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Just a minute I'm going to preach.

I'll just tell you, this one's going to hurt.

This one's going to hurt like crazy.

Here's the question.

The question is, when do you need to sever ties

with toxic family members?

And if you're a first-time guest

and a relative brought you, now you know why.

Okay, and if you're like,

I don't have any toxic family members,

it's you.

I'll just give you a moment to process just to

process that emotion. All right? So we find ourselves in this incredible book of

the Bible, Genesis, and it's this multi-generational case study in marriage and family.

And what tends to happen is we tend to put up

with things from our relatives

that we would never put up with anyone else.

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