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All right where's my where's my glasses people?

Where's my glasses?

Raise your hand.

I'm glad you can hear me.

You probably can't see me.

But where's my glasses, people?

I've got a pair of glasses. These my cheaters I'm officially now of the age when

Certain things at a certain distance don't chuckle that's judging

Certain things at a certain age I can't see. So these are my cheaters. When I'm reading sometimes I need to put these on otherwise I can't I can't see what I'm doing. The good thing about the cheaters is if there's something there that I'm having a hard time making out, I put the glasses on, you guys all know the answer what happens. It gets very clear, I can see it. Now I know what's going on. It's like, oh, that's Grace.

You know, there she is. I had no idea.

And so what happens is you and I, when we look at things,

oftentimes we need help, we need a lens, and that's

literally what the glasses do, the lens comes in, you're like, oh now I see it

clearly. Previously you may come to the wrong conclusion about what you're looking at and all of a sudden

once you get the right lens you see clearly that which is reality.

As we're jumping into the book of Genesis today we're in chapter 28 and we're asking the question, what is it like when

heaven visits Earth? And what we're going to do first is we got to get the lens

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