So, everything written in this book, everything written in this book leads to this moment,

right now, tonight. Like everything written in the whole Old Testament, everything written

in the New Testament, all of it points to what we're doing tonight, which we'll get back

to in a second. So, we have to understand that whenever we're reading a story, whenever

we're telling a story, context matters, even just life, context matters every time. Because

context, I think, is the only thing that helps us get past the surface. Context is one

of those things like, when you know the context of a story, when you know the context of a

movie, when you know the context of what's happening, helps us realize the significance.

Because if you don't know the context, we won't know the significance of what's going

on. So, like, example, when I was in high school, I really loved the musical, Les Mizz,

like Les Mizz, or Abraite, because whatever, I don't know, nerd. And so, I decided I want

to read the book because Victor Hugo wrote this great novel, and I finished it in college,

because not that nerdy. So, but one of the things in that book is just, strikes me so powerful.

So, the story you might know the story is, this is a man named Jean-Vauljant, and Jean-Vauljant,

he steals a loaf of bread, defeat his sister's children who are dying. And because of that,

he gets thrown into jail, and he keeps trying to escape. So, he gets, he's in hard labor

for 20 years. And when he gets finally, he's treated so poorly that when he finally gets out of prison,

he is just reduced to being an animal. Essentially, he's, he's, he's little more than an animal.

He sees this world as being just violent and brutal, and doesn't care about you at all. And so,

you don't care about anyone else. That's like how he lived. And so, he'd go to village to village,

and he'd be an ex-con, being an ex-felon. He was never hired by anybody. He couldn't stay with

them. They'd know one would feed him until he came to this bishop's house. And the bishop welcomed him,

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