Great Blessing and Great Responsibility – Genesis E5

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The word “blessing” brings to mind a variety of images for all of us. But what exactly does it mean when God blesses someone? And where did the curse come from? In this episode, Tim and Jon start exploring the third movement of Genesis, tracing the theme of blessing and curse.

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0:00.0	The word blessing conjures a lot of different images.
0:07.0	When someone sneezes, we say bless you.
0:08.9	We bless our food.
0:10.2	We might call good things a blessing.
0:12.0	For a while there was a popular hashtag.
0:14.2	Hashtag blessed?
0:15.3	Does blessing just mean good vibes?
0:18.4	Blessing is among those categories of religious sounding words that nobody's coming with
0:24.9	a blank or neutral slate, so to speak.
0:27.7	We already have preloaded assumptions about what this word might mean just based on our
0:32.6	own life experience.
0:34.2	Fortunately for us, the Bible begins with a working definition of what a blessing is.
0:39.8	In the first story of the Bible, God creates, he brings order out of chaos.
0:43.9	And on the fifth day, he creates the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and he
0:48.2	blesses them and says, be fruitful and multiply.
0:53.0	Fill the earth.
0:54.0	Yeah, the ability to be fruitful and multiply and fill is the sign of God's blessing.
1:00.3	Next God creates the humans.
1:02.6	And he gives humanity the same blessing.
1:05.4	Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, but he adds an extra blessing to partner with him
1:11.4	to extend that blessing to all the earth.
1:14.4	It's not just that they experience the blessing of reproduction and abundance, but now their
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