Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he

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more now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

We made it.

We're at the end of Genesis, at least this sermon series, so congratulations.

You've made it and if you're brand new, what a week to show up?

You just put in one hour and you're done.

That's fantastic. We've been spending the whole year going through the book of Genesis. This is sermon number 32. The longest sermon was an hour and 12 minutes. Some where you're wondering, are we going to do that? I'll let you know in an hour and 12 minutes. Some were you wondering, are we going to do that?

I'll let you know in an hour and 12 minutes.

But nonetheless, we've been in the book of Genesis

and we've been looking at this amazing book of the Bible

and this is the last sermon in the series. so if you want to get caught up at real

faith.com the first three study guides are there all the way through the book

we're finishing this one today and we just debuted the last study guide. So the remainder of

Genesis is on the life of Joseph and it's a 10-part audio series that we're

releasing as well as the study guide, all free at real faith.

But today, here's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna look at Genesis 35 and 36,

and we're gonna answer this question,

why are some families blessed and other families cursed. And as we've looked at Genesis, one of the

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