How Your Past Shapes You | Torah | Numbers 26, 27:12-23

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

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The problems you face are often rooted in your past. Have you dealt with your past? What was your family like? How has your culture shaped you? In today’s episode, Patrick uses Numbers 26,27:12-23 to discuss how your past affects your present. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Numbers 26,27:12-23

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.5	I'm Patrick Miller. As a pastor you spend a good amount of time
0:15.7	counseling people in their time of need and so perhaps it's no surprise that I've met
0:19.8	a lot of married couples who were going through a lot of tension and challenge in their relationship.
0:25.4	And oftentimes by the time people come to me, they're at the point where they're at their wit's end.
0:29.7	They don't know how to solve the problem that they're facing.
0:32.8	And one of the most common themes I've seen over and over again
0:35.9	is that the problems we face are often rooted in the past.
0:39.9	I think about one couple, there was a husband who grew up in a family where you never talked
0:44.4	about your problems in fact you never confronted anyone if there was a problem you would be
0:48.8	as passive aggressive as possible you'd find a way into the back door to make your problems known to everybody else in the room.
0:55.6	And so when he got married, he never expected to discuss problems deeply.
1:00.0	He thought that if there was something wrong, there would be a sly passive aggressive remark to make it clear.
1:05.0	But his wife came from a very different environment.
1:07.5	In her family, it was high conflict almost all the time.
1:10.8	Her parents fought with each other, they yelled, and of course this made her feel very
1:14.8	insecure as a kid, but it also taught her a pattern of communication that if you want your needs to be heard,
1:20.1	you have to shout about them, otherwise they'll be ignored.
1:23.2	If you don't yell you might be trampled upon and so when they got married as you can
1:27.6	imagine she had that kind of conflictual style she would get angry she'd raise
1:31.8	her voice and when this happened he was so not used to it that he would just shut down he wouldn't be willing to engage and if he wanted to make a point he would often be passive aggressive about it but that would go over her. And so their communication style was constantly conflicting.
1:45.0	Neither one of them had a healthy way of communicating with the other.
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