

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it does he says take it by the tail now for me that would be torture I hate snakes I don't

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even like worms Moses grabs it turns back into his his staff and God says seal on with you and then

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Moses you could see Moses it's like what if they don't listen to me okay Moses take your hand

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and put your hand inside you like Napoleon right put your hand inside and then pull it out and

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his hand is completely covered leprosy imcurable now Moses put it back inside your your jacket your

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shirt and pull it out and it's like baby skin Moses still not gonna do it they don't what if

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they don't believe me all right Moses take the jug of water you have and pour it on the ground

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and he pours it out and blood comes out and Moses you see Moses it's the third thing

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this isn't God amazing so merciful slow and then Moses says I can't talk I have a speech impediment

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I stutter and God says who made the mouth clearly Moses didn't like snakes clearly nobody

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wants leprosy listen nobody wants to see blood come out of your your water bottle okay and so

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Moses goes for it here's the here's the here's the show stopper God I stutter I'm slow speech I

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can't do it and God says I've showed you all this stuff let me remind you about something I made

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your mouth he just evaporates every excuse takes him away and so Moses goes down the mountain and

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