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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Essentially Presents.

So for a couple of years now, I've been thinking about the difference between agreement and faith.

Father, why have you been thinking about that for the last couple of years?

And here's the reason why, because I think a lot of times when I talk to someone,

and even myself, I know when I was first coming to faith, I would always, not always,

but often ask the question, why?

Like, what's the reason that for this?

You know, okay, God wants this, okay, what's the reason for that?

Or God asks that we do such and such?

Okay, what's the reason for that?

And it's really remarkable because, you know, in the Old Testament, in the New Testament too,

when God shows up and He reveals Himself, and He says, do this.

He very, very rarely says, here's why.

For example, here's God who appears to Abraham, and He says, okay, Abraham,

take your only beloved son, your only son whom you love, go to a high mountain that I'll point out to you,

and they're on that high mountain offer him as a sacrifice.

Abraham doesn't say, give me a reason, why should I do this God?

And yet a lot of times, and that's an extreme example, I know that.

And hopefully there's other videos where we made, talked about like, what's really going on in

that story, it's not just a story about, like, blind belief, it's a story of deeper trust and

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