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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. The point that I wanted to make with Abraham briefly is

this, that Abraham, when he's in the land of Canaan, before, you know, it goes down all the way to

Joseph and then the famine comes, and then they're in Egypt and 400 years of slavery and bondage there, one of the things that God, you know, it goes down all the way to Joseph and then the famine comes, and then they're in Egypt and 400 years of slavery and bondage there.

One of the things that God says to Abraham is this.

He says, you will die at a good old age.

But there's going to be strife.

There's going to be warfare.

What's going to happen is that all these people, your sojourner amongst a pagan people in the

land of Canaan. All these pagan Canaanite tribes, your descendants will drive them out. But God specifically

says in the book of Genesis to Abraham, it's not going to happen for a long time. And God actually

goes even further, more specificity, he says 400 years.

And he says this, he says, because the fullness of their iniquity, these Canaanite pagan tribes, is not yet full.

That God is slow to anger.

He is long suffering.

He is abundantly patient.

God is waiting. These Canaanite tribes, they're pagan,

they're idolatrists, they're worshiping false gods, they're doing all these terrible things,

and yet God is patient and slow to anger, and he waits intentionally, none of it by accident,

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