A lot of times we think about, you know, the streets of gold or just a packed urban environment,

but I don't think that's ever really the picture in the Bible.

It's really a garden.

What's up guys? Welcome to another Five-Mind of Fatherhood.

So should every family team grow their own food?

One of the things that Jeff and I want to talk to you

has about is that it doesn't mean that necessarily you should grow all your own food, but I really

think that there is something special and I think almost universal about getting in the dirt and

growing something. And that really helps the family team. There's a couple of biblical references

to this. Obviously, when our story began in a garden and it ends in a garden city, one of the things

that consistently is said throughout the Bible is that when it describes the millennial kingdom

or times of great peace and prosperity in Israel.

It has this line, and it's used multiple times in the Old Testament.

It says that every man was under his own fig tree and under his own vine.

It said that about the time of Solomon.

The prophets say that about a future.

Really when it's talking about kind of a glorious future for the

kingdom of God, it really describes people growing their own food. It's like a lot of times we think

about, you know, the streets of gold or just a packed urban environment, but I don't think

that's ever really the picture in the Bible. It's really a garden that is primarily described and that even when we're

brought into an urban environment that's more of a city, it's a garden city. And so, and every time it's

described, every family and every, you know, has their own fig tree, their own vine, or, you know,

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