Hey Tim. Hey John. Hi. Hey, we're doing a question response episode to finish off our conversation

on the theme of the first board. Yep. Yep. Also known as the last will be first. The last will be

first. As well as the first will be last. I forget. We'll never get that right. Here, the video

that came out of these conversations was named the last will be the last will be first. Yeah.

So we got a ton of questions from the people listening along lots lots and you chose some of the

ones that rose the top in terms of yeah being asked the most. Yep. And we'll just get into it.

Let's let's rock it. First you found there was a discussion group on Facebook talking about

the podcast series, which is totally cool. Yeah. And you found an interesting comment from someone

who's Japanese grew up in Japan. And so I think we wanted to open with this because it just

itself will be a fascinating contribution to the conversation. And we looked up the pronunciation.

Yeah. And now I forgot. Is it Raika? Yeah, we do think it's Raiki or Raika. So apologies for not

knowing how to pronounce your name. All right. So the comment is yep. Hello, all. I've been listening

to the first born series and I cannot help but feel there's something missing from the discussion.

I live in Japan and culturally the concept of first born is alive and well in Japan. And this

is interesting because it's not in our culture. Less less so less so yeah. So we come from a perspective

where it's not a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. But in Japan, it's alive and well. Yeah. I guess we should

say we live in a sub-culture within America. That's true. There's many cultures. I'm certain

that we're at the big deal. Plus for example, Japanese Americans. Sure. It's totally a big deal. Yep.

Okay. It's alive and well. Though the first born idea in Japan has more to do with duties and

responsibilities than with privilege. It is the first born's duty to provide and protect for

the family. It's the responsibility to represent the family to stand or fall for the family.

I see these duties all through scripture. And since I'm in the middle of a sermon series on

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